Apps

The Daily App Deals post is a round-up of the best app discounts of the day, as well as some notable mentions for ones that are on sale. Run Training Pro (iTunes) Previously $2.99, now 99¢. Run Training Pro for iOS is an all-in-one app that helps you to get up and start running like never before. Complete with a map that allows you to see your route before you begin running, Run Training Pro acts as an assistant to help you get the most out of your exercise. Complete with charts and a calendar that...

The Daily App Deals post is a round-up of the best app discounts of the day, as well as some notable mentions for ones that are on sale. Dropzone (iTunes) Previously $13.99, now $2. Dropzone for Mac turns almost any action into a simple drag and drop. Assign a "dropzone" to any frequent operation like uploading to your favorite web service or sending to your iPhone, then drag and drop your files or text into the zone. Check out our video walkthrough for more details. Get it for $2. (via Two Dollar...

Last year around this time, a NASA JPL engineer blew us away with a Halloween costume that used two iPads to create the illusion of a gaping hole in his chest. Cool, if you could afford two iPads. For the 99 percent of us that couldn't, he promised that his 2012 costume would be equally awesome and infinitely more affordable....

Fantastical — the incredible calendaring app from Flexibits — is kicking off this week’s must-have apps roundup, and it’s accompanied by KitCam, a great new photography app that gives Tap Tap Tap’s Camera+ some real competition. We also have some big updates to Apple’s Remote app and Vimeo.

Today, television giant CBS launched CBS Connect for the iPad, an app similar to Microsoft's SmartGlass that presents you with extra second-screen content based on the show you're watching. The app syncs with what you're watching whether it's live, on demand, or using DVR, and provides relevant content such as behind-the-scenes information, set and location spotlights, comments from the show's stars and creators, and aggregates conversations about the show from Twitter and Facebook. Although CBS Connect...

NextGuide has released an update to its iPad application that now gives its users access to over 18,000 television clips from Hulu. Calling it NextGuide Clips, it allows users to easily watch part of an episode without needing a Hulu subscription....

Amazon has made it easy for users of the IMDb iOS app to go from reading about a film to watching it, after it added Amazon Instant Video links to the app for the movie database that it bought in 2008....

Eric Kessler, President of HBO, has just announced that the company is finally adding support for AirPlay to its HBO Go iOS app, and Cinemax’s MAX GO app as well — both updates are available in the iTunes App Store right now. Kessler also said that he expects that his company's products will eventually arrive on the Apple TV — as part of a larger trend of HBO trying to get on as many different devices as possible. HBO Go is apparently enough for the company to feel current — without having to open up...

When this generation looks back to retell the best and most amazing past times of the early oughts, surfing YouTube will undoubtedly be on the list. But as we shift to a more mobile lifestyle, content discovery — with particular regards to internet video — is becoming less and less fluid. That’s why betaworks is today launching Telecast, a new service that bundles internet video…

AVOS Systems, the company founded by YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, has just launched a new app that appears to be a Chinese version of Twitter’s popular six-second video-sharing app, Vine. I hate to use the word clone, but… Clone. The app is called Wan-Pai, (or Wanpai, we’re not really sure due to complexities in the translation from Mandarin) which seems to mean “Beat” based…

Belkin’s Dyle mobile TV is a TV antenna that works with an iOS device. With the Dyle iOS app installed, you can watch broadcast TV on your iPad or iPhone—but only under certain, rather limited conditions....

Nook tablets aren't long for this world — at least those manufactured by Barnes & Noble. But even as the troubled retailer shifts focus back to e-readers and away from tablets, it's still taking new steps to expand the Nook ecosystem. Today Barnes & Noble released Nook Video apps for iOS, Android, and Roku's streaming boxes. With the new apps, you'll be able to stream or download movies and TV shows purchased from the BN.com. Nook Video also doubles as an UltraViolet player; after linking a UV account...

iOS devices can do a lot of productive and entertaining things. But they can also present and manipulate data in beautiful ways. Such is the case with Frax, a new fractal generating application developed by Ben Weiss, Kai Krause, and Tom Beddard. In this episode of the podcast I speak with Ben and Tom about the motivation and development of this compelling new app for the iPhone and the iPad....

Microsoft has started rolling out an Xbox One version of its SmartGlass app for Windows Phone. While many of the features, including remote control and SmartGlass companions, are the same as the separate and existing SmartGlass for Xbox 360 app, there are some notable additions. Xbox One owners will be able to control the app-snapping feature of the console by selecting individual applications to open snapped or full screen. Gamers will also be able to watch game DVR clips on the go from the app....

Whether you're new to the iPad or looking to add to your app collection, 2013 brought in a healthy dosage of innovative, addictive options for Apple tablets.

The iPad can make a great family photo album, provided it has your photos on it. This article will go over some of the best ways to put your favorite photos on to the iPad.

Disney has a new mobile app that uses its recently-acquired Star Wars IP out today: Star Wars Scene Maker is now on the App Store, and it lets kids of all ages build their own Star Wars stories using 3D-rendered graphics and animations, along with the option to record your own voice over for dialog and built-in music for epic soundtracks.The app is the ultimate fanfiction tool, short of hiring…

Sick of the same old emoji characters? Here are eight specialty emoji apps to take your conversations to the next level.

Imgur is ready to take mobile seriously. The popular image sharing site is launching a new iPhone app on Thursday that reimagines the experience of browsing through its massive collection of photos, GIFs, and other images. This isn't the first time that Imgur has tried to launch a mobile app, but Imgur thinks that this is the first time it got it right....

Apple on Thursday rolled out another of its limited-time-only iOS App Store sections, this time featuring 24 apps on sale for 99 cents each, including popular titles like Pixelmator and GoodReader, as well as hit games Shadowmatic and The Room Two.

The Star Wars marketing blitz is on, with everything from trailers hitting the internet to cans of food donning the likeness of characters at the supermarket. ridiculous, this is. pic.twitter.com/ib1WCwcuwI— Yoda (@yoda) September 5, 2015People are flat out excited to see this new installment, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, on December 18th.To feed that excitement, the official…

Say hello to the first P2P live streaming app for Apple TV.

You can now watch shows and movies from Netflix while doing other stuff on your iPad. Today the company rolled out an app update that takes advantage of the Picture in Picture feature of iOS, which lets you shrink videos down to a smaller window and use another app at the same time. Netflix says the new functionality supports compatible iPads running iOS 9.3.2 — the latest version — and beyond....

IBM and the New York Times take a page from 'Pokémon Go' for new history app.