Apps

Perverts rejoice, for someone has released an iPhone bubbling app. Its name is Pic Bubbler, and it allows you to see anyone naked by using an optical trick and your twisted brain. I tried it. It works. Pic Bubbler is very easy to use. First, you load an image of someone in their swimsuit—woman or man—from your photo album. The program then applies a transparent layer, which can be punctured using your finger. Just click anywhere you want to open a hole, making sure the hole never shows the clothing...

The World by National Geographic: It's a 'maps' app in the sense that the bulk of what you're looking at is maps. But it's also a spinning globe app that allows you to twirl around our little blue planet to your heart's desire (rich people: pick your next vacation!), a photos app that shows you astonishingly gorgeous pictures of places around the world (hey Algeria, you are booootiful) and a Flag book that shows you all the flags of countries around the world. The idea is to let you poke, prod and yes,...

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. Splashtop Remote Desktop (Amazon Appstore) Previously $4.99, now $1.99. Splashtop Remote Desktop for Android allows you to take control of your home computer via your Android device. Want to listen to music stored on your computer on your Android device while you commute? Open the app and listen to your music via 3G/4G. Need to go over a Word document that is only...

Today’s Best Apps features the most promising releases from the last 24 hours. Thousands of apps get approved by Apple daily and we hand-select what we think are the new...

As we've seen for the past few weeks, presidential debates often have a handful of short moments destined to go viral: Joe Biden's smile, Mitt Romney's binders full of...

Redbox Instant by Verizon, the up-and-coming joint venture that’s preparing to take on Netflix, is now live in Google Play. The service won’t be publicly launching until early 2013, according to a recent report from The Hollywood Reporter, however. But Redbox recently told GigaOm that a beta test would begin in December – and, apparently, it’s beginning today.

TV Guide has earned cred in television listings—the company has produced a printed guide of TV show listings since 1953. However, the way we watch TV has changed quite a bit since then, and the app that bears the company’s name attempts to keep up with the times. If you like a traditional list-type guide to find what’s on, TV Guide’s free app is a solid choice. The app makes it easy to find what’s new and if streaming versions are available, though its social features lack in comparison to other TV...

Joe Chernov is the VP of marketing for Kinvey, a mobile back-end as a service startup in Cambridge, Mass. Joe joined Kinvey from Eloqua, where he served as VP of content marketing. The Content Marketing Institute named him "Content Marketer of the Year" in 2012. For brand marketers, the mobile app is becoming the new website.

Telly has added private video sharing to its iPhone app. Upgrades for Adroid and iPad are in the works as well.

Back in December, we brought you news on Stevie, the oddly-named TV-focused startup that emerged from Microsoft’s Azure Accelerator in Israel earlier in the year. At the time, it had just closed a $1.5m Series-A funding round and launched a new iPhone app. This followed a few months after its launch on Xbox....

Have you ever wondered what your drawings would sound like if someone was to ever dream up a way of making that possible?...

Today at its WWDC conference, Apple held the latest Apple Design Award ceremony, showcasing apps which it feels offer the best in iOS and Mac design. Since 1996, developers have been recognized for finding creative uses of Apple’s platforms. This year’s winners include Evernote, Yahoo Weather, Letterpress, Badlands, Finish, Mosaic.io, and others....

Nadeem Kassam worked in entertainment before founding health-tracking wristwatch maker Basis Science. Now he’s combining the industries with BioBeats, a startup converts your vital signs into custom tailored music to keep you meditating, running or fighting a disease. Today BioBeats announced $650,000 in seed funding from actor Will Smith, music manager Scooter Braun, and angel Kevin Colleran.

After rolling out a new logo, redesigning Yahoo Mail, and nudging out Google as the most-visited site in August, Yahoo is finally kicking back to watch a little TV....

Artificial intelligence and robotics firm Anki is poised to debut its iOS-powered remote control Anki Drive car set on Oct. 23, and will selling the toys exclusively at Apple Stores for a starting price of $199.

SIf you celebrated Thanksgiving yesterday, no doubt you're feeling a little overstuffed and loaded down today. Give your smartphone the same feeling by downloading some sweet new apps. And since today is Brown Friday, these apps will give you something to do while you're warming up the royal throne.Multi-Platform UpdatesShowtime AnytimeSNewly revamped for Android and iOS, Showtime Anytime lets subscribers on most of the big cable networks watch unlimited Showtime on-demand programming on any device....

If you have a penchant for poetry, lyric-writing or penning short stories, you likely have your tools of choice – be it a pencil and notepad or laptop. But if you occasionally suffer from writer’s block, then Coda for iPhone could be worth a look....

Along with the release of iOS 7.1, Apple on Monday issued updates for a number of its iOS applications, with Remote, GarageBand, Logic Remote, and Podcasts all receiving attention.

Our iPhones have turned us into task managing masters. All day long a steady stream of beeps, buzzes and bongs keep us abreast of what we need to do, constantly prodding us to get things done. TodoMovies (iTunes Store link) sends you reminders you'll look forward to receiving—rather than keeping track of the tedious things you need to do, it monitors what movies you want to watch, notifying you when new films are being released, and helping you discover classics you might have missed. Taphive...

As promised — and after a tiny storm of controversy over Apple’s initial rejection of the app over so-called pornographic content — the award-winning dystopian document thriller Papers, Please is now available for iOS.

Amazon's finally getting around to a much needed update for its Instant Video app on iOS today. Version 3.0 adds the ability to stream movies and TV shows in HD. Yes, everything's been standard def until now. The update also allows you to watch content using your cellular data; previously, Instant Video simply wouldn't work unless you were on Wi-Fi. Obviously people should be mindful of their monthly data limits while doing this, and thankfully Amazon has also introduced some quality settings that...

Now it's really easy to beam your HBO Now subscription to your TV without an Apple set-top box.

Yahoo Video Guide is a modern-day TV Guide for finding what to watch and where to find it across a variety of services.

Sony has launched a new PlayStation Video app for Android that allows PS4, PS3, and Vita owners to stream films and TV shows obtained from the PlayStation Store to their smartphones and tablets. New episodes and movies can also be bought inside the app, software that marks the first time Android users can watch their purchases and rentals away from one of Sony's consoles, Xperia phones, or via a small selection of Sony smart TVs....

Apple has released the Apple TV’s companion iPhone remote app. It’s a full-fledged (albeit less convenient) replacement for the remote that came with every black Apple TV, or generations two, three, and four....