Another Valentine's Day is upon us, and many of you are wondering how you can beat years past. Not only have we rounded up the best apps and sites to create the ideal Valentine's Day for your special someone, but we'll show you how to use them creatively and unexpectedly. Ladies love surprises, and any of these tips would make her swoon. So read on for romantic ways to woo your partner and ensure you have a truly memorable V-Day.
Curating content to feed the hearty appetites of the news-obsessed is a tall order. Readers demand high quality stories that both inform and entertain. Now, a new news app for the iPad is offering an in-depth look at some overlooked topics in a visually rich formula. It's called Track180, it debuts on the iTunes store today, and it may just be a hit with both consumers and third party publishers.
After launching a tool that lets users create their own magazines, Flipboard has announced an update for both iOS and Android that brings new collaboration features....
Flipboard is getting a lot more animated in its latest iOS update. In an app update rolling out today, Flipboard will begin supporting animated GIFs right inside of magazines, so readers will no longer have to jump into a web browser in order to watch them. The update is also trying to make some of Flipboard's default magazines a bit smarter: the US News, Business, Tech, and Sports sections will now open with the day's "leading news" stories, rather than just displaying a compilation of what's been...
Move over Instapaper, Pocket, and Readability—some new read-it-later iOS apps have arrived on the scene that not only help you read online content later, they also help you read it faster. The $5 ReadQuick by Action Now and Lickability’s $3 Velocity do this by helping you break a habit called subvocalization, which is just a fancy linguistic term for silently sounding out words as you read. According to Velocity’s short tutorial, the average person reads at a speed of about 200 WPM (words per minute),...
There's no shortage of apps that want to help you document your life, but there are none quite like Kennedy. The critically acclaimed app Day One has carved out a niche for itself as the go-to journalling app for iOS users, offering a selection of features that allow you to log your life in private and share what you want in public. Kennedy takes a different approach, stripping away much of the interface, preferences, and sharing options that make Day One so popular, and leaving you with a surprisingly...
Apple is well known for its often inconsistent approach to app acceptance or rejection (more on than in this week’s upcoming Newsstand magazine), but this is a bit silly. According to Apple, Hunted Cow developer Andrew Mullholland had his app…
Developers have only started to roll out iOS 8-optimized updates, but here's a first look at that are putting the new software to great use.
We get by with a little help from our apps.
Google makes so many apps for iOS, we thought maybe we could live the Android life on our iPhones. Joel Mathis tried it for a week. Here's what you need to know.
The official Reddit app is fast and free, replacing the need for third-party clients.
One of our must-have iOS apps this week is the free OnLive Viewer that gives you a window in to on-demand, instant-play video games through the OnLive game service. Become a spectator and watch hundreds on games being played live throughout the world. Facebook Browser for iPhone also makes our must-have list this week and provides a refreshing new way to experience Facebook on your iPhone, with a simplistic, elegant user interface. Also among our favorites this week is Blueprint – a powerful application...
So you’re getting an iPhone 4S. Fantastic. But with more than 500,000 apps in the App Store, finding the best ones is no easy task. Mashable is…
Curation and personalization is the hot space so far in 2012 and there are a slew of apps out there that are vying to bring you your top news every…
Rosetta Stone: Let's get to what the app does has. Every language's curriculum is broken into five levels. Each level has four units and each unit can take anywhere from six to ten hours to complete. Right from the first slide, you are required to parrot what the digital teacher says, with no context to go on aside from the images displayed. And in case you're wondering, there's a speech precision setting, so you decide whether the program's a hard-ass or a softy. Idea Flight: At the core, Idea Flight...
You may know Dave Pell from his excellent collection of essays over at Tweetage Wasteland, but he's also been hard at work recently with NextDraft, an email newsletter summarizing the day's most important news. Last week, the newsletter made the jump to app form with the launch of NextDraft for iOS. He took some time to talk to The Verge about email's stability and appeal over the years, the need for smart aggregation, and how he fulfills his role as the "Internet's Managing Editor." Where are you? I...
Social video app Vodio is out with a new version today which takes advantage of the app’s ability to connect with a user’s social accounts, like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. In the updated app, you can now automatically turn any Facebook Page or Twitter profile into a video channel, as well as add channels directly from YouTube.
Social reading app and Flipboard-rival Taptu has touched down in Asia, after it launched local apps for Android and iOS in India and, initially, on Android alone in China. The service — which was bought by Mediafed in September — is expected to become available for iOS in China in January; the company is aiming for a cumulative 20 million downloads across both countries within six months....
Fans of The Big Bang Theory can rejoice: CBS joined the iOS age on Thursday, releasing its own app to stream the network’s shows to the iPhone and iPad—a move that comes just as the broader television industry prepares to finally start counting “cord-cutting” TV watchers as part of its official viewership numbers....
Just in time for the weekend, the latest issue of the TNW iPad magazine is live for your enjoyment. As always, the magazine is free, and is stacked with articles, music, letters, and startups....
Title says it all, really, but the folks over at Digg have posted a ‘quick update’ informing the world that it’s concluded the roll-out of its updated iOS app, which packs an RSS reader....
INQ, the U.K.-based, Hutchison Whampoa backed company that used to build social phones, has extended its social magazine app Material to iOS, and updated the Android app to add an offline view feature and the ability to edit topics. The latter has had more than 50,000 downloads since its beta launch in February.
We’re back with our monthly retrospective retrospective look at some of the more notable iOS apps to hit our radar over the past month....
From books and magazines, to op-eds and reviews, if the digital onslaught has been responsible for anything, it’s been for delivering a myriad of content. Oftentimes, way too much content, in fact....
