There are many thousands of apps. Whatever your goal, as Apple’s erstwhile advertising campaign proclaimed, “There’s an app for that.” But some apps are simply must-haves—whether for their functionality, their interface brilliance, or just their entertainment factor. Here are ten apps your new iPhone shouldn’t be without....
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Our Favorite iOS, Android, and Windows Phone Apps of the Week 3
October 19th at 2:10am / Gizmodo / 0 opinionsNow that the slow, languid summer months are far behind us, we're finally starting to see some major advancement in the app world. Whether it's a brand new payment system from the ubiquitous Square or something beautiful simply for beauty's sake, there's a whole lot of goodness just up ahead. And it starts right here....
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Backed By $4.5 Million In Series A Funding, Mustbin For iPhone Organizes And Secures All Your Personal Data In One Place 1
November 13th at 7:43pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsMustbin, a new mobile application emerging from stealth today, and backed by $4.5 million in Series A funding, wants to become the go-to service for organizing everything you have that's important - including passwords, financial data, home and vehicle info, health and medical documents, and more - all securely encrypted in the cloud.
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Messaging app 'WhatsApp' gets updated for iOS 7, 'Paper' adds support for new drawing stylus 0
December 3rd at 10:31am / AppleInsider / 0 opinionsTwo popular iOS apps received updates on Monday, with WhatsApp getting a makeover more consistent with iOS 7's "flat" design aesthetic, while drawing app Paper prepares for its new Pencil stylus.
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15 of the best iOS apps released in December 1
December 31st at 9:48pm / The Next Web / 0 opinionsDecember (and 2013) will soon be a distant memory, so we thought we’d take a retrospective look at some of the more notable apps to hit our radar over the past month. So without further ado, here’s a quick snapshot of some of the best iOS apps to launch in recent weeks....
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SwiftKey’s smart keyboard hits iOS in a simple note-taking app that syncs with Evernote 0
January 30th at 6:48pm / The Next Web / 0 opinionsOne thing that has been mentioned in almost every piece we’ve published about SwiftKey‘s excellent smart keyboard for Android over the years is ‘But it’s not available for iOS’. Today that changes – but with a huge caveat....
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Outread: Speed-Reading From Your iPad 2
February 25th at 4:08pm / The Next Web / 0 opinionsLast month we brought you news on Outread, an iOS app that takes a slightly different approach to other speed-reading apps such as ReadQuick, by displaying a full page of text and highlighting words as your eyes scan across the page....
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BeHere Lets Teachers Take Attendance Using iBeacon Technology 3
March 28th at 11:23pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsWhile Apple’s iBeacon technology is already being adopted by both large and small retailers, we’ve started to see other use cases pop up for this new indoor positioning technology, which involves Bluetooth LE-enabled transmitters that can communicate with nearby iOS 7 devices in order to push alerts, or even interact with other devices in your home. Now a small team of developers…
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One Month After Microsoft Office Hits iPad, Google Debuts Dedicated Productivity Apps For iOS 1
April 30th at 9:03pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsGoogle has released standalone apps for Google Docs and Google Sheets, breaking out these two productivity applications from within Google Drive, which is where users could go to access them on iPhone and iPad in the past. The text document and spreadsheet editors allow for both creation and editing of those types of files, which are stored in Google Drive on Mountain View’s cloud servers.
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Google updates Gmail for iOS with enhanced Google Drive integration 0
July 25th at 12:11am / AppleInsider / 0 opinionsHeavy users of Google's web services suite will be pleased with the latest update to the company's Gmail app for iOS, which adds two new features that more tightly couple Gmail with Google Drive.
