Lowdown introduces app for ‘smarter meetings’ to Canada and 20 other markets

Lowdown, the app designed to allow for “smarter meetings,” makes its way out of the UK and onto our shores. This iPhone app works to display your meeting location, directions to your meeting place, and estimated time it takes to get there. It even shows information about the people you are meeting based on their Twitter and LinkedIn accounts.

Aside from Canada, the other new markets the app is available include the US, Australia, France, Finland, Germany, Spain, the Netherlands, Israel, Belgium, Ireland, and Italy. The full-featured version of Lowdown comes with a 30-day free trial. You can continue subscribing for $6.99 a month or $69.99 a year. If you don’t want to, the free version only shows your current and next meetings.

Source: The Next Web

Lost Photos helps uncover forgotten photos in your email

We are pretty sure you have a bunch of photos you haven’t seen in a while buried under piles of online newsletters and work and personal emails. Now, you can recover these lost memories with Lost Photos for the Mac. The app scans and shows the photos stored in messages kept on popular IMAP email services, such as Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail, iCloud, etc. You can download the photos to view, archive, and even share online on your social networks. The app is available for free and exclusively on the Mac App Store.

Review: Shiny Soap frees up space on Macs with one click

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

If you own a MacBook Air or a MacBook Pro, it is likely that you're conscious about the limited amount of hard drive or SSD (Solid State Drive) space on your device. It's easy enough to search for and delete or uninstall any apps or files that you aren't using but there are still gigabytes of stray files that sit on valuable disc space doing nothing. Shiny Soap is an application that quickly and efficiently seeks out these files and gets rid of them without adversely affecting your system performance.

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Apple updates MacBook Air line with faster processors

Apple has updated the ultra-thin notebooks to newer 1.4 GHz dual-core Intel Haswell processors (up to 2.7 Ghz Turbo Boost) and as a result improved battery life by up to an hour. Check out the new MacBook Airs online here.

“With MacBook Air starting at $999, there’s no reason to settle for anything less than a Mac,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing. “Macs have never been more popular, and today we’ve boosted the performance of MacBook Air so even more people can experience the perfect everyday notebook.”

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