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
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
Red Giant Announces Immediate Availability of BulletProof Free Public Beta @RedGiantNews http://t.co/tnUgRMDrRm
— tvbaynews (@tvbaynews) May 24, 2013
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