As any local solicitor can tell you, some of the most bitter legal disputes originate fromdisagreements between neighbors. Whether it’s property boundaries, loud music, or parking spaces, what might initially be minor irritations can gradually lead to a full-blown court battle. A relatively recent development in neighbor conflicts are clashes centered on home surveillance products, such asCCTV camerasandsmart doorbells. These technologies, which may capture footage beyond the householder’s property, can pit householders against neighbors who feel their homes and private lives are being unfairly spied upon....

The release of the realtime Instagram APIearlier this yearhas led to a bevy of apps likeInstagre.at,Webstagram,Instagrid.meandScreenstagramthat take advantage of it to display your Instagram photos outside of the app. Instamap is a slick, beautiful way to bring that experience to your iPad. When you fire up Instamap [App Store, $1.99] you’re given a quick tutorial in the controls, then you’re able to start viewing photos in a tile view or pinned to the map....

Sharing individual songs has gotten easier than ever with slick sharing apps likeSoundcloudandSoundtracking, or even Apple’s relative failure Ping. But one thing that hasn’t gotten easier to share is entire playlists of music.Instant.fmallows you to do just that quickly and easily, right on the web. Instant.fm is a web app built byFeross AboukhadijehandJake Beckerout of, in their words, YouTube, Last.fm and magic. When you fire up the service you can start building playlists right away using the song search interface....

Reading on the web is becoming increasingly difficult. As it becomes harder to monetize from publishing on the web, most free publishers have adopted an aggressive advertising approach. Adverts are everywhere, some jumping on the screen, others redirecting the reader to a separate website. A a recent addition to enforced advertising and the most horrible of offenders are the adverts that play music in the background. With advertising annoying the life out of us, it is easy to see why services likeReadabilityand its comradesInstapaperandRead it Laterare becoming popular....

If you don’t have time to sit down and read all of your favorite websites in an instant, you’ll probably need an app that can save those pages for reading later. You’re lucky because there’s a service that does exactly that calledInstapaper, which now offers full API access to developers. All developers can now use the full API of Instapaper, but it will only work for customers with Instapaper’s $1/month subscription memberships....