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Moment Camera: A Better iOS Camera App Without the Crap

At this point, the quality of your iPhone’s camera has far surpassed Apple’s dinky little stock app. And if you’re ready to size up, the App Store runneth over with alternative camera apps—and don’t even get me started on the filters. Moment Camera, however, gives you the experience your camera deserves. What does it do?…

Apple’s Latest OS X Update Fixes More Messages Bugs

Apple today released OS X 10.8.4, an update to Mountain Lion that (again) addresses some issues with Messages, as well as some miscellaneous bugs. Apparently, there was an iMessage quirk that was causing some messages to show up out of order on the desktop app. Also included in the update is a new version of…

How Smartphones Are Trying to Replace Your Doctor (But Can’t Yet)

For most of time medicine was a guessing game. Doctors, or witch doctors, or shaman would inspect a patient, stir a potion and hope it would work. With some notable exceptions, modern medicine isn’t so different. The data collection—blood pressure, heart rate, weight, reflexes—is largely rudimentary. We’re getting by, but technology can take us so…

Good news, klutzes: Apple is apparently now replacing broken iPhone 5 displays in-store for the sum of $150.

Report: Apple’s Got a Brand New MacBook Air or Retina For Next Week

Compounding the recent stock shortages of Apple’s MacBook Air, it seems Cupertino’s not-quite-so-air-tight seal has leaked a few new model numbers—which point to either a refreshed MacBook Air or Retina Pro waiting in the wings for WWDC. The four SKUs have been dug up by the often-reliable 9to5Mac, with two pairs of variants, probably denoting…

What the New WWDC App Tells Us About iOS 7

Apple’s new WWDC app, meant to guide developers through next week’s mega-conference, is up in the App Store today. If you look closely, you can see bits of iOS 7 in it. While it’s exceedingly easy to overvalue just how much this app means—Apple surely doesn’t want to tip its hand before the event—there are…

Double Music Player: Two Different Earbuds, Two Different Songs

Most people have pretty terrible taste in music—it’s a fact. But you, you’re different. So what are you supposed to do when you happen to forget your headphones, and the only ones nearby are in use by one of the aforementioned good-taste-challenged? Why, bust out Double Music Player, of course. What does it do? Takes…

Let’s Hope Apple’s iOS 7 Music App Is Half as Clever as This Concept

If there’s anything the internet has waxed poetic about wanting—nay—needing to see on the upcoming iOS 7 release, it’s a general flat design overhaul. But while that’s a completely valid demand, we’ve yet to hear too much about how Apple might address specific features in need of major functionality tuneups—until now, that is. https://gizmodo.com/what-is-flat-design-508963228 Brye…

The First Thing iOS 7 Needs to Steal from Android

iOS 7 has a lot of catching up to do. In a relatively short time, Apple’s once unimpeachable mobile platform has fallen behind Android and even Windows Phone in some key areas. iOS is still rock solid, for the most part, but it needs to take some cues from the competition. And the very first…

Old School Phones Can Still Teach Us a Thing About Cable Management

If you haven’t replaced your plethora of old Apple dock connector cables with fancy new Lightning cords, you might want to consider Sanwa’s alternative before you do. Even though cellphones have all but replaced old-school phones with tethered handsets, those ‘outdated’ models can apparently still teach us something about keeping cords tidy. Namely that those…

AirDrop File Sharing: The Most Persistant iOS Rumor Has Returned

In 2011, Apple introduced AirDrop for OS X Lion, a feature that makes sharing a file between two Macs as easy as dragging and dropping it. Two and a half years later, we’re still waiting to see it on iOS. Could we finally get peer-to-peer iPhone and iPad sharing in iOS 7? https://gizmodo.com/os-x-lion-will-have-a-swift-new-file-sharing-feature-a-5769287 A report…

Your iPhone Can Be Hacked With a Modified Charger

It might pay to be more careful about where you juice up your phone—because a team of researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology have put together a prototype charger capable of installing malware onto an iPhone. The research, which is to be presented at the Black Hat security conference in late July and was…

Report: Apple Is Finally Sealing Deals For Its Internet Radio

The New York Times is reporting that Apple’s much-rumored music streaming service may soon be ready—even in time for next week’s WWDC—thanks to the company finally signing contracts with major music labels. https://gizmodo.com/bloomberg-apples-pandora-killing-internet-radio-servic-5954986 The report suggests that Apple signed a deal with the Warner Music Group over the weekend for both recorded music rights and…

How Big Would an iPhone Be If You Combined All the iPhones Ever Sold

Very, very big. Like way bigger than the new World Trade Center big. Like almost double the world’s tallest tower big. If you combined all the iPhones ever sold into a single gigantic monolith of a phone, it’d be 5,059 feet tall and 2,846 feet across. Ridiculous! In Animal’s very silly series Stupid Calculations, Josh…

Musyc, iHeart Locket, and More

Maybe it’s the warm weather or maybe it’s just the fact that we’re finally out of winter hibernation, but this week’s iPad apps are all about creativity on your terms. Whether it’s a song in your heart, in your fingers, of one you just want to keep all to yourself, we’ve got you covered. Musyc:…

Postcards, Tall Chess, Analog, and More

It may have been a (thankfully) short week, but the app gears were turning just as hard as ever. So relive the glory days of the long weekend of yore, and kick back with a bundle of apps that aim to make your life just a little bit easier. Or at the very least, a…

Postcards: A Much More Pleasant Way to Browse Tumblr

The Tumblr app is, admittedly, a wonderfully designed one. And there’s no denying it has more functionality than something like Postcards. But for those who use Tumblr more as a means of finding articles to read instead zipping through streams of GIFs, this might be exactly what you’re looking for. What does it do? Turns…

Though already accessible via web on iOS, Google Play All Access should officially be hitting iOS in less than a month.

Do you like free money? Well, it’s your lucky day—because for today only, you can get yourself a $50 iTunes gift card for a mere $40. Go get ’em, tiger. [Ebay via 9to5Toys]

Apple’s New Budget 16GB iPod Touch: 4-inch Retina Screen, $230

Apple has just quietly launched a budget-friendly new iPod touch: a 16GB model, with a 4-inch Retina display and a price tag of $230. Replacing the last-gen 3.5-inch version, which hung around Apple’s store for a while, the new budget offering loses some of the more advanced features found on the more expensive models—such as…