Philippines, 4th Jul 2026 — Apnea Apps has officially launched Simple Breathing, a free breathing app designed to help people build healthier breathing habits through guided breathing exercises and a clean, distraction-free experience.

Available now for Android and iPhone, Simple Breathing makes daily breathing exercises accessible to everyone. Unlike many breathing apps, it is completely free, with no advertisements, subscriptions, premium features, or account registration required.

The app includes a collection of guided breathing exercises suitable for both beginners and experienced practitioners, including:

• Box Breathing
• Triangle Breathing
• Breath Control (4-1-7)
• Relaxation Breathing (4-7-8)
• Equal Breathing
• Meditation Timer

Whether users want to improve relaxation, concentration, breathing awareness, or simply establish a consistent daily breathing routine, Simple Breathing provides an intuitive way to practice proven breathing techniques.

“Our goal was simple: remove every possible barrier that prevents people from building a daily breathing habit,” said a representative of Apnea Apps. “Simple Breathing is exactly what its name suggests — a clean, intuitive breathing app that anyone can open and start using within seconds. No distractions. No advertisements. No subscriptions. Just breathing.”

Built by the Instructor Team Behind Freedive Academy

Although Simple Breathing is designed for everyone, the app was developed by the instructor team behind Freedive Academy, one of the world’s leading freediving instructor training centers.

Founded in 2015, Freedive Academy has trained more than 250 freediving instructors, welcomes students from 68 countries, and conducts approximately 25 freediving instructor courses each year. Years of teaching breathing techniques, breath control, and relaxation to thousands of students provided the experience behind creating a breathing app that is both simple to use and grounded in practical instruction.

Learn more about the Academy’s Freediving Instructor Courses:

https://www.freediveacademy.com/freediving-instructor-course/ 

Part of the Growing Apnea Apps Platform

Simple Breathing joins the growing collection of breathing and freediving applications developed by Apnea Apps.

Alongside Simple Breathing, the company also develops Apnea Assistant, a comprehensive freediving and breath-hold training app featuring personalized CO₂ and O₂ training tables, static and dynamic apnea training, breathing exercises, educational content, and digital logbooks.

Together, the two applications provide accessible tools for anyone interested in breathing—from complete beginners developing healthier breathing habits to experienced freedivers pursuing advanced breath-hold performance.

Consistent with the philosophy behind Apnea Apps, both applications are completely free to use, without advertisements, subscriptions, premium upgrades, or hidden paywalls.

Simple Breathing is available now for Android and iPhone.

Learn more or download the app:

Simple Breathing: https://www.simplebreathing.com/

Apnea Apps: https://www.apneaapps.com/simple-breathing/

About Apnea Apps

Apnea Apps is the mobile application division of Apnea Dynamics Inc., developing innovative breathing apps, freediving training applications, and educational tools for breathwork enthusiasts and divers worldwide. Created by the instructor team behind Freedive Academy, Apnea Apps combines years of real-world teaching experience with intuitive mobile technology to make high-quality breathing education accessible to everyone. Its growing portfolio includes Simple Breathing, Apnea Assistant, and additional breathing and freediving applications currently in development.

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Australian window furnishing manufacturer Taylor and Stirling marks 80 years in business in 2026. The company manufactures custom curtains, roller blinds, honeycomb blinds, plantation shutters, motorised blinds, outdoor blinds and awnings in Ballarat and Tasmania, with free measure and quote across regional Victoria and southern Tasmania.

Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, 4th Jul 2026 — Taylor & Stirling, one of Australia’s longest-running window furnishing manufacturers, is marking 80 years of business in 2026. The family company has been measuring, making and fitting curtains and blinds for homes across regional Victoria since 1946, and today runs showrooms in Ballarat and Huonville, Tasmania, along with its own manufacturing workrooms in Ballarat and on Bruny Island.

Eighty years is a long time in any trade, and the company has watched window furnishings change from simple holland blinds and heavy drapes to motorised blinds that respond to the weather. What has not changed, according to the team, is the basic job: keeping heat in during a Ballarat winter, keeping glare out of a north-facing living room, and making sure the finished product actually fits the window it was measured for.

A Full Indoor Range, Made to Measure

Taylor & Stirling’s indoor range covers just about every window covering a home might need. Roller blinds remain the biggest seller, and the company makes them in every configuration customers ask for. Sunscreen blinds filter glare while keeping the view, blockout blinds darken bedrooms and home theatres completely, and dual roller systems combine both fabrics on a single bracket so a homeowner can switch between privacy and light through the day.

Honeycomb blinds, also known as cellular blinds, have become one of the fastest-growing parts of the business, particularly in colder areas. The pockets of air trapped inside the cell structure act as insulation across the glass, and the company reports that many Ballarat and Hobart customers now fit them specifically to cut heating bills rather than for looks alone.

