Kik Messenger is fantastic. It's too bad RIM doesn't want to work with them to make the messaging app tri-platform, but the iPhone and Android versions both still work fine. The latest update (4.0) adds picture sharing, group chat and speed improvements. That's pretty great for a free app.
This week's list includes a disappearing messaging app from the founders of Yo, a redesigned StumbleUpon for Android, and a powerful new calendar and todo list combo.
Attempts joins the recent wave of retro 8-bit manic puzzlers coming to iOS, recalling both arcade machines of the early 80s and Internet memes of mere months ago....
Most shopping catalogs seem to be aimed at our moms, but Google Catalogs has signed up some younger retailers whose products can be browsed easily in the app, such as Urban Outfitters, Sephora, Macy's, Nordstrom, Williams-Sonoma and Pottery Barn. Ok, maybe Pottery Barn is for moms too. And maybe all of them are aimed at women. But the app seems like a smart way to browse for items of interest, whether it be a specific search (such as a red jacket), or just by category. Perhaps the most interesting part...
Several employees from startups that Yahoo acquired under Marissa Mayer have jumped ship and are working on a new live video sharing app.
The real-life battlefield game is translated to a turn-based iOS game that can be played solo or with multiple players.
Invisibility App: The app uses the iPad's rear camera and gyroscope to display the background image on your screen, even when you move the tablet around. It's so seamless that it makes the iPad look almost invisible. $1 Koder: It's a code editor app for the iPad, which is a little like throwing a manual transmission in a Prius. There's probably only a handful of dudes who would want such a thing. No matter though, Koder for iPad has a lot of what you'll need to geek out: syntax highlighting, a snippet...
The first thing you learn upon beginning to type in Tom Hanks' new typewriter app, Hanx Writer, is how reliant you've secretly always been on autocorrect. The second thing is that the sound your iPad is making is going to annoy a lot of people. (Sorry Dieter.)...
Back in May, we reported that European budget airline EasyJet had added mobile check-ins and boarding passes to its Android and iOS apps. But at the time, the trial was restricted to just six airports, four of which were in the UK....
Like Tapose, which made its debut on the iPad yesterday, Paper is a place to store ideas. But unlike the former—which is backed by former Microsoft honcho J. Allard—the latter is more sketchbook than scrapbook, and comes from a group of individuals who once worked on the now-defunct Courier project. Paper is not only brimming with ideas on how an app like this should be used on an iPad, it's full of ideas on how we should interact with the iPad in general. In this regard, it's much like the to-do...
Silicon Valley plays host to two very different opinions about how we should find great videos online....
One of the very great pleasures of being an (imbecilic) adult is going to department stores to buy something painfully mundane and taking a detour through the toy department. YOU CAN BUY ALL OF THIS STUFF. It's there, for you, to buy, and you don't have to ask anyone's permission. I've, uh, been at Target a lot the past few weeks, and now there are way too many Nerf guns in my apartment. iPhone apps!...
Companies make a lot of claims about their products to help sell them, but this new app from a Japanese ad agency goes to the extreme, promising wealth, travel, love, and even the ability to fly, at least while you sleep. Yumemiru, or See the Dream, is available as a free download from the iTunes App Store for iOS devices, and includes eight different scenarios designed to stimulate and influence your dreams through various audio cues. After you select your nocturnal adventure and start to drift off to...
With tech breakthroughs and innovative ideas, science class isn't what it used to be.
Apple's App Store remade the world of software and mobile and, as I see it, all for the better.
I Just Made Love may be the only free application that you must never download. I mean it—you wouldn't like to have this foursquarish app any closer to your iPhone than what you would like to have herpes near your genitals. Can somebody tell me what kind of helpless imbecile wants to broadcast where he or she just have had sex, down to the GPS location and sexual position? Why would anyone want to click that big "Tell the World! ...make everybody jealous!" button? WHY? Can we survive as species after...
Web and mobile gifting service Sesame, which lets you browse and order themed gift sets online or from your iPhone, has now rolled out to iPad. The updated application lets you get a better feel for the gifts you’re ordering, by including “unboxing” videos that show how the gifts were packaged and what they look like in real life. In addition, “hot spots” now…
With all the advances and conveniences that iOS offers, there’s one place that OS X continues to trump Apple’s mobile platform: automation. But with the appearance of IFTTT for iPhone, that gap is perhaps narrower than it once was....
Do you ever get lost in a project and wonder where the time went? If so, you should consider downloading 30/30, an app that keeps you on task. It lets you set up a list of various jobs, each with a designated amount of time to complete them. Start the clock, and when it runs out, it will tell you to move onto the next thing. 30/30 helps you focus in a clean, colorful interface that you can control with gestures. Say, hypothetically, you tend to get lost down a YouTube rabbit-hole (not that any of us...
This week's list includes a goblin-themed RPG, Findery coming to Android and a big update for one of iOS' best photo apps.
Uber has just launched a new feature which lets users split the cost of a trip when riding together in the same car....
Any.do is a free productivity app for iPhone that delivers in just about every way. It’s great to look at, easy to use, and effective at helping users get stuff done.
Yes, my friends, there is an app more annoying than Yo. If having your phone randomly shout “Yo!” at you (or “Hodor!,” if you preferred the spin-offs) drove you batty, wait until you get ahold of this: Noice, an app that lets you communicate using only emoji and sounds. Really!OK, OK, I kid. Noice is actually kind of fun, in a very juvenile, very silly way.In…
What do you get when you cross a smart calendar app with a budgeting app? You get Dollarbird....
Audiobooks.com today announced free Android and iOS apps that allow the downloading and streaming of audio books on Android phones and tablets, as well as iPhones, iPod touches, and iPads. You…
