Guide to Mac, iPod, iPad and iPhone news and reviews
TurboTax SnapTax is an app for iPhone and iPod touch aimed at the 59 million Americans whose tax returns are simple enough that they can file either a 1040a or 1040EZ. Designed to file your taxes in about 10 minutes, SnapTax handles your annual ta…
H&R Block At Home 1040EZ is an iOS app designed to file your 1040EZ and its related state form for $10 on your iPhone or iPod touch. To that end, the app runs you through a quick set of qualifying questions to learn whether or not you meet the…
TurboTax 2012 for iPad is a departure from Intuit’s past iOS offerings. Where in the past your only iOS options were for basic tax filings, TurboTax 2012 for iPad is a full-featured tax filing application that is equally as capable as both the d…
H&R Block At Home Free Edition is an iOS tax preparation app designed for the iPad. Like the H&R Block 1040EZ app, H&R Block At Home Free Edition makes it easy for you to file your tax return on your iOS device, but while the 1040EZ ap…
H&R Block At Home 2012 is the flagship desktop application of the H&R Block tax universe. An easy-to-use application that makes filing your taxes a snap, At Home 2012 also offers personalized assistance from H&R Block tax professionals…
TurboTax Premier 2012 is essentially the mirror image, in a desktop application, of Intuit’s new iPad version of TurboTax. (Which is to say that Intuit has done a great job of migrating a desktop app to iOS.) As always TurboTax helps you make qu…
They say that celebrity deaths come in threes. It appears that Mophie battery cases for the iPhone 5 come in twos. Just a couple weeks after releasing the Juice Pack Helium ()—the company’s first battery case for the iPhone 5—Mophie has unve…
OS X Mountain Lion’s iOS-inspired Notification Center feature lets applications alert you to important events. But there’s more Notification Center could do—with the right apps. For example, if you’ve installed Growl and the excellent Hard…
Are Apple’s ads falling behind those of their rivals? One ad man thinks so. Elsewhere, Apple forks over credit to parents bit by inadvertent in-app purchases, and one CEO tells us how he really feels about the company under its new leadership. T…
Apple has reached a settlement in a class-action lawsuit that claimed that its app purchase policy did not prevent minor children from running huge expenses for in-app purchases.
Under the settlement proposed to a court in California, Apple has …
Apple aims for India adoption, breaks new ground down under, and gets super in the UK. The remainders for Monday, February 25, 20213 are worldly-wise.
Apple signals emerging-market rethink with India push (Reuters)
To date, Apple hasn’t focu…
The Axis (all iPad models; $35) is a sleeve that keeps your iPad safe during transport and offers a bit of extra space for cables and accessories thanks to its external pockets.
Available in red, black, or teal, the Axis also features a water-resi…
Apple won’t have a little bundle of shareholder joy next week, iOS developers can now get their map data from Mountain View, and one team of cops has a mission—if they choose to accept it. The remainders for Friday, February 22, 2013 are cops o…
An Apple supplier known for making iPads has been penalized by Chinese authorities for turning a nearby river in Shanghai “white” after dumping pollutants during the nation’s Spring Festival holiday.
The supplier, RiTeng Computer Accessory…
If you’re watching the Oscars Sunday—and who isn’t?—you’ll want the official Oscars app for iPhone and iPad, which delivers behind-the-scenes views of stars arriving on the red carpet, award-winners going backstage, and more.
The $80 PoP’n isn’t exactly a battery case for your iPhone—it’s more a battery that attaches to your existing case or bare phone, adding up to 70 percent more talk time than you’d get out of your phone’s own battery. The PoP’n is ligh…