App Store launches Free App of the Week and Editors’ Choice promos

by Christian Zibreg on May 25, 2012

Not to be outdone by indie devs’ massive game sale, Apple has launched a pair of prominently advertised promotions on both the App Store and the Mac App Store, in time for your extended Memorial Day weekend. The new Editors’ Choice section offers great apps for both iOS and Mac platforms cherry-picked by Apple’s iTunes team.

Also, Cupertino (finally) pulled an Amazon with the other section, giving away one free app every week, starting today… Read More

 

Autodesk debuts SketchBook Ink for iPad, we go hands-on

by Christian Zibreg on May 25, 2012

There’s certainly no shortage of high-quality drawing apps on the App Store, especially for the iPad whose spacious canvas begs to be drawn on.

SketchBook Ink for iPad, a new pen & ink drawing app from Autodesk, has been long anticipated. It’s one of the select few third-party apps Apple showcased during the iPad 3 introduction back in March.

So, is it worth your hard-earned cash? Read More

 

Indie app devs start massive game sale

by Christian Zibreg on May 24, 2012

I’ve always been as much of a sucker for not-to-be-missed deals on App Store games as the other guy. And why wouldn’t anyone want great value for their hard-earned cash?

If you’ve been on the lookout for deep discounts on dozens of notable games for your iPhone, iPod touch or iPad, you don’t wanna miss out on this insane deal.

Organized by a bunch of independent developers who banded together for greater cause, it spans application stores across multiple platforms… Read More

 

Why did Apple just pull Airfoil Speakers Touch from the App Store?

by Cody on May 24, 2012

There’s an interesting story developing on the App Store front today. It seems that Apple has just pulled the popular Airfoil Speakers Touch application from its digital download hub, without offering up any kind of explanation.

If you haven’t heard of the app before, it’s essentially a utility that allows allowed you to stream audio from your desktop Mac or PC to an iOS device using AirPlay. It’s been in the App Store for years. So why’d Apple pull it? Read More

 

Tweetbot gets better mute filters, enhanced search view with nearby tweets

by Christian Zibreg on May 24, 2012

Tweetbot, a popular Twitter client for iOS devices, just got updated with a couple new additions and various enhancements, including a reworked search view with location-based searching and nearby tweets.

You will also love the combined search for people and terms, relocated Trends and People categories, offline supprot for favorites and read later services, improved keyword mute filters, basic smart quote support when composing and other nice-to-haves… Read More

 

Facebook announces new iOS app: Facebook Camera

by Cody on May 24, 2012

As noted by The New York Times, Facebook has announced a new standalone application for the iPhone and iPod touch called Facebook Camera. The app is intended to make it easier to take and share photos on the social network.

Facebook members will be able to use the new software to upload high resolution photos — up to 2048 x 2048, choose from a selection of 15 filters (makes sense), and pipe the images directly into their Facebook photo albums… Read More

 

Rumor: Microsoft to release native Outlook and Lync iOS apps this fall

by Cody on May 23, 2012

Microsoft appears to be devoting a lot of its attention to the iOS platform this summer. Earlier today we heard that the Redmond company was working on bringing its Office suite to Apple’s mobile OS. And now this.

AppleInsider is out with a new report this afternoon, claiming that it has learned that Microsoft plans to release native iOS apps for both Outlook, its popular email client, and Lync, its instant messaging client, this fall… Read More

 

Google Search iPhone app gets facelift, new features, full-screen image search

by Christian Zibreg on May 23, 2012

Google just pushed out a major update to its iPhone search app, bringing out a completely reworked interface and several new features, including beautiful full-screen image search, faster autocompletion and searching, the new in-line search option (finally!),  the redesigned home screen with services shortcuts, handy tabs to filter down your search results and what not… Read More

 

Hulu updates iPad video player with Retina support

by Christian Zibreg on May 22, 2012

Hulu has finally updated their iPhone and iPad video player with the much-needed support for the Retina Display of the new iPad.

They also redesigned the user interface and brought out an enhanced video playback engine that takes advantage of the iPad’s bigger canvas.

The app also features improved AirPlay mirroring and HDMI support on the iPhone 4S and iPad 2 and above… Read More

 

Facebook Pages Manager finally lands on the App Store, get downloading

by Christian Zibreg on May 21, 2012

We told you five days ago that Facebook was rolling out a brand new iPhone app to manage your Facebook Pages. The software originally landed on the New Zealand App Store and it obviously took longer than expected, but here it is finally so grab it quickly.

The app should be indispensable to anyone managing their own Pages on Facebook.

Unlike the official Facebook for iOS client, the free Pages Manager app lets you check out comments, drill through logs, post updates, get notifications on new activity and so forth… Read More

 
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