Apps

Entertainment You're among a group of people who are talking about ScarJo or Blake Lively or Beliebers. You nod along with them in agreement, but deep down have no idea who they’re...

Everyone knows the iPhone isn't just for making and taking calls -- it's a slim supercomputer at your fingertips, with the potential to improve your daily efficiency. But...

It’s been fascinating to watch the proliferation of photo apps before and since the rise of Instagram and its sale to Facebook. EyeEm has a beautiful app which makes tagging images to locations ridiculously simple (plus all that filter goodness). LoopCam makes hilarious photo loops you want to share with your friends. Now SlickFlick has appeared with an iOS app to help you create fun stories around your pictures. [download from iTunes here] The boot-strapped startup was founded by Maria Constantinescu w...

Australian mobile developer Filter Squad has just released Discovr Movies, an application which allows iPhone, iPad and Mac users to discover more than half a million films from its database….

Amazon has released Instant Video, a new video streaming app for the iPad. The app mirrors much of the functionality found on the Kindle Fire, including access to stream 'thousands of titles' available to Amazon Prime subscribers. It appears as though you won't be able to discover a great deal of content from within the app — Amazon says only a 'selection of top Prime Instant Video titles' is included. Instead, users will need to visit the Amazon website to add items to their Watchlist. For movies and...

HBO Go has officially landed, earlier than expected! As a quick refresher, if you're an HBO subscriber you'll be able to watch every episode of every season of The Sopranos, The Wire, Boardwalk Empire, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Rome, that vampire silliness, all on iOS or Android. It's a treasure trove of not TV, but—for now—it's only available if your cable provider allows it. So congrats, AT&T, Charter, Cox, DirecTV, Dish, SuddenLink, Verizon, and Xfinity subscribers! You're lucky in a way that...

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. Safe Gmail (iTunes) Previously $3.99, now 99¢. Safe Gmail for iOS manages multiple Gmail accounts easily with the option to secure the app with a passcode without having to log into or out of any of your accounts. Get it for 99¢. (via Apps-aholic) iOS iOS

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. WriteRoom (iTunes) Previously $9.99, now $1.99. WriteRoom for Mac is an ideal app for those that need to write, but find themselves getting distracted too frequently. Need to write but cannot seem to focus? Open WriteRoom, and it will display in a full window free of any toolbars or distractions that are the norm in other word processors. Sporting a live word count and...

With hectic days and packed schedules, we could use all the help we can get. Why not let your phone lift some of the burden? Your iPhone can help assi…

Legendary game designer Peter Molyneux has kicked off his first Kickstarter campaign — with project GODUS, “an innovative reinvention of Populous”. For GODUS Molyneux is continuing to work with 22can, the Guildford-based games developer which built his first mobile game Curiosity, and talks about wanting to “recreate the entire god game genre”.

As the last packages arrive for Christmas, it's also time to begin tracking that diligent and timeless courier, Saint Nicholas. While past generations may have had to rely on a massively distributed amateur radio network coupled with a bevy of powerful telescopes, today's youth can get their data straight from powerful American institutions like NORAD and Google. Here are your best options for keeping an eye on Santa in 2012....

Elgato Systems, the maker of a number of well-received “digital media” hardware products, has introduced EyeTV Mobile, an antenna-based system that lets iPad and iPhone users watch live TV over the air, even if they don’t have Internet access....

Canvas, the image remixing site founded by 4chan creator Chris Poole (aka “moot”), has launched DrawQuest: a surprisingly entertaining iPad app that encourages users to embrace their creative side....

It can be tough to keep up with all the new apps released every week. But you're in luck -- Mashable takes care of that for you, creating a roundup each weekend of our favorite 7 apps that are new or updated. This week a popular reading app made its way to BlackBerry 10, and another popular app designed for reading news released version 2.0. A new iOS app turns the words you say into a song, and a new mobile-gaming favorite finally made its way to Windows Phone.

Amazon updated the iOS version of its Kindle reading app on Wednesday, adding features that leverage Apple's VoiceOver technology to make Kindle content more accessible to the visually impaired.

Many of today’s tech companies and startups are still building their apps for iOS first, despite Android’s growing marketshare. The problem stems from a lack of in-house talent, fewer Android-owning beta testers, technical hurdles, fragmentation issues, potential for revenue and more. And yet, there’s this general perception that when it comes to the size and scope of the two competing app stores…

TrafficGem is the company behind Potto, an app that in the last couple of weeks has been gaining attention not just in Korea but worldwide. While there are plenty of other “reward” apps out there, Potto is slightly different in that you can actually win money…big money....

Hello! You might notice that Apps of the Week looks a little different this week. You might also have noticed that our usual App of the Day posts were conspicuously absent. Things are changing, and we're replacing App of the Day with a new, improved, and Windows Phone-inclusive Apps of the Week. Let us know what you think of the changes, and please, enjoy....

We first covered Jinni way back in 2009, calling it the Last.fm for movies, just as the service was opened to public beta. While Jinni may not be a name that sits on the tip of your tongue, the Israeli startup has been notching up some pretty impressive content partnerships in recent times....

Apple on Thursday released an update to its Remote iOS app, adding functionality to control the recently released iTunes Radio when playing on a Mac or PC.

What's red, white and romantic all over? Valentine's Day. The sappy holiday is approaching fast, and there are millions of ways to prepare for it. Whether you're single, in a relationship or just love celebrating love, we've scoped out 12 useful and fun apps that'll make the holiday bright. See also: 11 DIY Valentines to Make Your True Love Whether you use a movie app such as Flixster to see what's playing in theaters, or you create a sweet, customized card with Red Stamp, these apps will help.

These four apps got their start in fictional TV shows, but now they're available IRL. So meta.

StumbleUpon, an older web brand still best known for its content discovery service that helps introduce web surfers to new and interesting websites (or maybe for getting bought, then sold again, by eBay), is now taking a big step to make its app more relevant for the mobile era. In an update to the StumbleUpon iOS app out now, the company is introducing social chatting.The chatting aspect is…