Android – Iphone – Applications

I have to admit it; I love a good quality beer. I am always looking, comparing, tasting, and enjoying new beers whenever I have the opportunity. The problem that I often run into is finding a great beer in some small brewery tucked away in some small town, and completely forgetting what that beer was a week later. Now, this fantastic micro-brew can be documented on my iPhone thanks to ThatsTheSpirit.

ThatsTheSpirit is a database for the adult beverage. It is easy to document everything from a fine wine to the finest scotch. Long gone are the days of sipping a fine wine, telling yourself you have to buy this when you get home, and then completely forgetting what the wine was. Entering these spirits could not be any easier thanks to the simple interface. Choose from predefined beverage types, enter the name, cost, where you had it, and more into a simple database. You can even attach a photo of the bottle to the entry so you have an easy visual reference. Finding the drink is just as easy thanks to a simple search feature.

This is a great start for a spirit database, but there are a few things that would have really made this a superior app. The app may contain the ability to enter in hard liquors and beers, but the setup is most certainly geared to the wine coinsure. Including a line item for who produces beverages would also go miles to increasing the usefulness of this database. Also, being able to modify the price so people can know it was $10 for a four pack of beer, and not just a generic $10 entry would really help with budget conscious shoppers. The last bit that could really use a modification is the ability to edit drink types, as the predefined list is fine, but it is not comprehensive by any stretch.

This is a good start to helping you track those fine adult beverages, but it is not quite the comprehensive app some might hope for. It is worth picking up if you enjoy a wide variety of drinks and hate forgetting them at a later time; just know there are some constraints you will have to work around.

[ iPhone Review: ThatsTheSpirit is a post from 148Apps ]

written by nhiepphong \\ tags: ability, adult, comprehensive, database, dicran-goulian, Iphone, iphone apps and games, ipod, lifestyle, overall-rating, rating, wine

Facebook has launched a couple of new security features for those who log in from public computers. The first security feature is a temporary one-time password and the second feature is the ability to sign out of Facebook remotely. Here is how they both work:

To get a one-time password, all you have to do is send a message that says “otp” to 32665 on your mobile device. Facebook will text you back a password that can only be used once and expires in 20 minutes. This is a great way of protecting your account from getting hacked into when logging in from public computers.

Facebook also has a way to log out remotely too. Within the Account Settings, you will be able to view all of your Active Sessions. This includes mobile devices and computers logged in to your Facebook. You can log out of these individual Active Sessions and reset your password from this menu. Below is what this feature looks like:

[ReadWriteWeb]

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Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) has made a major update to their iPhone application. Their iPhone application now has the ability to scan barcodes and find out how much that product sells for on their own website. Even though there are a number of other bar code scanning applications, it is nice to have one that is directly connected to Amazon’s inventory. [Gizmodo]

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Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) has acquired startup company Plannr. Plannr is a scheduling product for mobile devices. Plannr has the ability to sync geo-locational data with calendar software and is compatible with Microsoft Outlook and Apple iCal. Google bought out all of the assets of the company that Ben Eidelson and Jason Prado own called Everything Is The Best LLC. The company is based in Seattle. [TechCrunch]

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Google cars have been spotted driving themselves on Highway 1 between San Francisco and Los Angeles. The Toyota Prius cars that Google uses has a funnel cylinder on the roof and the person at the wheel was not actually driving.

The self-driving car is a Google project that uses artificial-intelligence software that has the ability to sense anything near the car and mimic decisions that are made by a human driver.

About seven test cars have driven 1,000 miles without human intervention and more than 140,000 miles with some form of human control. One of the cars even drove down Lombard Street in San Francisco. The self-driving cars are a project by Sebastian Thrun, the co-inventor of Google Street View and a director at the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab.

[NYT]

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