As brick-and-mortar shops welcome an onslaught of holiday shoppers looking for the year's best savings, purveyors of digital goods are also offering deep discounts and promotions for their wares.
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Roundup: Holiday app deals bring deep discounts on Infinity Blade Trilogy, Fantastical, more 1
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12 best iPhone apps of 2014 6
November 28th at 6:45am / Mashable / 0 opinionsOur favorite iPhone apps of 2014.
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Emojiary Is A Mobile Diary App Where You Visualize Your Feelings With Emoji 1
November 26th at 8:03pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsRegularly journaling your thoughts and feelings is a good way to “check in with yourself,” raise your self-awareness and connect with your intuition, but it can also be a time-consuming activity that most of us don’t have time for, given our busy lives. A company called All Tomorrows wants to change that, by offering a quick and arguably more fun way to track your feelings…
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Blippy Returns With A Brand-New GIF Keyboard For iOS 8 0
November 20th at 10:03pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsReady for another GIF keyboard for iOS 8? Blippy has returned today with a new app that lets you create, save and discover new GIFs to use when messaging with your friends on your iPhone. The app serves to replace the earlier, also GIF-focused, Blippy iOS app, that was pulled from the App Store back in September.Those with long Internet memories may remember the name Blippy as being…
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Kanvas Debuts An iOS Keyboard That Lets You Send Decorated Photos, Stickers And GIFs…Or Even Just Text 1
November 13th at 10:23pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsKanvas, a photo-editing app that lets users add text, stickers, drawings and music to images as well as stitch together photos, GIFs and videos, is now bringing its set of creative tools to a new application for iOS users: Kanvas Keyboard. As you may guess by its name, the new app is an iOS 8-compatible keyboard app that lets you quickly add text to your photos or colored backgrounds, draw…
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Wildcard Raises $10 Million, Launches A Browser Built For The Mobile Web 0
November 13th at 6:43pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsA company called Wildcard is today launching a browser for the mobile age, designed specifically with the support of the newer “card” format in mind. Cards are a new design trend which emerged within mobile applications as a way to better showcase content, including rich media like photos and video, on devices’ small screens.Wildcard is also announcing it has raised…
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iPad Air 2 is the best tablet ever (until next year) 0
November 12th at 5:02pm / Macworld / 0 opinionsIt’s a little thinner. It’s a little lighter. It’s a whole lot faster. All of this makes the iPad Air 2 both more of the same and better than ever....
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Roundup: The best third-party keyboards for iOS 8 0
November 12th at 4:51pm / AppleInsider / 0 opinionsOne long standing criticism of iOS has been its lack of support for third party keyboards, but with the introduction of iOS 8, developers are now allowed to build custom keyboards that can be used on both iPhone and iPad.
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Roundup: Some of the best iOS 8 app extensions for iPhone & iPad 3
November 7th at 7:51pm / AppleInsider / 0 opinionsiOS 8 offers powerful new tools to developers such as extensions, which allow third-party iPhone and iPad apps to be more flexible and interconnected than ever before. AppleInsider offers a look at some of the best iOS 8 extensions available to download on the App Store right now.
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Google Drive adds Touch ID support, Swype for iOS goes free, Apple apps get minor updates 2
November 7th at 12:31am / AppleInsider / 0 opinionsAs Apple introduced minor updates to iWork, Beats Music and more, a number of other key updates hit the iOS App Store, including a temporary sale on the popular Swype keyboard from Nuance, as well as Touch ID security and iOS 8 extension support added to Google Drive.
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Slated iOS 8 Keyboard Translates Your Text Messages To Other Languages In Real Time 2
November 6th at 6:43pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsCommunicating with others can be difficult, especially if not everyone in the conversation speaks the same language. Computer-based translation is easing a lot of that pain, but in general it still means a lot of cutting and pasting has to happen, along with interpreting possibly imperfect translations. Slated, a new keyboard now available for iOS 8, aims to change that with real-time…
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5 Chrome extensions that make charity effortless 0
November 4th at 12:25pm / Mashable / 0 opinionsRaise money for human rights organizations, just by opening a new tab.
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RunKeeper update adds indoor treadmill tracking, SwiftKey gains 4 new languages 0
November 3rd at 9:31pm / AppleInsider / 0 opinionsAtheletes who rely on the popular RunKeeper app to track their workouts can now use a new "Stopwatch Mode" for easily entering indoor exercises. In addition, third-party keyboard SwiftKey was updated on Monday with support for four new languages, as well as a handful of improvements and bug fixes.
