Guide to Mac, iPod, iPad and iPhone news and reviews
To Thread Contact’s credit, this $2 universal iOS app from New Zealand developer Oigo is beautiful to look at. The spare aesthetic, with a white background fronted by cool greys and blues, looks great on your iPhone, and makes you feel like you
Most of us amass disparate pieces of information we need to keep around, be they receipts for online purchases, scans of important documents, or just notes we’ve typed. Together 3 aims to keep all those bits of information in one easy to organiz…
The iPhone’s stock Clock app is versatile, offering instances of a world clock, an alarm clock, a stopwatch, and a single timer. Unfortunately, each of those features is pretty basic: For example, the timer mode offers just a single timer.
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It takes a lot of power to light up an iPad’s 9.7-inch screen—and even more to power the fourth-generation model’s Retina display. That’s why the device is packed full of battery capacity—an impressive 11,560 milliampere hours’ worth f…
Nessie is a new $100 microphone from Blue, purveyors of fine USB audio devices for the masses. True to Blue’s form, Nessie is a slick-looking mic with a design that makes you want to use it. It includes clever features like a built-in pop filter…
Sometimes you just want to see your images in one place without a lot of fuss: You don’t need an image editor; you don’t want to move anything; you just want to browse your photos and possibly do some very light editing or share some images wi…
From the very first version, Instagram became a fixture on our home screen and throughout our days, and in the nearly three years since, we’ve used it constantly to share a small window into our daily lives – and peer into those of our pals, as well….
Imagine waking up in a strange house and having no recollection of what happened to your wife, your friends, your job, your home, and the rest of your life as you know it. Only by meandering through the darkness and stumbling upon grim clues can you be…
Throw a virtual rock inside the App Store and you’ll hit any number of titles touting support for venerable Microsoft Office documents, but all of them have one problem: They’re not from the folks in Redmond. That situation has finally changed with the…
With its stylish exterior and handy inside pockets, Hex’s $80 Code Folio case for the third- and fourth-generation iPad is a good option for business folks that travel with their iPad or take it with them to meetings. The case comes in five solid…
Very few educational math apps have recognizable characters, but the newest such iOS edutainment game from JumpStart features animals from the Madagascar series of animated films. Madagascar Math Ops balances education with fun by rewarding good math s…
Pairing Disney’s biggest original iOS hit with the company’s most iconic character, Where’s My Mickey? XL delivers another breezy physics puzzler that tasks you with guiding a stream of liquid to the cartoon mouse. Skillfully utilizing a classic Mickey…
A major departure from its predecessor, Ulysses III is more reminiscent of Mail.Despite the “III” in the name, this is a new product. Rather than iterate on Ulysses 2, the app reimagines the text editor in a way that visually resembles Mail and con…
The original Kingdom Rush is one of the App Store’s most enticing time sinks – an original tower defense affair that delivers countless hours of challenging entertainment and remains atop the crowded genre on iOS. Kingdom Rush Frontiers, available in…
Reader Andy Jensen likes his web browsing to be distraction free. He writes:
Lately I’ve visited a few web sites that automatically display and play videos. I find this really distracting when I’m trying to read the article I came to see. Ot…
PDF is a wonderful format for reading documents, but once you move beyond reading, things can get complicated in a hurry. Thankfully, useful tools for working with PDF files are built into Automator, OS X’s built-in workflow tool. Let’s run thr…