- Author: admin
- Filed under: Apple, ipad
- Date: May 30,2010
The iPad has finally made its international debut, meaning that thousands and thousands of new users will be enjoying Apple’s latest device over the coming weeks.
With the launch of the iPad comes the international launch of the iPad App Store, making it possible for us to play Words With Friends with our friends in Australia.
There are already thousands of apps available in the App Store, and with the exception of apps focused on media services like Netflix, ABC or Pandora, most are also available internationally.
We’ve been fortunate enough to have the iPad in our screen-smudging paws for the past two months and in that time we’ve surveyed well over 100 apps and games for the new platform. While this list could easily be four or five times as long as it is, we wracked our brains and decided to pick ten of our favorite iPad apps for the new iPad owner. Read the rest of this entry »
Microsoft just dropped its first press release of MIX 10 on us, and in addition to detailing the Sliverlight and XNA-based Windows Phone 7 Series development situation, we’ve also got a list of launch software partners and some screenshots of apps in action.
There’s some heavy hitters here, and everything from games to enterprise apps are represented — notables include the Associated Press, Citrix, EA Mobile, Foursquare, Namco, Pangeonce, Pandora, Seesmic, Shazam, and Sling. We’re slated to see some demos of these in action, we’ll let you know how things look. Full list after the break. Read the rest of this entry »
- Author: admin
- Filed under: Apple, iPhone
- Date: Feb 12,2010
These iPhone apps can impress your valentine, provide dating advice, send virtual flowers, or even help you work out your anti-Valentine’s Day resentment.
Romantic Love Note/Card
1. iWrite: Love Poems
iWrite features eight different Valentine’s-appropriate styles of poetry. For each one, it walks you through the process from brainstorming, to examples, to step-by-step guidance. If you really want to cop out, it’ll even generate your poem for you.
I have to admit I was skeptical that an app like this could be anything but hokey, but it’s actually great. I am not a poet at all, but in about one minute it helped me create a poem I’d actually like to share with my boyfriend.
For a less helpful, but more humorous version of this try the (free) Love Poem Generator. Read the rest of this entry »
- Author: admin
- Filed under: Apple, iPhone
- Date: Feb 10,2010
If you have an iPhone or iPod touch, then you know how helpful some apps can be—like the one that makes navigating public transportation easier than navigating through your own house! Well, these aren’t those kind of applications. These are the ones that do little more than give us a good laugh. Poke around our picks for the best of the worst.
Love Calculator Pro (99¢)
Meant to help detect companionability between two people based on their first names, this app attempts to break things down in terms of the likely percentage of love, lust and like—before the awkward small talk. Photo courtesy of iTunes. Read the rest of this entry »
- Author: admin
- Filed under: iPhone
- Date: Oct 30,2009
Halloween has got to be one of the most anticipated holidays of the year. Whether you’re a kid looking to get a huge haul trick-or-treating, or an adult eager to show off his scary new costume, we can all agree that Halloween is the perfect time to get spirits (living AND dead) rising. Let your excitement show with these 25 spooky iPhone apps made especially for this night of devilish fun:
Spine-chilling Sounds
- Scary Sounds — What’s Halloween without the eerie atmosphere? Create a delightfully spooky ambience with this fine selection of sound effects. You can find almost anything to set the mood, from the laughter of a wicked witch to the howl of a werewolf.
- Free Halloween Sounds — This ingenious little sound board allows you to play fifteen different Halloween sound effects for any purpose. Feel like creeping out little children? Play the monster growl effect. How about spicing up your Friday the 13th costume with the sound of a chainsaw? This app has those and more.
- Scare Tracks — Looking for a soundtrack to a night of macabre fun? With a fine selection of cinematic scores sure to scare any soul, you‘ll have a grand time alternating fright and delight listening to this app.
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- Author: admin
- Filed under: Apple
- Date: Apr 24,2009
Today, Apple announced that its customers have now downloaded a whopping one billion applications from its App Store.
Quite a few of us have iPhones, so we thought that this would be a good time to feature some of our favorite apps.
We download and test a lot of iPhone apps, but here are the ones that have stood the test of time for us.
The App Store is now home to over 35,000 applications, so this is obviously only a small selection of applications, but these are the apps that we don’t hesitate to recommend to our friends.
We couldn’t get feedback from everybody on the RWW team (and our BlackBerry users weren’t very forthcoming with suggestions either), but here are the recommendations from Richard MacManus (R), Marshall Kirkpatrick (M), Frederic Lardinois (F), and Phil Glockner (P). Read the rest of this entry »
- Author: admin
- Filed under: Apple, iPhone
- Date: Jan 22,2009
When the App Store launched, there were a handful of Twitter apps for the iPhone. Now there’s ten zillion. We’ve read thousands of tweets on every Twitter app, so here are the best, and worst.
The Quicklist
• Best Overall: Tweetie
• Best Paid: Tweetie
• Best Free: Twitterfon
• Most Powerful: Twittelator Pro
• Best Tweet-Only: Tweeter
• Worst Twitter App Ever in the History of Twitter Ever: Tweetion
• Creepiest: Twittervision Read the rest of this entry »
- Author: admin
- Filed under: Apple, iPhone
- Date: Jan 12,2009
So, you’ve got a gleaming new iPhone 3G. After you make a few calls to tell your friends, snap a few pictures, and try out the Web browser, it’s time to load that thing up with software.
After all, this device lets you go way beyond the usual calling, texting, and surfing.
Apple’s communicator extraordinaire knows how it’s moving in space, can tell where it is on the planet, and lets you control it with multi-finger gestures.
Few desktop computers give programmers as many possibilities, and developers have responded with hundreds of applications. Read the rest of this entry »
