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Optus Now

Fri, 16 Nov 2012 08:18:10 +0000

View the latest weather and traffic incidents on your mobile. Catch up on all the latest Top Stories, Sport, Business and Technology news. Keeping up with all the latest Games, Apps and Music. All this in just one location.

Recent changes:
Improved the battery performance.
Android Version 4 (Ice Cream Sandwich)and onward can now uninstall the app

FireReady

Mon, 20 Dec 2010 12:31:29 +0000

Prepare. Act. Survive. How FireReady are you?

FireReady is the official Country Fire Authority (CFA) app for bushfire information in Victoria. Download to assess your own FireReady status and to remain aware of incidents around you in real-time.

This comprehensive application puts CFA and Department of Sustainability & Environment (DSE) bushfire information at your fingertips, enabling access to up-to-date bushfire warnings and advice when you're out and about.

As the only official CFA app, you can be sure all incidents and warnings are provided with the same consistency as the CFA website located at cfa.vic.gov.au

Main Features:
• Live incident map showing all current CFA and DSE planned burns, incidents and warnings issued for Victoria

• Push notifications to push out incidents and planned burns to a user's phone when a new CFA or DSE incident or planned burn is received by the app and when the incident is within a 'FireWatch' zone (radius), set up by the user

• Image capture enabling sharing of geocoded photos by a user. Shared photos will immediately be made publicly available

• Integration of Department of Sustainability & Environment (DSE) planned burns

• GPS integration to determine your current location and surrounding incidents

• Emergency Warnings, Watch and Act, and Advice information as issued by the CFA and DSE

• Share incidents and warnings with friends and family

• View today's Fire Danger Rating map

• View today's Total Fire Ban Status

• Access official CFA FireReady materials including:
- Household Bushfire Self-Assessment Tool
- FireReady Kit
- New Fire Ratings

• Watch the latest CFA video update

• Assess your FireReady status by completing the FireReady Checklist and share your result with friends and family

• Listen to the Standard Emergency Warning Signal (SEWS) used to alert the public before broadcast of urgent safety messages

• Contact the Victorian Victorian Bushfire Information Line (VBIL) for personal advice from operators or to listen to recorded information

• Spread the FireReady message by sharing the app and content with others

• Please refer to the full Terms & Conditions and Disclaimer within the app for further information.

* Your device must have an internet connection in order to receive live fire information.
** Map symbols represent the origin of the fire not its current location or spread.
** Due to technical limitations, location-based information and telephone calls to the Victorian Bushfire Information Line (VBIL) are not available on the iPod or iPad 1. All remaining features are available as above.

FireReady has been developed by Naturally Being Pty. Ltd. and is an initiative of the Victorian Department of Justice in association with the Country Fire Authority (CFA).

Recent changes:
- All warnings now displayed on map screen
- Push notifications for warnings
- All Victorian fire agencies incidents and warnings included (CFA, DSE, & MFB)
- Zones tab to manage FireWatch Zones for receiving push notifications of incidents / warnings near you, family or friends
- Ability to switch off incident notifications and only get warning notifications
- device battery level, time, and reception now visible
- access to CFA & MFB social media channels and CFA website from within app

Emergency AUS

Mon, 15 Oct 2012 12:27:41 +0000

Australians face disasters every year. When your time comes, how will you stay informed?
Emergency AUS - Delivers warning and incident information issued by official agencies across Australia.

Providing users real-time access to official warnings, incident reports and public Sensory Observations to aid in better decision making during emergencies and disasters.
By bringing together emergency information from over 20 official sources and accessing observations submitted by the public, Emergency AUS delivers unparalleled emergency intelligence to residents, tourists and visitors.
Features:
Official emergency information is sourced from state and territory emergency services and provided in real-time.
- View information on the map or in a list
- Sort lists by distance from your current location, time or event status
- National parity applied to warnings and incident terminology for a cohesive national and local picture
- Links provided back to the official source of information provided
- Access to state and territory warnings and Total Fire Ban notifications Australia wide
- Share information via your social media networks
- Multi hazard / multi risk incident and warnings information including
- Bushfire
- Structure Fire
- Planned Burns
- Flood
- Storm
- Cyclone
- Smoke hazard
- Hazardous Material
- Rescue
- Tsunami

