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The best apps for wine enthusiasts

Lory Gil ∙ Updated October 19, 2018

I love to sit down with a nice glass of wine after a long, hard day of work. A glass of red wine every day is said to prolong life, which I could believe because of how nicely it relaxes you.

I wouldn’t call myself an expert, by any means. I will unapologetically drink red with fish and white with lasagna. The App Store has a very nice selection of titles that could help make you seem like an expert to your friends and you won’t have spend all that money on special wine appreciation classes. Check out our list of best apps for wine drinkers…

The best Instagram apps for iPad

Joe Rossignol ∙ Updated April 17, 2018

Instagram is one of the most popular social networks for sharing photos and short videos, with official apps available for iPhone, Windows Phone and Android smartphones. But one device that still lacks a native Instagram app is the iPad, as the Facebook-owned company has yet to update the iPhone version to have universal support for the Apple tablet lineup.

As you might expect, a number of iOS developers have taken advantage of this shortcoming by releasing their own third-party Instagram apps for iPad on the App Store. In an effort to save you the trouble of looking through the storefront yourself for these apps, read ahead for a roundup of four of the best Instagram apps for iPad…

Update your Tweetbot iOS apps before they stop working

Cody Lee ∙ Updated February 14, 2018

The Tapbots issued updates for their Tweetbot Twitter clients on iOS last night, bringing the iPhone app to version 3.3.2 and the iPad version to 2.8.8. Both change logs note that these are critical updates, and that older versions of Tweetbot will soon stop working.

The developers published a post on their blog to better explain the situation, noting that folks from Twitter's Platform Operations group contacted them a few weeks ago asking them to make a small change in the way that Tweetbot talks with the Twitter API...

Apps of the week: Elevate, Ruzzle Adventure, Uncanny X-Men and more

Joe Rossignol ∙ Updated January 27, 2019

I imagine that in sunny Southern California, our resident app enthusiast Lory is enjoying a well-deserved break at Disneyland over the Memorial Day weekend. In her absence, I have volunteered to take over our weekly apps of the week column. I certainly picked a good time to fill in, because if you've been following my daily App Recap roundup, you'll know that Thursday was an action-packed day with over a half-dozen noteworthy new apps. See which apps top our list this week…

TeeVee 3 premiers: native iPad UI, iCloud/Trakt.tv sync, fullscreen iOS 7 layout and more

Christian Zibreg ∙ Updated May 17, 2018

Last summer I covered TeeVee, an elegant TV show-tracking app by Tomas Perzl of the Czech Republic and Slovakia-based CrazyApps Team.

I was sufficiently impressed with its clean and unobtrusive user interface and a robust set of capabilities designed to make it dead simple to retrieve useful information about your favorite TV shows, track the ones you're watching on a regular basis and what not.

A year in the making, the new TeeVee 3 is now available in exchange for $2.99 (free to existing users). The app is now finally optimized for the iPad and refreshed with a brand new iOS 7-styled interface. It sports iCloud/Trakt.tv integration, delights with its beautifully done fullscreen browser that uses edge-to-edge poster images and much more.

Hit the jump for the full reveal...

Medium app updated with iPad support, user following, and more

Cody Lee ∙ May 23, 2014

Good news this morning for fans and users of the Medium blogging platform. Its developers have pushed out an update for the iOS client, which brings the app to version 1.2, with a handful of new features and iPad support.

Originally launched back in March, the Medium app was iPhone-only, but today's release makes it universal. It also adds a new recommendation notes feature, and the ability for users to directly follow their favorite authors...

‘Uncanny X-Men: Days of Future Past’ now available in the App Store

Cody Lee ∙ Updated January 27, 2018

As promised back in March, Glitchsoft has released its highly anticipated title Uncanny X-Men: Days of Future Past. The game is a tie-in to the upcoming Marvel movie of the same name, and is now available for download on your iPhone or iPad.

The game is of the 2D side-scrolling variety, and allows X-Men fans to participate in the 'Days of Future Past' story arc for the first time. It's combat-focused, fast-based, and looks great thanks to Glitchsoft's proprietary 'Helios Game Engine' tech...

Fun Golf GPS 3D goes free as Apple’s App of the Week

Cody Lee ∙ May 22, 2014

Apple has named the popular app Fun Golf GPS 3D its App of the Week this week. This means that between now and next Thursday, you’ll be able to pick up the application for both your iPhone and iPad for free—a huge savings of $20.

For those unfamiliar with the software, it's essentially a digital caddie. It's capable of tracking your shots, showing you distance to pin, and recommending clubs. And it features 3D maps of nearly 32,000 golf courses from around the world...

Thomas Was Alone review: making friends in a pixelated existence

Lory Gil ∙ May 22, 2014

It’s interesting to see trends unfold right before your eyes. No, minimalist platform games are not new. However, their popularity has grown significantly in the past few months. The games are oftentimes thought provoking while offering a decent bit of fun.

Thomas Was Alone is a fascinating platformer that uses a minimalistic design but combines it with the complex narrative of a group of coding errors that have a mind of their own. Check out our game review of Thomas Was Alone below…

Pixelmator 3.2 is out: all-new Repair tool, Lock Layers feature, 16-bit channels and more

Christian Zibreg ∙ May 22, 2014

After previewing Pixelmator 3.2 a little more than a month ago, the team on Thursday released the updated software for public consumption.

Bumped to version 3.2, Pixelmator's 'Sandstone' update is now available free in the Mac App Store to those who own this popular Photoshop alternative for the Mac. The headline new feature: a much improved Repair tool.

It uses “the latest breakthrough technologies” to make it easy and fun to remove dust, blemishes and entire objects from your images, “with an unsurpassed level of precision and quality”.

Also on tap in this Pixelmator update: a Lock Layers Feature and 16-bits per channel support for all Macs (previously, only the new Mac Pro supported higher-fidelity color channels)...

You can now create mixes from Spotify tracks in Algoriddim’s djay for iPhone and iPad

Christian Zibreg ∙ Updated January 27, 2019

Germany-based Algoriddim - which develops the popular djay software for the iPhone [$1.99], iPad [$9.99] and Mac [$19.99] - today announced a major partnership with Swedish startup Spotify, which operates the world's leading streaming-music service.

Spotify Premium subscribers and DJ wannabes can now mix any of the more than twenty million Spotify tracks, right inside djay for the iPhone and iPad. This seamless integration extends to such advanced features as Automix Radio, Spotify Match, desktop-class audio effects and pro-grade DJ hardware integration, to name a few.

The newly introduced capabilities are available via a major update to djay for the iPhone and iPad. Based on my brief hands-on time with djay for iPad, I can safely say that Spotify integration has just become a major selling point for these kinds of apps, here's why...

Infinity Blade III goes on sale as ‘Blade Masters’ update arrives

Cody Lee ∙ Updated January 27, 2019

Chair has just released a monstrous update for its popular Infinity Blade III game this morning. The so-called 'Blade Masters' update brings the app to version 1.3, and offers up a number of new features and characters, as well as other improvements.

Among the changes is a new character called the Collector, an ancient Deathless Blade Master who has a penchant for fine weapons. Ryth also makes a return, along with 6 new enemies, and you can prepare for them using the brand new Trainer feature...