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They'll help you with everything from finding the nearest restroom to understanding your rights.

Which apps and wearables will get the best out of your fest.

The free, invitation-only app for iOS and Android may make it easier to meet up with your friends IRL.

In sync with the public rollout of its next-generation mobile operating system, Apple on Thursday released updates for each of its first-party iOS apps that bring minor tweaks and fixes for compatibility with iOS 8.

When planning a trip with family and friends, keeping up with each member’s last minute schedule changes can be time consuming. Using the following iOS tips will help by keeping everyone well informed during the event.

Two years ago, a battle was raging over "people discovery" apps. Highlight wanted to introduce you to strangers on the street, Sonar hoped to connect you with friends of friends at a bar, and Glancee wanted to hook you up with nearby Tolkien fans. The ambient awareness technology behind all these apps was amazing, but people weren’t comfortable using them. Facebook acquired Glancee, and not a moment too soon. The people-discovery bubble was about to burst....

Whether you've suffered your way through midterms or you're just ready to ditch the office for some warm weather, spring break is upon us. Grab your skimpiest bathing suit and load up on the SPF. See also: 10 Romantic Vacation Spots Where You Can Actually Get Away But before you take off, you also might want to consider loading up your cell phone with a few apps to make sure that you're not working any harder than you have to once you're beachside.

Above: Find My Friends' old design...

The stitched-leather look of Apple's Find My Friends app for iPhone and iPad is now a thing of the past, with a new update on Tuesday eschewing skeuomorphism for an iOS 7-style flatter design.

You don’t always have to use a social media account to communicate to all of your friends and family. These iOS tips will have you sending group messages to a specific list of contacts in no time.

Apple on Thursday updated the official Find My iPhone application for iOS, giving it a new flat icon in step with the redesign of iOS 7, but also preventing non-developer users from signing in.

Welcome to college. It's a world where careful planning means sleeping until noon every day and no outfit is too skimpy for a Halloween party. It's a place of eternal pajama pants, Ramen noodles that flow like the proverbial milk and honey of the Promised Land, all-nighters and flip cup championships. We know you were too cool for school in senior year, but you still have a way to go before mastering your new domain.

With iCloud breaking down the data barriers between OS X and iOS, you need to think about security on every Apple device you use. These tips will help you manage your personal data and who has access to it.

In a minor update to its iOS device-finding Find My Friends app, Apple has added a slightly tweaked user interface for searching and setting notifications based on proximate location, bringing the title up to version 2.1.

Seattle-based location-sharing company Glympse today announced version 2.0 of its service for iOS and Android — its biggest update yet — that lets you view friends on a map in real-time as they move around town. It's like Apple's Find My Friends app, except it works across multiple platforms, as well as on computers. Glympse lets you authorize specific users, and now groups as well (symbolized by names like !picnic) for up to four hours at a time. An innovative timer dial makes it simple to send a...

With the release of iOS 6, Apple has accordingly updated many of its homebrewed mobile apps. Here is a look at how the software upgrade has improved the Find My Friends app, and how you can use it to track your friends’ locations.

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:

Apple on Wednesday issued updates for nearly all of its iOS software to add support and new features taking advantage of the newly released iOS 6 operating system, as well as the forthcoming iPhone 5.

As part of Apple’s release-day onslaught, its two location-based iOS apps have gotten updates—and what nice updates they are. Find My Friends gets geofencing capabilities, which allow users to receive notifications when a contact has entered or left a location, as well as friend suggestions. Find My iPhone gains a new Lost Mode for finding missing devices more easily, plus Forever Login, which keeps you logged in to Find My iPhone if your iCloud account is associated with your device....

No matter what you have to say about them, location-focused services have proved extremely powerful, and there’s still much more innovation to be done. Foursquare, which I’m loving more and…

Following its new iPad announcement earlier today, Apple has updated several of its iOS apps, which can now handle Retina Display, among other new features. The most interesting update is…

YC-backed Glassmap is a new mobile application publicly launching today that presents a viable challenge to realtime, location-sharing apps like Apple’s Find My Friends or Google Latitude. Where those two competitors focus on enabling social experiences on top of their own platforms or ecosystems, Glassmap is enabling a third alternative: realtime location tracking built on top of Facebook’s social graph. Yes, it’s like a “Find My Facebook Friends.” However, this app isn’t using Facebook check-ins to tr...

While the feature is currently still in beta, Apple is yet to extend Siri support to apps that aren’t already baked into the iOS operating system. But did you know that the company’s own Find My Friends app, which debuted alongside iOS 5 last summer, does include Siri support, allowing you to locate your pals using only your voice? Here’s you to find your friends using Siri.

During the Apple keynote announcing the iPhone 4S, there were two mysterious apps announced that would be launched with iOS 5. The first was “Find my Friends“, an app joining…

Apple has just unleashed six new applications along with iOS 5. Here’s a pictorial tour of each one. The push marks the company’s most agg…

iOS 5 is here and most apps are slowly updating to include iCloud support, Newsstand, Twitter integration and more to iPhones, iPads and iPod Touches all around the world. Here's our list of apps updated for iOS 5. Let us know if we're missing any apps! • Twitter - Photos upload to pic.twitter.com, DMs are re-designed on iPad and more • Foursquare - Updated with a new Radar feature to alert you when you're near some friends, a place you wanted to try, or a list you followed • Soundhound - iCloud...

Along with major OS updates for both OS X Lion and iOS, Apple released a boatload of software today in the form of new apps and updates to old favorites. Here’s a quick look at what’s new, what’s changed, and what we think about that.

Continuing to debut iCloud-powered software and new features for iOS 5, Apple on Wednesday released Find My Friends and AirPort Utility on the App Store.