Upgrade to paid version for:
- Multiple watch areas
- Additional watch area extended options
- Access emergency information in more than one State

Sensory Observations
Emergency AUS empowers the public to share comments and photos of emergency situations in real-time to help keep others informed. Observations of an emergency situation that you share or receive on issues including blocked roads, fire location, flood water depth, wind intensity can make all the difference in making a safe decision.
- Access public observations (including photos) to increase your awareness
- Share what you know about an emergency to help keep others informed
- All observations represented on the map to help assess what is relevant to you
- Observations submitted by sense (see, hear, feel, smell).
- Observation categories include incident observations, damage and loss observations and community to community support.
- Share observations via your social media networks

Watch Areas
- Set a watch areas to keep an eye on warnings and incidents in your area of interest
- Receive alerts directly to your phone 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
- Advanced double pass analysis provides the most comprehensive assessment of a warnings validity to your watch areas.

You cannot be sure you are free from harm's way by only using the information provided from Emergency AUS, and remember, your safety is your responsibility.

Built by GRIDSTONE, powered by RIPE Intelligence.

Powered by RIPE Intelligence's Australian emergency information network. Further integrated emergency information available at www.emergencyaus.info

Recent changes:
1.1.1 Changes

- Notification list always updates correctly
- Adding watch zones uses more advanced geocoding
- Subscriptions now use more stable Google Play API
- A number of performance improvements and bug fixes

1.1 Changes

- Users can purchase annual subscriptions to receive data for additional States, as well as create extra watch zones
- New Google Maps. Now vector based for faster downloads, and allows camera to be tilted and rotated
- Improved event refresh time / uses much less data

Aussie Weather Radar

Thu, 15 Nov 2012 14:18:19 +0000

Using weather maps from the BOM directly to your phone.

Select a radar site from the map and you'll see radar images of any rain over the past hour or so.

Look out for the full weather app when paid applications come to Android in Australia.

Recent changes:
Fixed image distortion to work correctly on Android 2.1 and up.

Images are now correctly zoomed and no distortion on Android 2.1 through to Ice Cream Sandwich on all major screen sizes.

ABC

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 13:53:45 +0000

Watch the live stream of ABC News 24 or listen to a great selection of ABC Radio streams while reading the latest news stories from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. There’s also leading analysis and views from The Drum and the latest Rural, Science and Technology & Games stories.

Tips to help you keep tabs of your data consumption:

# ABC News 24 can use from 118 Mb to 207 Mb per hour on Froyo and Gingerbread devices and 116MB (min) to 313MB (max) per hour on Honeycomb and ICS, depending on the strength of your network connection
# Live radio streams can consume up to 40 MB in 60 minutes

*** Note that you are responsible for the data transfer and consumption charges incurred by you when using any ABC app. The ABC disclaims all liability for such charges ***

Recent changes:
- Navigation menu bug fix
- ABC News in 90 Seconds
- Major improvements to formatting of stories
- Stories now show inline audio and video, when available
- Other bug fixes and improvements

Note: Phone Calls permission is still required. This data is only used to pause/play radio streams when phone calls come in. None of this info is collected or stored. To learn more about our Privacy Policy visit www.abc.net.au/privacy.htm.

The Age News

Mon, 19 Nov 2012 12:27:10 +0000

This app is free and allows quick access to the contents of the The Age newspaper.

The Age is a daily broadsheet newspaper which has been published in Melbourne, Australia since 1854. Owned and published by Fairfax Media, The Age primarily serves Victoria but is also available for purchase in Tasmania, the Australian Capital Territory and border regions of South Australia and southern New South Wales. It is delivered in both a hardcopy and online formats. The newspaper shares many articles with other Fairfax Media metropolitan daily newspapers, such as The Sydney Morning Herald.

