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Pandora app revamps interface, adds Facebook publishing

by Mike Schramm (May 22nd, 2013)

Pandora Radio is the granddaddy of streaming music apps, and for years now, the company's iPhone app has been one of the most popular ways to use and interact with the service. Just today, the app has nabbed a big update, bringing it to version 4.3. The new update adds a redesigned interface, ...

Google announces new features for its Maps app, coming soon

by Mike Schramm (May 15th, 2013)

Google I/O is going down today (as you have probably noticed from all of the Google updates), and one of the new products announced there is a new version of the Google Maps app, due out to the App Store later on this summer. Google says the new Maps app will include integrated information from ...

iMovie update 9.0.9 released

by John-Michael Bond (May 14th, 2013)

A minor update for iMovie has been released. Version 9.0.9 fixes issues where iMovie didn't recognize when video cameras were connected to the computer, adds improved compatibility with iMovie for iOS projects and includes the usual stability improvements. The update is currently available for ...

Siri update prompts users to be brief

by Mike Schramm (May 14th, 2013)

Apple's voice interaction system Siri has been updated, this time specifically to ask users to keep it short. Siri's system doesn't deal well with longer user queries, so if you happen to ask something that's just too long for Siri to deal with, she'll interrupt you, giving you a quote from a ...

Heroes and Castles updated to version 3.0

by Mike Schramm (May 13th, 2013)

Foursaken Media's Heroes and Castles has been updated yet again, with lots of new content to play. The game, which allows you to level up a hero by defending a town and its various resources against an army of invading minions, has been popular for Foursaken already, and the team told me during ...

Pixbits announces Junk Jack X, coming later this year

by Mike Schramm (May 10th, 2013)

There are quite a few "sandbox" games available on iOS, including the uber-popular Minecraft, and Majic Jungle's great Blockheads. But my favorite so far is Junk Jack, a 2D sandbox title put together by Pixbits. It's excellent -- its little square tiles are perfect for the iPhone's interface, ...

Pixelmator 2.2 available with over 100 new features and improvements

by John-Michael Bond (May 9th, 2013)

Popular image-editing app Pixelmator has released version 2.2, which brings a slew of new features to the already powerful program. The update comes with an expanded collection of shapes, tools to manipulate them, enhanced gradient palettes and a new paint selection tool among the more than 100 ...

Hello Games says Joe Danger iOS is a big success, planning an update and more

by Mike Schramm (May 7th, 2013)

148Apps recently had a nice chat with Hello Games, the makers of Joe Danger, a motorcycle stunt racing game first for consoles and then for iOS, and the company says that Apple's platform has done very well for them. Throughout the app's life, Joe Danger's been in 5 million crashes total, which ...

Viber expands its VoIP service with new OS X app

by Mike Schramm (May 7th, 2013)

Viber is a voice-over-internet app that's seen some success on iOS already, but today the company announced a brand-new version for both OS X and Windows. Viber Desktop has all of the features of the iOS app, including free messages and calls to other users, synced contacts and history between ...

Songza 3.0 update available now

by Mike Schramm (May 2nd, 2013)

We mentioned Songza's iOS app last year around when it came out, and the music sharing service has just updated the app to version 3.0. The free app has been almost completely reimagined, and while it still offers plenty of tunes to listen to, the interface has been revamped -- it's much ...

How to turn off Google Now and keep your battery charged

by Mike Schramm (May 1st, 2013)

Google has recently added its Google Now service into its search app for iOS, but there's one big drawback to getting constant weather, traffic, and other local information on your phone: Location Services runs constantly. You can tell by the little arrow icon up in the corner of your home ...

Reeder updated to connect with Feedbin, or nothing at all

by Mike Schramm (Apr 29th, 2013)

Personally, I'm still in denial about losing my beloved Google Reader in the near future. The web-based RSS reader has been a standby ever since I started using RSS, and even when I used other services, like the great Reeder app on iOS, they ran through Google Reader to get their content. But ...

Circadia celebrates 100,000 downloads with new content

by Mike Schramm (Apr 25th, 2013)

Circadia is a great game that I wrote about a little over a year ago -- it's put together by a developer named Kurt Bieg, and until now, it's basically just been sitting on the App Store waiting to be found. But Bieg has just put out a nice solid update for the game, and that gives me another ...

Tweetbot update brings new media timeline and image viewer

by John-Michael Bond (Apr 23rd, 2013)

The popular Twitter client Tweetbot has been updated to version 2.8, bringing the addition of a new "media timeline" and image viewer for the iPhone and iPad apps. Media view allows users to see photos and images that have been tweeted directly in their feeds, with the text of the Tweets neatly ...

Nike adds friends, leader boards to FuelBand iOS app

by Kelly Hodgkins (Apr 23rd, 2013)

Nike continues to improve the now 1-year-old Nike+ FuelBand by adding new features to its iOS app. The latest version ups your motivation by letting you compare your level of fitness with your friends. The new Nike+ Friends feature has a custom leader board that pulls in information from your ...