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Memorial Day brings lots of great sales on iOS games

by Mike Schramm (May 24th, 2013)

Happy Memorial Day Weekend! Here in the US, most of us are celebrating a three-day weekend that also serves as the start of summer, which means BBQs, poolside hangouts, and lots and lots of time in the sun. Oh, and it means one more thing these days: iOS game sales! Card game maker Playdek has ...

Ninja Theory partners with Chillingo to publish Fightback

by Mike Schramm (May 24th, 2013)

Ninja Theory is an excellent game developer based in the UK that's produced Enslaved: Odyssey to the West and the recent Devil May Cry reboot. Now, Ninja Theory is releasing its first iOS title, Fightback, which EA studio Chillingo will publish. Fightback, as you can see above, looks like a ...

Backblaze Mobile for iPhone provides on-the-go access to file backups

by Steven Sande (May 24th, 2013)

Backblaze, the online backup company that has made TUAW headlines with its innovative open-source 180 TB Storage Pods and drop-dead simple Mac backups, today announced a way to get mobile access to your backed-up data. Backblaze Mobile for iPhone (free) works for any current or future Backblaze ...

Smule users record 1 billion songs

by Steven Sande (May 24th, 2013)

Smule may be only 5 years old, but the California development firm started in part by Jeff Smith and Stanford Assistant Professor Dr. Ge Wang has had an amazing impact on the world. The company shared some stats with Evolver.fm that are incredible -- Smule's apps have been downloaded over 100 ...

Apple expands iOS Maps' 3D Flyover coverage in California, including Disneyland

by Michael Grothaus (May 24th, 2013)

Apple is continuing to roll out increased Maps 3D Flyover coverage. The latest update was first spotted by AppleInsider and appears to include large parts of California. Specifically, the latest update includes the cities of San Bernardino, Riverside, Rancho Cucamonga, Ontario, Moreno Valley and ...

Verizon Cloud comes to iOS devices

by Michael Grothaus (May 24th, 2013)

Following up on an announcement made at the end of April, Verizon has begun rolling out its Verizon Cloud storage solution to iOS devices today. Verizon Cloud offers Verizon users a free 500 MB of cloud storage to backup their photos, videos, contacts, music, call logs and text messages. Users who ...

Daily iPad App: Frozen Synapse simulates some very impressive turn-based strategy

by Mike Schramm (May 23rd, 2013)

Frozen Synapse has been a successful title on Steam for a while now -- it's a turn-based strategy game, with the twist being that you're a sort of tactical AI, running these battles on simulations and hardware rather than in real life. As a result, the big draw of Frozen Synapse is that while, ...

Ultima Forever spotted on the Canadian App Store

by Mike Schramm (May 23rd, 2013)

If you've been waiting for Ultima Forever, the new iOS version of Ultima from EA, then it's here for you (kind of). The app has been spotted over on the Canadian App Store, and if you have an account over there, you can go and download it right now. The Canadian App Store is often used as a beta ...

Turn your photos into a comic book with Halftone 2

by Mel Martin (May 23rd, 2013)

We looked at the original Halftone app for iOS a couple of years ago and were impressed. The app has been completely rewritten and is more touch-oriented, supporting vector graphics for smooth insertion of picture elements. Halftone 2, which is iPad-only and was released today, lets you import ...

Box acquires Folders, in what sounds like the least exciting acquisition deal ever

by Mike Schramm (May 23rd, 2013)

File-sharing service Box has acquired the technology behind a French app called Folders, which was never released, but is also centered on browsing and sharing files on the iPhone. Terms of the acquisition weren't revealed, but Box said that Folders would be a big influence on the next few ...

Study: Mobile gamers download five titles a month, mostly through word of mouth

by Mike Schramm (May 23rd, 2013)

A new study released by Applifier says that word of mouth is still the number one way mobile game players find the games they like. That doesn't necessarily mean in-person discussion about mobile games, however, though 36 percent of users did report that hearing from a friend or family member ...

Evernote introduces reminders to Mac, iOS apps

by Steven Sande (May 23rd, 2013)

One of the reasons that I've never been a super-user of Evernote is that while it's a great place to save your notes, scans and other materials, it's never had the ability to simply let you know when you need to get something done. Instead, it has always relied on another app to give you a ...

Parenting Tip: How to control what your child watches on YouTube

by Kelly Hodgkins (May 23rd, 2013)

My kids are growing up as part of the internet generation and, as a result, they love watching videos online. Being good internet citizens, it's not surprising their favorite videos involve cats doing silly tricks. I would love to let them loose on YouTube to watch their cat videos, but there is ...

Google: Voice Search coming to Chrome for iOS soon

by Steven Sande (May 23rd, 2013)

Yesterday TUAW showed you how voice search on Chrome for Mac has improved, now providing eerily Siri-like functionality in Google Search. According to a post yesterday on the Google Chrome Blog, the next target for voice search is iOS -- and we should see the update in just a few days. The update ...

Shazam app goes universal, adds mapping features, more

by Michael Grothaus (May 23rd, 2013)

The uber-popular live-music-recognition app Shazam has received a major update today. The most noticeable change is a new mapping feature. Now users can explore a map and see what songs are being tagged in what areas of the world. Another major change is that Shazam is now a universal app. ...