Amazon has added AirPlay support to its popular video streaming app – Amazon Instant Video. Starting today, the new feature allows iOS users to push video from their iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad to the Apple TV. Not quite as good as having an Amazon Instant Video channel on the Apple TV, but the move is sure to satisfy Amazon Prime users for the time being....
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Amazon Adds AirPlay Support To Amazon Instant Video For iOS 0
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Our Favorite Android, iOS and Windows Phone Apps of the Week 1
November 2nd at 2:10am / Gizmodo / 0 opinionsLong week, huh? Probably because of all the Halloween hoopla, which seems to have started last weekend and probably won't let up til Sunday. If you're a grown-ass adult sick of all this pumpkin pandemonium, check out these apps while you pointedly opt out of yet another dumb Halloween party. Ya big grump....
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Apple heralds in Christmas with its 12 Days of Gifts app, now spreads cheer to US users too 0
December 10th at 1:48pm / The Next Web / 0 opinionsAs is tradition for this time of the year, Apple’s 12 Days of Gifts app has landed in the App Store, ready to dole out free goodies every day from December 26 up until to January 6....
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Sherlock: The Network Lets iOS Users Help Crack Holmes’ Latest Case 0
January 24th at 6:04pm / Cult of Mac / 0 opinionsWith season three having come to an end, fans of the BBC’s Sherlock series will be happy to hear that today marks the launch of a new game app — featuring new footage starring actors Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman.
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Apple launches new App Store section highlighting month's best apps 4
May 2nd at 11:31am / AppleInsider / 0 opinionsContinuing the build-out of its iOS App Store, Apple on Thursday launched a new app collection section called "Best of April," suggesting the company may start featuring a new set of curated apps each month.
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Issuu Brings Its “YouTube For Magazines” To The iPhone And iPad 2
October 3rd at 7:03pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsSeveral years ago, digital reading platform issuu gave up on the iTunes App Store after several rejections stemming from its then too-competitive nature with Apple’s planned Newsstand service. Now, it’s back. The company has released its first iOS app that brings a variety of free publications to iPhone and iPad users worldwide, with over 10,000 new ones being added daily in 30…
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Clowdy Lets Music Producers And Filmmakers Showcase And Get Credit For Their Work 2
January 7th at 8:23pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsIf I was being lazy, I might describe UK startup Clowdy as a ‘LinkedIn for creatives’. The site and apps for iOS and Android let those in the creative industry showcase their work, tag each other’s contributions, and network for future collaboration.
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Google Photos and Google Cardboard bring new experiences to the App Store 1
May 29th at 3:22am / Macworld / 0 opinionsUnlimited photo storage, yay! Cardboard virtual reality headsets, hmmm.
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Flyr Wants To GIFify All Your Event Invites 0
September 30th at 5:43pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsApps don’t come much more simple than this: Flyr is an event invite creator for iOS that let’s you slap a couple of captions atop an animated GIF so you can fire off a zeitgeisty birthday/drinks/pool party invite to your buddies on WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook et al with the minimum of effort
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Apple denies Kim Kardashian emoji app 'broke' iOS App Store 0
December 23rd at 2:11am / AppleInsider / 0 opinionsOn Monday, pop culture icon Kim Kardashian publicly apologized for breaking the iOS App Store by launching her "Kimoji" emoji app to a crush of customers that supposedly proved too great a load to bear for Apple's servers. A day later, Apple confirmed Kardashian was mistaken.
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5 can't-miss apps: Yahoo Esports, Banana, 'Astro Attack' and more 0
April 17th at 2:05am / Mashable / 0 opinionsThis week's list includes Yahoo's new esports app, an app that tracks TV shows for you and an app that lets you put your face on celebrities' heads.
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20 iMessage stickers you’ll want to bury your friends’ texts with 0
September 16th at 3:09am / The Verge / 0 opinionsA smartphone feature has divided our office....
