Winter weather is easy enough to ignore during the holidays, when you’re warmed up on alcoholic eggnog. But now it’s January, …
Apps & Software
Kindle Fire Getting Netflix, Facebook and More at Launch
Amazon is flexing the Kindle Fire’s app muscle ahead of next week’s launch, promising apps for Netflix, Facebook and Twitter, and plenty of games to boot.
Apps are the biggest advantage the Kindle Fire has over Barnes & Noble’s Nook Tablet. Although the two tablets have similar specs and similar prices (the Nook Tablet is $50 more …
Apple’s GarageBand Gets a Gig on the iPhone
You’re walking out of the grocery store when the idea hits you: The Greatest Song of All Time. All the elements are in your head–drums, bass, guitar, vocals–and ready to be recorded into reality. But alas, you don’t have your iPad, so you don’t have GarageBand! And by the time you get home, the idea is gone.
That’ll never happen …
Gmail App for iPad and iPhone Now Available [UPDATE]
The rumors were true, and it’s finally here: a native Gmail app for your Apple device. You’ll get push notifications, inbox searching, autocompleting e-mail addresses, photo uploads and—if you’re an iPad user—a split view with your inbox on the left and your messages on the right.
You’ll also have access to Gmail’s “Priority Inbox”
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On Boggle App, ‘Queer’ Is a Bad Word
When I first downloaded the Boggle app, I was agog over all the unfamiliar words — AAL, AIS, ANE, etc. — the game showed me I could have found in the 16-letter jumbles. But a few hundred rounds later (yes, I’m obsessed), I’m more interested in the words the good people at Hasbro won’t let me play.
FART and CRAP are off …
Top 10 Must-Have iPhone Games
Whether you’ve just purchased your first iPhone or you’ve owned every version since 2007, make sure there’s an icon for each one of these games on your Home screen.
Android Apps to Overtake Apple in June 2012?
Apple may still be the undisputed king of the app stores, but new research suggests that its reign may have less than a year left, barring any surprising developments (and, no, the iPhone 4S doesn’t count as a surprising development).
Currently, according to research from Xyologic, monthly Apple app downloads in the U.S. are nearly …
How to Share a Family Shopping List by Keeping It in the Cloud
If you live with other people, you know the problem: On Wednesday you notice that you’re out of milk, but you’ve forgotten about that by the time your spouse goes shopping on Friday. Or you write a note on that pad on the fridge, but your handwriting is illegible. Or what if the two of you go shopping at different stores and both buy …
Google Drops ‘Is My Son Gay?’ App from Android Market
Responding to a Twitter campaign led by LGBT activist website AllOut.org, Google this week pulled a controversial app called “Is My Son Gay?” from its Android Market.
The app was released last month to immediate controversy, with many upset by the idea of an app that, following a 20-question quiz, would tell parents whether their sons …
App of the Week: At Only 99 Cents, ‘Clean Writer’ is a Steal
There’s no shortage of writing apps for the iPad: Take accessibility-angled options like Evernote (free) that allow users to add tags and keep everything organized, or more robust packages like Pages ($9.99) allowing for rich formatting and picture embeds. But the productivity app I’ve come to like the most is Clean Writer, which is …
Logitech ‘Harmony Link’ Turns iPads into Universal Remotes
The most fully-baked thing about Logitech’s Revue Google TV box from last year wasn’t the Google TV part. It was Harmony Link, Logitech’s technology, drawn from its venerable Harmony line of universal remotes, for controlling an entertainment center full of gadgets from one remote. Now Logitech is readying a stand-alone Harmony …
Too Many Flipboards: Google Reportedly Prepping ‘Propeller’ News App
Google is rumored to be making a news reader app, called “Google Propeller,” that’s kind of like Flipboard. And if unnamed sources are to be believed, it’ll be a leader in the field of Flipboard clones.
That’s right. “Flipboard clones” is pretty much a genre of apps now. AOL has “Editions.” CNN recently bought Zite. Yahoo is working …