Apple released its iTunes Rewind 2011 and App Store Rewind 2011 today, the company’s annual lists detailing of the top selling apps, music, TV shows, movies and podcasts for the year. This year, the biggest winner on the apps front was Angry Birds, which ran away with the number one spot on the iPhone and iPad in all categories except top free iPhone app, which was awarded to Facebook. Apple also selects its own favorite applications, and one of our preferred apps, Instagram, won the honor of being App...
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Apple Picks Instagram As The “iPhone App Of The Year” 0
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Opera launches 'free and unlimited' VPN app for iOS 0
May 9th at 3:49pm / The Verge / 0 opinionsOpera is on a bit of a privacy tear at the moment. Last month, the company integrated a free and unlimited VPN (virtual private network) into the developer version of its web browser, and last week, it added built-in ad blocking to its desktop and mobile software. Now, Opera has launched a new VPN app for iOS, and, again, it's free to use with unlimited data....
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Universal Search App Phlo Now Available for Free on iOS and Mac 1
February 18th at 7:08pm / The Next Web / 0 opinionsPhlo, the iOS app that lets you search multiple websites and services at once, is now available to download for free, having previously been charged at $2.99....
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Family Safety App Alert.Us Goes Beyond Kid Tracking With Message Boards, Battery Alerts & More 0
April 19th at 6:48am / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsAlert.Us, a recently launched mobile family safety application, has some interesting ideas about the direction that these sorts of GPS tracking apps should go. In fact, says CEO Antoine Martin, the company’s goal is to have kids actually accept and recommend the app. That’s a bit different from the other parental control or safety apps on the market today which generally launch with the needs of…
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iPhone 3G and iOS 4: Benchmarking the 4.1 Update 0
September 9th at 1:00pm / GigaOM / 0 opinionsWhen iOS 4 was released, many iPhone 3G owners felt pains associated with having a slower device due to an OS that was more processor intensive. Has the 4.1 update finally closed the door on the issue of iOS 4 running sluggishly on the iPhone 3G?
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Control your Bentley's seat massagers from your wrist with new Apple Watch app 0
May 19th at 2:31am / AppleInsider / 0 opinionsFollowing the debut of its Bentayga SUV, British automaker Bentley Motors recently launched an eponymous Apple Watch app that goes beyond run-of-the-mill connected car features, putting control over creature comforts on the wrist of well-heeled owners.
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Amidst Kiev Violence, 2 Men Design a Kids' Book About Forgiveness 0
February 21st at 8:25pm / Mashable / 0 opinionsTwo app developers in Kiev, Ukraine, are one kilometer away from the city's violent anti-government protests. Ironically, their new kids' storybook teaches forgiveness. And they're struggling to abide by their own lessons.
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Real Racing 3’s First Update Is Out Now With New Cars, New Events & More 0
April 11th at 8:35am / Cult of Mac / 0 opinionsEA just released the first update to Real Racing 3 on iOS, and it adds a whole bunch of new content for you to enjoy. In addition to two new Chevrolets, you can also look forward to more than 100 new events, a new game mode, cloud save syncing, and new social features.
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Hey, cheapskates: FlightTrack now has a free app 0
August 9th at 6:00am / GigaOM / 0 opinionsFlightTrack Free is not replacing the popular, paid FlightTrack or FlightTrack Pro apps. It’s a separate, scaled-down version of FlightTrack with a redesigned interface. Mobiata, FlightTrack’s creator, plans eventually to add in-app purchase options.
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PHIND’s new app will help you discover places, see if they’re buzzing 1
June 3rd at 7:23pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsA visual technology and search startup called PHIND took the stage at last year’s Startup Battlefield at Disrupt NY to debut what it was then calling a “Shazam for places” – that is, an app that let you snap a photo to learn about the world around you. Today, roughly a year later, PHIND is launching its production version, which focuses on helping users discover new…
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A Third Of New iOS Games Are Flappy Bird Clones 0
February 27th at 6:24pm / Cult of Mac / 0 opinionsNearly one third of all games released in the App Store in a 24-hour period are Flappy Bird clones. That’s according to the Guardian newspaper’s Stuart Dredge, who used an RSS feed of the Appshopper site to get his hands…
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Track180 Wants to Bring You News You Haven't Already Seen 0
April 30th at 1:00pm / Mashable / 0 opinionsCurating content to feed the hearty appetites of the news-obsessed is a tall order. Readers demand high quality stories that both inform and entertain. Now, a new news app for the iPad is offering an in-depth look at some overlooked topics in a visually rich formula. It's called Track180, it debuts on the iTunes store today, and it may just be a hit with both consumers and third party publishers.