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Developers of PCalc, Nomi run afoul of Apple's evolving iOS 8 App Store policies 0
October 30th at 1:51am / AppleInsider / 0 opinionsApple's platform policies for iOS, OS X and their respective App Stores have occasionally irked developers or even wildly disrupted their businesses. The latest collision involves a retroactive ban on widget calculators and tightened WiFi privacy rules for iOS, as Apple issues new rules for apps using Apple Pay and TestFlight.
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For app makers, Apple giveth widgets â and Apple taketh away 5
October 29th at 9:44pm / Cult of Mac / 0 opinionsWhen you live in Apple’s world as a third-party developer, you are required to play by Apple’s rules. And sometimes those rules are subject to sudden change. James Thomson, the developer behind the scientific calculator app PCalc, was notified today…
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Alpine launches $800 CarPlay-compatible iLX-007 in-dash receiver 2
October 27th at 8:11pm / AppleInsider / 0 opinionsAftermarket options with support for Apple's CarPlay continue to expand, with Alpine launching a new $800 unit on Monday featuring a 7-inch capacitive touchscreen and support for Siri voice commands.
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Apple expands TestFlight iOS app beta invitations to 1,000 users 2
October 23rd at 11:11pm / AppleInsider / 0 opinionsDevelopers can now invite up to a thousand people to test their beta applications for iOS via its TestFlight tool with just an email address, Apple announced on Thursday.
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Belkin WeMo LED Lighting plays nice with the WeMo system 1
October 23rd at 4:02pm / Macworld / 0 opinionsI’m definitely the kind of person who accidentally leaves the lights on…as I’m leaving town for 10 days. Oops. But smart light bulbs are here to help me (and fellow forgetful electricity-wasters) out—because with Belkin’s WeMo LED smart bulbs, you can turn my lights off (or on) from anywhere in the world....
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Deeplink Rolls Out Developer Tools That Make Apps More Interoperable 0
October 20th at 9:03pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsMobile deeplinking company, Deeplink is focused on making native applications on smartphones, tablets and other mobile devices function more like the web, in the sense that you should be able tap your way in between apps similar to the way you can tap on hyperlinks to navigate the web. Today, the company is taking a major step forward in making this functionality more widespread with the…
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The Most Popular Free Apps From A to Z 1
October 16th at 2:05pm / Mashable / 0 opinionsThe hottest free apps on iOS and Android, in one convenient, interactive graphic.
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The iPhone 6 Plus Gets A One-Handed Keyboard App, And It’s Glorious 1
October 14th at 5:43pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsWhile I came around to the iPhone 6 Plus and its unique allure, as told in a post from a couple of days ago, Apple’s big smartphone still isn’t the easiest to use when typing one-handed. Specifically, it’s tricky to get to the requisite punctuation needed to properly express oneself. A new app, helpfully called “One Handed Keyboard,” eliminates this annoyance, with…
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5 Can't-Miss Apps: Autodesk Sketchbook and More 4
October 12th at 12:45am / Mashable / 0 opinionsThis week's app highlights include a new look for StumbleUpon, an ephemeral messaging app from Microsoft and a revamped emoji keyboard for iOS 8.
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Google adds iOS News & Weather app, SwiftKey boosts performance, PDF Expert 5 supports iPhone 6 3
October 8th at 10:11pm / AppleInsider / 0 opinionsGoogle has added to its extensive collection of iOS apps with a new News & Weather offering, while third-party keyboard maker SwiftKey addressed performance issues in a new release and PDF Expert 5 added support for the iPhone 6 series and iOS 8.
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Adobe revamps creative app suite for Apple's iOS, adds new video editing and drawing apps 1
October 6th at 5:31pm / AppleInsider / 0 opinionsGraphics software giant Adobe on Monday overhauled nearly every one of its existing iOS app offerings, and added a number of new options including Premiere Clip -- a new mobile video editing app -- that tie into the company's Creative Cloud platform.
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Adobe Debuts A Slew Of New Mobile Apps, Including Brush, Shape And Draw 2
October 6th at 4:43pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsAdobe has ramped up its mobile efforts in a big way today at its annual Adobe Max conference, with seven new mobile apps unveiled (though two are repurposed versions of older software). The new collection in some ways represents the same kind of unbundling of individual features as apps we’ve seen from companies like Facebook, with tools specific to different kinds of artists and…