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Back in March, the makers of Sparrow, one of the finest email clients for Mac OS X, introduced Sparrow for iPhone which has been getting better and better ever since in an effort to become the perfect Mail.app alternative for iOS devices. Having recently added the ability to support POP accounts, the company has decided...

If you jailbreak your iDevice, you may have heard about an awesome app from Ryan Petrich called Display Recorder that allows you to record video of your iPhone's display. It has been in the Cydia store for years now and is a very useful tool. Now is seems developer Bugun Software has taken this idea,...

TechCrunch reports on a new app called Carat that will attempt to increase your iPhone battery life--by telling you what apps to kill. Sometimes rogue apps cause unnecessary battery drain and by sending your anonymous phone data to Carat (they promise not to sell your data etc), over a few days the app will reveal...

Angry Birds Seasons is back with a all new Summer update. With the success of Angry Birds Space and it's all new physics, Rovio has added new underwater physics to this year's summer version of Angry Birds Seasons. This time were are taken to the mythical land of Piglantis. The goal is the same; save...

Every week Apple features an "App of the week" and makes it free to download. This week's app is Sonic & SEGA All-Stars Racing. This is a fun little racing game in the style of Mario Kart, but using characters from the Sega universe. Gorgeous graphics and fun games play make this an easy free download....

Dropbox has released an update to their iOS app to introduce automatic photo and video uploads over 3G/WiFi. By choosing to uploading your photos automatically to Dropbox, you'll be able to earn up to 3GB of extra storage in 500MB increments. Other new features include a gallery view for your photos, and the ability to...

Last week at the E3 event presentation, Microsoft demonstrated the new “SmartGlass” application that links Xbox 360 gaming console to Windows, Android and iOS powered devices, allowing users to remotely control an Xbox 360 connected TV display from touchscreen enabled devices with support for swiping, pinching and tapping gestures. Today, Microsoft has updated the official Xbox Live iOS...

Action Movie FX is an app that let's you add cool CG movie effects to your own videos. It comes from JJ Abrams and Bad Robot Interactive. You film a short clip of what ever you want, then add the built in effects to create a realistic looking scene from a movie. The app comes...

Another week, and another Pick of the Week from Starbucks. These are the free promo codes for various apps that debut every Tuesday. The free app this week is the game Where's My Water (regularly 99 cents), by Disney (a couple weeks ago it was Instapaper). The game currently features over 200 levels and has positive...

Apple has just added the WWDC 2012 keynote video to its Apple Keynote (HD) collection in iTunes, to allow you to download it to your iOS devices for later viewing. The short description reads: Watch Apple CEO Tim Cook and team unveil Mac OS X Mountain Lion, iOS 6, and the all-new MacBook Pro with...

Apple has announced the winners of the Apple Design Awards (ADA) at WWDC 2012, as noted by The Loop. Apps are chosen based on the following criteria: Design: Well designed apps are delightful, elegant, intuitive, engaging, exciting, compelling, and reliable. Innovation: Innovative apps are revolutionary, inspirational, unique, and do things in completely new and exciting ways....

Apple's 23rd WWDC kicked off today in San Francisco, an event that sold out in record 2 hours time. Tim Cook took the stage and started off by announcing App Store's latest milestone i.e surpassing 30 billion downloads worldwide. With that, he also announced that the iTunes App Store, which is currently available in 120...