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Scammy "Phone Tracker" Apps In Apple App Store 0
August 29th at 9:24am / The Next Web / 0 opinionsA couple of new apps were added to the Apple App Store yesterday that have added to what is apparently a strange sub-section of joke apps – apps that are…
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Facebook revamps Messenger for iOS with new tiered homescreen 0
June 16th at 11:11pm / AppleInsider / 0 opinionsFacebook began rolling out a new homescreen interface for its Messenger iOS app on Thursday, hot on the heels of Apple announcing iOS 10 Messages upgrades intended to compete.
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Sharalike Automatically Turns Photos & Videos Into Shareable Slideshows 0
March 4th at 11:03pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsSharalike, a new application that lets you create video slideshows similar to Facebook’s recently popular “Lookback” videos, is now launching into beta. The company’s technology takes your own photos and videos and automatically sorts them into animated, HTML slideshows in just a matter of seconds. Users only have to point the app to the media they want to include, then…
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YouTube for iOS Gets My Subscriptions Feed, Live Streams 0
April 15th at 8:57pm / The Next Web / 0 opinionsGoogle on Monday updated its native YouTube app for iOS with a slew of new features, including access to live streams, a new My Subscriptions feed, and video queuing for TV playback. You can download the new app now directly from Apple’s App Store....
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SlideJockey makes presentations more fun 0
January 27th at 10:00am / The Next Web / 0 opinionsFor something that takes place all over the world every day, the humble presentation hasn’t evolved much in the past few years. We still prepare a series of slides and…
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Pokémon Go is rolling out now for iOS and Android 0
July 7th at 3:42am / Macworld / 0 opinionsThe game uses your smartphone's camera, sensors, and location-sharing capabilities to put Nintendo's characters in the real world.
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With 5M Users Already On Board, Tynker Goes Mobile To Help Kids Learn To Code On The iPad 0
March 12th at 6:43pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsHistorically, the U.S. educational system has struggled to get young people excited by and involved with STEM-related fields, especially computer science, which has actually seen a steady decline in participation over the last two decades, according to Time Magazine. Luckily, the winds of reform have begun to sweep into education, and parents, educators and even Uncle Sam have begun to pressure on…
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Google Now comes to iPhone and iPad with new Search app update 1
April 29th at 2:00pm / The Verge / 0 opinionsAfter a promo video let the cat out of the bag last month, Google is making it official: with an update to the Google Search application, Google Now is available on iOS. Compatible with both the iPhone and iPad, the update brings almost all of Google's information cards across from Android. The look and feel of the app is virtually identical on both platforms, a testament to Google's newfound ability to make well-designed apps on iOS. The main differences between Android and iOS are few, mainly in that...
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Notability offers elegant notetaking 0
April 12th at 11:02pm / The Next Web / 0 opinionsNotability is a new note-taking app for the iPad that delivers the goods for those seeking a fully-featured, media-rich experience. Each note can be categorized under a Subject, which you…
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Pokémon Go is FINALLY out in the country that discovered Pokémon 0
July 22nd at 4:29am / The Verge / 0 opinionsJapan's long national nightmare is over: its citizens and residents are now finally able to use "Pokémon Go," a smartphone application that helps people find and catch pokémon around them. As you're no doubt aware, pokémon are a diverse class of creatures that were first discovered by Japanese scientists Satoshi Tajiri and Ken Sugimori in 1996, meaning species like the pikachu have forever been associated with Japan....
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Newsbeat app reads you stories from hundreds of newspapers 0
March 20th at 7:29pm / The Verge / 0 opinionsApps that read the day's news aloud aren't exactly a new concept, but Newsbeat — launched today by Tribune Co. — is among the sleekest we've seen yet. Newsbeat pulls in thousands of articles every day from hundreds of newspapers including The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, and websites like CNN. From there, stories are converted to audio for easy listening during your morning commute. Sometimes the recordings are produced with the help of text-to-speech technology, much like SoundGecko; other...
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Apple brings push notifications and iPhone upgrade pricing alerts to Apple Store iOS app 0
April 23rd at 4:04pm / AppleInsider / 0 opinionsApple brings push notifications and iPhone upgrade pricing alerts to Apple Store iOS app
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8 Great Apps For Listening to Podcasts 0
July 26th at 1:34pm / The Next Web / 0 opinionsPodcasts are a great way of staying up to date with your favourite topics and expanding your mind by listening to new points of view or discovering new music. Your…