Apps

Back at this year’s WWDC, Epic Games’ Tim Sweeney got up and demoed Epic Zen Garden, an impressive upcoming iOS 8 game which used Apple’s new Metal technology to great effect. Leap forward a few months, and the free game has finally…

As more and more apps utilize the cloud's file-storing and -sharing capabilities, remote team collaboration becomes even easier. There are hundred of apps that claim to "increase productivity" and "optimize company workflow," but how many apps actually do? We've selected a list of 8 apps that actually make your workday easier, and team collaboration more enjoyable in the process.

In the past year, two of my best friends have left New York City — off they went to Hong Kong and the Caribbean (bitch). While I'm not left here friendless, I can't even begin to explain how much I've felt their absence. And it's not because we saw each other every day or even every week when they lived here; it's because we were in constant contact with text messages. Every important, unimportant, or mildly amusing event or observation we shared with one another. In a weird digital-age way, I felt...

Online consignment shops operate in a crowded market these days with a range of stores offering everything from eBay-like, peer-to-peer sales of clothes bought at The Gap and Target to high-end stores where luxury goods are authenticated, approved and sold on your behalf. One company making a dent on the latter side of that spectrum is Shop-Hers, a marketplace for luxury goods that now…

Tumblr urged users to download an important update for its iOS apps on Tuesday, after a "security vulnerability" put passwords at risk. "We have just released a very important security update for our iPhone and iPad apps addressing an issue that allowed passwords to be compromised in certain circumstances," Derek Gottfrid, the blogging platform's vice-president of product, said in a blog post.

Entertainment Tired of destroying pigs with angry birds? How about blowing up zombies with numerous types of ammunition, instead? A new app, Bomb the Zombies, brings together...

To-do list apps have stiff competition, from the supremely sophisticated OmniFocus to the simple yet elegant Clear. But none seems to be as wildly popular as Wunderkinder's Wunderlist (available for Mac and iOS), which even has Ira Glass singing its praises as his tool of choice....

Superfly, which helps travelers take advantage of frequent flier miles and airline rewards programs, is expanding its services to include a mobile app for finding and booking hotels. Superfly first launched at TechCrunch Disrupt SF in 2010 and uses big data to personalize flight results based on consumer travel records. In April, Superfly developed Superbox, which allows users to organize all…

As unlimited data plans disappear, consumers need new data-savings solutions. Snappli is the latest to out a mobile service that cuts down on data use through compression techniques; the free software, available today, works on iOS and saves data for the web, apps and even videos.

Get ready for an 'Angry Birds' meets 'Transformers' mashup.

TechCrunch Disrupt alumni Bitcasa has spent the last five months or so growing out of its beta launch, picking up new users and listening to feedback. Today, however, the waiting ends as Bitcasa is launching version 2.0 of its desktop, iOS and Android apps. In case you’re having trouble following along, Bitcasa is a software service that essentially gives you infinite storage on your…

The first thing I asked Andres Godoy and José Daire about their new app called Hop.in — launching this week at TechCrunch Disrupt — was “isn’t this just like Pinterest?” Andres was quick to note that point of the app is not as much about the content as it is about the gesture-based controls that make sharing or logging the content a breeze. It’s about the “how” not the “what”.

One of my favorite games for the iPhone is Game Dev Story, an adorable and addictive game by Kairosoft that puts the player in the role of managing a team of video game developers. Something about Noodlecake Games’s upcoming title,…

While iOS games started out as either simple physics or casual simulation titles when the platform launched about five years ago, the bar has gotten steadily higher and more hard-core. Midcore studios like Kabam started to rise in prominence. Now the iOS platform might be seeing is most hardcore title to date — a very, very massive multi-player title from YC- and Menlo Ventures-backed…

Street Fighter and Tekken are ready to go head-to-head on iOS in this “never-before-dreamed-of-crossover battle,” Street Fighter X Tekken. Now available to download from the App Store, the game brings online multiplayer brawling to iOS with 3D visuals optimized for your Retina display.

Dedicated versions of Word, Excel and PowerPoint, comprising the Microsoft Office suite, are now available for iPhone, based on a unified codebase with their iPad counterparts, and also offering both iPhone and iPad users the ability to create and edit documents for free without an Office 365 subscription.

S The Google+ Local iPhone app mysteriously disappeared from the App Store this past Friday—and now we know why. The Google-owned Zagat has just released a new app for both iPhone and Android today, all coming in Google's new card-based UI....

The new big happy Facebook family is certainly on the ball with iPhone 5, delivering and update not only for its own app, but also one for new subsidiary Instagram designed to work on the new iPhone and iOS 6. The update now ensures that you’ll be able to check out your photos using the iPhone 5′s full 4-inches of glory.

The re/code mobile conference took place a couple of weeks ago, and among the speakers discussing the trends in tech were YouTube’s Susan Wojcicki, Instagram’s Kevin Systorm, Kim Kardashian West and… “Wait, what? Kim Kardashian is a tech expert now? Seriously???”

You may want to think twice about sending that pic or video over Snapchat. A new $1.99 app from Sepia Software called Screenshot Save for Snapchat does exactly what it promises -- it keeps those potentially embarrassing images on hand forever.

Twist, the startup behind a free iOS 6 app (iTunes link) that enables people to let others know when they will arrive somewhere, is today launching its application in English-speaking…

Here’s a positive story about tech companies and their awareness of the outside world, just in case this week had you disillusioned. Evernote today issued a fix for its Penultimate digital handwriting app for the iPad that it hopes will end more than a week of frustration for its users.

It can be tough to keep up with all the new apps released every week. But you're in luck -- Mashable takes care of that for you, creating a roundup each weekend of our favorite new and updated apps. This week, an app for restaurant reviews got even better at helping you plan your night out on the town, while another made it easier to find a last-minute hotel room if that night out ended up being a bit longer than originally planned.

Today in New York at its “Future of Shopping” event, eBay has announced the rollout of a redesigned site, featuring a very familiar yet cleaner look across search, product and checkout…

Two interesting new apps hit the App Store recently, as payments company Square unveiled a new app for its Caviar restaurant delivery service, while game studio Square Enix brought another classic game to Apple's portables with Tomb Raider II.