What a week this past week has been. Google made some big, mostly developer-centric announcements at I/O this year and Google Glass continues to see some interesting new apps being released for it. The Yahoo board just approved a $1.1 billion all-cash deal to buy Tumblr and all eyes are now set on what Apple possibly announces at WWDC next month. Till then, let’s see what we have on the Platter this week. TodoMovies 2.1 Our favorite movie library app, TodoMovies 2 got an amazing v2.1 update that rocked our socks off. With this update, TodoMovies introduces a new feature…
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There’s loads happening in technology this week. Google IO is happening in a few days and then Microsoft will reveal the next Xbox. There’s no better way to spend a Sunday than getting a fresh serving of The Platter. Fireplug [showcase id=”7734″] You probably already know that Google Reader is shutting down on July 1st and everyone is looking for a replacement or moving on to something else. New services have been popping up almost daily with promises of filling Reader’s void and such. Fireplug is a very interesting service that looks to fill that void. It lets you arrange…
We’re back this Sunday with another Platter ready to be served to you wonderful folks. We’ve got two weeks of wonderful content to share with you today, so go right ahead and check out the beautiful apps we have in store for you. Watched [showcase id=”7641″] After we wrote about TodoMovies 2 a few days ago, we came across Watched in our inbox. Watched is another very pretty iPhone app that lets you add movies that you have seen and rate them. The has a bold UI and looks excellent. You can Search for a movie name and add it…
Sundays are fast becoming our favorite days of the month. We love (and appreciate) the feedback we’ve been receiving for our platters and we couldn’t be happier. Here’s this week’s Platter for you. Garmoshka We love coming across little projects undertaken by web developers to either showcase their skills or experiment with modern web technologies. Artem Polikarpov has put together this wonderful little project he calls Garmoshka. A Garmon is a sort of Russian accordion and he’s built a web-based one that you can play by resizing your browser window. Isn’t this just a fantastic way of building a responsive…
You’ve been patiently waiting for this week’s platter, haven’t you? We know, we know! We were slightly late this week, but the fresh and tasty pixels have now been served for you. Rando — Random Photo Sharing [showcase id=”7405″] Rando is a brilliant new app that has been conceptualized and implemented by ustwo™. Rando is a genius take on anti-social photo-sharing. The app has no social aspect to it at all — you click a photo, a “rando”, that is randomly and anonymously sent to a recipient anywhere on the globe. For every rando that you post, you receive one…
We are extremely happy with the feedback we have received so far for The Platter. We are trying to make each one a little more eclectic. In this week’s platter, we have two interesting static site generation tools, two very creatively presented stories and your usual service of apps. Thanks for being awesome and without furthur adieu here’s the platter this week. Google+ iOS [showcase id=”7270″] Google+ has had an amazing iOS app from the start. Over time, it has outclassed almost every other social network app. We featured it in our Best of 2012: UI Animations post as well.…