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Try out Windows Phone 7.5 Mango with your iPhone

by Steven Sande (Nov 29th, 2011)

You love your iPhone with a passion that knows no bounds. But that's not to say that occasionally your head isn't turned by a good-looking feature on another smartphone platform. If you've been curious about some of the capabilities and user interface glitz of Windows Phone 7.5 (AKA Mango) you're in ...

Google Music beta ready for iOS

by Kelly Hodgkins (Sep 9th, 2011)

Google Music beta lets you upload your music library to Google's servers and stream the content to web-connected devices like your computer or Android handset, but not iOS. Several months after launch, the service now supports iOS via a web app optimized for the iPhone, iPod touch and the ...

Kindle Cloud Reader quick look

by Steven Sande (Aug 15th, 2011)

For many Mac and iPad users, Amazon's Kindle Reader app (free) was the way to browse, purchase, and read electronic books. Then Apple had a change of heart about in-app purchases, basically demanding the standard App Store 30% take for any ebooks bought from within the Kindle Reader app. Amazon ...

Twitter rolling out HTML5 version for iPads

by Steven Sande (Aug 3rd, 2011)

Apple fans who want to use Twitter know that they have their choice of tools. There are not only dozens of Twitter clients available on the various App Stores, but Twitter also has its own web version and apps for Mac, iPhone and iPad. Now the company is rolling out a new mobile HTML5-based web ...

Verizon iPhone 4 responsible for 32% of US iPhone 4 traffic

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jul 8th, 2011)

Data from mobile app analytics firm Localytics suggests the Verizon iPhone 4 now accounts for 32.3% of the U.S. iPhone market share. The CDMA version of the iPhone has been steadily climbing since launch, while the AT&T iPhone has apparently declined. Verizon confirmed during its Q2 ...

Connecting to Google+ on your iOS device

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jun 30th, 2011)

Google enabled invitations and opened the floodgates to its new Google+ service last night before shutting it down due to "insane demand". Many iOS users were included in this new group of invitees and they may be wondering how to get Google+ on their iPhone, iPad or iPod touch. Unfortunately, ...

TUAW's Daily Mac App: swackett

by Samuel Gibbs (Jun 27th, 2011)

Most weather apps display weather as you might expect with temperature and weather symbols. Swackett, a free (ad-supported) weather app from the Mac App Store, bucks the trend with cute cartoons of people showing the current and forecasted conditions. A "different kind of weather app," ...

Playboy archives coming to iPad tomorrow

by Mike Schramm (May 18th, 2011)

If you've been waiting for those Playboy archives ever since we heard about them in January, the wait is almost over. App Advice says the web app containing all back issues of the famously controversial gentleman's magazine will finally be ready to go on the iPad tomorrow, for a subscription ...

Flipboard for Mac screenshot fake, real thing still in the works

by David Quilty (Dec 22nd, 2010)

A leaked Photoshopped screenshot that was supposedly of a new Flipboard for Mac found its way into many email inboxes yesterday, and now 9 to 5 Mac has confirmation that it is indeed a fake and not from Flipboard Inc. at all. While our own Steven Sande recently wrote about the possibility of ...

Flipboard rumored to launch web app

by Steven Sande (Dec 14th, 2010)

One of the more awe-inspiring iPad apps of 2010 was Flipboard. The free app is a beautiful way to read RSS feeds, see and respond to updates from friends on Twitter and Facebook and more, displayed in a format that looks more like a well-designed magazine than a reader app. It's so good that Apple ...

37Signals' Chalk, iPad-only collaborative web app

by Steven Sande (Nov 3rd, 2010)

37Signals is well-known as the developer of some powerful collaboration tools for the Web like Campfire and Basecamp. It's obvious that the employees of the company know how to use a chalkboard to sketch out flow charts, scrawl UI mockups, and so on. In fact, the four team rooms in the company's ...

AdLib: Apple's secret web app weapon

by Mike Schramm (Apr 9th, 2010)

MobileCrunch noticed something interesting about the iPad User Guide hidden in the iPad Safari's bookmarks. It's a web app, but it doesn't feel like a web app -- the views scroll independently and smoothly, "clicking" is exact, and the whole thing runs much more like a native iPad app than anything ...

Elegant simplicity: the power of SimpleNote for iPhone

by Steven Sande (Dec 21st, 2009)

The iPhone and iPod touch are, in many ways, the replacement for the little spiral-bound notepad that some of us used to carry around to capture reminders and ideas. The build-in Notes application works as a nice notepad, but it doesn't allow sorting of lists, and syncing to your Mac via MobileMe ...

Walmart creates iPhone compatible site

by Cory Bohon (Dec 15th, 2008)

Do you like shopping at Walmart? From electronics to $4 prescriptions, Walmart seems to have everything. But one thing it didn't have was an iPhone application, and now they do. If you visit the Walmart.com website on your iPhone, you will be presented with an iPhone-specific portal for all of your ...

First Look: Facebook

by Cory Bohon (Jul 11th, 2008)

Facebook always seems to be on the forefront of iPhone development. They were one of the first social networking websites to have a good web application specifically designed for iPhone, and now they are one of the first big-name social networking sites to have a decent native application on the ...