Ios Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

ProCollage is an easy and powerful photo utility for iOS

by Mel Martin (Jun 19th, 2013)

ProCollage (US$1.99) is a very nicely done app for creating photo collages on any iOS device. After you grant access to your camera roll, PhotoCollage lets you select multiple images and use pre-defined templates. Don't care for those templates? No problem, it lets you use a free form approach as ...

Antec PowerUp 6000 offers iPad-capable portable power

by Erica Sadun (Jun 19th, 2013)

Mid-June is an odd time of year. Apple's hardware refresh cycle isn't really due until October -- likely six full months away -- so you might consider picking up an external battery pack to use with your current iOS device to tide you over until then. Internal batteries drop in efficiency as ...

Avengers Alliance out now on iOS, Where's My Mickey coming tomorrow

by Mike Schramm (Jun 19th, 2013)

Disney's got two big releases arriving on the App Store last week and this week, one we've been waiting on for a while, and another that combines one of the company's oldest properties with one of the newest. The first is Avengers Alliance, which is now out and available on the App Store as a ...

Apple updates Siri to help those considering suicide to get help

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Jun 19th, 2013)

GigaOM noticed that Apple quietly released an update to Siri that offers to put a user in contact with the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, should he or she mention suicide. Should the person decline the offer, Siri then brings up area suicide prevention centers in a second attempt to provide ...

Facebook update boosts privacy features to iOS app

by Michael Grothaus (Jun 19th, 2013)

Facebook has updated its iOS app, adding new status icons and new privacy features. The version 6.2 update follows updates made to the web version of Facebook, especially regarding the all-important privacy status. Now after a user has posted a status update, photo or a link, they can tap a ...

Square Enix uses your face for action in Bloodmasque

by Mike Schramm (Jun 18th, 2013)

Square Enix's Bloodmasque was undoubtedly the strangest game I saw at E3 last week, and in a year defined by indie titles and two new HD consoles, I think that's saying something. Square Enix has had a weird time with the App Store -- other companies like Capcom and EA have found a lot of success ...

Dirac HD Player can improve the Apple headphone and EarPod experience

by Mel Martin (Jun 18th, 2013)

Thinking of buying new headphones for listening to music on your iPhone or iPod touch? You might want to try the Dirac HD Player or the Lite version instead to see if it can improve the sound from the headphones that came with your iOS music player. Dirac is a Swedish company that does all kinds ...

Daily iPhone App: Agricola is Playdek's great adaptation of the board game

by Mike Schramm (Jun 18th, 2013)

Agricola is one of the most popular board games around these days -- it's sort of a farming simulation game, where you can take two turns every round, and then periodically get rewards paid off in a harvest. Playdek is an up-and-coming iOS developer that's mostly done card games so far -- they're ...

DevJuice: iOS/Android PortKit translates visual metaphors

by Erica Sadun (Jun 18th, 2013)

The clever folk over at Kintek have posted a handy system-to-system guide for anyone working in the mobile development space. This metaphor overview quickly references how items like buttons, switches, one-of-n selection and other common interface items are expressed by default in the target ...

Knights of Pen and Paper now updated to +1 edition

by Mike Schramm (Jun 18th, 2013)

The excellent iOS RPG Knights of Pen and Paper has been updated to the +1 Edition (as we heard it would be back at GDC) and is now available as a free update on the App Store. This new version, which is technically 2.02, brings lots of new content, game updates, new dungeons to explore and many ...

Neat revises mobile scanning app, adds expense reporting

by Michael Rose (Jun 18th, 2013)

Pushing towards a paperless future, the neat folks at Neat have released version 2.0 of Neat for iOS. The new build of the scanning-on-the-go application features much faster performance, scan annotation, new sharing and collaboration options, plus a new expense-reporting tool. Neat has made ...

Wren Sound Systems V5AP AirPlay speaker: Stunning design, incredible sound

by Steven Sande (Jun 18th, 2013)

When it comes to getting music from your iOS device to a good speaker, there are a lot of different methods. There's the tried and true dock method, which can fall to pieces when Apple comes out with a new connector design as they did last year with Lightning. Some manufacturers have the mistaken ...

EA/Chillingo's E3 2013 offerings: Plants vs Zombies 2, Fightback and more

by Mike Schramm (Jun 17th, 2013)

Chillingo, unfortunately, wasn't mentioned at all during EA's press conference last week. I thought the big publisher would at least give a little nod to its extremely successful mobile publishing arm, but no such luck. I did, however, go and see the team gathered in their annual suite near the ...

Daily iPhone App: Solstice Arena is Zynga's shot at multiplayer online battle arenas

by Mike Schramm (Jun 17th, 2013)

I first got to see Solstice Arena, Zynga's latest iOS entry, at GDC earlier this year, and then had a short meeting again last week with the publisher at E3. But you no longer have to take my word on what it's like: The game arrived on iOS worldwide last week, so you can grab the ...

Automattic buys third-party Wordpress app Poster to improve its own mobile apps

by John-Michael Bond (Jun 17th, 2013)

Automattic, the company behind Wordpress, has purchased the iOS Wordpress client Poster. Developer Tom Witkin is joining Wordpress' mobile team with the aim of bringing his app's unique features to Wordpress' own app. Sadly, progress for Wordpress means Poster is no longer available in the app ...