Samsung Flow beta
After introducing the Samsung Flow at its developer conference in 2014, Samsung has oficially released the beta version of the app. Samsung Flow allows the users to move content between Samsung devices to continue an on-going activity. Like, transferring an article link from smartphone to tablet for reading or moving an address from tablet to smartphone for navigation. It is currently supported on devices like Galaxy S5, S6, S6 edge, Alpha, Note 4, Note edge and Tab S, but the company plans to expand support to more devices, which include Bluetooth Low Energy compatibility.“Flow supports existing applications through Android’s Share mechanism, allowing you to start transferring and deferring activities right away. Flow gets even better when developers provide a Flow action in their applications, allowing them to create truly seamless transitions across devices and time,” added Samsung. With Flow, users can transfer an activity to the right device for a task, pick up right where you left off rather than starting from scratch on the new device. Users can also defer an activity when the right device is not immediately at hand or there just isn’t enough time to finish up a task. Resume it when you’re ready.
Available on: GooglePlay; Price: Free
Tipo
When you’re writing on your smartphone, it can be easy to make mistakes, and even easier to miss them until you hit send. Tipo wants to help fix that by alerting you to any typos in your message when they happen. It does this by either vibrating or flashing the screen (or both) so you’re not caught out. You can upgrade to the premium version which will help you improve your typing and spellings (if you feel it needs work).
Available on: GooglePlay; Price: Free
Quip
Quip (Android, iOS) injects a human element into seemingly mundane productivity software. It’s a relatively fully-featured word processor and spreadsheet app that lets you and your cohorts work on things at the same time, tied together by a real-time chat system used to keep in touch alongside your documents. Files can be pulled in from popular cloud storage services and exported to Word, PDF, and Excel formats when they’re finished.
Available on: GooglePlay, iTunes; Price: Free
QuizUp
Social trivia game QuizUp got a major
update this week with a redesign and new apps for the desktop and Apple Watch. The new version of the game allows you to follow both users and specific topics you’re interested in and activity around those topics is surfaced to your home feed. The game’s topics tab has more than a thousand categories of trivia you can follow. You can also compete in head-to-head trivia matches. You can also search for friends and opponents based on location, age and mutual interests.
Available on: GooglePlay, iTunes; Price: Free
Wondershare Video Converter Ultimate
Billed as “the most powerful video converter ever,” this multi-featured Mac tool can edit, download, convert and burn all your videos and handle transfers between hard disks, optical media and the web. Wondershare Video Converter Ultimate converts files quickly and supports more than 150 different video formats. It converts videos 30 times faster than competing apps and makes it easy to watch camcorder clips. It also lets you download videos from YouTube and other popular sites. It’s perfect for getting your home videos off your camcorder and onto your smartphone or tablet.
Available on: GooglePlay, iTunes; Price: Free