May 25, 2013
After a hectic day, the best thing you can do is to get a beneficial amount of sleep. There are always new studies appearing that prove how important sleep really is to a person, improving everything from your energy and mood to your metabolism. However, it may not be quite as easy to get that much-needed sleep, especially the deep sleep that can make all the difference. It might be a good idea to try a few apps to help you with your sleep.
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May 25, 2013
I use LibraryThing, GoodReads and my Amazon wish lists to keep track of the books I've read or want to read, but up until a few days ago, I hadn't been keeping track of the movies I watch. I recently decided that I would like to develop a movie library–at least virtually, online. Both the Letterboxd website and recently released Limelight iPhone app offer easy ways to build a movie library and connect with film lovers, critics, and friends.
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May 23, 2013
Smartphones and tablets have changed the way we live life. No longer can we wake up and lull around in bed without checking our email or Twitter mentions. Nobody worries about getting lost any more unless they're low on battery, the smartphone user's achilles heel in a world of do-everything devices. Our gadgets have also replaced a significant amount of physical objects, to the point where many of us wouldn't consider buying a product when there is an equivalent piece of software that is up to the task.
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May 22, 2013
Productivity pros swear by multiple monitors, but we don't all have the luxury of carrying around huge screens and endless wallets. On the other hand, the iPad has become pretty ubiquitous, and it can really help you be more productive. What if I told you there was a way you could use your iPad as a second monitor, extending your desktop with precious extra inches? That would be pretty amazing right? Well here are three apps that let you do just that.
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May 21, 2013
Photovine was a photo-sharing app that launched following Google's acquisition of a company called Slide, and revolved around photo vines, which are not unlike tags on Instagram or Flickr. Google's Photovine died over a year ago, but it seems the brand is not dead. A new iPhone app called Photovine has recently emerged which brings an innovative way to view your Instagram and Facebook photos which involves music, slideshows, and an unusual interface.
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May 21, 2013
World travel is an exciting and adventurous activity, but one thing that hinders many from taking part is the language barrier. Fortunately, there are several iPhone foreign language apps that will help you translate simple phrases while you are exploring the globe. Here are five apps that will help you on your journeys.
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May 17, 2013
Various magazines and TV shows have been dedicated to the finer things in life, or at the very least the more expensive things in life. Are these things really worth that much, or is that just the price they put on them because they know rich people do stupid things too? Who knows. But here at MakeUseOf we'll keep our extravagant spending somewhat useful. Let's take a look at the Most Expensive iOS Apps available to those with caviar dreams and champagne wishes.
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May 16, 2013
This past Tuesday, image-sharing site Pinterest released some updates for its iOS 2.4 and Android 1.4 apps, which now include an activities notification feature, the ability to mention and notify a Pinterest friend in a pin comment or note, plus search term suggestions.
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May 14, 2013
Similar to cloud-based storage and sharing sites such as Dropbox and Google Drive, Amazon has now added a way to backup photos to Amazon Cloud Drive via its new Amazon Cloud Drive Photos app for iPhone, which joins the existing Cloud Drive apps for and Android, Windows and Mac. Amazon Cloud Drive provides users with 5GB of free storage space, which Amazon says is enough to store up to 2,000 photos.
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May 13, 2013
I've been through a lot of chat messenger programs in my time and, looking back, none of them have been very different from the others. Usually the main difference lies in the interface and performance, but fundamentally they're all the same. But recently I stumbled across Phonon Voice Messenger, a mobile messenger that really offers something new. Phonon provides text chat functionality, but its main selling point is that it is also a voice messenger. Intrigued? You should be.
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May 11, 2013
These days you don't have to get your hands dirty with photo chemicals and paper in order to enhance your images. There are several relatively easy to use photo enhancement iOS apps that require little or no prior knowledge about photo processing in order to produce quality images. One such app for the iPhone and iPad is Nik Software's Snapseed, which is listed on our Best iPad Apps page, and is a free universal app that works on iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad.
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May 10, 2013
iOS has a lot going for it when it comes to mobile music creation, curation and performance. Apple's App Store is absolutely jam packed with synths, drum machines, effects processors, DJ tools and other weird and wonderful noisemakers for your musical pleasure. One such app that produces fantastic results with relatively little skill is Crossfader, an app from DJZ that launched on the App Store at the beginning of April and has been "free for a limited time" ever since.
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May 10, 2013
I have been looking for something that could clean up my iPad for me and, according to iMobie, PhoneClean is the program to do that. The free program that claims to free space on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch by deleting files that should be useless to you, such as temporary files, cached and offline files, cookies, script files, and media files that failed to sync properly. On paper, this should be quite useful, especially if you own a 8GB or 16GB iDevice. But does it really work?
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May 8, 2013
Most home movies are boring, tedious lengths of footage with little to no editing. But impose some strict rules, cut it down to the good bits, and you might just end up with something pretty cool. Take just a second of interesting video a day, and in a single year you'll have 6 minutes of highlights. That's the premise behind todays article, and I look at 3 different ways of documenting your life with short video clips using an iPhone.
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May 4, 2013
Are you the kind of person who prefers to ride on two wheels instead of four? Do you prefer those wheels be powered by your own strength and not a motor? If so, you just might be a cyclist. Riding a bike is great for exercise, and it helps the environment because you are not using a car with all the emissions and fuel cost that accompany it. We've found four of the best applications for cyclists of all kinds, whether street, mountain, or beyond.
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