Facebook's Creative Labs have come up with an app that's very un-Facebook: anonymous (technically, pseudonymous) chat, in Rooms. For iOS only at the moment, Rooms seeks to rekindle the early Internet phenomenon of strangers on forums, chat rooms, and message boards connecting with each other over common interests.
In honor of football season, in this week's Tap That App, we look at theScore, probably the only sports app you'll ever need to track your favorite sports, teams, and players.
In this week's Tap That App, we take a look at a new video capture app from Instagram called Hyperlapse. You might be understandably skeptical if you haven't heard of it yet, because who needs yet another image capture app from Instagram? Trust us: you and everyone you know will want Hyperlapse.
Foursquare has finally released its upgraded namesake app, after announcing earlier this summer it was splitting its popular location-based social media service into two separate apps. The new Foursquare comes with a completely new look, and some cool new features, provided you trust the company to protect a lot more of your location data.
Sure, ads are annoying when your visiting websites, but have you ever been playing a game or using an app on your iPhone and tried hitting a part of the screen, only to have that bit of real estate taken over by an ad, which you just accidentally clicked? There's no way to eliminate ads from inside apps, right?
As most of the entire world knows, the FIFA World Cup 2014 starts at the end of this week. This time, the world's most followed sporting event is happening at the height of the digital age, and there are literally hundreds of apps available to follow the action. Here's a rundown of the best FIFA World Cup 2014 apps.
Apple iPhone and iPad users have had a great selection of calendar apps to choose from -- starting from square one with Apple's own built-in Calendar app. But what may be the best iOS calendar has recently been released for Android. Sunrise for Android will simplify your life, starting with making it easy to use a calendar.
In this week's Tap that App Tuesday, we take a look at both brand new and tried-and-true photo editing apps, including a great new iOS app from a trusted name in mobile photography.
Swarm from Foursquare was recently released as part of the company's strategy to separate its location-based check-in functions from the main Foursquare app, which will take on a more focused Yelp-like dimension when it's released later this summer. But Swarm is much more than just a way for Foursquare to "unbundle."
We all know that wild weather starts becoming a regular nuisance starting in May, especially given the state of climate change recently being called the "defining issue of our time" by the UN. So this week's Tap That App looks at the best weather apps to keep you appraised on what Mother Nature's throwing at you every day.
