If you’re reading this, there’s a decent chance you got up early this morning for Apple’s version of Christmas Day—the launch of the iPhone 5. The phone is cool, of course, but apps are what make it useful and fun. This week’s roundup of new and updated apps includes apps for gaming, apps for grocery shopping—and a navigation app that takes advantage of changes to the phone’s native Maps app....
Following the public release of iOS 6 and OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.2 earlier today, Apple has pushed a host of notable updates for many of its additional iOS apps in the App Store. Apps like Podcasts got iCloud sync and iOS 6 support, while smaller updates have been seeded to bring simple iOS 6 compatibility. Other popular apps from the iLife and iWork iOS suites received updates today too. Here’s a list of all the iOS app updates Apple released today:
Math is the foundation of all learning, from literature to music and everything in between. This week, we have Math Doodles and the Motion Math Hungry Guppy to satisfy any...
The iPad Mini rumors didn't come true on iPhone day, but as a consolation prize, you can still have the best iPad apps of the week. This round you're getting football, a visual music maker, and much more....
There is an app for just about anything and everything these days. Even back in 2009, a cartoonist for the New Yorker knew what was up. Roz Chast drew "myPhone"—the cartoon marked the iPhone's first appearance in the magazine—for an issue that ran July 27, 2009....
You’ve no doubt encountered SIRI before, Apple’s voice-controlled personal assistant for iOS. And if we bring gaze-controlled TVs, Microsoft’s Kinect, Flutter and Leap Motion into the mix, you could be forgiven…
No matter which ecosystem you’ve bought into, be it iBooks, Kindle, Nook or otherwise, there’s no denying that Amazon’s Kindle apps are part of what make the system great. The…
Being a parent in the smartphone era is a serious blessing. We have an arsenal of essential parenting tools that didn't exist a few years ago -- and they're right in our...
Audiobooks.com today announced free Android and iOS apps that allow the downloading and streaming of audio books on Android phones and tablets, as well as iPhones, iPod touches, and iPads. You…
It's Friday, which means another edition of the best iPad apps of the week. Can you handle this much excitement? This time around we're giving you a way to pin to your heart's content on your tablet, a way to discover new TV shows, and so much more. Pinterest: Now you can pin recipes, DIY projects, pictures of dogs in costumes until your fingers are bleeding because the online bulletin board just launched on the iPad. It's the same Pinterest you know and love (unless you actually hate the whole...
Wee Society, a new effort emerging from a small design and branding studio based in San Francisco, has just published its first app, a children’s interactive book called Wee A B See. And it’s the first of many products – not just apps – which this new company plans to produce. Now, you may not have heard of Office, as the studio is called, but you probably have come across their work. It’s the team that brought you that new, simplified Google Chrome icon, for example, they also developed the Disney’s ...
There are a lot of comic book readers out there. Here are the best tablet apps I’ve found for reading them, both commercial readers (apps that let you buy comics as well as read them), and an app that supports CBZ and CBR files.
There's no point in fighting it. Technology is working its way into the lives of digitally native tots earlier and earlier, and it might be a more positive evolution than...
Kicking off this week’s must-have apps roundup is an incredible word processor called UX Write, which makes working with large, complex documents on the go a breeze. You’ll also find Simpsons Comics, the latest app from comiXology that brings Bongo’s Simpsons library to iOS; a wonderful app from NASA that allows you to get up close and personal with the spacecraft used to explore our solar system, and more.
In a development that would make even Comic Book Guy proud, digital comic book platform comiXology is teaming up with Matt Groening’s Bongo Comi…
Learning is rarely fun; it’s even less fun when being taught within the confines of a lecture hall or classroom. While this may be true, there’s no reason why you…
Just because you paid a ton for tuition doesn't mean you have to spend a fortune on books. There are apps for iPhone, iPad and Android devices that feature free or...
Version 3.1.1 of the Amazon Kindle app for iOS devices has gotten a nice update today that brings full compatibility with Apple’s iOS 6 beta software. Previously, the Kindle app…
For some families, back to school in the fall is the start of an ongoing battle to get kids to practice reading, finish their math homework and learn basic geography. But...
Amazon has released updates for its iOS, Android, and Cloud Reader apps with support for children's books, comics, and graphics novels, and says that over 1,000 titles are available including titles like Curious George, and comics like Batman and Superman. Amazon says that supported comics and graphic novels will be presented in panel view, which shows artwork in a "panel-by-panel experience that reads as the author intended." As part of the update, Amazon has also introduced library search by title and...
Amazon on Thursday updated its Kindle application for iPad, adding support for children's books, comic books and graphic novels purchased for the Kindle platform.
Berlin startup Readmill this morning expanded its social e-book reading platform with some cool new cloud-based features for both sellers and consumers. More specifically, the company is pushing two new…
Summer vacation is here! While the long hiatus is a welcome break for kids, the time off has also been proven to cause “brain drain” and undo as much as several months of...
