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....
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AppShopper App Lets You Track App Sales Like a Hawk 1
September 7th at 4:00pm / Gizmodo / 0 opinionsApple's App Store is a sprawling, unwieldy thing, and every day hundreds of apps go on sale without you even knowing it. Now there's a way to keep track of all those sales and freebies, right from your iOS device. That app is AppShopper, the free, native app version of a useful app-tracking site of the same name. AppShopper lets you set up filters and notifications that make Apple's largely unmanageable App Store just a little more manageable—you can just view, say, all the free games recently listed...
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Injustice: Gods Among Us adds new challenge characters, improves multiplayer 0
June 27th at 7:35am / Cult of Mac / 0 opinionsWay better than it sounds iOS collectible card superhero beat-em-up Injustice: Gods Among Us recently received a notable update. Adding four new challenge characters, players can now expect to confront the likes of Killer Frost, Luchadore Bane, Arkham Origins Deathstroke…
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Microsoft Releases Free Office For iPhone App, But Only For Office 365 Subscribers 1
June 14th at 3:43pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsMicrosoft Office has finally arrived on iOS in an official app released by Microsoft itself, and it’s free to download, but to use it there’s a considerable catch: you need to be an Office 365 subscriber. Microsoft’s Office 365 costs $99.99 for a one year subscription, and Redmond has really been pushing the SaaS-style version of its desktop productivity suite lately, so the iPhone app is a…
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This Is the ABBA Karaoke iPhone Game the World Was Waiting For 0
December 7th at 5:40pm / Gizmodo / 0 opinionsABBA Singbox: An iPhone game that lets you sing ABBA songs alongside Frida and Agnetha, while Björn and Benny do their thing. The only way life could get any better than this is if actual Swedes were singing besides you. Because, trust me on this one, nobody—yes, nobody—sings like drunk Swedes. The $3 official ABBA app comes with Dancing Queen, and you can buy three other classic—Mamma Mia, Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight) and The Winner Takes It All—for $2 each. Expensive, you said...
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You’ll love to hate TwoDots’ ridiculously addictive puzzles 0
July 21st at 5:04pm / Cult of Mac / 1 opinionsI know that TwoDots, the followup to last year’s megahit Dots, has been out for a little while, but I have a pretty good excuse for not having reviewed it yet: Iâve been playing it this whole time. It’s taken…
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Apple's removal of Voice Memos in iOS 7 beta leaves space for third-party alternatives 0
June 19th at 12:51am / AppleInsider / 0 opinionsApple made no small amount of changes to its mobile platform with iOS 7, and among those was the removal of its native voice recording app a development that surprised both users and voice memo app developers alike.
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Leafsnap for iPhone and iPad 0
May 23rd at 10:00pm / Gizmodo / 0 opinionsIn this age of excess, there's one thing we could all use a little more of: Nature! It's life giving and life affirming. It's all around us. And yet, most of us still don't know it all that well. No longer! Leafsnap will turn you into a tree-identifying citizen of the future. Do you know your maples from your elms? I don't! Because despite whatever resolutions we might make to "get outside more," "get better at identifying trees" isn't an item you'll find at the top of many twenty-first century to-do...
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Fly like a dragon (and smash into walls) in fun but flawed Dragon Raiders 0
July 27th at 5:04pm / Cult of Mac / 0 opinionsIâm soaring through the air, dodging fallen trees and rocky overhangs, and evading plumes of sooty black smoke while trying to collect as many runes as I possibly can — and Iâm loving it. Who would have thought being a dragon…
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10 Best Apps for Summer Festivals 2
June 24th at 1:45am / Mashable / 0 opinionsAfter braving through the virtual push and shove of snagging the summer's most coveted festival tickets, it's time to slather up the sunscreen and head out to the crowd. We know you've endured the tedium of poring over lineups to create the perfect itinerary, so now's the time to make the most of your summer festival experience.
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LaCie’s Wuala Secure Cloud Storage App Encrypts and Decrypts Files on Your iPhone 0
March 16th at 5:23pm / Gizmodo / 0 opinionsThe cloud is good, yes!, but it's easy to understand how it could make security-minded folks a bit woozy, what with all those personal files just sitting there waiting to be compromised. If that thought makes you feel woozy, perhaps you should look into LaCie's Wuala service, a secure online storage locker built on technology developed at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. It now has an iOS app. You can get 1GB of space for free, or 25GB for $50 a year, which all things considered is not that...
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Phantom Brings Self-Destructing Photos To Facebook, Twitter And More 2
August 1st at 8:43pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsA new mobile application called Phantom is offering a way to post personal photos and videos to blogs and social media sites, like Facebook or Twitter, which “self-destruct” like they do in Snapchat, while also offering controls that limit the number of people who can view the content, and more.The idea to allow for ephemeral sharing on Facebook and other sites is interesting…
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Watchup’s Video News App Becomes More Automated And Context-Rich In Its Latest Update 1
June 26th at 4:03am / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsWatchup, the startup aiming to create the tablet version of the daily news broadcast, has released version 2.0 of its iPad app, adding features for both casual and power users. The Watchup app pulls news videos from a range of sources, such as the Associated Press, PBS NewsHour, and the Wall Street Journal, and it stitches them together into a continuous playlist. Initially, users had to…
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The Best Calendar App for iPhone 0
August 24th at 5:30pm / Gizmodo / 0 opinionsGoing by the number of calendar alternatives in the iTunes App Store, nobody seems to be satisfied with the built-in calendar on the iPhone. Plenty of people have tried to create the best replacements, but we think Week Calendar is best suited for the job as it combines the best features of a desktop calendar with the best parts of the mobile experience. Platform: iPhonePrice: $2Download Page Like most alternatives, Week Calendar offers multiple views for your events and tasks. Like some of the best...
