A new app launching today provides a single-tap multi-target alert system for your iPhone or iPod touch. Guardly automatically alerts users of your choosing if you feel you’re in danger or want to quickly and easily alert authorities to your location and current situation. Read more »
Apple Tuesday released a new app called iAd Gallery that provides users with access to all currently available iAd campaigns in one convenient location. That’s right, it’s an app, which you have to download (though it is free), that does nothing but show you advertisements. Read more »
If, like me, you eagerly comb the App Store for new apps that support AirPlay, an update to Elgato EyeTV should have you excited. It brings AirPlay to the streaming video app, which lets you watch live or recorded TV from your cable or satellite box. Read more »
The iPhone Facebook app received an update Monday, including new features and bug fixes. New features include the ability to view your Places check-ins on a map, and the ability to check-in at Events you’re attending. It also introduces the ability to unfriend using the app. Read more »
Shapes, a simple diagramming app for Snow Leopard, may be just what the average business user ordered. With a simple interface and a limited, but well-chosen assortment of tools, it avoids the overkill of more powerful apps and does it all on the cheap. Read more »
Asking questions and getting useful answers is the idea behind a new crop of community-assisted recommendation/Q&A apps that have appeared on the web and on mobile platforms. One entrant, Localmind, whose iPhone app is nearing launch, really shows off the promise of this new app category. Read more »
Warner Bros. today announced that it would be offering individual app versions of some of its most popular movies for the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. These “App Editions,” are available as free downloads, with full versions unlockable via in-app purchasing. Read more »
Amazon’s Kindle app got an update overnight, bringing some useful new features. But what’s more noteworthy is what it didn’t bring, in light of the recent rejection of Sony’s Reader application, and the introduction just this morning of a new in-app subscription system for iOS. Read more »
Google today released an official iOS version of its Google Translate app. The application is a free download, and lets you translate more than 50 languages through text-based input, or up to 15 by speaking into your iPhone, iPad, or mic-equipped iPod touch. Read more »
Beta testing iPhone apps has been described by some developers I know as the least fun part of the whole process. That’s something TestFlight aims to help improve upon. The service provides free, over-the-air app beta distribution, and it’s now available to all. Read more »
Don’t want to be glued to the TV when the New Year officially begins? There’s a free app for your iPhone (or Android device) that lets you watch the ball drop live in Times Square so you can be glued to your mobile screen instead! Read more »
The new year is prime time for making good on that commitment to get back in shape, and your iPhone can help. RunKeeper Pro, an app that’s perfect for shaping up, is going to be available free for the entire month of January. Read more »
As we reported earlier, Apple today introduced new illustrated titles to the iBookstore. The titles come alongside an update for the iBooks app, which delivers enhanced support for illustrated books, a new Collections feature and the ability to print PDFs and notes via AirPrint. Read more »
It’s a little late getting here, but today CNN introduced its iPad app. The app is a free download, and features a unique user interface custom-designed for the iPad’s larger screen. Simultaneous with the iPad app’s release, CNN is also making its existing iPhone app free. Read more »
If one thing really makes me mad, it’s buying something at Best Buy only to find out later that a friend got it there on sale the weekend after I did. Gazaro Protect, a new — and free — iPhone app, ensures that won’t happen ever again. Read more »
Skype has new competition on the iPhone platform thanks to Viber, a new VoIP app that allows iPhone-to-iPhone calling over 3G and Wi-Fi connections. The app is free, runs in the background, doesn’t have any ads and won’t charge you anything to make calls. Read more »
Ben the Bodyguard is an upcoming app whose developers have exactly the right idea about how to promote your product before it actually gets in to the hands of actual users. It manages to set itself apart without actual previews or screenshots. Here’s how. Read more »
The Economist today released an iOS edition of its magazine. The app is free, but in order to access actual issues you’ll need to either subscribe or purchase issues for $5.99 each. I ran the iPad app through its paces to see how it stacks up. Read more »
With version 3.2.1, Twitter’s mobile app for iOS devices brings push notifications, among other fixes and improvements. Push is a long-awaited update sure to excite tweeters everywhere. Previously, you had to utilize another app such as Boxcar to obtain real-time updates on Twitter happenings. Read more »
YouVersion, better known as the Bible app, has taken advantage of the mobile platform and some social features to rack up almost 10 million installs since it first launched. Coming soon are badges for completing a reading plan and the ability to share video notes. Read more »
