Cool Apps

We’d already heard before that in the wake of the Apple Maps iOS 6 fiasco, Google was plotting its own app for iOS to launch before the end of the year. The Wall Street Journal reports that the app is in the polishing stages, and that it will soon be submitted for approval to Apple. Continue Reading →

“Shh!” “Put your phone away. ” “Excuse me, can you please turn off your phone?” We’ve all done it once, twice, a hundred times before. You’re sitting in a dark movie theater when, minutes before the film begins, you have a sudden urge to check your phone, update your Facebook status, or text your friend Continue Reading →

Adobe Photoshop Touch is already available for Android (and iOS), in fact an update was released just two months ago, but that doesn’t mean that Amazon’s Kindle devices have been supported, until now. Adobe on Thursday announced that after working “closely with Amazon,” Photoshop Touch now works with the latest Kindle Fires. You can get Continue Reading →

Naan Studio has announced the launch of Echofon for Android, making it the second platform the app has arrived on after iOS. You can find the app on Google Play, and it’s free. Right now it looks fairly functional, with dashboard widgets, Echofon app sync across devices, push notifications, multiple Twitter accounts and more. There Continue Reading →

“Using Craigslist for apartment hunting is great because there are a lot of listings, but it’s not the easiest site to navigate,” we wrote last year. “Furthermore, there are no extra tools to keep track of who you’ve contacted and what the outcome was. Lovely wants to do just that for you with its apartment Continue Reading →

Former Adobe executives Fang Chang and Nigel Pegg know that kids love iPads, and they wanted to offer them something more educational than YouTube or Angry Birds. So they are launching Bookboard, an iPad app that gives parents and kids streaming access to a library of children’s ebooks. Burlingame, Calif.–based Bookboard, which is available in Continue Reading →

Microsoft is moving one step closer to releasing its Office applications on iPad, iPhone and Android, according to a recent report by The Verge. Although rumours about Office Mobile have been circulating for some time now – especially once an iPad version was spotted by The Daily – there has been very little evidence to suggest Continue Reading →

Google has historically broken out preloaded Android apps like Gmail and Maps as stand-alone titles so that they don’t have to be upgraded in lock-step with the main OS, but its Calendar app typically hasn’t had that privilege. The isolation ends with a newly distinct Google Calendar that’s treated as just another Google Play download. Continue Reading →

Remember that Animaniacs song that names every single U.S. president? The wacky cartoon’s history lesson is still clever, for both kids and adults, kind of like this American Presidents iPad app. What does it do? Gives you bios of all 44 U.S. presidents with beautiful illustrations to match. Why do we like it? It’s not Continue Reading →

(This content was originally posted on Medical Billing and Coding.) With healthcare records going digital and doctors using iPads to manage patient care, it should come as no surprise that many prescriptions are going beyond medications these days. Major news outlets all over the world are reporting that doctors are increasingly prescribing health-focused applications to patients, helping Continue Reading →