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Apple's iOS App Store puts 20 productivity titles on sale for limited time 1
August 8th at 7:51am / AppleInsider / 0 opinionsApple on Thursday kicked off a limited-time-only promotion for select iOS productivity apps, including popular titles like Scanner Pro, Fantastical 2 and Writer Pro.
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Futureful's Smart Newsreader Launches Globally 0
June 28th at 4:28pm / The Next Web / 0 opinionsPart news reader, part browser and part social feed, Futureful is proving to be an interesting example of how smart design really is capable of bringing something fresh to the content discovery table....
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This Week’s Best iPhone Apps 0
July 8th at 10:00pm / Gizmodo / 0 opinionsInstacolor: Far from being lukewarm, Instacolor takes the best bits of Instagram and combines them with the location-specific guidelines of the unpopular Color, helping you find other photo-sharers in your proximity, in real time. Out now, it costs $1. Capture: The quickest video camera you'll find on iOS. Once you launch the app, it starts recording instantly, like seriously instantly-so there's no valuable seconds of horseplay missed. So technically, it's just a home screen button that automatically...
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Tom Hanks just released a typewriter app for iPad 4
August 14th at 7:09pm / The Verge / 0 opinionsTom Hanks has made it well known that he's one of the few remaining typewriter diehards, but today he's taking that passion digital. He's releasing an iPad app called Hanx Writer that recreates the typewriter experience on a tablet: keys clack, the paper moves side-to-side, and new sheets need to be rolled in each time you start a page. "Hanx Writer is just my little gift to the future Luddite hipsters of the world," Hanks tells USA Today. Hanks' app does make some updates for the modern age, adding...
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USA TV Network launches iOS app to let viewers watch shows from phones and tablets 2
July 3rd at 12:08pm / The Next Web / 0 opinionsUSA Network, the channel that’s home to shows such as Burn Notice and Royal Pains, has launched an iOS app today that allows users to stream its television shows from their iPhone or iPad....
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Daily App Deals: Get Documents To Go for Android for $4.99 in Today’s App Deals 0
March 22nd at 9:30pm / Gizmodo / 0 opinionsThe 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. Documents To Go (Full Version Key) (Google Play) Previously $14.99, now $4.99. Documents To Go for Android may just be the only app you will ever need for viewing and creating documents on your Android device. Supporting Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Google Docs, and the ability to view PDF files, Documents To Go makes managing your important documents easier than...
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Uber adds API access, affiliate program for apps on Apple's iPhone 1
August 20th at 10:51pm / AppleInsider / 0 opinionsCar-calling service Uber on Wednesday unveiled new API and affiliate programs that allow developers to integrate Uber services -- including destination finding, pickup times, fare estimates, and trip history -- into their own apps and earn Uber credits.
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iPad Apps of the Week: NoteSuite, Morning, and More 0
June 28th at 10:54pm / Gizmodo / 0 opinionsS For whatever reason, this week saw more awesome iPad apps coming to our attention than we've seen in a while. And what's more, a lot of them are only for iPad—iPhone needs be damned. So if you're someone who's Pad is king, you're going to like what we've got in store this week....
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Buzz Contacts for iPhone: A Faster and Smarter Contacts App That’s Better Than Apple’s 0
February 22nd at 11:07pm / Gizmodo / 0 opinionsI was always confused at why Apple bothered making a contacts 'app' since it was nothing more than a shortcut for what was already inside the contacts tab in phone app. There was no imagination to it! Buzz Contacts is a contacts app that's actually useful: it's faster, better and looks reaaaally good. Buzz Contacts puts the traditional iOS contacts system on its head, making it infinitely more useful and faster. Its focus is getting you to contacting your contacts as fast and elegantly as possible,...
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In-App Is An App That Searches In Your Apps 2
August 28th at 10:03pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsAre users itching for a better way to search through the information contained within their mobile apps, bypassing the web and traditional search? Developer Steve Taylor decided to find out, and is now launching an iOS application called In-App which is essentially a Google-like search engine where links automatically open up your apps when tapped.This is made possible via “deep…
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App of the Yesterday: Thunderspace, Relaxing THUNDER (?) Sounds 0
July 10th at 2:50am / Gizmodo / 0 opinionsS Gah, you want one of these EVERY DAY? Okay, okay. Here's an app that's supposed to relax you with thunder. "Thunderspace". Apparently it's good? Here are some people listening to it: Perfect. (No, really, it's good, probably.) $1, iTunes