• Vingle Lets You Mingle With People Who Share Your Interests

    July 24th at 9:43am / TechCrunch / 0 opinions

    Vingle is a fun, community-oriented site from the founders of Viki, the crowdsourced subtitling platform that was acquired by Rakuten for a reported $200 million last year.Viki’s founders, Changseong Ho, Razmig Hovaghimian, and Jiwon Moon, saw how devoted fans on Viki were to translating and subtitling the dialogue in their favorite movies and TV series, and wanted to create a network…

  • Facebook announces video for Instagram

    June 20th at 9:29pm / The Verge / 0 opinions

    Facebook today announced video for Instagram, saying it aimed to make video as easy to create and share as possible. The overall look and feel of the app are the same, but next to the main capture icon is now a video camera icon. The user taps the button to begin recording up to 15 seconds of video. It will become available for iOS and Android simultaneously today....

  • Atari’s Greatest Hits Shoves the Loot of a Thousand Garage Sales Onto Your iPhone

    April 7th at 3:00pm / Gizmodo / 0 opinions

    Atari just dropped a whirling, aliased asteroid in the iTunes App Store: Atari's Greatest Hits brings 100 classic titles to iOS in a single application. The app itself is free and includes a copy of Pong. You can pick up four-packs of games as an in-app purchase for $.99 a pop, or spring for all 100 for $15. Many of the titles support Bluetooth multiplayer, as well, provided another player has a copy of the game. (And an iPhone or iPod touch, of course.) It all looks like a very nice package and it's...

  • Briefly: Readdle slashes up to 70% off iOS app titles in honor of 7th birthday

    July 31st at 11:31am / AppleInsider / 0 opinions

    Readdle, developer of popular iOS apps like Scanner Pro and PDF Expert 5, is having a 48-hour sale on its iOS app offerings in celebration of its birthday, cutting up to 70 percent off select titles.

  • 10 Free Road Trip Apps for a Smooth Vacation

    June 25th at 12:05pm / Mashable / 0 opinions

    Out of all the possible summer vacations, road trips have the unique ability to crumble apart as soon as they begin. What you predict will be a long, character-building family trip through the countryside quickly dissolves into a car of hungry, screaming relatives -- if you're not careful.

  • The Best System Monitor for iPhone

    October 5th at 5:30pm / Gizmodo / 0 opinions

    If you want to monitor your iPhone or remote computer, there aren't many options for the iPhone. In fact, there's really no single app that's worthy of being called the best. As a result, we're offering two: iStat if you're monitoring a Mac or iPhone, and PC Monitor if you're monitoring a Windows or Linux machine. Platform: iPhonePrice: $1 (On Sale)Download Page Platform: iPhone (and Others)Price: FreeDownload Page iStat PC Monitor If you want comprehensive information about your iPhone, iStat is the...

  • Pinterest's take on direct messages blows Twitter's out of the water

    August 7th at 3:09am / The Verge / 0 opinions

    If there’s one thing the App Store is saturated with, it’s messengers: WhatsApp, of course, but also Facebook’s, and Snapchat, and Hangouts, and Line, and Kik, and all the rest. So why would Pinterest, a social network for exploring your interests, spend time building a messenger? The answer says a lot about where Pinterest is going — and the product itself is one of the best things we’ve seen from Pinterest to date....

  • Smart Mobile Personal Assistant Donna Arrives In The Apple App Store

    June 27th at 8:28pm / The Next Web / 0 opinions

    Donna, the smart personal assistant, has arrived in the Apple App Store for all to try. This is much more than a calendar app — it’s a service that could seemingly function as a surrogate to a real-life person helping you manage your day....

  • NASA Visualization Explorer App Brings Science To Your iPad

    July 27th at 5:15am / Gizmodo / 0 opinions

    When you say NASA, people think Space Shuttle. But NASA does so much more. The agency studies topics ranging from astrophysics to climate change. It also has a new iPad app that details these diverse research projects. The NASA Visualization Explorer app brings a new topic from the space agency to your iPad each week. It's chock full of images, videos and scientific information. From Polar studies based in Antarctica to the movement of marine deserts, you'll get to see a side of NASA that doesn't often...

  • Bolt Vs. Bolt: A Speedy, New Photo Messenger Debuts Using A Familiar Name

    August 13th at 12:23am / TechCrunch / 0 opinions

    There’s another Bolt on the App Store that isn’t Instagram’s experimental photo messenger, and it competes in the same photo messaging space. How will Instagram parent company Facebook react to this new Bolt? Even Bolt’s creator, Nick Bicanic, better known as the founder of mobile dating app Flikdate, doesn’t quite know.

  • Reeder for iPhone adds Feedly and Feed Wrangler support as Google Reader goes dark

    July 2nd at 11:29am / The Verge / 0 opinions

    Just in time for the demise of Google's Reader RSS syncing service, version 3.2 of Reeder's iPhone app is now available for download. The popular RSS client now adds support for Feedly — currently the only free service with Google Reader-like front-end and back-end support. And if you're a fan of features and sustainable business models, it also adds support for Feed Wrangler, a paid alternative. However, Reeder 3.2 isn’t set up to deal with smart streams, one of Feed Wrangler's biggest draws....