Remember that this application is not official and is simply a shortcut to the information offered by The Age.

If you find any problem please send an email.

Recent changes:
Version 1.0

Version 1.5
- New menu access.
- Share button Add.
- Twitter button Add.
- Data Access optimization.

Version 1.7
- Resources optimization
- Interface changes

Radio 3AW

Mon, 04 Jun 2012 06:28:13 +0000

Download the all-new 3AW radio application to listen to Melbourne’s favourite talkback station - LIVE on your Android phone or tablet.

Listen live, hear the hourly news bulletins, read and listen to the latest news and interact with your favourite 3AW Presenter, all from the convenience of a single application.

Features include:
- Access live feeds from all metro stations on the Fairfax Radio Network, including:
- 2UE (Sydney)
- 3AW (Melbourne)
- 4BC (Brisbane)
- 6PR (Perth)
- 4BH (Brisbane)
- Magic1278 (Melbourne)

- Use the application as an alarm clock and wake up to your favourite station (requires application to be active when phone is set to ‘sleep’ mode)
- Listen to the latest hourly news bulletins
- Contact your favourite Presenter via phone, email, Twitter or Facebook
- Report function to quickly and easily send photos or video directly to the on-air 3AW presenter
- Get weather updates for your chosen city
- Interact with presenters via the application

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World News Australia

Fri, 24 Feb 2012 01:14:01 +0000

Get the latest news from SBS World News Australia. Backed by Australia's most comprehensive world news service, our app allows you to:

- Get breaking news and views from SBS and its worldwide network of media partners.
- Quickly stream video and audio reports.
- Easily share your favourite articles using Twitter, Facebook and email.

We'd love your feedback - please send compliments and criticism to: comments@sbs.com.au.

If you're a fan of the app, check out SBS's news & current affairs websites:
www.sbs.com.au/news
www.sbs.com.au/dateline
www.sbs.com.au/insight
www.sbs.com.au/livingblack

Australia News

Sun, 16 Jan 2011 10:41:12 +0000

The #1 news reader app for Australian on Google Play now supports widget. No notification, icon and bookmark ads.

It's a fast and easy way to read Australia News on Android.

Australia News gives you easy access to read the most popular news sources from Australia on your Android device. Take this app with you and stay informed with access to the latest news.

FEATURES

* News by site.
* News by category.
* Download news briefs automatically.
* Offline reading.
* News widget.
* Remove or sort news sources.
* Edit default news sources.
* Subscribe news sources via RSS.
* Import more news sources via OPML.
* Option to block images (reduce bandwidth).
* Share news via SMS, Email, Facebook, Twitter...

Recent changes:
- Updated news sources
- Fixed OutOfMemoryError when downloading large images
- Fixed news sources update (no delete user sources anymore)
- Fixed minor bugs

Australia Newspapers

Wed, 22 Sep 2010 23:52:52 +0000

Read major Australia newspapers, news sites online. You can find news from The Daily Telegraph, News.com.au, Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, Australian Financial Review, The Australian, Herald Sun, Perth Now etc.
* Newspaper list can be updated online
* Favorites
* Sort by "A-Z" and "Frequently Read"
* Show mobile or desktop version of the newspaper
* Add/Delete newspaper, magazine
* Adjustable font size
* Share the news
* Automatic cache delete
* Open with standard internet browser

FAQ:
* How do I delete newspaper?
Touch the star icon(favorites) on the top. Then touch the trash icon on the right side of the newspaper that you want to delete.
* How do I unfavorite newspaper?
Touch the star icon(favorites) on the top. Then uncheck the newspaper that you do not want to see on the main page.
* Subscription only. You can see headlines of articles but can't read without subscribing.
- Some newspapers want subscription. We can do nothing for it but you can uncheck or delete the newspaper if you do not want to see on the list.
* Any problem...
- Please contact us before any problem.

Recent changes:
* Newspaper list can be updated online
* Favorites
* Show mobile or desktop version of the newspaper
* Some user interface improvements