Google Drive for iOS has just received a much-needed visual revamp and a few critical features like the ability to copy the URL for a file to your clipboard, edit in landscape mode, and more straightforward file-sharing. Google Drive for iOS, which has traditionally lagged behind some of Google's other apps like Gmail and Google+, now falls in line visually with its brethren — emphasizing "cards," thumbnails instead of list view, and a centrally located search bar that's easier to access. In case you...
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Google Drive for iOS gets a fresh coat of paint, quick sharing 3
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Iterations: The Unbundling Potential Of Apple’s Passbook 2
December 9th at 10:23pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsThis post is about Apple’s Passbook. It’s not about mobile wallets, or Google Wallet, or Square, or anything else. I realize the space is vast and dynamic, but I only have an iPhone, and I’m here to write about Passbook. With that disclaimer out of the way, I’d like to share some thoughts about Passbook, a thesis I’ve developed around “cards vs. apps,” the big opportunity this…
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The iPhone’s best new puzzle game is about NSA surveillance 1
March 19th at 11:11am / The Verge / 0 opinionsThe most popular mobile games don't demand much from you. You can zone out to Candy Crush Saga, and games like Threes only require your attention for short bursts. Out of sight, out of mind is a fine summation of my mobile gaming habit. TouchTone goes in a different direction. At its core itâs a series of logic puzzles, much like every other game on your smartphone; the difference is how they're framed. In the game, you're not solving puzzles in search of a high score to best your friends, but...
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Bitcovery Brings A Desperately Needed Social Discovery Layer To The iTunes Store 1
September 11th at 3:43am / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsWe are seekers. We always want something new to experience, but the iTunes Store is sorely missing social ways to discover music, movies, TV, and books. Bitcovery fills the gap. Add friends whose taste your respect, see what media they’re sharing or saving, check out what’s trending, preview the content, and buy it in Bitcovery for iOS.
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The Xfinity App Lets You Download Shows Now 0
December 13th at 8:10pm / Gizmodo / 0 opinionsWant to take a show with you on your streaming app? You need Comcast—the Xfinity app just got a pretty nice update that lets you actually download programs to your iOS or Android device. Now you can binge on Homeland without worrying about your internet connection messing up the stream.
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You Should Play: Mr. Jump might just be the most difficult one-touch platformer on iOS 0
March 27th at 3:00am / Macworld / 0 opinionsYouâll jump. Youâll die. Youâll die again. But Mr. Jump's ludicrously difficult gameplay will keep you coming back for more.
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Rockstar's iFruit app lets you customize 'Grand Theft Auto V' vehicles outside of the game 0
September 16th at 10:09pm / The Verge / 0 opinionsAhead of Grand Theft Auto V's release tomorrow, Rockstar Games has launched a companion app for the game on iOS. And while the name iFruit pokes fun at Cupertino some, this mobile app isn't merely a satirical attempt at promotion; it's tied directly to your GTA V experience on consoles. Users can remotely access Los Santos Customs — the game's vehicle customization shop — and choose new paint jobs, wheels, lights, window tints, spoilers, and more for their car. Internal upgrades to the engine, brakes,...
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With 140M+ Users, Skype Competitor Viber Launches “Send Location” Feature For iPhone, Android 11
December 18th at 2:23pm / TechCrunch / 1 opinionsToday Viber has hit another huge milestone, announcing that there are now over 140 million users on the service, and that’s only the beginning. According to the company, an additional 400,000 users join the service every day. To celebrate, the company has launched version 3.2 of the popular calling and messaging app, with brand new features for iOS and Android users. In case you haven’t…
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Adobe’s Slate Is A Visual Storytelling App For The iPad 0
April 2nd at 6:43pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsWith Slate, Adobe is launching a new text- and photo-centric storytelling app for the iPad today.About a year ago, Adobe launched Voice, its first standalone storytelling app that lets users record their own stories and then illustrate them with images (the Voice app is also getting an update today, by the way). Slate takes a different (and somewhat less experimental) approach and focuses…
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Apple preps for iOS 7 with iBooks user guides, updates to own apps 2
September 18th at 8:31pm / AppleInsider / 0 opinionsApple is marking the release of its newest version of iOS 7 with a new user guide focusing on the operating system and new designs for some of its in-house apps.
