Tag archive: Apps

If you're feeling a bit upset over the lack of dates on Valentine's day, or just upset in general, not to fear. You might find a fun way to unwind with Angry Birds on Facebook, arriving a day ahead of its official release date. As one of today's biggest gaming apps on all mobile platforms, it was only a matter of time before fans could enjoy swinging cartoony, pissed-off birds into a herd of slimy pigs on the largest social… Read More

With over 500,000 apps available through Apple’s App Store, it can be daunting for developers to get their apps noticed — let alone downloaded. Enter a recent thread on app developer site Touch Arcade, in which a poster who was recently shopping around for ways to get his app more exposure was contacted by a “marketing” company that promised it could break apps into the top 25 rankings in exchange for a lump sum payment — in this case $5,000.… Read More

It's with no surprise that with lomography as one of the biggest trends from the past year, app developers continue to make it easier for the general public to create soft, hipster-effect media without the fuss of actually owning a manual camera, film, then developing it. Such is the case with Viddy, an app that aims to bring those pretty vintage filters to a motion picture platform. How does it work? Viddy allows users to simply shoot a… Read More

With all the gloomy news regarding the economy doing the rounds these days, it’s good to hear that there are some industries doing well. For example, research sponsored by TechNet, a group of bipartisan business executives from the tech world, has revealed that America’s app economy currently accounts for nearly half a million jobs. Not bad for an industry that didn’t even exist before 2007, when Apple’s app-hungry iPhone was introduced to the… Read More

When IT security firm Juniper Networks said last November that the presence of malware targeting devices running Android had surged by 472 percent in four months, many owners of such devices must have taken a long hard look at their smartphone or tablet and wondered what on earth was contained within. In response to growing concerns about malware on Android devices, the folks behind Google's mobile operating system are of course keen to… Read More

Rabid sports fans like to talk. They like to trash rivals, they like to hype fellow revelers, they like to argue with Charles Barkley and John Madden from their living rooms and scream at referees from the safety of their seats. And that’s why it’s only natural that legions of sports fans have taken so enthusiastically to social networking. Fantasy leagues and sports-centered social apps have continued to thrive, thanks to the insatiable need of… Read More

Flickr is Yahoo’s saving grace. Amidst the site’s myriad of problems and ill-defined purpose, the photo-sharing platform has been a beacon of hope, with its dedicated users and razor-sharp focus. Which is why Flickr subscribers are concerned about Yahoo’s direction for the site. Former Flickr employee Nolan Caudill says the site will be cutting a crucial portion of its customer support team. “For reasons I don’t know, Yahoo laid off the highest… Read More

There are tons and tons of games for the iPod Touch and iPhone. Some are better than others and some you have to pay for. We're not looking at the expensive choices here. Instead, we've picked out some apps that are completely free (and aren't Angry Birds, though Angry Birds is free now as well). We've picked a range of games, from the simple to the complex, online and off. We're sure that you'll find… Read More

Geo-social has proven to be somewhat tricky territory. While it appears that many users want to interact with their location, how and how much remains undecided. Privacy implications arise at every turn, and what exactly crosses the line into over-sharing in this segment is an important and unanswered question–all while developers are reinventing how we broadcast our whereabouts.  Manufacturing serendipity Location apps have been trying to… Read More

It’s time to accept it: Facebook is hitting the Timeline switch and the new format is coming. There is no use arguing, if you want to keep using Facebook you’re going to have to get on board with this monumental change. Once you’ve gotten past the “I’m going to quit Facebook!” phase (which most of you will), you can start filling out your very own Timeline. You can manually go through the entire thing, uploading pictures and writing pithy… Read More

Instagram has catapulted to major success, winning iPhone’s app of the year and spawning an entire ecosystem of smartphone photo products. Despite its enormous popularity, the app has remained rather simple, with only one major upgrade being issued and the team staying relatively small. But an Android app has always been the biggest priority for Instagram, and CEO Kevin Systrom confirmed as much during Le Web this year. Now, it appears that… Read More

The increasingly public nature of Facebook and the accompanying privacy scares have paved the way for social sites with an element of exclusivity. Facebook may want to connect the world, but these platforms want to connect your inner circle—and keep the rest of the world out. One of these new sites is Capsule. Capsule is an event planning and sharing site, and it’s equal parts organizational and social. Users create “capsules,” which… Read More

Announced during a press event in San Francisco earlier today, Facebook has pushed out support for 60 new applications that will allow friends of users to join in on the activity through Facebook. For instance, a Facebook user could be using Foodily to cook a recipe for lemon chicken. If a friend sees that activity within the feed, they can join and try cooking the same recipe. Another example mentioned at the press event would entail a… Read More

Last month, U.S. regulations were altered to allow Netflix integration with the Facebook Open Graph. Instead of requiring the written consent from each user, all Netflix has to do now is offer an opt-out feature that keeps your viewing habits off of Facebook. And now this partnership—and many others—are coming to fruition. We’ve spent a lot of time wondering when exactly the Open Graph was going to fully open for business, and all those… Read More