Apps

We all love to download apps, and scoring free apps is like winning a fluffy animal from one of those arcade claw machines. The "freemium" business model is incredibly...

We know you're obsessed with your iPhone, and chances are you've been taking a lot more photos - perhaps even recording videos - over the holidays. To satisfy aspiring...

The more mobile apps come out, the bigger the discovery problem gets for users: Apple, for example, recently announced they have 425,000 apps in the App Store. Rankings, recommendations from platform providers or search often bring unsatisfying results – a pain that an app called AppGrooves [version 2.0, free on iTunes] now tries to solve.

In a move that has Apple written all over it, Dell has launched a new mobile app which makes it easy its UK customers to purchase products on the go….

Leafsnap: Leafsnap is the smartphone user's secret weapon to a more meaningful relationship with trees. It's incredibly simple and strangely addictive: find a tree, grab a leaf, snap a picture. The app scans its outline-parsing criteria like smooth or jagged edges, single- or many-lobed-and tells you what tree it thinks it came from. It's similar to the "whoa! this is the future" feeling you get when you deposit a check via smartphone. Hound: Hound is a voice recognition app that's essentially a really...

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. Air Media Center (iTunes) Previously 99¢, now Free. Air Media Center for iOS streams video, photos and music from your Mac or Windows PC to your iOS devices. Get it for free. (via Apps-aholic) iOS Windows iOS Android Windows Mac

A great new photography app, which allows you to add more than 100 stunning effects to your images, is kicking off this week’s must-have apps roundup. It’s accompanied by Giftly, a clever app for sending all kinds of gifts; a new note-taking app called Scrapnote; and a great new update to Adobe Photoshop Touch for iPad.

Kodak’s bankruptcy filing earlier this year was certainly a shame, but it was no surprise. The former photographic powerhouse famously ignored the digital revolution, and was subsequently forced to ditch…

It's that time of year when you probably feel like you're just leaking money out of your pores. And that's why it's great that Slickdeals has pushed out a new iPhone app....

The Next Web has covered thousands of apps throughout 2012, from nifty new browser extensions, to fully fledged features on the latest game-changing Android and iOS apps, through to native-like cross-platform Web apps....

The team behind MapMyFitness has released a batch of new features today including route recommendations, custom splits and advanced heart rate metrics in order to keep pace with some of its health and fitness app rivals, such as Runtastic and RunKeeper....

The modern family is more connected than ever, with each member toting a smartphone or mobile device to every appointment, event or play date. Sharing your newborn's first moments or checking in with the kids after school becomes infinitely easier with a plethora of family apps, from private networks to monitoring maps. SEE ALSO: These 11 Apps Will Supercharge Your Personal Life If you need help planning activities for your little ones, social parenting apps like RedRover can give you ideas.

Now, an iOS app for discovering trending restaurants, bars and events nearby, has just received an update, featuring a redesign and support for videos through Twitter’s Vine service. According to its creators, Now helps you “figure out where the action is” by building out a social heap map of popular activities around you....

Some might say the likes of Facebook and its ilk pretty much have the social event-discovery market sewn up. But even with 1 billion-plus users, there is still a sizable anti-Facebook brigade out there – you might even call this a ‘majority’....

On Friday, the Google+ Local iPhone app was removed from Apple's App Store. Then, on Monday, a new Zagat iPhone app landed in the App Store that essentially picks up where Google+ Local left off. Both apps feature Zagat reviews for restaurants and nightlife hangouts, and both apps use embedded Google Maps to direct users to a recommended location. But the Zagat iPhone app isn't the only news from the Google-owned survey and reviews business today. Zagat's Android app and Zagat.com were updated on...

BeauCoo has created a body positive online community for women -- one with big business potential.

Think about when you're out with friends, and someone says, "We come here all the time." Or you look at the clock before bed and think to yourself, "This is the earliest I've gone to bed all week!" Or maybe you're deciding what to do for Halloween, and you wonder, "Where did I go last year?" Are you ever curious if your perception matches reality? A closer look out our routines might reveal surprises in the way we live our lives, and even help us make decisions for the future.

This is a guest post by Mike Lemovitz which originally appeared on his blog. He lives in Central Massachusetts with his wife and two daughters. He works in marketing for a large healthcare organization, and moonlights as a photographer, filmmaker, and entrepreneur. Learn more at http://workwithally.com....

Foursquare did away with private check-ins this week, finally ending support for what had been, for a long time, one of the service's most-neglected features: the ability to privately track places you've visited for personal use. Today, a new iOS app simply called Pins is offering an alternative with the debut of a service that lets you collect, organize and optionally share lists of places you…

StackSocial has launched an iPhone app to offer a native mobile experience of its Web-based social marketplace. The app offers one-touch purchasing, new discovery features for customers and account management options....

Daylight, an immersive iPad app dedicated to art photography, has been a decade in the making. The company’s founder Taj Forer first built a bi-annual magazine about 10 years ago dedicated to documentary photography. “It was meant to bridge the gap between the more conceptual concerns of fine art and artists, and then the more sociopolitical concerns of documentary…

Like many dog lovers and potential new dog owners, when it came time to adopt a new pet, my first stop was not the pound, but the internet. I read about the various dog breeds and their respective temperaments, and I visited the websites of local shelters to see what kind of dogs were currently available. Now, a new mobile application called BarkBuddy has launched to make the dog adoption…

Unless you are a philatelist or have a strong tolerance for boredom, standing in post office lines is a pain. This is especially true if you have to do it over and over and over again for your job. ShipBob, a startup backed by Y Combinator, wants to help small business owners and online sellers with a service that not only takes items to the post office, but also handles packaging and tracking.

The popular Philips Hue connected LED lightbulbs reached a new milestone this week, with more than 200 third-party applications for iOS now compatible with the smart home accessory.