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. Download Manager (iTunes) Previously 99¢, now Free. Download Manager for iOS makes downloading, organizing, and viewing files on your iOS device easier than ever. Whether you want to download a video clip or a document from work, you can do so and view it straight from your iOS device. Download Manager is so powerful, it can even extract ZIP and RAR archives for later...

If you think people look dumb taking pictures with a tablet, or a selfie with one of those extendable poles, you haven't seen someone make a Google Photo Sphere. The process involves going around in a full circle with your phone, then up and down. People might think you're looking for reception, but the result is a very pretty 360 degree view of whatever's around you that can be attached to Google Maps locations or shared with friends. That feature's been a part of Android since version 4.2, but iOS...

Instagram on Friday rolled out an update bringing two feature additions and various bug fixes, including support for photo and video taking while an iPhone is in landscape view.

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. procreate (iTunes) Previously $4.99, now 99¢. Procreate for iPad is an app that provides artists (and wannabes alike) the opportunity to be more productive with their art by using the iPad as a sketchbook and/or blank canvas. Users are given 16 layers to work with along with the ability to create brushes via customized characteristics. Get it for 99¢. (via LogicBuy)...

Are you itching to play the original BioShock on your iPhone or iPad? Then get ready, because it’s coming to the App Store tonight.

Dropbox wants to provide the cloud backbone for all types of mobile apps and websites. At its first ever developer conference today, the company revealed a new service that takes Dropbox away from just files and folders. With a new API called Datastores, the company is hoping to power the way third-party apps sync data like contacts, to-dos, game saves, and more across multiple platforms in near realtime....

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. Sleepy Time (Amazon Appstore) Previously $1.49, now 99¢. Sleepy Time for Android will help you fall asleep better with soothing background noise. This app features over 80 different sounds and the ability to mix as many as three different sounds at once. Get it for 99¢. (via LogicBuy) iOS Windows iOS Android Windows

YouTurn is probably wincing that I compare their app to the extremely popular Hyperlapse. In my defense, there are similarities that simply must be noted — primarily that the app creates super-fast videos of events.However, YouTurn, who is showing their concept on the floor at TechCrunch Disrupt, has a slightly different angle and it revolves around taking road trips in your car and…

Three diamonds and just a few colors can turn into a world of optical illusions and gorgeous geometric patterns in the new iOS app Isometric. The app is simple: you're given a blank canvas, and tapping on it will pop up a diamond. From there, you can rotate the diamond three different ways and apply a variety of colors, quickly turning your basic shapes into a jumble of squares, stairs, and convoluted dimensions. It's a lot of tapping and placing, but once you stumble onto the basic pieces of a...

Google has rolled out a minor update to Gmail for iOS. Version 1.3 includes faster scrolling and animation (thankfully) on the iPhone and iPod touch. Additionally, now you can save photo attachments to your library the same way you save images from Facebook on your phone, by simply touching and holding. Google has also mended some bugs, and these aren't a huge changes, but they're definitely positive ones.

Continuing its ongoing first-party iOS app updates, Apple on Wednesday released a new version of iMovie that introduces a slew of editing features alongside support for iOS 8.

Marco Arment, best known as the creator of Instapaper, has today launched a new iOS app called Bugshot....

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. Interview Questions Pro (iTunes) Previously 99¢, now Free. Interview Questions Pro for iOS is an app that strives to accomplish one thing: helping you to get hired at your dream job. Interview Questions Pro contains over 600 flashcards that covers nearly every type of interview question imaginable. From candidate questions to work history questions and so much more,...

Phone cases are boring. Adventurous, life-marrow-sucking souls are known to embrace the danger of carrying their iPhones case-free, begging fate to shatter those screens when running from bulls or jumping out of moving cars. But even more hardcore than carrying a naked iPhone is wrapping it in a badass case like one of these. Your boring silicone sleeve can't see heat, or saw through wood, or build an IKEA bookcase. These cases can....

All you iPad users can now banish Apple Maps into that folder you never open because Google Maps 2.0 has been released and adds support for the iPad and iPad Mini. That means BIG MAPS HELL YEAH....

Google has announced its first update to Google Chrome for iOS, adding the ability to share pages from the browser directly on your favorite social n…

A mobile application called Cirqle – no, not that Circle or that one either – launched last year as a way for users to share and collaborate on photo and video collections in groups, both public and private. Now Cirqle is rolling out version 2.0, which introduces an interesting new feature: offline mode. That means users can now share and collaborate on photo sets via Bluetooth…

Superfly, a service that takes your personal itineraries, receipts and frequent flyer balances into account to recommend the best flight booking options, has today expanded into hotels by way of a new app....

Last October, we reported that T-Mobile’s Bobsled service, a VoIP communication platform that initially allowed smartphone owners to call their Facebook friends from their mobile device, had expanded to provide…

GoldieBlox, the San Francisco Bay Area startup focused on building toys for girls aimed at getting them hooked on engineering, has this morning taken its first steps into the digital realm with the debut of a new iOS application – the company’s first – GoldieBlox and the Movie Machine, as well as a “digital playground” called Bloxtown.com.The new app works as…

S We've become a lazy, lazy people. If there's two things that really bring us together, it's an irrational demand for instant gratification and a desire to have as little face-to-face interaction as is humanly possible. Now on the one hand, this is probably the beginning of society's grand demise. But on the other, doing things sucks! So we might as well give in to fate and enjoy sweet, sweet laziness while we can. Which, thanks to glasses.com's new app, now included eyewear shopping....

Feedly's mobile app is a solid tool for checking out your Google Reader, Facebook, and Twitter feeds on the go, and its latest redesign attempts to merge that ability with the look and feel of social reading apps. Available today on both iOS and Android, the updated version of Feedly features a new look akin to apps like Flipboard, with an emphasis on a clean interface and big, bold images. By combining this with the relative flexibility of RSS, the developers believe that the app now offers the best of...

Reserve, an app that launched Tuesday, promises to change how users choose restaurants, make reservations and pay for their meals.

The successor to Algoriddim's Djay app hit the App Store on Thursday, while Nike's Nike + Running app got new tracking and bragging rights features in the form of Nike+ Challenges.

Cloud storage and collaboration company Box today launched Box Accelerator, a new technology that will increase the speed of uploads to the service by up to ten percent. In Washington D.C., for example, accelerated uploads to Box were four times faster than uploads to Dropbox and twice as fast as uploads to Google Drive. In Tokyo (which is much farther away from Box HQ) uploads to Box were more than ten times faster than uploads to both Dropbox and Google Drive. Box doesn't yet offer a file-syncing...