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Fleksy’s iOS 8 Keyboard Offers Plenty Of Customization And Solid Predictions 0
September 17th at 10:03pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsApple’s iOS 8 operating system unlocks a key system component, providing access to the software keyboard slot to third-party developers. That’s going to mean a lot of new keyboard apps popping up in the coming days, weeks and months, but some of the top players in the space are already on board. Fleksy, for instance, launched today along with iOS 8, and I got the chance to test it…
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Productivity Startup Any.do Rolls Out A Business-Focused Upgrade, Subscription Pricing 1
October 30th at 5:23pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsAny.do, a productivity startup with apps for calendaring and task management which claims a reach of over 11 million users, is today expanding beyond its earlier consumer focus with a new set of features – and pricing plans – aimed at businesses. In the Any.do 2.0 release out today, colleagues and teams can now use Any.do’s task list application to collaborate on tasks…
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The best iPad apps of 2014 1
December 19th at 8:05am / Mashable / 0 opinionsOur top picks for best iPad apps of 2014.
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Mustbin’s New App Blends Secure Private Messaging With Cloud Storage 3
March 5th at 7:03pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsMustbin, the mobile application that began as a secure organizer for personal documents and other information captured by your smartphone’s camera, is today making a larger move to compete in the private mobile messaging space with the launch of Mustbin 2.0. The new app is now offering a solid handful of features that differentiate it from many competitors, including the ability…
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LinkedIn Buys Refresh.io To Add Predictive Insights To Its Products 1
April 2nd at 6:43pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsLinkedIn, the social network for professionals with nearly 350 million users, has been making a push into the area of anticipatory computing, where its platform effectively predict what information you need to know, when you need it. Today, comes the latest development in that strategy: the company has acquired and will be closing down Refresh.io, a startup and iOS app of the same name…
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Microsoft buys out Wunderlist developer 6Wunderkinder 1
June 2nd at 12:31am / AppleInsider / 0 opinionsMicrosoft has forged an agreement to buy 6Wunderkinder -- the German developer behind to-do list app Wunderlist -- in a deal worth between $100 million and $200 million, a report said on Monday.
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5 can't-miss apps: 'Fallen,' Inkboard, Ditty and more 2
August 30th at 6:25am / Mashable / 0 opinionsThis week's list includes an app to send doodles to your friends, an update to Facebook's newest standalone app and a new gravity-based game.
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5 can't-miss apps: Unroll.me, Action Movie FX, Honest Beauty and more 1
November 7th at 1:25pm / Mashable / 0 opinionsIncluding an app to help you unsubscribe from annoying email newsletters, a new SoundCloud app and more.
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Apple takes 50% off popular productivity apps in new iOS App Store campaign 2
January 22nd at 1:31am / AppleInsider / 0 opinionsIn its latest iOS App Store promotion, Apple is for a limited time knocking 50 percent off a selection of 14 productivity titles like PCalc, task manager Things, second screen solution Duet Display and more.
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Adobe adds automatic pattern generation tool to Capture CC for iOS 0
May 17th at 4:11am / AppleInsider / 0 opinionsAdobe recently updated its Capture CC app for iOS with a new tool that transforms images or real-world objects into geometric and organic patterns, offering users an automated alternative to what was once a tedious manual workflow.
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Hands on: Duet Display for iPad brings Touch Bar, Apple Pencil to your extended Mac desktop 0
December 28th at 7:31pm / AppleInsider / 0 opinionsAccelerated multiple-monitor tool Duet Display now brings the MacBook Pro's Touch Bar to an extended screen using an iPad, and optional full Apple Pencil support in macOS. AppleInsider shows you what's been updated in the new version.
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Ditch Mobile Web And Load Pages In Their Entirety Using Dolphin For iPhone 0
January 24th at 12:00pm / Cult of Mac / 0 opinionsThe mobile Safari browser that comes baked into Apple’s iOS devices is quite possibly the best mobile browser there is. But what if you want don’t want to load mobile web pages? What if you want to enjoy websites in their entirety? Unfortunately mobile Safari doesn’t let you do this, but a free third-party browser called Dolphin does. Here’s how to ditch the mobile web and load full, desktop websites on your iPhone.