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'Cut the Rope' creators release first new game 'Pudding Monsters' in App Store 0
December 21st at 6:29am / The Verge / 0 opinionsCut the Rope was a huge success on various mobile platforms, so it's no surprise that its Russian developer ZeptoLab went all-out on spin-offs and merchandising. Today, though, the company releases its first new game since that runaway hit: Pudding Monsters is now rolling out across the iOS App Store (unfortunately in separate iPhone and iPad versions), with an Android version also due today. It's a puzzle game that involves sticking blobs of personified desserts together, though the art style isn't too...
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Solar : Weather 0
August 7th at 6:10pm / Macworld / 0 opinionsMost weather apps try to convince you to ditch the default Weather offering in iOS by adding more features. Solar takes the opposite approach, stripping down its weather report to essentially offer time, temperature, and condition-appropriate color patterns. Whether Solar tops what you already get for free from Apple’s built-in app depends on the value you place on aesthetics.
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The High Score Selfie 0
April 10th at 7:23pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsWell, it had to happen, if it didn’t already. Two-person indie game developer Nerd Agency has unleashed the ‘high score selfie’.
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Amazon extends GameCircle achievements, leaderboards to Apple's iOS 0
September 19th at 11:11pm / AppleInsider / 0 opinionsAmazon continued to extend its reach across the assorted mobile platforms on Thursday, announcing that its GameCircle and Whispersync game-synching technologies were now available to developers programming for Apple's iOS.
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iOS developers not concerned about Apple making a larger iPhone screen 0
May 21st at 11:05am / AppleInsider / 0 opinionsIf the rumors pan out and Apple's next-generation iPhone features a larger 4-inch screen, developers say they don't think the change will be a major problem.
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Taplet Lets You Pull HD Photos From Any Video With A Single Tap 2
April 18th at 12:03am / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsThe iPhone has offered the ability to take photos at the same time as you record video, but capturing photos from video that has already been captured isn’t quite so straightforward. Taplet aims to solve that. The company, with $1 million in seed funding, has created an app that lets users upload HD video and then tap the perfect moments to pull HD videos. Currently, the easiest way to…
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Mailbox Will No Longer Delete Your Email Accounts Thanks To Latest Update 0
September 24th at 11:04am / Cult of Mac / 0 opinionsHere at Cult of Mac, we love Mailbox, the third-party Gmail client for iOS. But since it was optimized for iOS 7, it has been plagued by a hugely frustrating bug that causes email accounts to be deleted at random. Fortunately, the app’s latest update — which is available from the App Store now — finally fixes the problem. But at what cost?
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Get This iPhone App With Secret Tethering Powers While You Can 0
December 27th at 4:30am / Gizmodo / 0 opinionsFlashArmyKnife in the iOS App Store has secret built-in powers that will allow you to tether you iPhone to a computer for no extra charge. The app costs $2, while using your iPhone's data connection on a separate device would cost you a monthly fee....
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This goofy Chinese app turns you into the creepiest avatar possible 0
April 23rd at 11:29pm / The Verge / 0 opinionsIf you've been browsing Twitter, Instagram, or Vine lately, there's a good chance you've borne witness to the part-horrifying, part-amazing phenomenon that is My Idol: a free Chinese iPhone app that takes selfies and turns them into singing, dancing cartoon avatars dredged straight from the depths of the uncanny valley....
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Burner for iPhone gets an iOS 7 redesign to make it easier to create disposable phone numbers 0
September 26th at 7:28pm / The Next Web / 0 opinionsBurner has released a substantial redesign of its iPhone app for creating disposable numbers. The new look falls in line with iOS 7 design conventions while also making it easier to create and manage numbers....
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Apple's App Store reaches 40B downloads, almost half occurred in 2012 8
January 7th at 5:51pm / AppleInsider / 0 opinionsApple on Monday announced that more than 40 billion applications have been downloaded from the iOS App Store, with nearly 20 billion of those in 2012 alone.
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Hobnob Lets You Create Personalized Event Invites To Send By Text 4
May 1st at 9:43pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsThere are a number of services today that allow you to create and send digital invitations to birthdays, parties, and other events, where the invites themselves are sent out via email, social networks, or even by postal mail, if you choose. But a new application called Hobnob, launching now, is designed instead to support invite delivery entirely via SMS and MMS. This means recipients will…