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Free WhatIs will answer all your questions

July 1, 2011 | By frasera

Got a question and don’t want to spend time typing it into to Bing or Google? Just ask “WhatIs” which supports verbal and typed questions and then will speak and display the answer. Want to know “WhatIs” the time in New York or the distance from London to Paris or the average of 3 numbers, just ask “WhatIs”!

WhatIs advanced speech to text engine allows you to verbally ask a question and it will give you the best guess answer via a text to speech engine back to you.

WhatIs is free and can be found in Marketplace here.

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Free Wikipedia Viewer with VOICE SEARCH released

June 3, 2011 | By frasera

Update – Now with VOICE SEARCH!

I often find myself asking “WHY?” or “HOW?” and have learnt the more I know, the more I realise how little I really do know. So I wrote a Wikipedia viewer to answer just those questions, the app will use suggestive search to help you find the information you need to know on the spot.

Features

Voice search.
Fastest Wikipedia viewer available.
Easy to use search with fast auto-complete to help find the topic you’re looking for.
Portrait or landscape reading modes.
Multilingual search capabilities in English, German, Spanish, French, Italian and 45 other languages
Only Wikipedia viewer with a low bandwidth fast text only mode.
Fast page loading with A.C.T. (Advanced Caching Technology)
Offline reading of pages with A.C.T

Wikipedia viewer can be found in Marketplace here.

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Free Countdown Timer

May 8, 2011 | By frasera

Apporista’s “Free Countdown Timer” for WP7 is a simple countdown timer which will let you know when time is up. It’s not going to shine your shoes or balance your check book but it does have a cool sand timer effect for keeping track of things like cooking, watering, cleaning your teeth, etc.

It will run while the phone is asleep and you can also disable the screensaver. It supports preset times of 5, 10, 15, 30 minutes and your last time for quickly setting the countdown time.

The app is published in the Tools category by Apporista and is free. You can find out more about “Free Countdown Timer” at the official web site Apporista.com.

“Free Countdown Timer” can be found in Marketplace here.

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Free Wiki Talking Tours

May 7, 2011 | By frasera

Ever wandered down the street looking around and wondering where, how and when? Been on the bus or train watching impressive buildings go by, or been on holidays and just wanting to know what things around you are. “Wiki Talking Tours” combines the vast knowledge of Geo tagged Wikipedia articles and your current location to give you a map of Wikipedia articles and talking guide of Wikipedia articles around you. Click on the pins on the map to get a brief description or click on the more option to get the full Wikipedia article.

Press “Play”, stick it in your pocket and go……

Zune/Marketplace link

The app is published in the Travel category by Apporista and is free. You can find out more about “Free Wiki Talking Tours” at the official web site: http://www.apporista.com/

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Free Picture of the Day–Windows Phone 7 app with Live Tile now available

April 4, 2011 | By frasera

They say a picture tells a thousand words, Apporista’s latest WP7 application is just that. A daily picture taken from Wikimedia commons will be sent to you each morning. It supports multiple languages, mapping of where the picture was taken and a ‘live tile’ preview and ‘toast notifications’.

There are some fantastic and inspirational pictures out there and the good ones will make you ask where and what? ‘Picture of the Day’ will answer both those questions. It supports the key features to answer that question.

World map and zoomed transition to the local area showing where the picture was taken (when available).
Preview teaser of the daily picture on a live tile.
Description of the daily picture in toast notification.
Full screen viewing, zooming, rotating and manipulation of a high resolution version of the picture.
Save the picture to the phone and then can set as screen saver picture.
Picture description, Author and Date taken.

The app is published in the Photos category by Apporista and is free. You can find out more about "Free Picture of the day" at the official web site: www.apporista.com

“Free Picture of the Day” can be found in in Marketplace here.

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