Santa Clara, U.S.A. — Ferrotec USA is excited to announce the launch of Pashadelic onto the App Store. Compatible with the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch, this unique crowd sourced photo spot scouting & photography sharing portal gives users the power to connect with a global community of photo lovers.

Users have whatever they need to scope out all the best spots to snap shots and share awesome photo spots they discover daily around them.

The idea behind Pashadelic is simple. Mobile savvy photography lovers get together in the app, share their favorite photo spots while taking their own awesome photos. Users simply connect and browse through the app to see where all the best tagged photo spots are. The best locations to snap photos naturally bubble to the top and Pashadelic’s GPS integrated map lets all users know where they are and how to get there.

Completely free and 100% crowd-sourced by unbiased photography enthusiasts, Pashadelic lets users tag everything from landmarks and wild areas to specific neighborhoods. Since Pashadelic automatically geo-tags all it photos, users can easily find the locations they are looking for. Get ready to discover the preeminent photo location forum on iOS, share photos with a network of users that love to snap pics as much as you do, and get it all done from a single easy-to-use hub from anywhere.

Pashadelic is currently available for download on the App Store for Free in the Photo & Video category.

The article Discover Awesome Photo Spots With “Pashadelic” appeared first on The Toonari Post - News, Powered by the People!.

Tucker, Georgia, U.S.A. – With the launch of Gas Guru from YP, those on the go have a new companion when trying to find cheap gas and other necessities while on the road. Whether on a daily commute or summer road trip, the free mobile app can help users save money and sanity, by powering quick decisions about where to fuel up or make a pit stop for everything from coffee to a cash machine.

Rising gas prices are a pain at the pump, but finding fuel isn’t the only headache. Many apps for hitting the road are limited to information on gas prices and forget about all the stops in between. The time, gas and money wasted while circling around searching for cheap gas, a quick bite on the way home or an auto shop can add up. This is why Gas Guru is a must download.

App features make navigating everyday, on-the-go needs quick and easy:

The app can help find cheap gas nearby at a glance. Unlike other apps that simply list gas prices, Gas Guru calculates and highlights the best prices at stations nearby. Users can see prices by gas grade in either map or list view. No more filling the tank and discovering afterward that you could have saved a couple of bucks down the road.

The app will also compare gas prices at frequent locations. Gas Guru can be personalized to save locations like “home,” “work” or other favorite places, to easily compare the latest prices with a flick of the finger and quickly decide whether to fuel up now or later.

Daily detours are also quick and easy. Find restaurants, coffee, auto repair, roadside assistance, or ATMs nearby with a single tap. Search results are displayed alongside gas stations making it easy to lay out a plan for your stops. Call or get directions to your selected destinations.

“We developed Gas Guru to address a clear need for a mobile companion to make decisions about roadside necessities easier,” said David Williams, vice president of product management at YP. “Since we added a gas price feature to our flagship YP local search app last year, we’ve seen triple digit search growth for not only gas prices, but auto-related categories overall. This new purpose-based app expands our local search insights and technology platform to address the unique needs of those on the go.

Smartphone users, download the free location-based app from Google Play or iTunes.

The article New Smartphone App Helps Find Cheaper Gas appeared first on The Toonari Post - News, Powered by the People!.

London, England – Traditionally, shopping for sofas has been reserved for that long bank holiday weekend you’ve been so looking forward to, or those lazy Sundays where traipsing around furniture stores with the kids eventually results in a purchase which you hope will fit within your budget. However, CSL-Sofas have gone all technological. They have brought sofa shopping into the 21st century by allowing you to simply browse online and then see exactly how your new sofa will look in your own living room, all by using your phone!

The recently launched CSL app is completely free and the perfect way to browse sofas while you are on the move. However, uniquely to this app, you can view your dream sofa using CSL’s exclusive ‘In Your Room’ augmented reality feature. Have you ever wondered what your dream sofa your saw in store looked like in your living room before your could buy? If so, then this app answers that problem.

The features of the CSL app include access to 12,000 items in the sofa catalogue, access to the latest ranges with up to 50% off leather, fabric, corner group and recliner sofas, the CSL store locator which uses your phone’s GPS, access to the express delivery range, and of course the ‘In Your Room’ facility using the latest augmented reality technology.

The free iPhone app was developed after the company directors decided they were onto something: “We believe that online shopping is the future, but as far as sofas are concerned, it is important that people can really visualise the sofa in their own living room to make sure that they are making the right choice,” said a spokesman for CSL-Sofas. “Our iPhone app gives people the confidence to be able to browse online and then view their chosen sofa in their own living room, eliminating the need to visit stores or worry that a wrong choice has been made,” he continued. “That means that if they are looking for an express delivery leather sofa, they can make their choice, quickly visualise it in their living room using our app, and then we will guarantee fast delivery!”

