It seems every year’s projected to be “The year of (…),” but if 2012′s any indication, ’13 will lead a new mobile movement. M-commerce Black Friday sales surpassed $1 billion for the first time last year, while 1.2 billion apps were downloaded during the 2012 Christmas week. With tablet sales projected to reach 450 million in three years, the move towards digital means even the tech savvy music world will see a mobile makeover....
It’s not going to win any beauty pageants, but Eventful’s 2.0 could make sure you never get bored. It’s racked up 20 million registered users and shows of 4 million events at a time, but with today’s big relaunch Eventful gets personalized thanks to your Facebook, iTunes, Spotify, and Last.fm data. That lets it show you concerts you’ll love, along with movie times, conferences, festivals and more.
While designers may suffer this the most, pretty much anyone who's typed anything, well, ever has struggled to find the perfect font to suit their means. Normally, you'd be forced to settle for something that only approximates your vision, but rarely will you find exactly what exists so clearly in your imagination, which, let's face it, may vainly just be your very own handwriting. But with iFontmaker for iPad and now Windows 8 or Windows RT, you can take total control of your typographical needs....
Tapestry, the digital story-telling platform launched out of betaworks, has been relatively quiet since its inception in November of 2012. Today, however, Tapestry is releasing a major update to the app to make content more discoverable, and add more content to the Tapestry platform. Tapestry is an application launched out of Betaworks that lets users create forward-moving, linear stories in a…
The founders of online video discovery service Redux have launched an Web and iOS app called Riffsy. The concept of this service is to enable anyone to take an existing video online and create a 5 to 10 second clip and share it instantly — it’s an animated GIF generator, essentially, but with some pretty fascinating features....
Barnes & Noble released new Nook Video apps for iOS, Android and Roku devices today, which brings its TV and movie-watching service to other manufacturers’ tablets, including, of course, the unnamed third-party which will be producing Nook branded tablets in the future, via the licensing deal announced in June.
If you’re thinking about starting a family, or even expanding your existing one, there are plenty of handy apps out there to help you along the way. My wife and I went through and picked 20 of our favorites for each of the different stages from getting pregnant to taking care of the little one once he or she arrives....
When your friends are sharing the latest Lady Gaga music videos, Harlem Shake remixes, and Onion news clips to ten different social networks, it can be hard to keep track of the best stuff. Shelby, a new app for iPhone launching today, hopes to help you cut through the noise by creating one feed composed of the videos friends are posting, whether it's on Facebook, Twitter, Vimeo, or YouTube. The app has next to no user interface chrome, offering up a refreshingly minimal stream of videos to flick...
AMC has released an iPad app for its Yeah! online movie rental service. Yeah!, first introduced in March, gives users access to a range of "iconic films" that can be downloaded for 48 hours at a time. Though the majority of rentals include just the movie itself, Yeah!'s big draw is that it's slowly enhancing its library of rentable films with bonus features, including interviews, facts, and trivia that pop up while the main feature is playing. The new app also links directly to Wikipedia and IMDB to...
I love podcasts. When I’m stuck on a train, cooking in the kitchen or running around my local park, they offer a wonderful escape and explore many of my favorite hobbies, interests and pastimes. There are an overwhelming number of podcasts to choose from – it’s never been easier to produce a show and share it with the world – so keeping up with them all can feel like a full-time job....
Star Wars" fanatics can relive their love of the original trilogy in an entirely new way on Apple's iPad thanks to the new "Star Wars Scene Maker" app from Disney, which allows users to re-imagine and re-create scenes from the films.
Want to look more attractive on video? Or just different? Earlier this year, a company called Looksery popped up on Kickstarter to raise crowdfunding for a new kind of mobile video chat application that allows users to look more attractive on video using special effects that can remove blemishes, let you change your eye color, slim your face, and more. The app, which is live as of today on…
In preparation for Apple’s first wearable device, mobile developers have been busy creating all kinds of applications designed especially for the Apple Watch’s small screen. The watch, which is said by early testers to be so usable that they found they were no longer pulling out their iPhone as often, allows you to interact with a variety of apps and notifications, ranging…
A number of mobile app publishers are still trying to figure out their strategies related to Apple’s first wearable device, the Apple Watch. While many opt for background apps that push relevant information when needed, Hulu’s entry into the Apple Watch space instead sees the company turning the Apple Watch into a remote control that lets you control video playback across a number…
Vine on Tuesday released a long-awaited extension of their popular app for Apple Watch, and added a new feature to its iOS app designed to make it easier to surface new content quickly.
I had to resist titling this post "How to watch the Super Bowl," because the vast majority of people watching Sunday night's game will be planted in front of a TV tuned to CBS. Maybe you'll be at a party, or perhaps you're planning to just watch everything at home from your own couch. In that case, there's really no mystery; to watch the Super Bowl and all of its insanely expensive commercials, just click over to CBS. If you don't have cable, an antenna should do the trick just fine....
Microsoft is revamping its iOS and Android Xbox apps today. Both apps are no longer branded as "Xbox One SmartGlass," and are instead just simply "Xbox." The overhaul also brings new features and a visual look that's almost identical to the Windows 10 app for PCs, tablets, and phones....
Lol remember DVDs?
This week’s selection of must-have iOS apps features a brand new social news experience called News.me. Created by Bit.ly, with backing from The New York Times, this app shows you not just what your friends are sharing, but also what they’re reading. Sony’s new Crackle application offers a library of over 100 great movies and TV shows, such as The Da Vinci Code, Ghostbusters, Seinfield and Spider-Man – all of which are completely free to watch. RockMelt also makes this week’s must-haves – a web browser ...
There's nothing wrong with being one of the 42 million people who have enjoyed launching virtual birds at virtual pigs when few other options for entertainment presented...
Showtime is today joining HBO GO as another premium cable channel that’s bringing its content to mobile devices. Through the new iPad app Showtime Anytime, customers can now watch Showtime’s original programming, including its TV series, movies, sports and documentaries anywhere there’s an Internet connection.
As has been reported quite widely over the past few hours, Apple has updated its list of the top-selling iPhone and iPad apps of all time as it creeps towards…
DirecTV finally launched its new TiVo HD DVR, but customers with standard set-top boxes are getting a visual refresh as the company rolls out its new HD user interface. The upgrade has been trickling out since November, but DBSTalk forum member RobertE posted a schedule that shows the interface going live in New York City and parts of California, Washington, and Ohio just this past week, with additional markets across the country scheduled for a January 2012 rollout. The update includes a new 14-day...
We have been waiting for this one for a long time, but here it is: Apple Remote 2.0 is now available at the Apple Store. And oh boy, it's dee-lish on the iPad. Updated with hands-on. The new version is optimized for the Retina Display on the iPhone 4 and iPod touch, as well as for the iPad, with its own interface. It also supports Shared Libraries and the new Apple TV (I couldn't try it with the new Apple TV because I haven't got mine yet, but I can only imagine that it will work just the same). Apple...
