As a tech reporter who spends a lot of time covering new mobile applications, I tend to have a fairly large collection of app screenshots on my iPhone, which can be difficult to organize and search through. But app developers and designers have it even worse. They’re not just taking numerous screenshots of some final product, but are building up large collections of mobile interfaces…
The Saturday Evening Post has a prominent spot in the history of American magazines. It’s where artist Norman Rockwell made a name for himself, and it has published classic American authors like Edgar Allan Poe and F. Scott Fitzgerald. But if you had no idea that it was still around, you’re not alone — the magazine’s technology director Steve Harman said that many people “are surprised we’re…
Sports Counter is a neat new app courtesy of AppStudio [Russian], selling itself as “the universal counter app for sport and table games”. Available for iOS, the app lets you…
Despite being one of the fastest growing social sites in the world, Instagram still hasn’t come out with an iPad app. This has allowed several developers to step into the breech and offer their own tablet viewers for the popular photo-sharing app. Some of the most popular ones include Padgram, Pictacular, and Iris App. In order to step up to the competition, a bootstrapped…
Evernote has added customizable reminders, one of the company’s most highly requested features, to its popular note-taking app on Mac, iOS and the Web today....
Last week we reported that Apple hopes to see fitness accessories supporting the Bluetooth 4.0 Low Energy profile come to market soon — and now the iOS heart monitoring app CardioMapper has arrived. Developer Body-Pro claims it is the first app of its kind to support Bluetooth 4.0 in the iPhone 4S, monitoring your heart rate as you exercise with either a Bluetooth Smart or Wi-Fi heart monitor. The app also records your workout route via GPS, with analysis tools, an assortment of virtual coaches, and a...
While you wait for a circular smartwatch to land on the market — or indeed, any smartwatch worth the wearing — this watch-face app offers a taster of the coming waves of wrist-mounted app-design to come. The app, called Circles — Smartwatch Face And Alarm, is minimalist eye-candy if you’re into classic timepieces.
Of all the apps I’ve reviewed and purchased over last few years, Endless Alphabet—a free educational kids app for iPhone and iPad—is the one that my 4-year-old son has loved the most, far and away. He’s played with it longer, asked for it more often, and gotten bored with it much less quickly than just about every other app he’s ever used....
The high-resolution on Apple's new iPad is a perfect way to show off Rdio's new graphics-heavy redesign, so the company wasted little time updating its app with Retina-ready album art and app graphics. Version 1.3.6 will cost you 5.6MB of storage space, which isn't so bad given what we've heard about app sizes increasing as graphics are updated, and it's available now for the iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch. The new graphics won't do much for the latter devices, though the update does also include the...
Epson's LW-600p label printer is an unassuming devices that solves a specific problem, and does so generally well: printing labels on the go. What makes this accessory stand out is the inclusion of Bluetooth and a companion iOS app.
Ever since Google announced that it would be sending its Reader service out to pasture on July 1st, there has been a gold rush of replacement RSS readers coming to the surface. Many of the better options, such as Feedly or NewsBlur, have catered to the hardcore, RSS-consuming reader that follows a number of blogs posting many articles a day. These users primarily value speed and efficiency over visual aesthetics (though, both Feedly and Newsblur have put in efforts to improve their appearances)....
There's a big update on the horizon for iOS classic Canabalt, but unfortunately it appears that a developer is trying to take advantage of the game's popularity by offering a fake version on the iTunes App Store. Being sold by Picks Mano, the game goes under the name Canabalt HD — the sanctioned Android port of the game uses the same title, while on iOS the official game continues to be known simply as Canabalt — and aside from including a different icon and limited language support, it appears to...
Dubble, a photo-sharing iOS app with a twist — the twist being that it turns standard photos into random double exposures by combining two users’ shots to make a new image out of the two — has made its first monetizing moves.
Already on Windows 8 and Android, Glide adds support for Apple’s iPhone and combines cloud storage accounts into a single view. That’s smart but Apple isn’t too happy with the message it sends. Glide says consumers don’t care about platforms when it comes to data.
Google Earth 7.0 has just hit the iTunes App Store bringing with it those all-new, stunning 3D maps that the company showed off last month. Of course, the highly-realistic 3D imagery goes head-to-head with "Flyover" in Apple's new maps in iOS 6, but since that operating system isn't available for anyone but developers at the moment, Google Earth is your only option. The new imagery is only available in Los Angeles, Boston, San Francisco, Geneva, and Rome, but Google promises that it will add more cities...
Some of us jokingly say that we’re addicted to our iPhones. A newly released app called “Moment” will show us just how true that statement may be. Designed to promote a healthier balance between our real lives and those lived through the small screens of our digital devices, Moment tracks how much you use your phone each day, helps you create daily limits on that usage…
YPlan, the mobile application that tells you where to go each night, has just raised $12 million (£7.9 million) in Series A financing. The round was led by General Catalyst Partners and included participation by Wellington Partners, Octopus Investments, A-Grade, Kevin Colleran and David Morin’s SLOW Ventures Fund, and Shakil Khan. The new capital will be used to fuel the company expansion as it looks to launch in New York in the second half of this year....
Looking to get molested but don't know where to look to get the job done? The new Offender Locator iPhone app will show you exactly where to go when all you need is an inappropriate touch. The app uses GPS to show you where all the registered sex offenders are near you at any given time. You can also use addresses from your contacts list if you want to check out where the perverts live near your friends and family. It's perfect for pranks! Just tell your friend there's a surprise party for them at one...
Apple has updated iTunes U with a bunch of new features, cranking the version number up to 2 and introducing improved discussion features and the ability to create and update courses directly from the iPad app, which previously has been mostly a user-facing client for consuming content.The update, live now in the App Store, gives the universal app new powers for students, letting them ask…
The BET Awards app, which debuted last year and attracted 300,000 downloads, returns with updated gaming elements, including a fun way to vote. The game lets players vote for nominees with the slide of a finger, by flicking CDs at a moving DJ booth. The more CDs a user makes in a short time span, the more votes he or she will tally for a chosen nominee. Another gaming feature, "The Hustle," rewards power users with status upgrades and real-world prizes.
The latest version of Pandora's iPhone app just hit the App Store, bringing with it the promised multitasking support that'll let you stream music in the background on iOS4. It's free, so go get it!
Here’s yet another retro-style arcade shooter you might want to check out. Hectic Space by James Swiney Category: iOS Games Works With: iPhone, iPad Price: Free Hectic Space is as pared down as you can get. It’s just your ship,…
Vine has already clarified just how quickly its userbase is growing, with the announcement that the app had hit 13 million downloads by the time Twitter launched it on Android. This was all just a week ago. Today, however, we’ve learned that Vine has climbed to the top of the charts on Android as the top social app and the No. 4 free app on Google Play. Instagram is No. 5.
For a device with a 3" screen, the iPhone has a pretty impressive resume: Phone, map, camera, sketchbook, dedicated Doodle Jump playing machine. And for $1, the newly revamped Ruler 2 app makes it a pretty decent measuring thinger, too. Ruler 2, an overhauled version of an apparently less-good Ruler 1, offers a simple, functional ruler that you can drag to measure things smaller than the size of your screen. Measuring things that are longer than your iPhone (or your iPad—it's a universal app) isn't...
When it was first released on iOS devices in 2011, Minecraft: Pocket Edition was just a shadow of what it was on the PC. Where as the PC version contained infinite worlds, Pocket Edition’s worlds were tiny and self-contained. There…