The soft furnishing side of the business is where the company’s history shows. Custom curtains, sheers, swags and tails, roman blinds and matching pelmets are still cut and sewn in the company’s own workrooms rather than ordered from an overseas catalogue. Curtain tracks, including motorised curtain tracks for wide openings and hard-to-reach windows, are fitted by the company’s own installers. Full details of the indoor range are available on the Taylor & Stirling curtains and blinds page at https://www.taylorandstirling.com.au/home/indoor-curtains-blinds/ 

The range is rounded out by plantation shutters, venetian blinds in timber and aluminium, vertical blinds for sliding doors and large glass panels, panel glides, and bamboo and natural fibre weaves. Skylight blinds and coverings for raked or angled windows are also made to order, an area where off-the-shelf products rarely work.

Wide Windows Are No Longer a Problem

One area the company has invested in over recent years is wide-span blinds. Modern homes in the region are being built with larger openings, and standard blind hardware simply does not span them. Taylor & Stirling now manufactures extra-wide roller blinds and extra-wide honeycomb blinds as single units across openings that would previously have needed two or three blinds with light gaps between them. For very large spans, motorisation removes the strain of lifting heavy fabric by hand.

Motorisation Moves From Luxury to Standard

Motorised blinds were a niche product a decade ago. Today the company fits automation systems from Somfy, Alpha and Automate across most of its product range, from single roller blinds to whole-home installations linked to smart home platforms. Timers, sun sensors and phone control mean blinds can close against the afternoon sun or drop for privacy at dusk without anyone touching them. The company says motorisation requests now come as often from retirees who want to stop climbing behind furniture to reach cords as they do from smart home enthusiasts.

Outdoor Living, Built for Real Weather

The outdoor side of the business has grown steadily as households spend more on alfresco areas. Taylor & Stirling supplies and installs outdoor blinds, patio blinds and alfresco blinds in track-guided and motorised configurations, including Ziptrak-style side channel systems that lock fabric down against wind. Screeny outdoor blinds, a European-engineered zip screen system, are offered for openings where wind resistance and a clean finish matter most.

Awnings make up the other half of the outdoor range. Folding arm awnings extend shade over patios and decks without posts, while retractable awnings, fixed canopies and window awnings handle everything from shopfronts to west-facing bedroom windows. The company also installs louvred and retractable roof systems for customers who want a fully covered outdoor room. The complete outdoor collection can be viewed at https://www.taylorandstirling.com.au/outdoor-blinds-shutters-awnings/

Products in this range are chosen for the conditions the company’s customers actually live in. Ballarat’s frosts, the winds that come off the Southern Ocean into Tasmania’s Huon Valley, and bushfire-zone building requirements all shape what the company is willing to put its name on.

“People sometimes ask why we have lasted eighty years when so many competitors have come and gone,” a spokesperson for Taylor & Stirling said. “The honest answer is that we measure everything ourselves, we make most of it ourselves, and we are still here when something needs adjusting five years later. In this trade, the follow-up is the business.”

Free Measure and Quote Across Two States

Taylor & Stirling offers a free measure and quote service across its Victorian service area, which includes Ballarat, Buninyong, Daylesford, Creswick, Clunes, Hepburn Springs, Trentham and surrounding towns, and across southern Tasmania, including Hobart, Kingston, Huonville, Cygnet, Margate, Blackmans Bay and the Channel region. A consultant visits the home with fabric and material samples, measures each opening, and provides a fixed quotation with no obligation.

Both showrooms display working examples of the major product lines, including plantation shutters, honeycomb blinds, folding arm awnings and motorised systems, so customers can operate the products before ordering. The company also handles repairs and maintenance on its own installations, a service that has kept some customer relationships running across three generations of the same family.

The business also serves commercial clients, supplying anti-ligature window furnishings for health facilities and commercial-grade systems from Markilux, HelioScreen, Silent Gliss, Vertilux and Verosol.

For homes with tilt-and-turn or European-style windows, the company’s Perfect Fit range clips honeycomb, roller and venetian blinds directly to the window frame without drilling, keeping the glass line clean and the blind moving with the sash. It is a small detail, but it is the kind of problem that a mass-market retailer will not solve and a local manufacturer can, which is largely how the company has kept its place in the market for eight decades.

Anyone planning new window furnishings, replacing tired blinds or building an outdoor entertaining area can browse the full range and book a free measure and quote through the Taylor & Stirling website at https://www.taylorandstirling.com.au/

About Taylor & Stirling

Taylor & Stirling has manufactured and installed custom window furnishings since 1946. The company operates showrooms at 22 Sturt Street, Ballarat, Victoria and 11 Wilmot Road, Huonville, Tasmania, with manufacturing in Ballarat and on Bruny Island. Its range covers curtains, sheers, roller blinds, honeycomb blinds, roman blinds, venetian blinds, vertical blinds, plantation shutters, pelmets, curtain tracks, skylight blinds, motorised blinds, outdoor blinds, awnings and retractable roof systems for residential and commercial customers across regional Victoria and southern Tasmania.
 

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One platform for FSBO buyers, sellers, travelers, renters and business users — featuring FIFSCORE, AI restyling with recoloring and furniture modeling, 3D modeling, market insights, and Get Connected – Worldwide.

