Give O2: an entertaining app to track down your carbon footprint

One more car in the streets doesn’t make a difference, right?

We all know about climate change and CO2 emissions, but do you really know how you personally impact the environment?

GiveO2 is a mobile application that lets you offset your transport-related carbon footprint automatically and makes you become aware of that. The app shows that in spite of what many people say, every single person can make a difference, every effort helps, as small as it might be. Continue reading

The coolest places might be closer to you than you think!

“I need food. Good food. Right now!” – To be honest, I have often caught myself saying that. Probably more to myself than to others…

But still, the only solution to solve this “problem” is finding a good place to eat, right? Sometimes, depending on where you are, this is not even an easy task to accomplish.

That is why you should try paOnde, because it is such an easy and fast way to find exactly the place you want to go eat at.

And even if you’re not a big fan of eating, you will definitely love paOnde, because it can also give you a list of places to go out in general.

And not just some places, but the best rated ones around you. That way you will never be bored at home not knowing what to do!

This cool app, created by Matías CastroMatías Rubio and Ignacio Badilla, was just recently (August 9th) made available in the Apple App Store, without any press releases.

But nevertheless, paOnde can proudly state having more than 5000 downloads already, in just a week – that is incredible.

Even better: This app has become the 4th ranked free app en Chile and 1st in the category of “Food&Drink”.

I think that really speaks for itself!!

So what is so cool about this app and how does it work? Why is it not like all the other apps?

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Mindscore becomes in the favorite ‘Evernote for musicians’ mobile app

Let’s say for a minute that you’re in the music business, you have the ‘gift’ of being a music composer and usually, your mindset is composing music in the less expected moments.

However, everytime someone asks you for your songs music sheets, you say you don’t have anything, mostly, because it’s a time-consuming task and is a real pain to keep your music ideas in sync with your notebooks.

And most important for music amateurs: how many times you have got an idea for a song, but you don’t know how to write it?

Guess what???

Now your musical footprint can be mobile and Mindscore is the iPhone app that you didn’t know you have been always waiting for! Continue reading

Gympact: Incentivizes exercise with cash and prizes

As the New Year is upon us, it is estimated that 88% of the people who set goals will not fulfill them. In fact, 40% will not make it past the first 30 days. At the top of the list for resolutions is health and fitness related goals. This year, Gympact, a startup based out of Santiago, Chile wants to incentivize and socialize your exercise experience with their clever new program which launches on January 1, 2012.

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Pewen Collector, Mapuche inspired game, is now available in the App Store

Inspired by their parents business, “Centro Ecológico Alhue Lahuen“, a Mapuche Reserve located in Buin where you can find replicated indigenous plants and other things native to the culture, Fernando Rojas and Ivan Rojas (Studio Pangea co-founders and brothers) launched Pewen Collector. Their latest venture synergizes their inherited expertise in the subject along with their expertise in game design and teaching in schools.

A few months ago, Studio Pangea applied to Idea.me (the Kickstarter of LatAm) with the purpose to crowdfund this educational game. To their excitement, they were the first Chilean project being funded at Idea.me and they received a total of US$5,025 in funding by 38 supporters from Latin America. Continue reading

QueHambre.cl launches Android and iPhone version

Now you can order food to be delivered wherever the moment hits you with QueHambre’s new iphone and Android apps. Simply visit www.quehambre.cl and you can place your order right away.

Since this is the first release of their mobile version, QueHambre staff warns that there may be some bugs and to submit all feedback and issues to them.

Be part of a mobile crowdsourcing video recording of Red Hot Chili Peppers in Chile

We Sync launched their beta near a month ago, releasing a mobile application (available on Android & Iphone) which aims to record massive events from different views on a given place (stadiums, parks, etc) and their goal is to allow you to “live what happened just like being there

Their video explains it well…

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