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. Safety Photo+Video (iTunes) Previously $1.99, now 99¢. Safety Photo+Video for iOS allows you to keep your sensitive media safe on your iOS device. Taking the pain out of hiding private media, it even allows you to capture private videos and images from within the app, as well as upload and/or download your private media from your PC to your iOS device via your web...

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....

If you have a penchant for traveling the world armed with little more than a passport and a smartphone, 2012 saw a slew of handy apps that could help you in your endeavors....

Feeling lonely? For whatever reason, there was a whole slew of apps this week that get you connecting with others in mildly creepy ways. Whether its reminiscing about the past, seeing who's around you and what they're doing, or drawing total strangers for their enjoyment, there's a friend out there waiting for you. Go get 'em, tiger....

After braving through the virtual push and shove of snagging the summer's most coveted festival tickets, it's time to slather up the sunscreen and head out to the crowd. We know you've endured the tedium of poring over lineups to create the perfect itinerary, so now's the time to make the most of your summer festival experience.

Yelp has built a hugely successful business around its millions of user-submitted local reviews. Yet prior to today, the company didn't allow reviews to be published from a smartphone. To the delight of its community, Yelp has finally reversed course on that poorly thought out policy. A newly released update for Yelp on iOS adds the ability to pen reviews for any local business directly within the app. Before, users were limited to posting brief "quick tips," requiring more thorough feedback to be...

With November 2013 now consigned to the history books, we thought we’d take a retrospective look at some of the more notable apps to hit our radar over the past month. So without further ado, here’s a quick snapshot of some of the best iOS apps to launch....

How would you feel being a walking advertisement? If you're wearing a T-shirt with a company's logo on it, that's one thing. But your phone — in your pocket? That's quite another, and it's just what taxi hailing company Taxi Magic is doing with its iOS app. A new version being released this Thursday will let you beam out your referral code for the service to others, all using Apple's iBeacon technology....

This summer we told you about Detour, the new company from Groupon founder Andrew Mason dedicated to creating high-quality audio tours. After several months in private beta, Detour is now open to the public: you can download the iPhone app today. (An Android app is forthcoming.) Open it and you'll find seven tours of San Francisco, each focused on a different neighborhood or topic, narrated by different experts in the topic. In our tests, we found the app to be a fascinating guide to the city, with...

This week's list includes one of our favorite camera apps going free, an app to save Instagram posts and a productivity tool to automate all the apps you use the most.

Summer is right around the corner, and with that warmer weather comes wedding season. Seeing your friends and loved ones getting married is one of life’s greatest joys....

At 2PM today, I received a garbled text from my baby brother (OK he’s 21 and 6′ so not really a baby), that said “HAPPY IRI$H day, Where r YOU?…

Let's take a second to reflect upon how far we've come, from phone owners without the near-decade-old service that people don't really use that much, to people with it. That far! In other, slightly more scheduled iPhone news: some apps! 12Mail: MMS has only been working on the iPhone for what, four hours? So, uh, here's an alternative! 12Mail sends short—12 second, to be exact—video messages to your Twitter or Facebook account instantly, and for free. And if you designate a recipient who also has...

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. Graphs (iTunes) Previously 99¢, now Free. Graphs for iOS helps you to learn more than you ever wanted to know about various types of graphs. Whether you want to learn more about bar graphs, pie charts, or another flavor of graph entirely, you are able to do so via easy to use tutorials and exams. Your understanding of graphs will be expanded with Graphs, our App Deal...

The urban experience is unique, exciting and challenging. To improve it, several major cities opened their data to let people develop useful and interesting apps. "While...

As spring semester begins at colleges across the country, students are boarding planes for study abroad programs. Spring is the most popular semester for study abroad, according to GoAbroad.com. And the number of students in study abroad programs has never been higher. And while having a few semesters of language classes under your belt is a great start, living in a new country can take some adjusting.

Popular iPad-only magazine Trvl reached 100 issues and a million app installs last week. Now, the company behind the publication has set its sights on its next major milestone: this summer's public launch of its proprietary publishing tool, Prss.

Looks like Latitude wasn’t the only Google product that got shut down yesterday in the wake of a new version of Google Maps. Alfred, the local recommendations app that Google picked up through its acquisition in December 2011 of developers The Clever Sense, is getting shut down on July 19.

Apple released iOS 7 on Wednesday, and debuted a huge visual overhaul along with it. Heavily textured backgrounds and dark colors are out, while soft gradients, thin sans-serif fonts and bright, bold hues are in. After looking at apps designed for iOS 6, Apple's latest operating system immediately seems out of place. Fortunately, many developers spent the better part of the summer preparing their apps to look at home on iOS 7.

came and went, and we served up a gargantuan summary of some of the best apps to hit the App Store over the 12-month period ending in December. Now, with 2014 well and truly underway, here’s a quick snapshot of some of the best new iOS apps from January....

A new mobile application called TripCast, built by the team that created photo-sharing app Cluster, allows travelers to privately share their photos with their friends back home. The app lets you create a travel journal of sorts, by not only collecting the photos and sharing them, but also plotting them on map, and inviting fellow travelers to build albums with you.This is not the first time…

In the buildup to Apple Watch's debut next week, Yelp on Thursday updated its app with support for the wearable, bringing direct wrist access to tentpole features like nearby businesses, reviews, address lookups and more.

Maps, and more maps.

Kicking off this week’s must-have apps roundup is a stunning new weather app called Solar, which boasts a simple, intuitive user interface and a no frills approach that doesn’t suffocate you with information you’re not interested in. There’s also a great new drawing and animation app from Disney that you and your kids will love; a great new photography app that adds bokeh light effects to your photos; and updates to Google Earth and Yelp.

Travel guide publisher Lonely Planet introduced a handy iOS app Monday that allows you to access reviews and recommendations from a number of well-k…