To use the app, you take a picture of your living room, or whatever room for which the item of furniture is intended. You can then select the furniture that sparks your interest and leave the software to merge both the furniture item and your photo to provide a realistic vision of how that exact furniture item will appear in your room.

“The app is completely free and has been designed to be exceptionally easy to use,” said a member of senior management at CSL-Sofas. “It allows people to instantly see a real picture of their own living room with their potential new furniture already delivered and installed, all within seconds!”

CSL-Sofas offer fast delivery on your choice of leather sofas as well as a minimum of GBP500 off all sofas with their current special offer. You can download the app totally free from the App store right now and use it to browse, arrange delivery, pay balances and even earn money by recommending friends and family.

CSL first launched in 1982 and have strived to build up a good reputation and customer base over the last 20 years. CSL have been featured on Mary Portas’s Channel 4 documentary, Queen of Shops, and were notably the first sofa retailer to use the iPad to take sales from customers.

The article See Your New Sofa in Advance with CSL Iphone App appeared first on The Toonari Post - News, Powered by the People!.

RoadsideAmerica.com, the guide to offbeat tourist attractions, announced the launch of its Roadside Presidents mobile software app for iPhone. Roadside Presidents reveals over a thousand U.S. President tourist attractions  around the country – from traditional historic places, such as presidential birthplaces and memorials, to the offbeat and unexpected, such as the ice cream store where President Obama worked during high school.

“We’ve discovered so many bizarre presidential sights out there,” said Ken Smith, senior editor of RoadsideAmerica.com.  “By visiting conventional landmarks, but also the hidden treasures, you get the broader, nuttier picture of America’s history. You’ll never think of George Washington quite the same way after you’ve seen his whiskey-making still — or of Ronald Reagan after seeing a statue of him eating a potato pancake.”

Roadside Presidents is available on the Apple (U.S.) App Store for $2.99. The list of attractions is always growing, and the app retrieves real-time updates and attraction status reports from RoadsideAmerica.com.

Users can browse by president or by location, and read fun facts, attraction visit reports and stories, and see visitor-contributed tips and photos, maps, driving directions, hours, and phone numbers. They can snap photos from within the app to submit directly to RoadsideAmerica.com. The app’s “Been There!” feature lets users keep track of roadside attractions they have visited.

The editorial team at RoadsideAmerica.com has spent years seeking out dusty wax dioramas and creaky animatronics of the nation’s Chief Executives. They’ve written irreverent and illuminating entries for Roadside Presidents – on first ladies and VPs, quirky siblings, White House pets, and presidential also-rans.

Assassination, conspiracy, and scandal sights are other road trip possibilities found in the app. The attractions are everywhere and the app makes them easy to find — whether it’s a robot Lyndon Johnson cracking jokes in Texas, a Highway of Vice Presidents in Indiana, or a George Bush giant sequoia in California.

Roadside Presidents was designed by the software development team that created the popular Roadside America iPhone app, consistently listed among the top-selling App Store Travel apps since it was introduced in 2010. It was named an App Store Staff Favorite in 2011.

The article RoadsideAmerica.com Launches Roadside Presidents iPhone App appeared first on The Toonari Post - News, Powered by the People!.

MyFlare, the most advanced mobile emergency response system, is now available for iPhone and Android in Spanish! Peace of mind wherever you go, MyFlare Espanol cleverly employs the essential resources on a smartphone – 911, text e-mail, GPS, audio and video – with just one touch of a button to provide users additional personal safety and faster emergency response.

MyFlare Espanol acts as a personalized digital flare gun by performing ALL of the following actions instantly, automatically, simultaneously and continuously in order to give users the help they need when they need it most, whether they’re in distress or a more significant emergency:

• Instantly calls 911 or the user’s designated non-911 emergency contact
• Automatically sends a MyFlare Espanol Message via SMS text and e-mail to 10 of the user’s pre-selected MyFlare Espanol Contacts, alerting them that the user’s in trouble, including the user’s current and ongoing GPS location
• Automatically and continuously delivers the user’s text and e-mail messages every three minutes to the user’s pre-selected contacts with an updated GPS location
• Simultaneously sends 20-second optional video recordings capturing the user’s present environment, which are attached to the delivered e-mails every few minutes
• Instantly blasts an optional police siren continuously, except when the phone is not in use

MyFlare Espanol’s all-in-one functionality is simple and simultaneous — critical in a potentially life-threatening situation. The GPS, as well as all of the information sent from MyFlare Espanol, can be indispensable to a user fleeing an emergency, or worse, getting abducted, and will prove helpful as evidence in legal proceedings.

MyFlare Espanol has established partnerships with other safety leaders in the field, including Global Rescue, a world-renowned medical assistance organization, Richard Bloom, one of the country’s top personal safety experts, and Hispanic boxer Marlen Esparza, a 2012 Olympic hopeful and safety activist.

