Apps

Well, it’s not the first turn-by-turn GPS navigation application in the App Store, but industry heavyweight TomTom has finally pushed out its entry. It became available late Sunday night, with versions for Australia, New Zealand, Western Europe and North America. In my opinion, TomTom is a little …

Driving an electric car is like going through life with permanent food poisoning. It takes lots of planning to make sure you're not crapping your pants because you're stranded somewhere and can't get home. The PlugShare app lets you find outlets, EV plugs and charging stations so you're always prepared. Think of it as a free software diaper.

With hectic days and packed schedules, we could use all the help we can get. Why not let your phone lift some of the burden? Your iPhone can help assi…

If you’re reading this, there’s a decent chance you got up early this morning for Apple’s version of Christmas Day—the launch of the iPhone 5. The phone is cool, of course, but apps are what make it useful and fun. This week’s roundup of new and updated apps includes apps for gaming, apps for grocery shopping—and a navigation app that takes advantage of changes to the phone’s native Maps app....

Finding a parking space next to your favourite café is always a lottery but Park Tag wants to change all that. The startup, which is exhibiting at Disrupt NY’s Startup Alley, wants to make parking social so it’s easier to find your next space. The Park Tag app lets users invite their neighbours and colleagues to form a community of drivers who can help each other out by posting parking spaces.

One of the many big, tattery holes in Apple’s Maps app is the lack of transit data. At launch, Apple wisely allowed third-party transit apps to plug into Maps to supplement their own subway and bus directions — perhaps the first bonafide example of Apple allowing iOS users to set their default app for anything — but it was obviously just a stopgap,/a>, because just last week, Apple scooped up Hopstop, one of the biggest transit apps around....

Zoute is the latest application to join the competitive transit app space, which this past year saw Apple scooping up services like Embark and HopStop to beef up its own Maps product. But Zoute is taking a different approach than most, by launching on Android first, with an app that delivers both fixed route schedules and real-time departure information.

After being pulled from Apple's iOS App Store in 2013, Nokia's HERE mapping and navigation app is back up for download, complete with offline caching, traffic information, public transit data and more.

No, Tinder is not one of them.

HopStop, a much loved website for public transit, cab, walking and biking directions can get you to and from anywhere you want to go in 57 major metropolitan markets throughout…

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. Scany (iTunes) Previously $5.99, now 99¢. Scany for iOS provides detailed information about your network and all connected devices, along with features like Whois look up for websites and wake on LAN. Get it for 99¢. (via Apps-aholic) iOS iOS

Urban regions enjoy density. It's what makes for serendipity -- running into someone you know in a crowd of strangers is all the more meaningful. It can also make certain...

There’s a special, particularly awful place in hell reserved for people who dump their trash illegally. There’s also a special, particularly cool environmental project called TrashOut that aims to encourage smartphone owners to locate and report illegal waste worldwide....

People are afraid that if they drive an electric vehicle, they’ll run out of juice somewhere. So to convince more people to buy electric cars and dominate the charging station locator market, Xatori and Recargo are merging. The combined charge finder developers will go by the name Recargo to promote their station map and trip planner app PlugShare. Xatori and its co-founders Forrest North…

These five apps include features that calculate your duration, distance and calories burned -- you won't need any other apps to track your cycling fitness.

Zoute, a transit application that combines real-time departure info and fixed route schedules, is now available for iPhone users in eight major markets across the U.S. Originally launched on Android for those in the Bay Area, the company has since expanded to New York, Boston, Chicago, L.A., D.C., Philadelphia and Portland. The app, for those unfamiliar, comes from mobile developers Hai…

Building an app isn’t just coming up with an idea and then coding (or finding someone to code it for you). There’s a lot involved in the end-to-end process that you wouldn’t necessarily think about when you’re idly dreaming about making one yourself. Developer David Smith, who created the much-loved Pedometer++, as well as Emoji++, Feed Wrangler and many more, has created…

Between catching flights, coordinating with co-workers and courting clients, there are tons of opportunities to make careless, money-wasting decisions while traveling for...

In this week's not at all scared app roundup: Nikon teaches a photography class, the NBA gouges its most devoted fans (and they like it), board games go digital, Disney gets app-y, and, well, Zombie Bikini Babes From Space! Nikon Learn and Explore: Tons of photos, shooting tips, a photography glossary and access to Nikon World magazine, all for free. Useful whether you carry a Nikon or not. NBA League Pass Mobile: At first, you're like, "Whoa, 40 games a week, streamed live or from a 48-hour archive...

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. Downloader Elite (iTunes) Previously 99¢, now Free. Downloader Elite for iOS lets you grab web content easily with tap-and-hold downloading from its built-in browser, and includes players and readers for a variety of formats as well as a file manager. Get it for Free. (via Apps-aholic) iOS Windows iOS

Google Maps for iOS is so much better than Apple's attempt at a replacement that it will make you giggle. But you can't grasp just how much better—almost perfect—iOS Google Maps is unless you see it in action. Here it is, head-to-head with Apple Maps. It's not even close....

Social GPS navigation app Waze has released an update to both its iPhone and Android versions that it says presents “new real-time tools for real-time problems.” With version 3.6, users are now able to report and close roads on the map instantly, helping others better route to their destinations without delays or complications....

Berlin-based map app maker Skobbler, which has its own map engine and combines it with OpenStreetMap data to power a range of navigation apps, has updated its iOS global maps app, ForeverMap 2, to add a travel guide with popular location info to further expand the offering. At the same time TechCrunch has learned the startup is being eyed up by major tech companies as an acquisition target.