Apps

Launch Sale: lolo Easy Arms

Posted on 22 Feb 2012 by Jay

lolo, one of my favorite exercise app developers, has done it again. This time it’s Easy Arms. The email arrived yesterday, and I immediately added to my ongoing lolo collection of health-related apps. According to their email, the features of Easy Arms include Strengthen and tone your arms, chest, back, and …

Things Cloud Sync Now in Public Beta

Posted on 21 Feb 2012 by Thomas

Today is one of those days that sometimes felt like it would never come. I’m talking, of course, about the announcement that the Things Cloud Sync is now in public beta. This has been a while coming. Things Cloud isn’t iCloud syncing through Apple, but it works beautifully. You simply …

Report Claims Microsoft Office Coming to iPad Soon [UPDATED]

Posted on by Alex Jordan

The Daily is claiming that they have spent some quality time with a version of Office designed for iPad. It’s worth noting that The Daily had previously reported that Microsoft was indeed working on a version the Microsoft Office productivity suite for the iPad. The Daily even has a photo …

VLC 2.0 Now Available on OS X

Posted on 18 Feb 2012 by Thomas

VLC 2.0, the traffic cone-iest open source media player ever made, is now available for download on your Mac. There are a ton of technical highlights of the 2.0 features on the VLC homepage, but I’d actually recommend reading this VLC 2.0 MacStories post instead, which sums up the more …

Quick Look: Clear for iPhone

Posted on 15 Feb 2012 by Thomas

Clear for iPhone is a pretty big deal for a buck. It’s a list manager and, as you may have heard, its designers have gone out of their to present you with as little UI chrome as possible. The result is a dead-simple, gesture-driven task manager that strives to rival …

Hey Mac Developers – Can Someone Make a Decent Blogging App?

Posted on by PatrickJ

I’ve been blogging, for others or for my own sites, for around 6 years now. When I started out I was using Windows machines and all sorts of different apps or web interfaces to draft and publish posts from. A few years ago I switched to using a MacBook and …

Quick Look: Beat Hazard Ultra for iPhone and iPad

Posted on 14 Feb 2012 by Thomas

Playing Beat Hazard Ultra is like having fireworks explode right in front of your eyes as you listen to all of your favourite song. I bought the 2D dual-stick space shooter (think “Asteroid”) after reading about it on Joystiq, and I dig the dynamically generated levels and enemies that are …

Review: Grazing Browser for iPhone and iPad

Posted on 13 Feb 2012 by Thomas

 Grazing Browser is the first third party iOS browser to have successfully held my attention for more than a day. I’ve already taken a look at other interesting iOS browsers (Portal for iPhone was pretty awesome), but I never made a more permanent switch because iOS 5 will not allow …

iSource Picks of the Week

Posted on 10 Feb 2012 by Renkman

Welcome to our weekly installment of Picks of the Week at iSource where we provide our expanded coverage of Apple accessories and applications Here we will promote our favorite iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac and Apple TV related items, as well as bring you occasional tips and tricks. Hopefully many of …

The Early Edition 2.1 for iPad: Faster Syncing and Infinitely More Readability

Posted on 09 Feb 2012 by Thomas

The Early Edition 2.1 came out a day or two ago, and it gained a few significant upgrades. It’s still the newspaper-shaped RSS reader I loved in my initial review, but it’s now a little faster with syncing (about 15 seconds to sync a day’s worth of my feeds), and …

Tweetbot for iPad is Here (And it’s Incredible)

Posted on 08 Feb 2012 by Thomas

I use Tweetbot for iPhone as my primary portal to Twitter, and I’ve been following the Tapbots duo of @TapbotPaul and @MarkJardine on Twitter for a while now, and over the past few months, they’ve done their best to make it seem like Tweetbot for iPad was a while away – …