United States, 4th Jul 2026 — Global real estate represents the world’s largest asset class, valued at over $3+ trillion — yet the vast majority of the billions of individuals who participate in it as buyers, renters, property owners, investors, business operators, and travelers do so without access to quality, personalized market intelligence. The information advantage has historically accrued only to those who can afford professional advisors, institutional research, or well-connected networks. Today, Fifsee Inc., a Frisco, Texas-based AI technology company, announces the full global availability of its platform — with 100,000+ users already active across 118 countries — bringing role-specific intelligence, FIFSCORE, and AI advisor Fia to every participant in the global real estate ecosystem, on web, iOS, and Android.

FIFSCORE: The World’s First Personalized Real Estate Intelligence Score at Global Scale

FIFSCORE is Fifsee’s proprietary personal intelligence score — and the first of its kind to operate at true global scale. A first-time buyer in Mumbai, a landlord in Dubai, a tenant in London, a vacation rental host in Bali, a commercial business owner in Singapore, a traveler relocating from Toronto to Lisbon, and a seller in Sydney each receive a FIFSCORE calibrated to their specific role, local market, financial context, and transaction stage. FIFSCORE does not deliver generic market data. It delivers your intelligence score, in your market, for your role — in real time.

118 Countries. Seven Roles. One Platform.

Fifsee is the only platform in the world that serves all seven real estate participant roles at global scale, each with a fundamentally different intelligence experience:

• Buyers — AI-powered affordability analysis, price trajectory, mortgage intelligence, school district scoring, neighborhood demand signals, and cross-border property intelligence across all major global markets
• Sellers — Listing competitiveness analysis, buyer demand signals, pricing strategy intelligence, and market timing insights calibrated to local conditions in any country
• Tenants — Rental affordability scoring, lease market benchmarks, neighborhood quality analysis, and relocation cost intelligence across the world’s most competitive urban rental markets
• Landlords — Yield benchmarks, vacancy trend forecasting, tenant demand analysis, and cross-border portfolio performance intelligence for property owners across 118 markets
• Travelers — Door-to-door travel cost intelligence, visa guidance, accommodation market data, local area briefings, and destination FIFSCORE analysis for every global destination
• Hosts — Short-term rental pricing intelligence, seasonal occupancy benchmarks, competitive positioning, and revenue optimization for hosts across every global platform and market
• Businesses — Competitor snapshots, margin intelligence, SWOT analysis, commercial zoning insights, and strategic market positioning across 35+ business categories in any country

Fia: The World’s First Role-Aware Real Estate AI Available in 45 Languages

Powering every role, in every country, is Fia — a floating AI assistant available in voice and text across 45 languages. Fia is role-aware and user-aware: she knows whether you are a buyer in Brazil, a landlord in the UAE, a business owner in South Korea, or a traveler planning a move from Canada to Portugal — and she tailors every response, recommendation, and market insight to your specific situation. For the billions of people around the world who navigate real estate without professional support, Fia is the advisor they have never been able to access.

Democratizing Intelligence Across the World’s Most Underserved Real Estate Markets

In mature markets like the U.S., U.K., and Australia, Fifsee competes on intelligence quality and role-specificity. In high-growth markets across South and Southeast Asia, the Middle East, Latin America, and Sub-Saharan Africa — where real estate markets are opaque, professional advisory is expensive, and information asymmetry is greatest — Fifsee delivers something entirely new: a professional-grade AI advisor and market intelligence score accessible to anyone with a smartphone. The platform is free to download and free to get started — globally.

Get Connected: AI-Matched Professionals Across 118 Countries

Get Connected matches users to verified real estate agents, mortgage brokers, attorneys, property managers, and over 35 categories of service professionals — in any country — using AI to match by need, location, and transaction context. For users in markets where professional networks are inaccessible or expensive to navigate, Get Connected delivers qualified professional connections that would otherwise require weeks of effort and significant advisory spend.

“We didn’t build another real estate app. We built an intelligent engine that understands who you are, where you are, and what you need — and then acts on it. Every user gets a FIFSCORE — a personal intelligence score that tells them exactly where they stand in their real estate journey. That’s Fifsee.”

— Sri Varadhan, Founder, Fifsee Inc.

Availability

Fifsee is available now, free to download, across web, iOS, and Android. Users can access AI reports, FIFSCORE, market insights, and Fia from day one.

Web: https://fifsee.com

iOS: Available on the App Store

Android: Available on Google Play

About Fifsee Inc.

Fifsee Inc. is a Delaware corporation headquartered in Frisco, Texas. The company’s mission is to democratize real estate intelligence — making the quality of advice previously available only to the wealthy accessible to every person, in every country, across all seven roles in the real estate ecosystem. Fifsee currently serves 100,000+ users across 118 countries on web, iOS, and Android.

Media Contact: Harni Raghavachary | https://fifsee.com/contact-us.php 

Web: https://fifsee.com 

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