Cord cutters are threatening cable companies with irrelevancy, but cable isn’t going to go gently into that good night. Comcast today unveiled its new Xfinity TV app for the iPad, a clear attempt to get some love from the new mobile video-watching crowd. Read more »
IBM is using the iPhone to help contribute to environmental preservation efforts in California. Creek Watch, a new free app developed by IBM in partnership with California’s State Water Control Board, allows anyone to report unsafe or polluted water conditions to the proper authorities. Read more »
Facebook held a live media event today to show off a few new mobile initiatives, including an updated iPhone app. The update brings more Places features, including special deals for Places from participating retailers and restaurants, and support for the recently introduced Facebook Groups. Read more »
You’re sitting at a cafe with a friend, and all of a sudden you think of the greatest idea ever for an app. But what’s the next step? If you’re an app developer, you can start hashing out the idea, but what if you’re not? Read more »
Consumer Reports can now come with you on your iPhone as you shop, letting you check products instantly. So, scanning the barcode of the iPhone 4 with its camera will, in theory, reveal CR’s high rating, and its lack of a “Buy” recommendation. In theory. Read more »
When the iPad launched, many expected the New York Times to follow-up its awesome iPhone app with an equally impressive version for Apple’s tablet. Instead we got “Editor’s Choice.” Now, the newspaper is making amends with a new iPad app with full content. Read more »
It’s not all war and competition between tech giants Google and Apple. Sometimes the companies can come together, and the winner each time that happens is invariably the consumer. Today Google brings Google Goggles to the iPhone. Try saying that five times fast. Read more »
If you’re a devoted print subscriber but you have an iPad and want to read the digital edition instead, the only option to date has been paying full newsstand cover prices all over again for the same content. That’s now changed for the better. Read more »
If you’re one of those shelling out $99 per year for Apple’s MobileMe, then this has been a good week. In fact, it’s been a pretty good few months overall, thanks to a renewed interest on Apple’s part in keeping the service worth our while. Read more »
Are you bored with regular calendars? Diacarta, a new app for the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad, has come up with a different way of visualizing your schedule. When you open the app, instead of the usual grid of hours, you’ll see an analog clock face. Read more »
Looks like Mac Developers will be in the running for an ADA after all…ADA as in “Ars Design Award,” that is. Ars Technica is stepping up to fill the empty space left by Apple this year by hosting their own ADAs. Read more »
Steve Jobs and Apple may be dead set against allowing Adobe’s Flash technology on the iPhone, but that doesn’t mean Adobe isn’t still interested in pursuing opportunities on the platform. Adobe Ideas delivers even more creative goodness to the device. Read more »
From an end-user perspective, few of the announcements at today’s iPhone OS 4.0 media event were probably as welcome as was the arrival of multitasking. It’s a feature that people have been looking for since the launch of the platform itself, and it looks like we’ll be well served for having waited so long. Read more »
What do you get that hard-to-buy-for person on your list who already has everything? Well if they already have an iPhone, which is likely since we’ve already established they’ve got everything worth having, then you can now buy them iPhone apps, directly from the iTunes Store. […] Read more »
At SXSW, I asked several attendees for their web working advice as well as their favorite web app so far this year — not necessarily a new one, but one that they find themselves using all the time. Read more »
The iPhone OS is pitched as the entire Internet in your pocket…minus Flash. This works most of the time, but what if you just want to design a site or form that looks like a native iPhone App? This is where iWebKit comes in. iWebKit is […] Read more »
Facebook recently opened up its API to allow third-party developers more access to core features, which gives them a chance to rework the web app and deliver something a little easier on the eyes and potentially less frustrating. That’s exactly what Microsoft’s done with its new Silverlight Beta Client for Facebook. Read more »
Let’s face it, most iPhone apps probably won’t even get used more than once or twice, and even then, you won’t be using them for anything particularly important. But one app came in very handy for one very lucky iPhone owner. The phone and the app […] Read more »
Apple released a dedicated MobileMe iDisk app not too long ago for those of us who stubbornly continue to pay good money for a subscription, but iDisk, as the app is called, is really just a file manager and nothing more. Today, Apple unveiled another MobileMe-specific iPhone […] Read more »
It seems like forever ago that Facebook promised push notification support in version 3.1 of its incredibly popular iPhone app (iTunes link). Now it has arrived, just in time to usher in 2010. 3.1 brings the promised push notifications, and also the ability to sync your […] Read more »
