Monitored Alarm Systems

Groovebug is a bit like a Flipboard for music. It's an iPad app that scans your music collection, then sucks in "rich content from the cloud" (i.e. websites) to serve up as a personalised iPad magazine. It uses APIs from Echo Nest and YouTube, and is free to download.

The Telegraph has launched its latest iPad app, with a pictorial focus. Telegraph Pictures offers 12 photos every day from the newspaper's archives. "Ideal for photography and news enthusiasts, and anyone who appreciates the power of storytelling through beautiful imagery." A photography iPad app from a newspaper? Why has nobody thought of this before? Oh.

Android app ShareShelf is an intriguing idea: it "lets you track who you have shared your possessions with", including pinging messages back and forth with friends who have borrowed items. "Not only are you tracking who has your stuff, but you're actually building a personal inventory of your assets on the fly..."

UK service PayByPhone enables people to pay to park in public car parks by phone - traditionally by calling, texting or its mobile website. Now there are apps for that too, for iPhone, Android and BlackBerry. They can be used to register, pay and monitor/extend parking sessions, with an additional find-your-vehicle feature.
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