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Posted by: Nick Vitale

24 May 2013

Beta Apps For May 24 2013

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We've got a great set of new beta apps and services currently available or hitting the market very soon. Here's a few of our favourites and a brief description of their upcoming services.

Waze hits Windows Phone Store, but you can't get it yet

Phone Arena - Latest News · Crowd-sourced traffic and navigation app Waze has hit the Windows Phone Store but even if you have the platform running your phone, you cannot download it right now; the app is undergoing a private beta test. Open this article

OmniPresence Private Testing

www.omnigroup.com · OmniPresence is a way to sync folders between your devices using a web server. On Mac, a separate OmniPresence app churns away silently in the background, syncing any documents placed in its folders—without requiring any special support from other apps. On iOS, the sandboxing environment requires that each app add its own support for OmniPresence. OmniPresence separates document syncing from any particular back end service provider. You can use it with your own compatible web server, or with the Omni Sync Server for documents created with your Omni apps. Open this article



Mailbox Releases iPad App

AppNewser · Only two months after being acquired by Dropbox, Orchestra has released an iPad version of its Gmail organizing app Mailbox. The app, which was first available in private beta, launched as an iPhone app a couple of months ago. Now it has been optimized for the iPad. The app is designed to make it easy to organize your emails into tasks, trash or to save it for later with a snooze button. Open this article

1Password 4 for the Mac

iMore - The #1 iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch blog · The new 1Password 4 for Mac is on the way, and you can sign up to help test it out in the private beta now! 1Password 4 launched for iOS in late 2012 and brought a stack of new features to the popular password management tool, that now finally will be on the way to the desktop version. Open this article

Loom Is Building A Better iCloud

Hacker News · Barely a month or two after launching the Y Combinator-backed photo-sharing service Popset, the team realized they were solving the wrong problem. Users weren’t struggling to share their photos with groups; they needed tools to help them organize and manage their photo libraries across a variety of platforms and services. Open this article

Bondsy Launches An iOS Bartering App

Alltop RSS · A TechStars-backed company is launching out of private beta and into the App Store in an attempt to bring the Utopian notion of a barterer's lifestyle to fruition. Bondsy, founded by a long-haired, bearded, and Brazilian Diego Zambrano, lets users trade anything they own for anything their network has to offer. Open this article

BONUS: Red Giant Announces BulletProof Free Public Beta



What are some of your favourite beta apps? Let us know on Twitter @studioskylab

References:

  1. “OmniPresence Teaser” · The Omni Group · March 14, 2013 · Vimeo
  2. “Red Giant BulletProof (BETA)” · Red Giant · May 20, 2013 · Vimeo
  3. “OmniPresence private testing” · May 24, 2013 · Www.omnigroup.com
  4. “BulletProof Media Management App from Red Giant Now Available for Free in Public Beta” · Joe Marine · May 24, 2013 · Nofilmschool.com
  5. “@tvbaynews” · tvbaynews · May 24, 2013 · Twitter
  6. “Waze hits Windows Phone Store, but you can't get it yet” · May 22, 2013 · Phone Arena - Latest News
  7. “The Omni Group Launches OmniPresence For Automatic Document Syncing” · Federico Viticci · May 22, 2013 · MacStories
  8. “BulletProof Media Management App from Red Giant Now Available for Free in Public Beta” · Joe Marine · May 22, 2013 · Nofilmschool
  9. “Loom (YC W12) Is Building A Better iCloud” · May 23, 2013 · Hacker News
  10. “Mailbox Releases iPad App” · Dianna Dilworth · May 23, 2013 · AppNewser
  11. “TechStars-Backed Bondsy Launches An iOS App To Bring Bartering Into The 21st Century” · May 23, 2013 · Alltop RSS
  12. “1Password 4 for the Mac on the way, sign up to beta test it now!” · Richard Devine · May 24, 2013 · IMore - The #1 iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch blog

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