increasing number of applications that transform the iPhone and its brothers in handyman tools
even went as far as where your imagination go and dare to travel at the speed of 350 downloads per second. The world of applications for the iPhone and other smartphones, whose growth appears to be unstoppable. The latest statistics, distributed by Apple a few days ago, speak of 3 billion selling applications for iPhone and iPod Touch through the AppStore. This figure, when compared with the two billion applications of 28 September last year, resulting in a billion downloads in just three months and an average of 30 million applications per day.
Only in the Apple online store, the applications are more than 100 thousand. Those offered by rival Google, through its operating system Android for mobile devices, more than 20 thousand, the catalog of Palm, however, offers more than a thousand. Twenty categories within which the giant Apple has enclosed its applications, available in 77 countries around the world (except for complaints: Apple has recently blocked in China for all programs which address both the iPhone and the Dalai Lama exiled Uighur leader Rebiya Kader). From sex to economics, from games to news, as well as interaction on social networks: there is no area that is not able to offer something to your smartphone, with or without charge.
According to a recent survey of American customers of Apple, each user has an average of 65 applications iPhone, and spends about $ 80 (only 7% have downloaded free applications only). It matters little if those who sometimes seem to be needs driven by the speed and ease of a click, are likely to overshadow the primary function of these devices, which is to communicate. Alternatively, you can let go and hunt, for example, tips that come from the world of medicine. It 's the case of the proposal in recent days at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas for an application that wants to offer opportunities to future fathers "absent" to assist the unborn fetus to ultrasound via iPhone. The video of the examination will be forwarded to friends and relatives but also by doctors themselves, and finally re-released through the most traditional social networks.
The application, developed by West Wireless Health Institute, was presented along with a system that will, again via melafonino, to monitor the vital signs of patients in hospitals (from heartbeats to temperature). E 'instead Sale time at a price of € 32.99, "Pharmacy Plus" across the Italian application is based on a complete archive containing thousands of monographs on drugs in 6000 to about 13,000 formulations, complete with dosage and contraindications. Developers updated every three months the store, eliminating the drug trade out and the user has the possibility of interact with the application indicating medicinal or other useful information (including possible side effects). From medicine to store shelves, the key is in the barcode: a tool "captured" by the click of the camera and used to recommend stores that sell that product at a lower price or simply to offer reviews and video.
Mobile phones that use Android uses "Compare Everywhere": After reading the bar code, you receive a list of real and virtual stores that sell that product at a lower price. There is no "balance" to take: it is the mobile phone to say if the front of which you are, can really be considered an offer. The equivalent iPhone is called "Barcode reader" and, again, uses the camera as a "scanner" can read the bar code. There are many opportunities to parents struggling with their first child, and especially the impossibility of being able to monitor live 24 hours on the cradle 24. "Baby Monitor" moved iPhone traditional microphones placed in the baby's room: when the child complains about the phone call that has been recorded in the memory by connecting directly with its parent apprehensive infant. And if "Soothe Baby" will start a series of sounds to relax (and sleep) the small, "Cry translator" has the ambition to translate the cries and cries the child, identifying, within ten seconds, one of its possible five basic needs: hunger, sleep, stress, boredom or discomfort.
Also in the home, the iPhone by offering it as an ally in the fight against summer mosquitoes. Anti Mosquito "is a program that is able to emit sounds at a frequency of between 16,000 and 20,000 Hz, imperceptible to the human ear but very annoying for the mosquitoes that do not move anymore. Against thieves - although it could well be used to observe your child - there is an application that turns your phone into a security camera. After a long gestation period before approval by the Apple (presumably preccupata, among other things, possible uses in the key of 'espionage), "Security Cam" can take pictures at set intervals in a given environment. Among the conditions of use, Frequency Capture, which lets you set the frequency with which the camera needs to take a picture, "Audio Trigger" that takes a picture every time it detects a sound (you can choose the "level" beyond which the application must be activated). Among the applications, however, slipped under the sheets right up there, "Passion": claims to be able to give ratings to sexual performance. Placed next to your bed, after the report measures three factors: the activity, duration and orgasm (Assessed using the microphone). For each receiving a score from 0 to 10. He has developed a student at the University of Texas-Austin.
And if after sex you want to relax, you can make use of "Pranayama", which is suggested by the name of the yoga breathing. And, in fact, the special software will guide your breathing. Its inventors even mentioning a search, whereby through 15 minutes of daily exercises and breathing like this, you can improve your health, combating insomnia and depression. You select one of various levels, the type of breathing (inhalation / exhalation or inhalation / retention / exhalation) and duration, and will be led by music for all types of activities. But you can also relax during a flight, and, above all, try to overcome the fear of flying, which, according to a study of the European panic disorder affecting two out of three Italians. In this case, there is the hand of billionaire Richard Branson's airline, Virgin Atlantic, which has created more fearful for the course "Flying Without Fear", with a success rate, is promised, by 98%.
The application does is use the principles of the course and place it on your smartphone. When you are calm, you can see a video explaining to you the different phases of flight, or to hear the answers to frequently asked questions Frequently, in times of panic, however, may appeal to some relaxation exercises. If the situation is critical, you can use the button "Button Attack" which, when activated, will suggest some breathing techniques and provide practical advice to the user in the grip of anxiety. Tops the list of free applications downloaded from there AppsStore Speed \u200b\u200bLive for the location of speed cameras in real time on the Italian and European roads. Not only indicates whether the device is fixed or mobile, but also the speed limit on that road. It also provides information on traffic, road works and possible delays on the roads and is also available for Android (by the name of Radar Wikango live).
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