Stampede Run is Apple’s new Free App of the Week

Christian Zibreg ∙ Updated January 27, 2018

Like any given Thursday, another iOS app has gone free today as part of Apple's ongoing App Store promotion that's been running under the 'Free App of the Week' tagline for months now.

Awarded the App Store Best of 2013 for Great Multiplayer and named Apple Editor's Choice, Zynga's Stampede Run is now available free of charge.

In case you haven't heard about Stampede Run, it's a hilarious game where you run away from mad bulls in the streets of Spain. So, what are you waiting for? Pick Stampede Run for the iPhone and iPad in the App Store, free of charge through next Thursday. Go, go, go!

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Apple retakes top spot in new J.D. Power tablet customer satisfaction survey

Cody Lee ∙ Updated October 13, 2018

Apple reclaimed its top spot in J.D. Power's latest US tablet customer satisfaction study this week after falling to Samsung in November. You might recall that the results of the report were fairly controversial, as the iPad beat the Galaxy Tab in 4 out of 5 categories and somehow still lost.

But not this time. It was close again, but Apple managed to retake #1, earning a 5-star rating and a score of 830 (out of a possible 1,000). Samsung finished in second place with a 3-star rating and a score of 822, and Asus came in third place, also with a 3-star rating, and a score of 820...

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Apple exploring ‘super-resolution’ iPhone imaging

Christian Zibreg ∙ May 8, 2014

If Apple's patent filing with the United States Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) is anything to go by, future iOS devices could appeal further to iPhoneography fans by allowing them to take very detailed snaps using a fancily named 'super-resolution' imaging.

According to the filing, this could be achieved by using optical image stabilization - a feature that must be implemented in the camera hardware itself - to capture multiple images in a burst, each at a slightly offset angle.

The software would take it from there and stitch individual image data together to form a single super-resolution image, bypassing the need for more megapixels...

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Instapaper introduces Highlights, revamps web UI

Christian Zibreg ∙ May 8, 2014

The popular read-later iOS app Instapaper (I prefer the free Pocket app, formerly Read It Later) has received an interesting update this morning bringing out a new Highlights feature which lets you create and save passages of text from any article, useful to keep those quotes and important notes handy. The biggest threat to Instapaper's further adoption is its pricing structure: unlike the free Pocket, Instapaper is a $3.99 value...

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Warhammer 40,000: Carnage brutalizes the App Store

Lory Gil ∙ Updated January 27, 2019

In the mid 1980s, a science fiction-fantasy tabletop miniature game won the hearts of role-play game fans that were tired of the same old stuff. The Warhammer world was born. To this day, you can walk into practically any board game store and a group of gamers will be sitting at a table with their boxes of tanks and armies of tiny fighters.

Warhammer 40,000: Carnage is a side-scrolling run-and-gun arcade style game set in the Warhammer 40K universe. Pick your side and hit the ground running because the enemy is waiting for you…

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Hipstamatic takes aim at Instagram and Vine with new Cinamatic video app

Christian Zibreg ∙ May 8, 2014

Our youngest audience may be totally oblivious to this, but back when hipsters were not cool yet and way before Facebook-owned Instagram and Twitter-owned Vine made mobile photo and video sharing popular, there was Hipstamatic.

And just when you thought that Hipstamatic has given up on mobile photography, the photo editing pioneer is back with a new video sharing app called Cinamatic.

It's available now for $1.99 in the App Store, here's what it brings to the table...

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Yahoo News Digest has gone global

Christian Zibreg ∙ Updated January 26, 2018

Yahoo's News Digest iOS app isn't just gorgeous, it's a great time saver, too. For those unfamiliar with Digest, it uses Yahoo-owned Summly technology and algorithmic and human editorial curation to aggregate and summarize the day's most important topics from a variety of trusted sources and premium media outlets.

With your news delivered twice a day, it's a great way to start your day in the morning and wind down in the evening, without spending too much time catching up on the most important news.

The catch? The news it serves focuses on U.S. and UK markets. But not anymore: as of today, the new version of the app serves news globally, with both international and Canadian editions of the Digest now available...

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Adobe debuts ‘Voice’ story creation app for iPad

Christian Zibreg ∙ Updated January 27, 2016

Photoshop maker Adobe on Thurday released a brand new iPad application on the App Store. Named Voice and available for free, the iPad-only software makes it easy to pair your spoken words to any of the 25,000 included “beautiful iconic images” (or your own graphics) in order to “create stunning animated videos in minutes.”

Targeted at both consumers and business users who want to create compelling presentations that tell a story, Adobe Voice includes features to effortlessly create cinema-quality transitions and animations, add an inspiring soundtrack and render your presentations for easy viewing on any platform or device...

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iSpaceship ground imprint now clearly visible in new aerial photos

Christian Zibreg ∙ Updated January 27, 2016

Apple's upcoming Campus 2 structure, dubbed by the press the iSpaceship, is starting to take shape. As evidenced by a bunch of aerial photos taken last month, a large portion of the site has been demolished, with the rubble cleared out.

A new batch of photos taken from the air and published Thursday depict a spaceship-like imprint of the main building on the ground.

The dirt in the circle is especially interesting as it offers a hint of the perfect Euclidean geometry, in line with Apple's maniacal attention to detail. Check out the images included after the jump and dare telling me this won't be the office of the future...

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GoodReader adds new PDF editing features in paid update

Christian Zibreg ∙ Updated January 27, 2018

Good.iWare's popular document and file management iOS app, GoodReader, is one of the best applications to help solve the lack of a dedicated file management system on your iPhone, iPod touch and iPad devices.

GoodReader can synchronize your documents and files with a number of sources, be it your computer, another iOS device or a host of frequently used cloud-storage solutions.

It has a robust PDF management and editing capabilities that have been vastly enhanced in the latest version 4.0 update. Having decided to release GoodReader 4 as a brand new paid app, Good.iWare is now offering a time-limited 60 percent discount with an introductory price of $2.99...

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Ryan Petrich releases jailbreak tweak to patch iOS 7 Mail encryption bug

Cody Lee ∙ May 7, 2014

Earlier this week, word got out that there's a gap in security in iOS. Security researcher Andreas Kurtz discovered  that all versions of iOS 7.1, and at least iOS 7.0.4, don't encrypt email attachments.

Kurtz says that he has informed Apple of the bug, and they are working on a fix, but there's no word when it will be available. Fortunately, the jailbreak community has a much faster response time...

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