We’ve got some apps that will teach you things and get you your news and even maybe break the ice with that hottie at the party. So what are you waiting for? Go and improve yourself today.
Want to get better at chess? Of course you do. You could play, or you could let this usually app coach you for free.
Take screenshots of whole pages and turn them into jpegs. Do it for free, like the pros.
Find news by letting it find you and do it for a buck. An Apple featured app.
We’re no fans of Apple’s free podcast app, but with iCatcher! you have a better solution, currently sitting at .
Learn the ancient noble art of calligraphy for only a buck. Hey, get some class, eh?
Cheaper than a trip across the Atlantic, this app hooks you up with some incomparable art for one single dollar.
ZDNet said this filled the gap made by the departure of VLC, and for a buck you can get some of that sweet any-video action.
Fishing should be relaxing, not a bloodsport, which is why Funny Fish for free can give you that relaxing time you want with a hook, line, and sinker.
Create unique, artistically inspired, spacial collages of images that you take by slowly moving the camera around in 3D space. when it’s usually .
Like Twister for your fingers, this game will break the ice and get you hand-holding in no time for only a buck.
Turn your mug into a cartoon with this photo app and it only costs one single comic book we call George Washington.
We’ve heard nothing but good things about BusyCal 2, save that at it’s a chunk of change. How about if it was .99. Save and grab it now while the getting’s good.
But why do we want to learn math tricks with sunny summer coming up, your kids will whine. But you know this .99 will keep them on task and having fun until next year.
A neat little note taking app that syncs, encrypts, and saves on the fly. It’s 90 percent off from AppyFridays, so it’s only one buckaroo.
On the off chance that you need further evidence of mobile gaming’s rapidly changing landscape, IDC and App Annie recently released the results of a study demonstrating that revenues for iOS and Google Play gaming rose sharply in 2013′s first quarter. Revenues for the handheld gaming devices made by Nintendo fell during the same period. Google’s still behind Sony and Nintendo’s overall revenue for the time being, but with the rate of growth they reported during their recent I/O, it’s expected that Google Play, too, will overtake traditional handheld gaming devices sometime during the next quarter.
Keep in mind that the study isn’t skewed by non-gaming apps. Games account for nearly 40 percent of all downloads for both the App Store and Google Play, according to the study. The study also reveals that games account for almost 70 percent of consumer spending on the App Store and over 80 percent for Google Play. In some ways, as IDC and App Annie point out, such numbers might seem unfair to Nintendo and Sony. Both companies tend to experience explosive growth during the holiday season, which occurs directly before the first quarter.
But the study reveals that such seasonal cycles mean little to nothing in the world of mobile games for the iPhone and Android systems, particularly when you factor in cost and the availability of almost every game whenever and (depending on connection) wherever you want it. AllThingsD also reported that Nintendo and Sony are also simply against a staggering wall of numbers. The global install base for devices like Nintendo’s 3DS and Sony’s PlayStation Vita amounted to a “mere” 200 million, whereas research firm Gartner reports that more than 2 billion phones and tablets will ship out in 2013 alone.
There’s still time for Nintendo and Vita to reverse their fortunes. One of the most touted features of Sony’s upcoming PlayStation 4 is its ability to support gameplay through its Vita device, and in a more dubious move, Nintendo’s been working with developers of phone games to create versions for its Wii U. Both companies also have a substantial list of releases planned for the coming months.
But such measures may only delay the inevitable. At least there’s a silver lining–if this keeps up, maybe we’ll finally see Super Mario Bros. or The Legend of Zelda on the iPhone after all.
At last we appear to be seeing some movement on the Apple TV front. We can hardly wait. Sitting around with our little hockey puck sized hobby watching the Roku owners eat our lunch and have all the fun has been hard to swallow, but we expect great things. Find out about these developments and take a peak at one vision of iOS 7 in this week’s hottest news.
Considering how quickly Apple pulled the deceptively innocent Boyfriend Maker a few months back, it’s a little surprising that they let an app called “Bang with Friends” go live in the first place. But it’s down now, just a little over a week after its first appearance, presumably because someone at Apple just realized the none-too-subtle meaning behind the name. According to cofounder and CEO Colin Hodge, as reported by Gawker, the salacious app managed to snag over one million users before it was taken down.
It hasn’t completely vanished. The website is still up despite a temporary outage earlier, although the App Store section of the site simply states: “Be right back: We’re working with Apple to get BWF back into the App Store shortly.” There’s also text box where you can enter your e-mail address for an update in the event that Apple allows the site to go live again.
At the moment, it’s not entirely clear why Apple took the app down after greenlighting it aside from the site’s rather obvious intentions. Aside from a fairly explicit logo in the upper left hand corner and a suggestive background image, there’s very little that’s pornographic about the actual site. The concept, indeed, is simple. You’re presented with a gallery of your male or female Facebook friends (your choice), and you press “Down to Bang” under their name if you’d, you know, like to learn how to play drums with them. If they’re also using the service and they’ve selected you, you’ll get an e-mail announcing the mutual interest.
Techcrunch suggests that the issue might not be so black-and-white as it initially seems, pointing out that Zynga went after CupidWithFriends because it was using their “With Friends” trademark, not because it was objecting to the content. Yet as CNET reports, Apple’s also has a history of removing apps with questionable content, such as one in 2011 that listed DUI checkpoints.
But if you’re the kind of person who absolutely needs an app to see if certain things could happen with your friends instead of, you know, asking, you can take heart in the fact that Apple allowed BoyfriendMaker back on the App Store after the developers bumped up the age rating from 4+ to 12+ and cleaned up its act a little. And for what it’s worth, Bang with Friends is still available over at Google’s no-holds-barred Google Play store.
Follow this article’s writer, Leif Johnson, on Twitter.
Considering how quickly Apple pulled the deceptively innocent Boyfriend Maker a few months back, it’s a little surprising that they let an app called “Bang with Friends” go live in the first place. But it’s down now, just a little over a week after its first appearance, presumably because someone at Apple just realized the none-too-subtle meaning behind the name. According to cofounder and CEO Colin Hodge, as reported by Gawker, the salacious app managed to snag over one million users before it was taken down.
It hasn’t completely vanished. The website is still up despite a temporary outage earlier, although the App Store section of the site simply states: “Be right back: We’re working with Apple to get BWF back into the App Store shortly.” There’s also text box where you can enter your e-mail address for an update in the event that Apple allows the site to go live again.
At the moment, it’s not entirely clear why Apple took the app down after greenlighting it aside from the site’s rather obvious intentions. Aside from a fairly explicit logo in the upper left hand corner and a suggestive background image, there’s very little that’s pornographic about the actual site. The concept, indeed, is simple. You’re presented with a gallery of your male or female Facebook friends (your choice), and you press “Down to Bang” under their name if you’d, you know, like to learn how to play drums with them. If they’re also using the service and they’ve selected you, you’ll get an e-mail announcing the mutual interest.
Techcrunch suggests that the issue might not be so black-and-white as it initially seems, pointing out that Zynga went after CupidWithFriends because it was using their “With Friends” trademark, not because it was objecting to the content. Yet as CNET reports, Apple’s also has a history of removing apps with questionable content, such as one in 2011 that listed DUI checkpoints.
But if you’re the kind of person who absolutely needs an app to see if certain things could happen with your friends instead of, you know, asking, you can take heart in the fact that Apple allowed BoyfriendMaker back on the App Store after the developers bumped up the age rating from 4+ to 12+ and cleaned up its act a little. And for what it’s worth, Bang with Friends is still available over at Google’s no-holds-barred Google Play store.
Follow this article’s writer, Leif Johnson, on Twitter.
