NPR is also well known for a wide variety of music programs and podcasts, so it’s fitting that it recently released the iPad version of NPR Music. This multi-genre app is absolutely great for music lovers who, like myself, don’t listen to the radio as much they use their iPad or iPhone.

Just when I think there’s more than enough iPhone camera apps in the iTunes Store, I stumble upon yet another one that builds off previous camera apps and includes photography features not found in point-and-shoot cameras, or DSLRs for that matter. In this case, I’m talking about a professional grade camera app called Camera Awesome.

Back in 2001, the release of Apple’s iTunes brought me back to listening to jazz, and a little of rap and R&B music. A few years before then, I was reluctant to shell out $15 for music CDs only to get a couple of great songs. And above all I wanted iTunes go with me wherever I went. Toting around CDs in the trunk of my car wasn’t my idea of music appreciation. But then a few years later, the iPod changed everything.

Last week, the 2.0 version of Vimeo, was released with significant user interface changes and performance enhancements for iOS devices. If you’ve never used Vimeo, it is similar to YouTube but with arguably more artistic content than Google’s huge down-home, nearly anything goes shared videos.

On Wednesday, at an invitation-only press event in San Francisco, Apple unveiled the much rumored new iPad, with HD display and support for optional 4G broadband network communication. It is set to go on sale March 16, starting at $499. Taking center stage at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in South-of-Market in San [...]

Journal and diary writing have a long rich history, and now thanks to very crafty software developers, there are digital shelves of seductively rich apps that inspire you to write down your memories and daily activities, and preserve them like cherished photo albums. If you’re an always-on-the-go-mobile-device-in-your-hand kind of person, you might want to use one of the iOS journal apps described below.

No matter how intuitive and reportedly “trouble free” Macs are to run, believe me, several months after you add hundreds of files, applications, and download thousands of webpages, your shiny new iMac or MacBook Air is going to run slower than when you first booted it out the box. That’s because like any computer, digital junk files pile up in the hard drive; and eventually it just needs to get cleaned out.

Last week, without a lot of fanfare, Apple released the beta version of its new Mac chat program, simply called Messages. Messages also happens to be a sneak preview application of what’s to come in the next version of its operating system, Mountain Lion—to be released later this Summer. The following is a basic overview of the chat program and what you should consider before downloading and installing it.

If you spend a considerable amount of time working at your computer with no Corporate Big Brother to monitor what you’re doing, you may find yourself spending a bit more time than you should be tweeting, Facebooking, and procrastinating your day away. While there’s nothing wrong with good old leisure activities, the adage “time is money” means a lot if you’re reading mentions on Twitter instead of dealing with a work-related project deadline.

Effective March 1, Google will commence its new (and controversial) Privacy Policy which enable it to do more in terms of gathering and storing search queries, history, logs, and personal information from its users. Other than closing your Google account(s), you cannot fully block the search engine site from gathering this type of information. But [...]