App Store

The App Store within iTunes has a new section dedicated to app picks for Father's Day, coming up on the 17th of June. Within the section apps are organized by categories such as: Dad's Time, Celebrate with Family, Cards & Gifts, and Tools for Dads. Apps within the Dad's Time section are typical things dads...

Free streaming music services are highly sought after by iPhone and iPod users. Services like Spotify are gaining popularity, but are not completely free. You can find tons and tons of free streaming music right on YouTube, but you have to watch the video that goes with it. This can eat up you battery life...

Apple has been highlighting Free App of the Week downloads in the App Store (last week it was Snapseed), and this week it's Adult Swim's Monsters Ate My Condo for the iPhone and iPad, a former iPhone Game of the Week pick by Apple. The latest 1.4 update included Retina graphics for the new iPad. Here's...

Camera+ today celebrates its two year anniversary of the launch of 1.0, and coincidentally 8 million downloads as well (they hit 6 million downloads in January). Camera+ now has a team of 17 people and already have their latest update planned in the works: Some of these areas are pretty substantial and you’ll all be...

Last month Facebook announced the coming launch of their App Center to iOS, a dedicated section to allow users to download apps for the social network. At the time Facebook encouraged developers to create their 'app detail page' prior to the launch of App Center. Now, it appears App Center has started to leak out early,...

A brand new swiping iOS game called Angry Ninjas has just hit the App Store, that lets you play as a ninja cutting down hordes of angry ninjas earning gold and glory. Developed by God-Mode Games (based in Vancouver), the game is available as a free downloaded for your iPhone and iPod touch devices and features 3 addictive game...

Zynga has released a new game inspired by their hit game Words with Friends, but this time it's geared towards those that don't want to deal with spelling (but what about people that are colour blind?). So, what better to do than to launch Matching with Friends, a similar game based on matching coloured tiles....

Foursquare has updated their app to 5.0 which includes a whole new fresh redesign. The app has a new layout for Explore and now allows your friends to see more check-ins. You can now add Foursquare to your Facebook timeline as well. What's New in Version 5.0 Say hello to the all new foursquare! We’ve...

Another day, and another huge story about an iOS app using your data without you knowing (reminds me of the whole issue with Path). Last night both the New York Times and The Next Web reported your calendar entries are transmitted back to LinkedIn's servers without your permission or knowledge via the LinkedIn iOS app....

Alberta Health Services has continued to tout its iPhone app that allows citizens in Calgary and Edmonton to view emergency department wait times, aimed at patients with minor ailments (i.e. earaches). The estimates are based on how long it will take a regular patient to see a doctor after being assessed by a triage nurse....

A few days ago we received a tip from iPhoneinCanada reader @swotam (thanks!) Instapaper was set to be the free Starbucks App Pick of the Week, and now it has been confirmed via Marco Arment, the founder of the app. Marco confirmed this on his latest podcast episode titled, "Please, Go to Starbucks" from Build and Analyze...

Google has acquired the all-in-one messenger chat startup Meebo, as announced on the latter's blog: We are happy to announce that Meebo has entered into an agreement to be acquired by Google! For more than seven years we’ve been helping publishers find deeper relationships with their users and to make their sites more social and...