Twitter is bringing promoted tweets to the timelines of those of us using the company’s official iPhone and Android apps. Until now, you may have noticed promoted tweets in the trends and search sections of those apps, and in …
Apps & Software
Karma: A Fresh Take on Gift Giving
If the venerable concept of mail-order gift catalogs hadn’t been invented until just now, it might look a lot like Karma. This app for iOS and Android, from a startup of the same name, is focused on helping busy people find and …
Google: Android Apps Have Tripled to Nearly Half a Million Since Last Year
Google has something to boast about at this year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Last year, it used the event to announce that its Android Market had accrued an impressive 150,000 apps. Today, the company announced that the …
Photoshop Touch: The Best iPad Image Editor Yet
When I do graphics stuff on a computer, I spend 99.994% of my time in one tool: Photoshop. When I do it on my iPad 2–which I’m doing more and more–I jump between multiple apps, including PhotoForge2, iResize, Snapseed, …
Microsoft Office 15: Ready (and Not Ready) for Windows 8
Windows 8, with its radically new touch-centric Metro interface, is all very interesting. But it’s not nearly as interesting as the applications that it will run–the ones that we’ll use to get real work done.
And one of the …
14 Important Arcade Games Not Available for iPhone or iPad
Arcade classics have found new life on the iPhone and iPad, with major publishers bringing their retro hits to the App Store. But there’s still room for more.
Box Gives Android Users 50GB of Free Cloud Storage
Online storage and collaboration company Box has upgraded its apps for Android phones and tablets. They have new features such as multiple-file uploads, threaded comments on any file and the ability to invite other people into a …
Rampage and Tapper Come to the iPad, and Suddenly Life is Complete
What’s my favorite arcade game of all time? That’s easy. It’s Atari’s Tempest, and I was therefore thrilled when it became available for the iPad and iPhone, along with scads of other vintage games, as part of Atari’s Greatest …
Intoxicase: The Drinking Person’s iPhone Case and App
An iPhone case with a built-in bottle opener? That’s nothing new. It’s a whole category, with contenders such as this and this. But the creators of the $35 Intoxicase say that it’s the first one that comes with an app that uses …
Coming Soon: Privacy Warnings on Mobile Apps
Thanks to the state of California, smartphone apps will soon have to tell you in advance what they plan to do with your personal data.
California Attorney General Kamala D. Harris reached an agreement with Apple, Google, …
OnLive Desktop Plus: Windows at Its Speedy Best — on Your iPad
Last month, cloud gaming pioneer OnLive put its sophisticated technology to a new purpose: running Windows 7 on an iPad. It launched OnLive Desktop, a free service that let you use Word, Excel and PowerPoint–the real, …
How to Auto-Embed Album Art in Your iTunes Tracks
It’s that time again: When the evil, obsessive-compulsive, mirror-verse me starts picking at piles of disorganized digital information, speaking in sepulchral tones: “Time to get to work, Matt.” This time it’s my iTunes library …