  • Daily App Deals: Get SayHi Translate for iOS for 99¢ in Today’s App Deals

    April 24th at 9:30pm / Gizmodo / 0 opinions

    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. SayHi Translate (iTunes) Previously $2.99, now 99¢. SayHi Translate for iOS recognizes your speech and speaks the translation in any of 23 languages (and growing) for on-the-spot conversation across language barriers. The app uses Nuance recognition and SayHi's own "special sauce" combo of translation engines for impressive accuracy. Get it for 99¢. (via Apps-aholic...

  • From Westfield Labs Comes An App To Let Your Pre-Order Meals From The Food Court

    August 19th at 1:23am / TechCrunch / 0 opinions

    One of the most recent applications from Westfield Labs is Dine On Time, an app that lets busy shoppers skip the line at restaurants in its food court and pay for their meal via mobile app. Since many of the diners in its San Francisco location are actually workers who have offices nearby, time is of the essence, and being able to place an order without having to wait in line is huge.

  • Thunderspace: A stereoscopic 3D soundscape of thundery weather from the creators of Haze

    July 5th at 3:28pm / The Next Web / 0 opinions

    Back in May we brought you Raining.fm, a mobile app that lets you listen to the infinite sound of raindrops. On loop....

  • Daily App Deals: GroupShot for iOS for Free in Today’s App Deals

    March 9th at 10:30pm / Gizmodo / 0 opinions

    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. GroupShot (iTunes) Previously 99¢, now Free. GroupShot for iOS allows you to fix and perfect your group photos on your iOS device. Simply take a few group photos, and if anything needs to be fixed, simply open GroupShot and fix them from within the app. GroupShot makes it easy to take the best of one picture and combine it with another so you have a perfect group...

  • Instagram's Hyperlapse App Turns Videos Into Time-Lapses in 2 Taps

    August 26th at 8:25pm / Mashable / 1 opinions

    Instagram launched an app called Hyperlapse that speeds up shaky videos and turns them into beauty time-lapse shots.

  • Pandora iOS app update brings auto-mute, improved stream buffering

    July 9th at 6:51am / AppleInsider / 0 opinions

    Popular Internet radio service Pandora on updated its iOS app on Monday, bringing a new feature that automatically pauses music playback when a user mutes their iPhone, as well as a number of performance enhancements.

  • Daily App Deals: Get KeyChord for Android for Only 99¢ in Today’s App Deals

    February 2nd at 10:30pm / Gizmodo / 0 opinions

    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. KeyChord (Amazon Appstore) Previously $2.99, now 99¢. KeyChord for Android allows piano players to find scales and chords. Features include the Mini Piano Pro with 128 different sounds and 5 octave scrollable multitouch, audio playback, and more. Get it for 99¢. (via Apps-aholic) iOS Android iOS Android Windows

  • With Mikey Boots, you’re one tap away from platforming fun

    September 4th at 10:44pm / Cult of Mac / 0 opinions

    Mikey Boots is out now for your iPhone and iPad, and it’s a rarity: a full-price iOS game without any in-app purchases or any ads. It’s a model that’s served developers Mike Meade and Mike Gaughen well with their previous…

  • Just.me Upgrades iOS And Web Apps, Finally Lands On Android

    July 11th at 4:48pm / The Next Web / 0 opinions

    Social messaging app maker Just.me is today launching its first Android version, and announcing significant enhancements to both its HTML5 and iOS apps in a bid to accelerate worldwide growth....

  • TV Guide, Stick Tennis, and More

    August 24th at 10:00pm / Gizmodo / 0 opinions

    Congratulations! You've made it to Friday again, which means another fresh batch of the best apps of the weeks. This time we're giving you something that might incite a little wanderlust, an exercise app, and much more. TV Guide: No need to lose sleep over your TV indecision. The new TV Guide app combines all your options into one place, showing you both what's streaming and what's on cable. It only lacks Netflix and Amazon Prime, which sucks, both otherwise you're going to have an easier time finding...

  • 1Password’s iOS 8 Update Goes Freemium, Brings Touch ID To Some Apps

    September 17th at 10:23pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinions

    Password, the app that keeps your accounts secure by generating long, complex passwords and letting you access them by a single password of your choice, arrives on iOS 8 today and brings with it extensions in certain apps (including Safari) and a new, low starting price: free.

  • Deus Ex: The Fall jams jailbreakers, already fixed by hackers

    July 12th at 10:02pm / Macworld / 0 opinions

    Users of jailbroken iPhones and iPads who purchase Deus Ex: The Fall will find the game to be a lot harder than they expected....

  • Daily App Deals: Get Hurricane for iOS for $2.99 in Today’s App Deals

    May 18th at 9:30pm / Gizmodo / 0 opinions

    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. Hurricane (iTunes) Previously $3.99, now $2.99. Hurricane for iOS allows you to keep track of hurricanes in your area easier than ever. Hurricane allows you to receive updates via your Twitter feed about the latest hurricanes, and also provides you with a fully detailed tracking map that provide quick Push notifications, so you can be assured that you are watching the...

  • Amazon’s Goodreads App Finally Gets A Makeover

    September 25th at 11:43pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinions

    Goodreads, the social network for book lovers, has at last seen its first major update since Amazon bought the company last March. This week, Goodreads rolled out a significant redesign on iOS (coming soon to Android) – something regular Goodreads users have wanted for some time. Now, instead of having you land on an outdated, grid-like homescreen when the app is first launched…