Author: Joseph Keller

July was apparently a banner month for Apple’s App Store. Purchases of apps and in-app items were made in record numbers. From CNBC: The Cupertino-based company also said that its app store saw a record number of customers making transactions that m…

Sports tracking app theScore has received a hefty update today, hitting version 4.3 with some major enhancements for baseball fans. These include better box scores, more detail, and better data visualization. MLB box scores now offer more in-depth st…

The Lollapalooza music festival kicks off in Chicago in a few days, but for those that can’t make it, Red Bull has you covered. As part of a partnership, Red Bull will be live streaming the festival to a number of devices this weekend. Any device wit…

Jared Sinclair, the developer behind RSS reader app Unread, has provided a detailed account of Unread’s first year of existance. It’s a sobering look at the state of indie app development and the market for pay up front apps. Sinclair goes in-depth ab…

Every day dozens and dozens of new and updated apps and games hit the iOS and Mac App Stores. It’s impossible to keep up with them all, but it’s not impossible to pick out the very best. Here they are! Today we’ve got a music streaming app, a drawing …

Apple has been temporarily spared the presence of an external antitrust monitor, initially placed at the company as part of the judgment in the U.S. government’s case against Apple regarding ebooks. Apple has been fighting to remove the monitor, Micha…

TextExpander for Mac has been updated to version 4.2.1, with fixes and smaller improvements galore. Among the issues fixed with this release are excessive CPU use after multiple expansions, as well as a timing issue that could lead to crashes during e…

Sprint has announced the Framily Plan, a aimed at non-family groups that want to share wireless service. As customers on this plan are not expected to be living under one roof, each member is billed separately for their own line. The Framily Plan incl…

The new Mac Pro has gotten a teardown by the folks over at iFixit. Unlike some other recent Apple products, iFixit seems quite impressed with the repairability of the Mac Pro. Despite some issues, such as the lack of user-upgradeable internal storage,…

Google has released MyGlass, an iPhone companion app for their Google Glass headset. MyGlass is used to pair and manage Glass right on your iPhone, including determining what notifications your receive, like Gmail and Google Now. The app includes some…

Twitter for iOS received a major update today, moving to version 6.0 with a refreshed design and some new tricks. The two major changes in the design are the new navigation bar and addition of the Activity and Discover timelines, accessed by swiping t…

Paper by 53 has received an update in preparation for the relase of Pencil, a stylus designed by the company for use with Paper. This enables the palm rejection, eraser, and blend capabilities of Pencil. Pencil’s features will only work with Paper, th…

Spin is a iOS-only Skype alternative that allows you to share photos and videos with friends. Spin uses HD video and and 44kHz audio to provide the highest-quality experience that they can. The app places an emphasis on shared experiences for up to te…

Twitter is introducing custom timelines, the ability for users to create a timeline to follow based on words, phrases, hashtags, and more. Custom timelines are public, and have their own page on twitter.com so they’re easy to share. Twitter wants peop…