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Turn your iPhone into a radar gun with SpeedClock

SpeedClock By Sten Kaiser is a $0.99 app that will turn your iPhone into a radar gun.

This is an interesting app idea, if you want to know the speed of things. You can measure the speed of cars, boats, footballs, kids, anything really using motion detection. You have to hold up the iPhone, aim it at the moving object,

and it will use the camera to detect the motion. One slight flaw is that you have to set the distance to the object that you want to measure, making it not as instant as some would probably like.

Basically, it uses the angle of the iPhone to estimate the distance to a point on the ground. You then hold the iPhone in front of you, align the point in the camera and get a reading of the distance. The distance can then be used in the speed tool. You can also the motion detection feature to start and stop a timer, which looks an interesting use of the app.

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iPhone users are loyal, Youku leads in downloads, App helps users track healthcare benefits

Reuters has posted a story that claims smartphone users are not loyal to their brand of device with one notable exception. Apparently, a survey of smartphone users from around the world found that 59% of iPhone owners plan to stick with the iPhone while 56% of other brand owners were “keeping options open.”

Youku is the leading video site in China and its app for the iPhone and iPad is tops in free entertainment downloads on the Chinese iTunes store. The app has been downloaded about 120,000 times amounting to about 9,200 downloads per day.

A company called Buck Consultants has unveiled a new app that helps users keep track of their health insurance benefits. The app will do things like tell the user of certain shots and things are covered saving you from an eternity on hold to check benefits. The full app costs $4.99.

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