By Brandon Russell |
Drops First Aid, an app that provides helpful information for potential life-threatening situations, is one of those apps that should come standard on every smartphone. Think about it: the more people that know how to perform CPR, and provide general first aid, the better. We…
By Todd Haselton |
BlackBerry said during its BlackBerry Live conference last week that it will soon deliver standalone BBM applications to Android and iOS users. It’s a bizarre move on the surface, especially considering that BlackBerry is known for two things among consumers: BBM and its keyboards. Why…
By Todd Haselton |
Google announced Google Hangouts as its new cross-platform standalone chat application on Wednesday. It allows users with a Google account to chat with one another, video chat or even group chat across platforms, whether it’s on a desktop computer, a laptop, a tablet, a smartphone…
By Todd Haselton |
Netflix for the iPhone and iPad was updated on Thursday with several new features. Version 4.1 now allows users to continue watching a television show after an episode ends. That means, if you’re watching a season, the next episode will begin playing right away. It’s…
By Brandon Russell |
The Pizza Compass, $1 for iOS, is exactly what it sounds like: an app designed to help you track down the best pie around your city. If the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles had access to this, they’d have no time to protect us from Shredder’s…
By Brandon Russell |
Chrome for iOS might feature more prominently on the platform—if that’s the direction developers choose to go. Following Gmail’s ability to open links in Chrome, YouTube and Google Maps, Google has released tools that will allow developers to better integrate their apps with the search…
By Todd Haselton |
Google issued an update for its iOS Gmail client on Monday that adds several useful features that will help users stay within Google’s products. You can now automatically launch YouTube, Google Maps or Chrome if a link is embedded in an email. That means you…
By Todd Haselton |
Angry Birds Friends, the popular Facebook social game, is now available on iOS and Android devices. The premise is similar to what you can expect from other Angry Birds franchise titles, but instead of playing solo you’re actually competing for high scores and power ups…
By Adriana Lee |
Irony, thy name is Google Now. Mountain View’s answer to Siri has been gracing Jelly Bean devices since last year, and today, the iOS app for Google Now has entered the stadium. Some say it’s as good as Siri, others say it’s even better. But…
By Jon Rettinger |
Seeing Google Now appear on iOS is exciting for a number of reasons. It shows that Google isn’t afraid to open up access to one of its best services, and also that the company is easily one of the best app designers around. But, more…
By Brandon Russell |
We were beginning to think that the teaser video from last month was just one big hoax, but turns out Google Now for iOS actually exists. And, in typical Google fashion, the update is fantastic—great, wonderful, awesome; we expected nothing less, especially with Google proving…
By Todd Haselton |
Google Now just launched for iOS devices. If you’re an Android user you’re likely familiar with the option, which made its debut in Android Jelly Bean. The software constantly keeps you in-the-know with up-to-date information such as the weather, sports scores, packages, stocks and so…
By Brandon Russell |
Halfbrick Studios, the same developers that brought you Jetpack Joyride and Fruit Ninja, released another game this week called Fish Out of Water. The game takes the simple lake-side pastime of skipping rocks and applies that to the side-scrolling formula. What you get is something…
By Todd Haselton |
Yahoo announced just last month that it was acquiring Summly, an application that provided short summaries of news stories that was developed by a 15-year old. On Monday the company released a brand new application that includes Summly built-in. The application looks barebones on the…
By Brandon Russell |
There are some really wonderful photo-editing apps available for your iPhone—Afterlight, VSCO Cam and Camera+ just to name a few—but sometimes people prefer the easy one-and-done filters of Instagram. Sometimes, though, not everyone wants to broadcast their photo to the world, but still retain the…
By Brandon Russell |
Osito for iOS, previously known as Sherpa, is Bill Ferrell’s answer to Google Now. A former Googler himself, Ferrell has created a predictive intelligence experience focused around traffic info, travel alerts, weather forecasts and your personal calendar. It doesn’t live on your home screen, and…
By Brandon Russell |
A new weather app developed by Yahoo is one of the most beautiful things I’ve seen in the App Store this year. If Apple and Yahoo are planning further integration—outside of Stocks, basic Weather and some Siri info—please implement the online company’s new app, which…
By Brandon Russell |
Chat Heads on Android is great because they’re there across the entire OS, no matter what app you’re in or Web page you’re looking at. But on iOS? Functionality is restricted, further highlighting the closed nature of Apple’s ecosystem. But thanks to developer Adam Bell,…
By Brandon Russell |
Google on Monday updated its Youtube app for iOS to version 1.3, which allows users to watch live streams right from their mobile device. Many users might be asking themselves where this was over the weekend, when YouTube was streaming Coachella, but better late than…
By Brandon Russell |
According to a freshly leaked roadmap, Office for iOS and Android, which have been rumored time and time again, won’t be out until October 2014 at the earliest. I’m sure folks are hoping to take Microsoft’s beloved suite for a spin on their iPads and…
By Todd Haselton |
Google released yet another update for its Chrome for iOS browser that works on the iPod touch, iPhone and iPad that includes several new features. According to the update log posted in the description in iTunes, users can expect the following new features: Fullscreen for…
By Brandon Russell |
Maybe you already knew about this—maybe not—but it’s definitely new to me. If you’ve been relying on pinch-to-zoom in Google Maps all this time, your experience is about to change and become so much better. This needs to become a standard gesture for every app…
By Brandon Russell |
Ridiculous Fishing is a highly stylized iOS game that takes the quaintness and strategy of fishing and completely turns that practice into utter chaos—almost like an 8-bit game of Duck Hunt. Instead of catching one or two fish to survive, players are tasked with hooking…
By Brandon Russell |
To gear up for Easter Weekend, EA is slashing prices on some of its most well known games on iOS, with some prices up to 90 percent off. If you’re going to grandma’s house on Sunday—I am—you might want to stock up to make the…
