Maya Yarowsky, NoCamels - Israel Innovation News Planning your schedule around public transportation times can be a drag, especially when you live in a crowded city like New York. Well, there is good news because the Israeli social transportation app, moovit, has stepped in to relieve travelers’ frustration in the Knickerbocker city. Founded in 2011, moovit is a mobile app that takes real-time user feedback about public transportation and makes it useful to a wider audience. The app already functions in …More

Google has several applications available to users looking to be inspired by Adolf Hitler. Available on Google Play, the app store for Android products, one app that goes by the name Infamous Adolf Hitler Quotes opens with this description: “Looking for Adolf Hitler Quotes?? Then this is the App for you!” In the user review section, the free English-language app is described as a “great moral booster,” by one the 1,060 reviewers who downloaded the app. Another user writes in a review dated …More

Elana Widmann, NoCamels - Israeli Innovation News Working parents often feel like they do not spend enough quality time with their kids. In the United States, the overall participation rate in the labor force of mothers with children under the age 18 is 70.6 percent, and for fathers, 93.5 percent, according to American Bureau of Labor Statistics. Israeli startup TinyTap launched a new iPad app aimed at strengthening the bond between parents and children. The TinyTap platform allows parents to create …More

Two Israeli applications have made it onto Apple’s annual best new apps list. The App Store Best of 2012 included Any.Do, a task management application, and GroupShot, a photo-editing app. Any.Do was chosen in the Intuitive Touch category. The app allows users to manage to do lists using voice recognition. GroupShot was selected in the Photo and Video Magic category. The app was designed by Israeli firm Macadamia, and lets users take portions of various photos to make one perfect image. Israel, a leader …More

Elana Widmann, NoCamels - Israeli Innovation News Did you ever wish for a personal assistant? Someone who would make your life’s seemingly endless to-do’s more manageable? 24me is an application that helps organize and manage your many chores, including paying bills from within the app and assigning tasks to other people. Gilad Hertanu and Liat Mordechay Hertanu, a married couple from Israel, founded 24me in January 2012. Liat tells NoCamels: “We thought of 24me because it was very difficult …More

The man sitting on the commuter train focusing intently on his iPhone might be playing Angry Birds. Or he might be studying Talmud, Skyping with a chevruta partner in Israel or even teaching Hebrew school. “Mobile technologies could help people practice Judaism,” said Barry Schwartz, CEO of RustyBrick, a West Nyack, NY-based software company that has created more than 30 Jewish mobile apps. “It is the future. Wherever you go -- the airport, shul -people are looking stuff up and …More

NoCamels Team, NoCamels - Israeli Innovation News If you were to peruse the list of applications you’ve knowingly or not given permission to access your personal information on Facebook, Twitter, Google, Messenger, Instagram and more, you’d probably be as shocked as we were when we saw ours. And if you were to embark on the tedious task of going through every single app to locate the page where you can change your privacy settings, you’d likely be at it for days. That’s why a neat little …More

Aya Ephrati, NoCamels - Israeli Innovation News There is something thrilling about traveling with no set itinerary, to land in an unknown city with nothing but your guidebook to lead the way. But the setback with guidebooks is they are not updated in real-time, meaning they might lead you to a hotel, which in the meantime has been turned into a restaurant. Places are in constant states of fluctuation, whereas guidebooks are not. A travel app, with real-time updates, therefore, seems like a practical idea (if …More

NoCamels Team, NoCamels - Israeli Innovation News Applications is the word of the day and companies without them are often viewed as passé. But not every company is willing to spend thousands of dollars on developing and designing a customized and cutting edge mobile app. Uppsite, a startup company based in Petah Tikva, Israel, offers a middle ground: it converts your website into a basic app within minutes, free of charge. Uppsite says it is the only mobile app solution that allows publishers to …More

Hanna Szekeres, NoCamels - Israeli Innovation News John Wilmot, the second Earl of Rochester, said in the 17th century, “Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.” Millions of new parents every year still face the same questions that arise from parenthood. But when does parenting start exactly? If you ask couples, may would tell you–at the moment of conception. That is when they start asking themselves what is healthy to eat? …More

NoCamels Team, NoCamels - Israeli Innovation News ICVT, the creators of the JPEGmini and VIDEOmini media optimization technologies, today announced the release of JPEGmini for Mac, a Mac app which frees up hard drive space by reducing photo file size without affecting quality. With JPEGmini for Mac, users can optimize full photo albums simply by dragging them onto the app. The optimized photos retain the full quality and resolution of the original photos, but are much smaller in file size, so they can be shared …More

Merav Turel, NoCamels - Israeli Innovation News Face.com, the leader in online face recognition technology, last week released the production version of their iPhone camera app, KLIK 1.0. KLIK uses real-time mobile face recognition to automatically detect faces, and even identify friends in photos allowing users to easily tag and share photos of their friends. The app automatically identifies your friends by name before or after you take their photo. In most cases, KLIK can identify the person in the frame …More