Create Quick Beautiful Android- i Phone Apps With Yapp

Now a days its the trend that most people use android and i-Phones in their day today use. If you agree that Apple and Android mobile devices are aesthetically stylish and appealing, you will probably want to develop your own attractive mobile app without having to learn complicated coding and graphic design. Yapp gives you the freedom to design an app even for a apprentice.

If you would like to send stylish invitations for say a wedding, birthday party, book club meeting, fundraiser, etc, a new online and mobile (Apple and Android) application and service called Yapp may be of interest to you. Yapp allows you to create stylish and flexible multipage micro-websites, or apps, in the form of invitations, announcements, and similar content. 

How It Works

In order to get started with Yapp, you need to register with a Facebook account (at this point the site doesn’t seem to offer alternative ways to register).

To create a Yapp mobile app, you select from one of over 20 beautifully designed themes — including the Fall artistic Maple, Halloween Moon, Postmarked, and Cosmopolitan Lights. Each theme addresses a different occasion for say weddings, conferences, sports teams, college events, retreats, art openings, etc.

Each theme allows you to include your own custom photo or logo, as well as content information. Next, you develop your app in the Yapp editor, which allows you to create an invitation and schedule page for your event, a newsfeed link back to your website for event updates, and a gallery of photos.

You can send multiple Yapp invitations via email or text message, from either your online or mobile Yapp account. Fortunately, all Yapp invitations are kept within the Yapp app where users can view a schedule of events, view photos, as well as access other information. Unlike websites, Yapp invitations can be viewed offline, as well as send push alerts on mobile devices.

For $5 per app, you can customize the app ID and URL to fit your own website or the name of the event.

The Yapp mobile apps allow users to also create invitations from within the mobile version itself, using the same process as in the online editor.

What’s cool about Yapp is that it requires no prior skills, except the ability to type and add a photo. Yapp apps are similar to the easy-to-use Stationery themes for Apple’s default Mail program.

Let us know what you think about Yapp and how you plan to use it. Also, are there features you would like to see added?

source  MakeUseOf.

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Help To Improve Google Maps & Earn Credit

Google Maps is introducing Google Maps Maker badges as a mark of achievement. Because – there’s a lot that goes into Google Maps. The technology behind it is just one invisible part. The visible contribution which we often fail to see is the community that lends support to Google Maps in many ways. People share information and when it comes to geographical locations around them, then their little inputs goes a long way in making Google Maps as accurate as possible. One of the tools to provide feedback to Google Maps is the Map Maker tool.

The Map Maker tool enables locals to share information with the rest of the world about businesses, school campuses, and any other point of interest that can be pinpointed on a map. This on the ground ‘intelligence’ goes a long way in making Google Maps more accurate for people who use it. To make individual participation more visible to the rest of the world, Google Maps Maker is rewarding users with badges.

Google says:

You can earn badges for everything from making your first edit in Map Maker, to organizing a MapUp event or contributing to Map Makerpedia. Some badges even have stars you can earn for each milestone within a category.

You can start by making the first edit, and hopefully one day climb up to the final level of being a member of the Regional Expert Reviewers (RER) team. Any badge earned will be prominently displayed on a user’s Map Maker Profile, as well as when you hover over a mapper’s username. The Map Maker Badges guide page tells you more.

Source: Google Maps

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