Apps

Songs can sound different depending on when and where you hear them—I can only appreciate the subtle craftsmanship of Katy Perry, for example, when I'm at home with my headphones on. SoundTracking takes the "now playing"-style share to the next level by letting you announce what you're listening to as well as where you are and what you're doing while listening to it. SoundTracking, Free, iPhone. Firing up SoundTracking for the first time, the app makes you login to Facebook, Twitter, or FourSquare (...

Hilton Hotels is taking a page out of the airline playbook, giving users more control over the experience through their smartphone. The hotel chain has recently introduced a way for users to choose their room on their smartphone, and promises to roll out smartphone-powered door keys to the majority of their hotels by 2016. Using the new Hilton HHonors app (yes, that name needs work) or the…

Microsoft is planning to bring a number of its PC gaming titles to Apple's iOS and Google's Android mobile platforms, with "Age of Empires" already confirmed to be the first of a possible series of ports.

iOS 5 is here and most apps are slowly updating to include iCloud support, Newsstand, Twitter integration and more to iPhones, iPads and iPod Touches all around the world. Here's our list of apps updated for iOS 5. Let us know if we're missing any apps! • Twitter - Photos upload to pic.twitter.com, DMs are re-designed on iPad and more • Foursquare - Updated with a new Radar feature to alert you when you're near some friends, a place you wanted to try, or a list you followed • Soundhound - iCloud...

After five years of gamifying location-based sharing, Foursquare is today making the biggest change to the company to date. Everyone, please meet the new Foursquare, a recommendations app that has nothing to do with location sharing and everything to do with smacking down Yelp using the force of a thousand suns.Earlier this summer, Foursquare announced that it would be splitting its main app…

The iPhone’s stock Clock app is versatile, offering instances of a world clock, an alarm clock, a stopwatch, and a single timer. Unfortunately, each of those features is pretty basic: For example, the timer mode offers just a single timer....

Nook for iPad is bursting at the seams with over 175 full-color interactive magazines and newspapers, including Esquire, Maxim, Forbes, Newsweek, Popular science, The Washington Post and USA Today. They're offering a free fortnight's trial, or downloadable individually.

On mobile, everything wants to be a messaging app – even Pinterest, it seems. But in Meetup’s case, the addition of a new Messages feature makes sense. Most people are familiar with Meetup as being the long-time online home for local community groups who organize outings and other activities like outdoor hikes or biking trips, cooking classes, playdates for the kids, and much more.

Getting burned on the stock market can be a devastating experience – as the co-founder of Singapore startup TradeHero can attest to. One of the reasons Dinesh Bhatia set up TradeHero, a mobile virtual stock market game, was because of the lack of information and therefore inadequacy in competing with bigger players on the market....

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. Living Earth HD - World Clock and Weather (iTunes) Previously $1.99, now 99¢. Living Earth HD - World Clock and Weather for iOS is an app for your iOS device that provides three functions: a world clock, global weather reports, and an alarm. The app provides a live 3D simulation of the Earth as it currently looks, allowing you to view cloud patterns in real-time as...

A new “anonymish” app called Looksee has launched, combining mobile photography with a Tinder-like matching element that lets anonymous users connect with each other over their shared photos. The idea is that when two users mutually like one another’s photos, their identities will then be revealed to each other, allowing them to make a personal connection and begin…

Sony has begun to roll-out its remote security service for Xperia smartphones, called ‘my Xperia’, globally today following a successful beta period that’s been up and running in the Nordics since January....

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. Endomondo Sports Tracker Pro (Android Market) Previously $3.99, now $0.49. Endomondo Sports Tracker Pro for Android helps you get into shape like never before. Acting as your personal trainer, the app tracks your progress and even allows you to send challenges to your friends, giving the app a social aspect as you exercise your way to perfection. Get it for $0.49. (via...

Instagram is building new apps that aim to do more with mobile photography, and today they’re launching Hyperlapse (via Wired), which allows you to make timelapse videos using standard video captured with your smartphone camera on the fly. The Hyperlapse app follows closely the international launch of Bolt, Instagram’s Snapchat-style photo sharing app, but this one looks like it…

On the off chance you missed it, you might be interested to know that there's an unprecedented sale going on right now in the App Store. Apps that yesterday were 10 or 20 dollars are free today. Your first reaction is great. Your second, if you're anything like me, is but I just bought these. And that's because we're both morons....

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. NOAA Weather Radio (iTunes) Previously $3.99, now $1.99. NOAA Weather Radio for iPhone is a weather app that gives you tons of features including: 5x zoomable radar, animated radar, marine forecasts, push notification for weather alerts, streaming NOAA broadcasts, and more. For iPad users, get the HD version at the same price. Get it for $1.99. (via Apps-aholic) iOS...

Amazon has just made another move that indicates the company is taking its expansion into mobile gaming more seriously than just a way to tout how it, too, has “exclusive” content to offer via the Amazon Fire TV. For the first time, Amazon has launched a mobile gaming app on Apple’s App Store. But before you get all worked up, we have to point out that the new app, Sev…

A little over two months after Skobbler debuted ForeverMap 2 for iOS, an OpenStreetMaps-powered mapping tool with offline route-planning, the German startup has announced that it’s now introducing a travel guide into its navigation app....

500px: 500px is like Flickr, if Flickr filtered all the crappy photos that the bulk of their users sometimes post and distilled it into true art photography. So it's a place where really good photographers can store their pictures in polished portfolios for other really good photographers (or just other people) to see them. It's an elite social network for photogs, basically. The iPad app is an extension of their web site, you can browse popular pictures, see editors picks, new pictures, your pictures,...

Apple’s iOS 8 operating system unlocks a key system component, providing access to the software keyboard slot to third-party developers. That’s going to mean a lot of new keyboard apps popping up in the coming days, weeks and months, but some of the top players in the space are already on board. Fleksy, for instance, launched today along with iOS 8, and I got the chance to test it…

eBay has announced a new iOS app called eBay Exact that lets you buy customizable 3D-printed merchandise on the go. You can download the new addition now directly from Apple’s App Store....

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. ProCapture (Google Play) Previously $3.99, now 99¢. ProCapture for Android adds an assortment of advanced features to your Android's camera, such as the inclusion of camera shooting modes like Timer, Burst, Reduced Noise, and more. Whether you want to combine up to twelve photos together with the app's powerful Panorama mode, or want to take better exposed photos by...

Pricing tracking and alerts service Nifti is testing the waters with a new application called Cinch (no, not Klout’s advice-giving app also called Cinch, but very close.) In fact, Nifti’s new app is practically a variation on Klout’s earlier arrival, as Klout’s Cinch is about asking for recommendations and Nifti’s Cinch is about asking for opinions. That is…

Microsoft is releasing another Office app for iOS today, kind of. The new Office Web App for iPhone and iPad is designed for businesses who use Office 365 to access the full functionality of Outlook Web App. Although Microsoft has been supporting a web version of this previously, the software maker has packaged it up into a "native" app for iOS. If your work place subscribes to Office 365 then the benefits are clear, but if it's not then it's useless for those thousands of Exchange servers that run in...

Headlining this week’s must-have iOS games roundup is an awesome new platformer called Mikey Shorts, which offers its own unique style of play focused on speed. We also have The Simpsons: Tapped Out, which makes its App Store debut for the second time; VOTE!!!, the latest title from Infinity Blade creators Chair Entertainment; and a great space-age building game from Gameloft.