Apps

After a long-running, conspicuous absence, Firefox is now available for iOS. Mozilla announced last year that the browser would be coming to the platform, launched a public preview in September, and is now making it available to all iPhone and iPad users....

Voice mail is so last century. The idea of phoning someone then leaving a rambling message when they don’t pick up seems decidedly antiquated in the age of instant connectivity, where friends, family, colleagues and others can be easily reached with a text. Voicemail is so over, in fact, that large corporations like JP Morgan and Coca-Cola have ditched the service entirely. If only…

Following the debut of its Bentayga SUV, British automaker Bentley Motors recently launched an eponymous Apple Watch app that goes beyond run-of-the-mill connected car features, putting control over creature comforts on the wrist of well-heeled owners.

The notch? What notch?

Skyfire Web Browser is a full-featured web browser and the first application for iOS that converts Adobe Flash videos in to HTML5, allowing you to play them on your iPhone and iPod Touch. It’s been incredibly popular in its first week and has rocketed to the top of the paid chart in the App Store. It’s also one of our favorite apps for iOS this week. Also on our list of must-haves is iDJ – an application from Numark that makes it simple to create seamless, synchronized playlists using you iTunes music l...

Opera has released its latest mobile browser for the iPhone and iPad. In April 2010, Opera Mini 5 made its way to the iPhone and quickly became a huge hit. Like Opera Mini...

QR codes are popping up everywhere in the U.S. They link digital information like URLs to real world objects. You’ve probably seen them on movie posters, in magazine ads, or even on business cards. Here are some great free QR code scanning apps for your iPhone.

Apple will most likely wait until the release of the next major version of Mac OS X to bring Siri to the Mac, but you can use its dictation capabilities…

For a device with a 3" screen, the iPhone has a pretty impressive resume: Phone, map, camera, sketchbook, dedicated Doodle Jump playing machine. And for $1, the newly revamped Ruler 2 app makes it a pretty decent measuring thinger, too. Ruler 2, an overhauled version of an apparently less-good Ruler 1, offers a simple, functional ruler that you can drag to measure things smaller than the size of your screen. Measuring things that are longer than your iPhone (or your iPad—it's a universal app) isn't...

iPhones. iPads. Android. We've updated all of our essential apps lists to include a few forgotten favorites, some long awaited arrivals and, as always, even more amazing apps. Check them out! If you want to jump to see the best apps in a specific platform, click here: The end of the month is here, and that means it's time to do a little housekeeping on our list of the absolute best iPhone apps. Who will be inducted? Sparrow: Finally, e-mail that doesn't suck. The biggest beneficiaries of Sparrow will be...

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. Easy Calendar (iTunes) Previously $1.99, now 99¢. Easy Calendar for iOS is an alternative calendar app that aims to make creating new events easier with only three taps and editing your events with two taps. Easy Calendar integrates with native iPhone calendar events and will sync with MobileMe, Outlook, Google, and other CalDav calendars. Get it for 99¢. (via 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. City Maps 2Go (iTunes) Previously $1.99, now 99¢. City Maps 2Go for iOS is your offline tour guide for cities all over the world. It gives you maps and points of interest with no need for a data connection. Get it for 99¢. (via Apps-aholic) iOS iOS

A lot can go wrong on a night out drinking with friends—incarceration, questionable taste, the realization that you lost half the group two bars ago—but all of these things can be avoided with the right tools loaded in a smartphone. With these 13 apps, you will have full cups, manageable chaos, and a reasonable chance you'll recognize the room you wake up in....

Apps like Google Now, Bounce and Twist are helping people get to where they’re going on time. The apps use GPS, calendar, traffic and other data to help determine when the best time to leave is.

Get organized! Or get zombified! Either way, this week’s roundup of iPhone and iPad apps has you covered....

Getting a professional to come and set up your home theater equipment can be expensive, which means many of us end up trying to take on the task ourselves. Tuesday THX launched its first mobile app, THX tune-up, designed to make that process much simpler. Even if you know your audio and video equipment, tweaking your own personal setup can be a daunting task.

Paul Miller's year-long hiatus from all things internet will come to a close at 12:00:01 AM on May 1st. It seems like only yesterday that he signed offline, kicking off an ambitious quest to spend 12 months away from a resource many of us consider essential to our lives. 365 days without Starcraft. 525,600 minutes logged off of Facebook and Twitter. 31,536,000 seconds of pure IRL. With the end drawing near, now's the time to read through Paul's 33 (so far) articles on living an entire year offline....

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 we found a new and interesting way for you to wake up in the morning, and a new way to plan your day once you've made your way out of bed.

Google has just released a fairly significant update for Chrome on iOS. Now available in the App Store, the latest version introduces some anticipated features like fullscreen browsing on iPad and access to your full browsing history — something that's bizarrely been missing since the app debuted. Until today, holding the back button has displayed history for a particular tab, but iOS users have been left without a comprehensive way to look back....

Google Authenticator, an app that generates two-factor authentication codes for services that offer the additional security layer, is coming under fire from users who claim that the latest update for the iOS version wipes all existing accounts when installed....

Much as we love the Internet and the wondrous range of diverse, entertaining, informative and time-wasting services on offer, we find it hard to keep track of all the passwords that go along with all the mandatory site and app registrations....

Using Google Glass to its fullest extent before now meant pairing with an Android phone for the MyGlass app. Google now has a version for iOS, bringing much deeper integration between the wearable computer and a phone.

Keeping secure in today’s always connected age of computing is not a once and done sort of task, it is an ongoing process that requires attention. The following checklist will help keep your devices secure.

When I was a kid, we used to label everything: toys, boxes, file folders. My parents used one of those manual rotary label dispensers, the kind you had to squeeze hard enough to make each individual letter poke up through…