Friday is an app that wants to automatically track your activity in order to provide a history of your communications, additional analysis, and even a search engine for your own life.

With Friday, which now has around 55,000 sign-ups pre-launch, what you’re seeing is sort of like the flip side to Siri. Where you may ask your virtual assistant about things that will happen in the future (what’s my day look like? Can I get sushi nearby?), you ask Friday about things that have already happened.

The interesting thing here is not just that it has access to the history of your communications (phone calls, text messages, emails, etc.), but that it also has access to other events, like photos that were taken, changes in the phone’s status (battery drops, e.g.) as well as activity taking place on third-party services (Facebook or Foursquare checkins, tweets, e.g.).

Friday: A Personal Assistant That Remembers What You’ve Done [TechCrunch]

A great new app by Virgin HealthMiles, of Richard Branon’s Virgin Group, is taking seriously the responsibility companies have for the health of their employees. Based around the idea of providing wellness activities and mobile incentives for its users, this app has an accelerometer that tracks steps and workout calories and then syncs the info to the users’ Virgin HealthMiles account. The Dash app allows users to manually add weight, blood pressure activity, and duration while the BMI numbers and biometric information is automatically calculated. Going forth, employees can keep track of their workouts and caloric burns and even have access to summaries and graphs which correlate their weekly and monthly progress.

Apps and tools like this which incentivize positive employee behavior and performance are becoming more of priority for employers looking to create a stable and productive work force. Many leadership training seminars now focus on community health objectives just as consistently as communication skills and technology integration.

While the Virgin HealthMiles Dash app is not the first mobile exercise application that keeps track of calories and progress, it is one of the first that is uniquely tailored to employees as an incentivizing factor for their work forces. Perhaps one of the neatest tools on the app is the Challenges feature, which facilitates and encourages team challenges with real-time stat tracking. This is all part of the Virgin HealthMiles Connections social platform, which creates a community-based news feed.

Dash is also one of the first activity tracking apps that has a well-planned reward platform based around the health of the participants and not the micro-managing delight of the community manager. One of perks of this for the employees is that he or she does not need to be a part of the rewards platform in order to participate. Let the employee accelerometer challenges begin!

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Photo organization service Everpix just launched its first iPhone application. The app does two key things: it offers you a way to access your entire photo collection from your phone, plus it automatically uploads all your iPhone photos to the Everpix cloud.

The app is a crucial part of the overall Everpix experience, which, for those of you unfamiliar, works primarily as a Mac application at present (Windows coming) to automatically organize and combine all your photos, whether they’re stored on your computer or in the cloud. The service supports photo uploads from iPhoto, Aperture and Lightroom, plus photos from your online collections on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Flickr and Picasa.

New Everpix iPhone App Automatically Uploads Your Photos To The Cloud [TechCrunch]

If you’re one of those people that frequently misplaces their keys, wallet, or even remote, the BiKN iPhone app and attachment can help you keep track of all these items at all times. In fact, it will let you keep track of up to 8 items – including people.

To keep track of the items you are most prone to losing, all you have to do is attach one of the 8 tags to the items in question and download the app on your iPhone. The tags easily attach to key rings, which is incredibly convenient if you constantly lose yours or are wondering the whereabouts of your kids of driving age. When you lose one of the items that a tag is attached too, BiKN will help you find it in one of three ways:

1. Find Mode – Find mode allows the app to find your item using a visual display and an audio tone.
2. Leash Mode – Leash mode notifies you as soon as a certain item moves out of your specified range.
3. Page Mode – Page mode allows you to find your items simply by sound. All you have to do is hit the page button and all items with tags on them will sound.

So whether you leave your phone or wallet in Overland Park storage facilities after packing away those holiday decorations or in the local Wal-Mart while shopping for groceries, BiKN will notify you to their location – before you leave the area. This early notification is in particular a perk, because it prevents you from getting all the way home or whatever be your destination without your most necessary items.