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Action Movie FX App is Awesome, Free Fun 0
December 23rd at 2:14pm / Mashable / 0 opinionsAdmit it, you've always wanted to be an action star. I mean, who wouldn't want to effortlessly dodge flying cars, helicopters and missiles? Now, thanks to action auteur...
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Top 10 iPhone Apps for TV Fanatics 0
May 1st at 2:48pm / Mashable / 0 opinionsEntertainment Sarah Collins is freelance journalist and student at Northwestern University. She also writes for Texas Monthly, A.V. Club Chicago, Chicago Parent, Venus Zine, and...
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Is Community-Assisted Everything the Future of Apps? 0
February 8th at 1:00pm / GigaOM / 0 opinionsAsking thousands of strangers if those jeans look good on you might not have seemed possible only a few short years ago, but now it’s only an app download away, and it’s just the tip of the iceberg for the new trend of community-assisted decision making.
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This iPhone and Web App Helps You Find Stuff to Do 0
March 31st at 12:43pm / The Next Web / 0 opinionsThe perennial problem of ‘finding stuff to do’ has been tackled before – whether it’s an app such as Yelp, or good old-fashioned magazines such as Time Out. So does…
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The Week In iPhone Apps: Look Into Your Soul, Kid 0
July 24th at 9:00pm / Gizmodo / 0 opinionsThis week in the App store, things got a little deep: We discovered haunting new sounds, created fine art, psychoanalyzed our friends, read great literature, experimented with prescription drugs, and even reconnected with an estranged child. Your turn! Layers: Layers is a Sketches-style drawing app, except with, well, layers. That might seem a little excessive for a fingerpainting app, but for serious iPhone art—which is a thing, by the way—five layers and the ability to export in PSD format is...
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The iPad Apps Everyone Should Have March 2011 0
March 31st at 5:19pm / Gizmodo / 0 opinionsThe 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-...
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Daily App Deals: Get Discovr People for iOS for Free in Today’s App Deals 0
March 30th at 9:30pm / Gizmodo / 0 opinionsThe 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. Discovr People (iTunes) New in the App Store and Free. Discovr People for iOS follows in the footsteps of the other Discovr apps (like Discovr Apps) by mapping how people are connected on Twitter so you can easily discover new people to follow, and who they're following and interacting with. Get it for Free. (via LogicBuy) iOS iOS
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Daily App Deals: Get Downloader Elite for iOS for Free in Today’s App Deals 0
May 17th at 9:30pm / Gizmodo / 0 opinionsThe 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. Downloader Elite (iTunes) Previously 99¢, now Free. Downloader Elite for iOS lets you grab web content easily with tap-and-hold downloading from its built-in browser, and includes players and readers for a variety of formats as well as a file manager. Get it for Free. (via Apps-aholic) iOS Windows iOS
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Netflix for iOS updated with iPhone 5 support, native 16:9 video 0
September 27th at 7:53pm / The Verge / 0 opinionsIt might not have been ready for launch day, but Netflix has just released an update to its iOS app with optimizations for iOS 6 and the iPhone 5. When Apple announced that its latest handset (and iPod touch) would contain a 4-inch Retina display, the company highlighted video as one of the taller screen's key advantages. Users would be able to watch movies using the industry standard 16:9 aspect ratio without any letterboxing or black bars, and now that luxury has arrived for Netflix subscribers. Other...
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10 Mobile Apps to Control Your TV 0
November 28th at 11:59am / Mashable / 0 opinionsRemote controls: those representatives of a longstanding love-hate relationship between humans and certain kinds of hardware. But all of that is changing. Smartphones and...
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SeatGeek, ParkSpot, and More 2
January 5th at 3:30am / Gizmodo / 0 opinionsPerhaps you made some New Year's resolutions this week. Of course this is the year you're going to keep them, just like every other year. Regardless, we're here to help, with two exercise apps, one to help you discover new music, and so much more....
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15 of the Best Music Apps of 2012 0
December 21st at 7:38pm / The Next Web / 0 opinionsThe 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....