It’s a brand new day and we just got off our hunt finding paid apps for iPhone and iPad that have shed their price tags temporarily (read: gone free) on the App Store. And today, we have 7 great apps that are available for free, and are worth $14 in total. Let’s dive in and see what’s on offer.
The massive Apple / Beats deal has been officially closed and the Cupertino giant has welcomed the audio gear maker inside its realm with a dedicated page on its official website.
It's been a while since we've featured a Cydia export here, and with Apple's iOS 8 software now in its fourth beta with the fifth and apparently final installment due in the next week or so, it's clear that tweak developers are focusing their attentions on porting some of its features through to iOS 7. As detailed at this year’s Worldwide Developers Conference, iOS 8 will be quite a significant bump over the existing software, adding a number of new apps, quirks and features to the fold, and although the Control Center only manifested itself back in September, it's already in line for a freshen up. Thanks to a newly-released tweak, you can get that iOS 8 look right now, and below, we'll show you how to avail this updated aesthetic.
They do say that the devil is in the details, but we're not sure that many people will have gone to quite the extremes that it seems someone on Facebook's design team did when left along with the icon that hides a user's notifications.
You know you've truly made it when you're the butt of the joke on something like Conan O'Brien's late night TV show, and Apple has found itself in that particular position on more than a few occasions. We're not sure the folks in Cupertino will be laughing quite so hard though.
According to reports, Apple has just rolled out its upgraded Content Delivery Network, or CDN, and to us, this equates to faster and more efficient downloads from the company's servers. With speeds into the terabits per second, it's quite a substantial bump, and although we tend to focus mainly on the products and software that Apple churns out, this is a more than welcome improvement to the back-end.
It did take a while for Microsoft to come through with Office for iPad, but with the latest update to the Word, Excel and PowerPoint apps, they're now much more competent than ever before. After the fallout with Windows 8, the software maker has built up a favorable reputation for actually listening to the concerns of consumers, and having taken on board the numerous critiques of the Office apps for iPad, has delivered quite a significant bump to each, pushing the version numbers up to 1.1 in the process.
Shazam is just a great service. The days of sitting there for hours trying to remember a song your heard earlier, or pestering a friend to see if they know the title / artist, or even Googling fragments of the lyrics - yes, we've all been there - are long gone. The music recognition app works its magic in seconds, retaining information on tracks that it tags, and more recently, has broadened its horizons to incorporate TV shows and advertisements. Today, after having had the iOS / Android apps out for a good couple of years now, a Mac version has just been released, and the inconspicuous app is not only useful for those occasions when you don't want to have to reach for your mobile device, but its always-on nature means you certainly won't miss a thing.
Microsoft's Windows Phone platform gets a pretty raw deal when it comes to apps, with developers favoring iOS and Android for the most part. The fact that Instagram only recently made its way to the Windows Phone Store is a testament to this, and with the BlackBerry Messenger app having dropped some time ago for Google and Apple's mobile ecosystems, it has finally manifested itself for Windows Phone. As usual, we've got all of the details right here.
Towards the end of June, Amazon ran a giveaway of Android apps worth over $100, offering a total of 31. Today, the online retail giant is back with another similar deal, and below, we've got the details.
















