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  • Layers

    September 9th at 9:39am / Macworld / 0 opinions

  • Action Movie FX App is Awesome, Free Fun

    December 23rd at 2:14pm / Mashable / 0 opinions

    Admit 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...

  • Top 10 iPhone Apps for TV Fanatics

    May 1st at 2:48pm / Mashable / 0 opinions

    Entertainment 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...

  • Is Community-Assisted Everything the Future of Apps?

    February 8th at 1:00pm / GigaOM / 0 opinions

    Asking 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.

  • This iPhone and Web App Helps You Find Stuff to Do

    March 31st at 12:43pm / The Next Web / 0 opinions

    The 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…

  • The Week In iPhone Apps: Look Into Your Soul, Kid

    July 24th at 9:00pm / Gizmodo / 0 opinions

    This 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...

  • The iPad Apps Everyone Should Have March 2011

    March 31st at 5:19pm / Gizmodo / 0 opinions

    The 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-...

  • Daily App Deals: Get Discovr People for iOS for Free in Today’s App Deals

    March 30th at 9:30pm / Gizmodo / 0 opinions

    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. 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

  • Daily App Deals: Get Downloader Elite for iOS for Free in Today’s App Deals

    May 17th at 9:30pm / Gizmodo / 0 opinions

    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. 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

  • Netflix for iOS updated with iPhone 5 support, native 16:9 video

    September 27th at 7:53pm / The Verge / 0 opinions

    It 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...

  • 10 Mobile Apps to Control Your TV

    November 28th at 11:59am / Mashable / 0 opinions

    Remote controls: those representatives of a longstanding love-hate relationship between humans and certain kinds of hardware. But all of that is changing. Smartphones and...

  • SeatGeek, ParkSpot, and More

    January 5th at 3:30am / Gizmodo / 0 opinions

    Perhaps 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....

  • 15 of the Best Music Apps of 2012

    December 21st at 7:38pm / The Next Web / 0 opinions

    The 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....

  • 30 top apps for making music on your mobile device

    February 17th at 1:28am / The Next Web / 0 opinions

    It seems every year’s projected to be “The year of (…),” but if 2012′s any indication, ’13 will lead a new mobile movement. M-commerce Black Friday sales surpassed $1 billion for the first time last year, while 1.2 billion apps were downloaded during the 2012 Christmas week. With tablet sales projected to reach 450 million in three years, the move towards digital means even the tech savvy music world will see a mobile makeover....

  • Eventful 2.0 Gives Its 20M Users A Personalized List Of Everything Going On Nearby

    March 27th at 10:54am / TechCrunch / 0 opinions

    It’s not going to win any beauty pageants, but Eventful’s 2.0 could make sure you never get bored. It’s racked up 20 million registered users and shows of 4 million events at a time, but with today’s big relaunch Eventful gets personalized thanks to your Facebook, iTunes, Spotify, and Last.fm data. That lets it show you concerts you’ll love, along with movie times, conferences, festivals and more.

  • iFontMaker: Make Your Own Font When Nothing Else Will Do

    May 8th at 2:10am / Gizmodo / 0 opinions

    While designers may suffer this the most, pretty much anyone who's typed anything, well, ever has struggled to find the perfect font to suit their means. Normally, you'd be forced to settle for something that only approximates your vision, but rarely will you find exactly what exists so clearly in your imagination, which, let's face it, may vainly just be your very own handwriting. But with iFontmaker for iPad and now Windows 8 or Windows RT, you can take total control of your typographical needs....

  • betaworks-Backed Tapestry Brings Easier Discovery And A Bit Of Rebranding To The Storytelling App

    June 5th at 6:03pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinions

    Tapestry, the digital story-telling platform launched out of betaworks, has been relatively quiet since its inception in November of 2012. Today, however, Tapestry is releasing a major update to the app to make content more discoverable, and add more content to the Tapestry platform. Tapestry is an application launched out of Betaworks that lets users create forward-moving, linear stories in a…

  • Riffsy For iOS Lets You Create Animated GIFs From Any Online Videos

    July 17th at 8:28pm / The Next Web / 0 opinions

    The founders of online video discovery service Redux have launched an Web and iOS app called Riffsy. The concept of this service is to enable anyone to take an existing video online and create a 5 to 10 second clip and share it instantly — it’s an animated GIF generator, essentially, but with some pretty fascinating features....

  • Barnes & Noble Expands Nook Video To iOS, Android & Roku

    August 19th at 8:03pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinions

    Barnes & Noble released new Nook Video apps for iOS, Android and Roku devices today, which brings its TV and movie-watching service to other manufacturers’ tablets, including, of course, the unnamed third-party which will be producing Nook branded tablets in the future, via the licensing deal announced in June.

  • 20 great apps for becoming a parent

    October 2nd at 7:08am / The Next Web / 0 opinions

    If you’re thinking about starting a family, or even expanding your existing one, there are plenty of handy apps out there to help you along the way. My wife and I went through and picked 20 of our favorites for each of the different stages from getting pregnant to taking care of the little one once he or she arrives....

  • Shelby for iPhone is a feed of all the videos friends are posting

    November 15th at 2:09am / The Verge / 0 opinions

    When your friends are sharing the latest Lady Gaga music videos, Harlem Shake remixes, and Onion news clips to ten different social networks, it can be hard to keep track of the best stuff. Shelby, a new app for iPhone launching today, hopes to help you cut through the noise by creating one feed composed of the videos friends are posting, whether it's on Facebook, Twitter, Vimeo, or YouTube. The app has next to no user interface chrome, offering up a refreshingly minimal stream of videos to flick...

  • AMC's Yeah! app adds bonus content and trivia to iPad movie rentals

    December 20th at 6:49pm / The Verge / 0 opinions

    AMC has released an iPad app for its Yeah! online movie rental service. Yeah!, first introduced in March, gives users access to a range of "iconic films" that can be downloaded for 48 hours at a time. Though the majority of rentals include just the movie itself, Yeah!'s big draw is that it's slowly enhancing its library of rentable films with bonus features, including interviews, facts, and trivia that pop up while the main feature is playing. The new app also links directly to Wikipedia and IMDB to...

  • 9 of the Best Podcast Apps for the iPhone and iPad

    February 20th at 12:08am / The Next Web / 0 opinions

    I love podcasts. When I’m stuck on a train, cooking in the kitchen or running around my local park, they offer a wonderful escape and explore many of my favorite hobbies, interests and pastimes. There are an overwhelming number of podcasts to choose from – it’s never been easier to produce a show and share it with the world – so keeping up with them all can feel like a full-time job....

  • Disney's 'Star Wars Scene Maker' lets users recreate iconic movie scenes on their iPad

    June 19th at 5:31pm / AppleInsider / 0 opinions

    Star Wars" fanatics can relive their love of the original trilogy in an entirely new way on Apple's iPad thanks to the new "Star Wars Scene Maker" app from Disney, which allows users to re-imagine and re-create scenes from the films.

  • Looksery Launches A Video Chatting App That Makes You Look More Attractive

    October 24th at 6:43pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinions

    Want to look more attractive on video? Or just different? Earlier this year, a company called Looksery popped up on Kickstarter to raise crowdfunding for a new kind of mobile video chat application that allows users to look more attractive on video using special effects that can remove blemishes, let you change your eye color, slim your face, and more. The app, which is live as of today on…

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