The BiKN app and tags are definitely a cool idea, however, the only drawback is that you have to make sure that both your iPhone and all tags are charged in order for it to work properly – not something that everyone, particularly those who are prone to losing things, are good at. Otherwise, at $49.95, the BiKN is definitely worth the investment.

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AppGreen offers an easy-to-use platform to build your own mobile catalog. AppGreen aims at assisting your sales activities, improving your sales efficiency and boosting your brand awareness. What industries need is a help in technology,” said Eric Tang, co-founder of Appgreen. AppGreen is building a “Enterprise Catalog Management” platform aiming at providing DIY experience for companies to build their mobile product catalog without any prior programming knowledge.

AppGreen supplies all necessary technologies and packages them into simple user interface so that corporates could build their mobile catalogs as if playing jigsaw puzzles. Until corporates export finished catalogs to their mobile tablets, there isn’t any single line of code required. At the same time AppGreen supports mobile catalogs to both iOS and Android.

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Mashable: The PhoneSuit Elite’s claim to fame is its slimline dimensions and super-fast charge times. Measuring at just less than 17mm thick, it doesn’t add too much bulk to your handset but more than doubles battery life. It can charge your iPhone from flat to full in two hours and offers the ability to switch between first using up the power in the case or the power in the phone.

5 iPhone Battery Cases to Keep You Connected Longer [Mashable]

Springwise: CigaRv, a “Mobile Man Cave” on wheels that brings a cigar lounge to any event, regardless of local smoking laws.

The Mobile Man Cave is a 26-foot, 1976 GMC motorhome that has been remodeled with comfortable couches, granite counter tops, four satellite-equipped flat-screen TVs and two large humidors. Also included are “two of the most powerful ventilation systems available,” in the Californian company’s own words. Seating is available for eight to ten people, with standing room for a few more. Perhaps most important of all, some 400 cigar varieties are on hand from makers all over the world.

Cigar lounge on wheels brings banned smoking back to social events [Springwise]

“Is it ready yet?”. That’s a popular question people ask when cooking something. While not everybody has the skill to determine whether their meal is ready or not, the app offers an easier and more practical solution than just guessing around. A simple app to answer the simple question, and that is how the app was born.

‘Is It Ready Yet’ is a cooking timer app designed for iPhone that enables users to stay alert with their cooking times and temperatures. The app helps them to cook roasts or whole poultry perfectly every time. With this app, users can be sure that their cooking is ready without having to ask, “Is it ready yet?” because the app already knew!

ShowGizmo combines web and smartphone technology to create more productive, valuable events. It enables event organizers, sponsors/exhibitors and visitors to access and manage information for trade shows, conferences, exhibitions and other events events and better connect with each other using the wide range of functions to achieve better results and improve their return on investment.

Couture Companion, an iPhone app from MapMuse, Inc. that takes the guesswork out of high fashion shopping by showing you which stores carry your favorite labels.

The first app of its kind in the USA, Couture Companion tracks where 27 different labels—including Chanel, Gucci, Prada, Steve McQueen, YSL, and more—are sold. Individual brand boutiques and departments stores such as Saks, Neiman Marcus, and Bergdorf Goodman have been included to make the database as expansive as possible, and users are encouraged to submit new label sightings directly from their mobile devices. The database can be browsed by either toggling labels on/off to make them appear/disappear from the map, or by viewing all nearby store that carry upscale fashion products. Once a user has identified a store that carries the label they’re searching for, they can either call the store with one touch dialing, get driving directions via Google Maps, view photos, or check what other labels they carry.

ChannelNewsAsia: A Singapore company has developed an app store called Smoov, edging out Apple’s app store by being the first web-based programme that can be used for all smartphones.

It also allows customers use the applications online, at no cost. Its content is very localised, allowing for mobile payments – something developers say is rising in Singapore. In the future, the company will launch a mobile ticketing service with cinemas, which will enable movie-goers to buy their tickets without having to print them out.

Local firm develops app store that can be used for all smartphones [ChannelNewsAsia]