Barry Haimo, CEO of MyFlare Espanol, said, “Unfortunately, there is often insufficient time in an emergency to communicate with 911, and only some 911 dispatchers will investigate scenarios where 911 is called but the victim cannot communicate. MyFlare Espanol gives smartphone users the peace of mind knowing that there is additional reassurance in all emergencies.”

The article MyFlare Now Available on iPhone and Android in Spanish appeared first on The Toonari Post - News, Powered by the People!.

Since introducing its iPhone app giving customers the convenience to make payments anytime, anywhere just over two years ago, Mercedes-Benz Financial Services (MBFS) has received over $50 million in payments via mobile channels — and the number is growing.

In October 2009, Mercedes-Benz Financial Services became the first captive auto finance company to introduce an app for customers with iPhones to enable them to make monthly payments.

That innovation was quickly followed in early 2010 with the launch of a mobile version of mbfs.com, accessible from all smart phone devices and capable of accepting monthly payments on loans and leases. In 2011, the first full year that both mobile channels were available, the company received $38 million in payments.

In mid-2010, Mercedes-Benz Financial Services became one of the first companies in the world to adapt the consumer-oriented Apple iPad to a business application by making the MBFS existing dealer portal, MB Advantage, available on the iPad, thus introducing mobile capability to more than 350 Mercedes-Benz dealerships in the U.S.

“A significant portion of our customer base quickly adopted mobile technology as a preferred method of making payments and communicating with us,” Michael Kanzleiter, Senior Marketing Manager for Mercedes-Benz Financial Services, told members of the International Motor Press Association recently at its monthly meeting in midtown  Manhattan.

The company’s mobile payment channels, including the apps for iPhone and iPad and the mobile website, experienced a 127% growth rate in 2011, reflecting customers’ rapid adoption and the growing acceptance of doing business via mobile channels.

In fact, nearly 40% of the total retail portfolio of 511,000 customers is managing their accounts with MBFS online, self-service methods including mbfs.com, the My MBFS app, and the mobile website.

Kanzleiter said Mercedes-Benz Financial Services is enhancing the existing app for the iPhone and iPad, enabling customers to obtain monthly payment estimates on new Mercedes-Benz vehicles, and even request a quote from a local dealer. Customers will select their Mercedes-Benz model, choose a retail or lease product and term, and the app will provide general payment information.  Customers can provide an email address and phone number to request additional information from a local dealer.

Mercedes-Benz Financial Services Mobile Strategy Chronology

• MBFS launches iPhone app for customers to manage accounts, October 2009
• MBFS launches smartphone capability to manage accounts, February 2010
• MBFS pilots MB Advantage on iPad to 40 dealerships, May 2010
• MBFS launches iPad rollout to all 356 dealers, October 2010
• MBFS launches customer signature capability on iPad, October 2010
• MBFS has received approximately $54 million as of year-end 2011 in retail lease/loan payments from iPhones and smartphones via a payment channel established October 2009.

DDCoral / Shutterstock.com

The article Mercedes-Benz Mobile Payment App Receives over $50 Million appeared first on The Toonari Post - News, Powered by the People!.

Chili’s Grill & Bar takes digital integration to the next level by expanding the guest experience beyond the four walls of the restaurant and right into the palm of their hands. With an estimated 142 million smart phones sold this holiday season, new iPhone and Android users as well as smart phone veterans, can now enjoy the new Chili’s app, making location searches, driving directions, updated menu and online ordering available at just the push of a few buttons.

The new apps and mobile site are user-friendly with a clean interface, making it easy for new smart phone users and Digital Natives alike to search for the nearest restaurant with the geo-mapping function. Using the guest’s physical location, the technology allows users to find the phone number, address and driving directions to the closest Chili’s.

“With the constant evolution of technology, our world continues to receive information and entertainment at the touch of our fingertips,” said Edithann Ramey, senior director of marketing for Chili’s Grill & Bar. “Our guests lead busy lives and Chili’s is making it easier for them to enjoy the convenience of our bold menu offerings with these enhanced applications.”

Guests can peruse the menu browser option to choose exactly what they want to ease their hunger pains. Featured items for dine-in and To Go are all at the touch of a button including Chili’s $20 Dinner for 2, where guests select one appetizer and two entrees for one great price, and the brand’s Custom Combinations, which features any two entrees served with seasonal veggies and loaded mashed potatoes.

There are several ways to download the Chili’s app. From an iPhone, go to the App Store and type in a search for “chilis.” Follow the directions once the Chili’s icon pops up. To download the app from a computer, visit the iTunes store at www.apple.com/iTunes, plug in “chilis” into the search box to access the app. From Android Market, search for “chilis” to install the free application. For other smart phone users, simply visit www.chilistogo.com to view the mobile site with the same online ordering functionality as the iPhone and Android app.

The article Chili’s Restaurant has New APPetizing for Mobile Users appeared first on The Toonari Post - News, Powered by the People!.