Apps

With the annoying lockout of billionaires vs millionaires still raging on, this coming NFL season might not even happen! But one thing that is guaranteed to happen is the NFL Draft. It'll be held next week and the NFL just released its 2011 NFL app which includes a live video stream of NFL.com's Draft coverage, alerts for your favorite teams, highlights from the 2011 NFL Combine and analysis of each pick. The NFL app was never really any good in years past but actually looks like a solid draft companion...

The pro golf season has kicked off with the heralded Masters Tournament in Augusta. Golf enthusiasts can rejoice in another season of watching the best players drive,...

Hey, sports fans who also happen to be subscribers to Bright House Networks, Time Warner Cable or Verizon FiOS TV, you can now stream ESPN, ESPN2, ESPN3 and ESPNU with the WatchESPN app for iOS. Baseball! Basketball playoffs! Other sports! The app has programming guides for perusing what's on and a search function that lets you find the specific athletic diversion you're looking for. Free.

Sports entertainment company ESPN has released WatchESPN, a free mobile application for watching live ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU and ESPN3.com content via iPhone, iPod touch or...

If you really love golf, or just have a deep appreciation for the elitist-laden tradition of the annual Masters golf tournament, you'll want to download this iPad app, which will keep you up to date on the leaderboard while streaming every minute of the four-day tournament

MLB At Bat 2011</a: Baseball season is here and you need MLB at Bat 2011 if you consider yourself a baseball fan. It lets you follow a game pitch-by-pitch with a snazzy animation and if you have a MLB.tv subscription you can stream every game of the season through the app. There's also a 'Live Look' feature that'll show you key moments of the game in real-time too. Plus, for the iPad you get snazzy graphics from MLB 11: The Show—so 'real' stadiums and players. And! There'll be free steams for an...

The iPad 2 came out this month! Which means a lot of apps have joined our list of the best iPad apps. Who are the big winners in March? Who gets the boot? CNN: There's so much going on the world right now that I keep my eyes glued and fingers pressed to the CNN app on the iPad. There's breaking news, top stories and the clincher, at least for me, great videos of everything CNN covers. Free. Friendly: Friendly is the best unofficial Facebook app on the iPad because it does everything you'd want the non-...

Take me out to the ball game; Take me out to the crowd; Buy me some peanuts and baseball apps… Today is opening day, thus commencing a long and exciting season of homers,...

Last Night Never Happened: It's an app that deletes all of your drunken social network updates the morning after. We've all done some regrettable things while drunk, this app tries to erase them from our social network memory. Let's see what Kat would do with the app: "Let me see...I cracked open that first bottle of wine at 8pm, so knowing the way I drink I was probably sozzled by 8.30. That means I need to delete my social updates from 8.30 last night to this morning." That's the commentary which...

Tiger is back on the prowl and on the golf course. And that guy knows a thing or twenty about both. His brand new app, Tiger Woods: My Swing helps your golf game by recording a video of your golf swing and analyzing where you're going wrong by identifying the key primary positions of your swing and lining it up to let you visualize it. Even better, it lets you compare swings against your previous swings, your friend's swings and even Tiger himself. If I played the old man's game, I'd definitely buy the...

Hard as it is to believe, spring training is already well under way. Which means that your fantasy baseball draft—if it hasn't happened already—isn't far behind either. And while you could rely on a dusty old spreadsheet for success, it looks as though Bloomberg's Draft Kit 2011: Front Office Baseball might be all the prep you need. The best feature looks to be Yahoo!, CBS, and ESPN league integration, so that you can receive custom pre-rankings based on whatever draconian scoring system your...

Mapping is a big boy’s game, with Google Maps, Bing Maps, and MapQuest dominating maps on both the Web and mobile. But sometimes it takes a startup to push things forward. 3D mobile mapping startup UpNext is hoping to get on the map, so to speak, with its detailed 3D maps of cities and venues like the Super Bowl stadium. The New York city startup, which has been around since 2007, just raised a $557,000 series A round of preferred shares, according to an SEC filing. That amount includes $57,000 tha...

The Modern Media Agency Series is supported by IDG. The line is fading between social media and traditional media. IDG’s Matt Yorke talks about the rise of social and how...

Digital media expert Simon Buckingham is the CEO of Appitalism, a social, online digital media store that enables consumers to discover, share and download from a catalog of over 10…

Getting ready for the Super Bowl XLV? Then download all these free apps into your iPhone or Android (if available). Because, you know, there's never enough apps to feed our hyperactive, hyperinformationhungry brains and satisfy our short attention spans. ESPN ScoreCenter. If you are a sports fan, you probably have this one already. If you don't, get it. It shows "live game details featuring last play, in-game stats, boxscores, game summaries and standings," among other things. Free. NFL Pro Tweets. I...

You've seen the commercials; Apps are what makes an iPad come to life. Here are the very best ones for work, play, creation, consumption and everything in between. Twitter: The official Twitter app for iPad packs in the features, giving you a full Tweet-and-browse experience. It can be a little bit overwhelming at first, but powerful things often are. Free. Flipboard: A true testament to the iPad's transformative powers, Flipboard scrapes your Twitter and Facebook feeds for links and arranges them in a...

We thought we’d give Canadian developers & app creators a shout-out so we’ve rounded up some iOS apps from various categories — all 100% Canadian made. Hootsuite iPhone & iPad…

Ah, the day of turkey-stuffing, gourd decorating, belt loosening and political conversations is upon us, Thanksgiving is here. And what else could you be more grateful for than your precious…

The Winter Tech Series is supported by Goodyear. Goodyear's Winter Reactive Technology helps drivers react to changing winter weather conditions. Be prepared for rain,...

There's an ocean of apps out there. Whether you just got your iPhone and are feeling adrift or you're a salty old dog seeing what you might've missed, here are the absolutely essential apps. Twitter: Twitter thankfully didn't make too many changes when they gobbled up the already-great Tweetie 2 from Atebits—same clean interface, same Tweet swiping, and the same it-feels-so-good pull to refresh mechanism. Free. Facebook: The new, panel-based interface takes a little getting used to, but once you're...

Age of Zombies: Age of Zombies was a game on the PSP and it's bringing its 16-bit zombie killing awesomeness to the iPhone. You play as Barry Steakfries and travel through time to prevent the bad guy from releasing zombies that want to kill the world. It's a twin-stick shooter that looks really good and is perfectly retro to be a hit. At only $2.99, it's a pretty good deal for a great game. NBA Gametime: NBA Gametime gives you scores, stats and a play-by-play of all the NBA games going on that night. It...

When I was a kid, almost all my summer evenings were spent on a lake fishing. Whether I was alone or with my buddies, right after dinner I had my…