16 Mobile Apps for Surviving Holiday ‘Fun’

The holidays are a smorgasbord of sensory overload. The traveling. The cooking. The shopping. Even the “quality” family time. It’s all packaged into two nightmarish rollercoasters scheduled at the blunt ends of November and December.

Luckily, however, if you’ve got a smartphone or tablet, you can get by with a little help from your app-based friends.

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New Mobile app JaxtrSMS to send free SMSes worldwide

Bangalore: Jaxtr, set up by Hotmail co-founder Sabeer Bhatia and Yogesh Patel, today announced the launch of JaxtrSMS, an open texting application which allows users to send free SMSes across the world. "JaxtrSMS is completely unique in terms that a mobile user can send a text SMS to any mobile phone in the world without requiring the receiver to have the JaxtrSMS application installed on their phone," the company said in a statement.

This "open" facet of JaxtrSMS distinguishes it from other free mobile messaging applications where messages can only be sent within a closed network to people who also have the same app installed, the company claimed. Jaxtr Inc CEO and Co-Founder Sabeer Bhatia said, "Now, mobile users can leverage our free and open application to send messages to their contacts anywhere across the world without having to pay anything.



"The fact that our application has been downloaded by users across 197 countries in just a few weeks since our soft launch amply reflects our belief that JaxtrSMS will prove to be immensely useful to mobile users across the world," he added. Jaxtr Inc President and Co-Founder Yogesh Patel said that JaxtrSMS was completely developed in India.

Read More: http://ibnlive.in.com/news/a-new-app-jaxtrsms-to-send-free-smses-worldwide/205001-11.html

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Google releases YouTube mobile application

You can now access the mobile version of Google's supersite YouTube via your Symbian and Windows Mobile smartphones! Google on Friday rolled out a new YouTube application that enables users to view YouTube's mobile site right on their Symbian and Windows Mobile-based phones.

Google declared that the YouTube application allows the users of most Windows Mobile and Symbian Series 60 devices to access m. youtube. com from their mobile devices. Google stated that the new YouTube application is developed to help fetch the YouTube's mobile site on Symbian and Windows Mobile and for wireless subscribers.

In a Google's Mobile blog on Friday, Andreas Tuerk, product manager, and Stephen Spence, software engineer, both of Google's mobile team, wrote, "We've been working hard to support more devices and to offer better speed, quality and robustness on the YouTube app. So we're excited to announce a new version of our mobile that's optimized for most Windows Mobile and Symbian Series 60 devices."

Google explained that many Symbian phones already have Flash-capable browsers that help viewing on YouTube's mobile site, but the new YouTube application also allows wireless users to view the mobile version of YouTube. The application automatically picks the highest-quality video, according to the user's device and network. According to Tuerk and Spence, "Once installed, no configuration is required outside the application. We've worked really hard to make video playback 'just work.' " Google claimed that the YouTube application lets users watch videos, view a list of the top-rated clips, and search videos. The app plays videos in landscape mode with the standard YouTube controls. It offers better speed, sharper video quality, improved streaming over Wi-Fi and powerful streaming even in weak coverage areas.

According to Google, the YouTube application is compatible with almost all Windows Mobile devices and Nokia S60 3rd edition devices. It is available for most Windows Mobile handsets like the Touch Diamond and for Symbian S60 3rd edition devices. It can be downloaded from m. youtube. com.


Source: http://topnews.us/content/24497-google-releases-youtube-mobile-application

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Google Mobile Application for Windows Mobile

If you’re already use the Google mobile application via iPhone or BlackBerry device, then this news is not for you. But, if you’re one the many users with a Windows Mobile device, then defiantly this is the news for you.

Following last week’s big news introducing, Google Street View service for Windows Mobile devices that offers street-level images of major cities on to the palm of your hand, but Google has released yet another goody application for Windows Mobile this month.

Google Mobile App gives you faster searching on your Windows Mobile device, with easy access to your favorite Google applications from the Today screen. The application will also allow users to conduct faster searches than before without the need of opening a browser to begin a search. The application also contains search history that will reduce typing and will provide quick and efficient results with fewer clicks.

Moreover, Windows Mobile users can also access Gmail, Google Docs, and Picasa Web albums directly from their ‘Today’ screen. The application is available in US, UK, Canada, France, Germany, Italy and Spain. It is also available for iPhone, iPod touch and BlackBerry devices.

For more information of Google mobile app on Windows mobile check out this video

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