App Store

It seems as if Digg is finally making a turn in the right direction. The news gathering website, Digg, has received a makeover alongside a new iPhone application. Note this is coming promptly six weeks after Betaworks acquired Digg for a measly $500,000. Digg was a well known website years prior to Facebook and Twitter's respective launch...

Budget Car Rental, one of the world's best-known car rental brands with more than 3,000 locations in 120 countries, has launched its official app in the iTunes App Store today that allows users to make, view, modify or cancel reservations for car rentals at Budget neighborhood and airport locations throughout the United States and Canada (via WSJ...

You may not have realized this, but the iOS App Store contains more than 650,000 applications. Many of those applications have never even been downloaded. The content of the application isn't necessarily poor, the App Store was mainly poorly designed. Applications that have never been downloaded, ranked, or even reviewed, are called "zombie" applications. The...

It’s pretty rare in this day and age that I read the synopsis of an app and say (out loud, no less,) “What? No way! Now that is cool!” In today’s crowded App Store, it’s rare to come across an app that utilizes technology in a way I’d never seen or heard of before. But that’s exactly...

The Starbucks App Pick of the Week is SoundHound, regularly priced as a $6.99 download in the App Store. SoundHound is like Shazam, as it enables users to quickly determine what song they are listening to, but the app takes it a bit further. It also displays song lyrics and includes singing and humming recognition. This...

If you're active on the internet, chances are you have a Facebook account. If you have a smartphone, I'm going to second guess you have the Facebook mobile application installed. So if this is all true, you may want to know about Facebook's latest nifty addition that allows users to save a post for later...

Weather apps. If I had a nickel for every weather app on the App Store I wouldn't necessarily be rich, but I'd have a lot of nickels! Into this crowded category comes Solar, a beautiful new weather app from Hollr that stands out from the fray through a combination of an attractive UI, thoughtful implementation of features,...

Telus a while back noted on their website the imminent launch of their My Account iPhone app, and a few days ago it entered the App Store. The much anticipated app allows customers to monitor their data, text or voice usage (such as modifying your favourite numbers) along with checking account balances and more. Here's...

If you're amused by Canadian legal court cases or regulations, then I may suggest you download a new application called Wiselii. It's free of charge on the iOS App Store and is genuinely a non-affiliated mobile version of CanLii. Wiselii was created by Toronto lawyer Gary Wise to ease the process of viewing an assortment of legal...

Telltale Games has just launched their Walking Dead series game in the App Store. Originally a hit comic book series, Walking Dead has moved onto a television series, Mac and PC Steam game, and finally our iOS devices. The game comes with a price tag of $4.99 and compatibility with the iPad 2, new iPad,...

A new iOS app for Candian lottery enthusiasts has recently hit the App Store called LottoPal. The iPhone app helps to improve the odds of winning in Canadian 6/49 lotteries by assisting players in making smart picks based on statistical analysis of previous lottery draws. The app also displays latest winning numbers and payout information and even let you...

The title of an application can be the most important detail a developer presents on the market -- setting aside the application's actual content. After all, the title is the typically the very first detail you notice within the App Store. So it's always important the name is thought out wisely and thoroughly. With the App Store containing...