Da Tips Box: Life after Babel Fish, funzionalità nascoste nelle app iOS e individuazione di spiagge pulite con uno smartphone

I’m sure a bunch of How-To Geek readers are fans of Babel Fish (the popular translation service that’s been around forever and a day). After getting bounced all over the last couple years, it finally switched hands from Yahoo! to Microsoft and it’s now part of Bing Translate. You can check out the changes and the new interface at this MSDN blog post or just try the new Bing Translate out.

I found a great little article over at MacWorld the other day that highlights all the hidden features in the default iOS apps. Many of these features I’d overlooked and outright downloaded extra apps to perform the things my iPhone could already do. Check it out! There’s tricks for the clock, stock app, weather, and more.

Just this last weekend I drove out to the beach only to find that it was temporarily closed because of some issue. Like any 21st century guy with a smartphone, I decided I’d find a way to avoid this in the future. Turns out there is an app from the web site Swim Guide that monitors water quality alerts and let’s you check if the beaches nearby are open, closed, or have some sort of environmental safety flag on them. I’ll never end up driving to the beach only to find it closed again.