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Google closes down Mac-specific company blog

by Michael Rose (Jun 23rd, 2012)

For more than five years, Google's Mac blog has provided a company-endorsed outlet for announcements and insight into the search giant's offerings for Apple's computer line. Going forward, however, you'll have to track the Mac on Google's other official blogs -- the Mac-only Blogger page is going ...

Zite adds Publisher Program to its iOS offerings

by Mel Martin (Apr 4th, 2012)

There's a new feature on personalized news app Zite today. It's a new program for publishers to to add their content to the app in separate sections that can be ad supported. Partners for the launch include CNN (which owns Zite), The Daily Beast, Motley Fool, the Next Web, Fox Sports, The ...

Pulse News for iOS adds local content for many cities

by Mel Martin (Mar 9th, 2012)

Pulse News for iOS has added a local category to its news aggregation app. The change puts hundreds of local news sources into the Pulse app, which can make the app a 1 stop destination for a lot of users. As far as I know this is the first news app that has offered tailored local content. Partners ...

New AP Mobile news app fixes some old problems and creates some new ones

by Mel Martin (Mar 6th, 2012)

I didn't like the previous releases of AP News for iPhone and iPad. They crashed a lot, were unattractive and generally bland to use. Fortunately, the Associated Press (AP) has released a replacement app called AP Mobile (free, universal). It has many improvements, most notably in the overall look ...

Flipboard 1.8 adds cover stories to iPad

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Mar 1st, 2012)

An update to the popular Flipboard introduces cover stories to the iPad version, something that's been available for the iPhone since its introduction in December. Cover stories culls a selection of interesting articles and photos, presenting them in a magazine-cover format for easy viewing. The ...

Valentine's Day app sales underway: Treasures of Montezuma, Hanging with Friends, Order and Chaos Online

by Mike Schramm (Feb 10th, 2012)

Romance is almost in the air (even, if you're as single as I am, though you might not care), and that means what every holiday seems to mean around the App Store: More sales! With all these great deals on apps, you can either enjoy one with your sweetie, or use them to distract you from your ...

Talkcast tonight, 7pm PT/10pm ET: Hello 2012 Edition!

by Kelly Guimont (Jan 8th, 2012)

Howdy kids! It's been a couple of weeks since we all got together on a Sunday evening what with all the holiday hullabaloo, so now that we're all nice and settled in to the new year, let's hang out and catch up, shall we? We have all the gifts to talk about, the trials and tribulations of ...

Google Currents is latest Newspad reader-feeder app

by Mel Martin (Dec 10th, 2011)

We had an explosion of news apps this week. Zite added an iPhone version of its app, so did Flipboard. Now Google has joined the party with Google Currents, a free app that creates a magazine for you based on sites that you like, as well as content from particular bloggers and commentators. The ...

Flipboard for iPhone released

by Chris Rawson (Dec 7th, 2011)

Flipboard, the popular personal magazine app that's been tremendously successful on the iPad, has been updated to a universal version that now also works on the iPhone and iPod touch. Other features included in the latest Flipboard update include: Cover Stories for iPhone, a selection of ...

Little Printer to add tiny, adorable printing for iPhone and Android

by Kelly Hodgkins (Nov 29th, 2011)

Little Printer by Berg Cloud is a cute concept for a printer that'll produce a daily newspaper for you. It grabs the headlines from your social feeds, emails, news sources, horoscopes, puzzles and more. You can choose what it will print and when it will print using a companion app for your ...

Flipboard Accounts syncs data across devices

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Nov 17th, 2011)

The latest Flipboard update introduces Flipboard Accounts, teasing to imminent and anticipated release of Flipboard for the iPhone. Creating an account will allow you to access your personal version of Flipboard on a shared iPad or link it to the iPhone version. MacStores walks users through ...

The future of photojournalism: Condition ONE puts you in the middle of world events

by Michael Grothaus (Nov 11th, 2011)

Back in April I gave you a preview of Condition ONE, a disruptive technology about to wash over traditional journalism. The app promised to allow viewers to become completely immersed in the event they are watching thanks to the proprietary camera technology used to record the event and the ...

Livestand from Yahoo! adds a slick magazine for iPad

by Mel Martin (Nov 2nd, 2011)

Livestand was released for iPad today and I have to say it is pretty impressive. The free app strives to provide you with a personalized magazine drawn from Yahoo! and other content sources like Scientific American, Consumer Reports News, Wired, Forbes, and Parenting. The onscreen presentation ...

Zite adds personal profiles to its iPad news app

by Mel Martin (Oct 21st, 2011)

If you find yourself fighting over the iPad with your significant other to get your fix of news from Zite, there is finally a happy ending to the debate. Since Zite learns what you like to read and adjusts your personal mix of news accordingly, it was pretty messy if more than one person shared ...

Facebook for iPad out now

by Mike Schramm (Oct 10th, 2011)

TechCrunch and a few other sites are posting that the Facebook iPad app has finally arrived on the App Store. I don't quite see it on the store yet, but the news has apparently dropped according to a schedule run by Facebook itself, so the app should follow soon. The app looks ... about like ...