Apps

Our roundup of must-have iOS apps from this week includes Camera+ – quite possibly the best, and certainly the most popular, photography application for the iPhone. It’s so good that it has replaced Apple’s official Camera app on my iPhone’s home screen, and is now my go-to application for snapping all my photos Also to feature is Readlines – an application that makes great use of your iOS device while it’s sat in its dock on your desk, and turns an otherwise boring blank screen in to a big, bold stream...

Facebook hogged tech headlines this week with news that it was pushing its Timeline to all users and will IPO next week. But while the 800-million-person social network...

With about 500,000 apps in the Apple App Store and an estimated 300,000 apps in the Android Market, finding the gems among the virtual haystack can be…

Along with major OS updates for both OS X Lion and iOS, Apple released a boatload of software today in the form of new apps and updates to old favorites. Here’s a quick look at what’s new, what’s changed, and what we think about that.

We’ve already given you a list of tips and tricks to get the most out of your smartphone photography, recommended cool accessories that will enhance your shots, but what we…

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? Who will unceremoniously get the boot? Photosynth: It's a free-wheeling panorama photography app by Microsoft. With Photosynth, you just just spin around, fire away and let Photosynth stitch the picture together. Free. Seamless: Paired with a free app in the Mac App Store, Seamless can fade out a song you're playing in iTunes on your desktop and fade in...

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. ROM Toolbox Pro (Google Play) Previously $5.99, now $2.99. ROM Toolbox Pro for Android is an app every root user must have. Combining the best aspects of various root apps into one, ROM Toolbox Pro will be your go-to app anytime you need to do anything root-related. Want to block ads from showing up on your device? You can from within the app. Want to customize your...

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. Photaf Panorama Pro (Android Market) Previously $1.99, now 99¢. Photaf Panorama Pro for Android makes and displays HD panoramas easily using your phone or tablet's orientation sensor, and can set your panoramas as live wallpapers. Get it for 99¢. (via Apps-aholic) iOS iOS Android Windows

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. Dual Browser (iTunes) Previously $3.99, now Free. Dual Browser for iPad gives you two stacked or side-by-side browser windows and the tools to pass links back and forth between them. It's Safari compatible with multiple user agents, privacy controls and more. Get it for Free. (via LogicBuy) iOS iOS

The proliferation of smartphones has made it incredibly easy for us to take numerous photos and record videos, but it has also left us to deal with massive media archives stored on our devices. When you need to locate one specific photo, or find those you shot at a given event, it can be difficult. A new mobile application called Flayvr, aims to help with this by automatically organizing photos…

It can be tough to keep up with all the new apps released every week. But you're in luck -- here's our app roundup.

Even more Apple-built iPhone and iPad applications were improved Wednesday for iOS 5, with the iWork suite, iMovie, Remote and Find My iPhone receiving updates. Also, the company released a new iTunes Movie Trailers application, along with its previously announced Cards ordering software.

New Year’s Eve is only a few short days away, but if you’re still finalizing your plans, don't fret. With the right tools, planning a last-minute New Year's bash, finding a public event nearby, or even organizing transportation can be a breeze. Start the new year off without any stress—use these apps to ring in 2013 in style....

With better search filters, a user reporting tool, and a new 17+ rating, the popular photography app 500px is back on the iOS App Store a week after being booted by Apple.

There's no shortage of smartphone apps and websites that offer ways to share your life with friends through video, pictures and text messages, but in the process, we've moved farther and farther away from what was once the central means of communicating: the sound of your own voice. Now, a couple startups are trying to change that.

If you've ever watched the movie Face/Off and desperately wanted to try the same thing—minus the implausible surgery and John Travolta—now's your chance. Yahoo Japan has released Face Stealer, an endlessly amusing iPhone app that uses augmented reality to replace your face with someone else's. And despite being free, it works surprisingly well....

There’s something about being able to chat with someone while showing him or her photos from your last vacation, or a video of your child’s first steps, that makes the experience as a whole a lot more personal. Meet DabKick, an iOS app that attempts to recreate the experience of sharing media with friends in person using your smartphone.

Photo-sharing may seem a very saturated space but there’s still room for disruption reckons Seattle-based startup Linea, which is aiming to reinvent how people share multiple sets of photos with its horizontally scrolling filmstrip of images. The startup has just closed a $4 million seed round, with investment from an undisclosed group of Angel investors, and is about to start raising a Series A.

Origami, the new family-focused product from Y Combinator-backed mobile social network Everyme, has now arrived after nearly a year of development. A spin-off of sorts, Origami takes some of the original inspiration behind Everyme – that people are looking for new ways to share outside of larger, more open social networks like Facebook – and tweaks the formula to address the needs of parents and…

VLC for iOS is making a return to the App Store after a licensing dispute got the popular video player pulled from the App Store over two years ago. The visual appearance of the app has remained fairly consistent to the old version from 2010. The app was completely rewritten and is much faster thanks to modern output modules for audio and video, offers multi-core decoding, and supports any video files available in VLC media player for desktop operating systems.

From the two co-founders behind YouTube, MixBit is a brand new mobile-first video platform. But contrarily to other video apps focused on recreating a social network, MixBit is all about editing and putting your video clips together to create a medium-length video. Videos range from a few seconds to 68 minutes. Moreover, everyone can reuse someone else’s content and create a brand new video.

people are about to ascend on Black Rock City, Nevada to join in the Burning Man festival experiment. There’s going to be art galore, crazy events, weird costumes for days, and the brutal Black Rock Desert meting out its hellish punishments on each and every Burner. Making the trip to BRC is easy, but surviving is entirely different, so we’ve found eight great apps that will help you get out of the desert alive:

Adobe’s annual update to Photoshop Elements, its consumer image organizer and editor, offers a satisfying array of new features. While changes in version 12's Organizer focus on syncing and sharing photos for access on mobile devices, the Elements 12 Editor includes slick Instagram-inspired effects, textures, frames, new guided edits, and a content-aware move tool. Even more exciting is an intuitive image correction method that remembers how you use it and a Red-Eye tool that works on animals—two...

The color enticed you. The playful plastic called out to you. And that cover, with silly little circular cutouts had your name all over it. $30 later, you’re feeling a little silly after realizing that this case is Apple’s first big design flaw since the Apple TV remote. But don’t be embarrassed, we all make mistakes.

A picture is worth a thousand words -- until you add text, that is. Instagram overlays add another layer to your already-fabulous pictures. They allow for endless possibilities, and today’s versatile and intuitive overlay apps can have you sharing masterpieces in 15 seconds flat. See also: 8 Signs You've Overfiltered Your Instagram Photos The apps we’ve gathered here focus on letting you insert well-designed text and pictures onto your pics.