Now playing: Watch this: Meerkat or Periscope? Which is better? 1:54 Live streaming is now back in vogue with the growing popularity of Meerkat (free) and today’s release of Twitter’s Periscope (free). Both apps let you watch live video streams or broadcast your own stream right from your iPhone (coming soon to Android), and it …
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Flipboard Popular mobile news app Flipboard has finally made the jump to the Web with a website you can access from any browser. Starting today at flipboard.com, you can pick topics and read stories in a format optimized for the desktop, but with that magazine feel that’s made the apps so successful on smartphones and tablets. With the addition of …
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Office for Android tablets Photo by James Martin/CNET After three months of waiting, Microsoft Office will officially launch for Android tablets today, bringing Word, PowerPoint and Excel to these midsize devices. The apps work much like the iOS versions, letting you create and edit documents, presentations and spreadsheets that will sync with OneDrive so you can work from anywhere. Also …
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Screenshot by Jason Parker/CNET At the end of every year, CNET gives you top lists for products such as the best cameras, the best phones, and the best televisions, but with smartphone apps it’s a little more difficult to make those kinds of selections. Take photo editors as an example. I’ve reviewed tons of iOS and Android photo editors over …
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Though I’ve never hosted a Thanksgiving dinner myself, I’ve been through enough holidays with my family and friends to know there are a lot of moving parts with the preparation and cooking that all need to come together at once. With several steps involved in roasting the turkey, the need to make numerous sides (such as mashed potatoes, stuffing, and …
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Photo editors on iOS have come a long way since the App Store first opened in 2008. Along with Apple providing better lenses and processing power with each successive iOS device, developers have moved far beyond the simple filters and basic edits we used to use in early photo editors. While I personally think it’s crossing a line when I …
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The new VSCO Cam comes with tools that were made for editing images on your iPad. Visual Supply Company With version 4.0, VSCO Cam (iOS|Android) is now optimized for iPad, taking advantage of the Retina Display in newer models. And Visual Supply Company also took advantage of the larger screen size, letting you compare images with different filters side by …
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Complete challenges to move forward on the map. Screenshot by Jason Parker/CNET Candy Crush Soda Saga (iOS|Android) is available today, and this version is a worthy sequel to the original Candy Crush Saga (iOS|Android), but it still has the same (crushing?) freemium model. Candy Crush Saga originally came out in late 2012 and quickly became a hit for its simple …
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Photo by Sarah Tew/CNET Standalone versions of Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint were announced today for iPhone, bringing better editing and creation tools to the small screen. The apps, which are an extrapolation of the previous apps for iPad, are free to download and universal, which means one download will now work on both your iPhone and iPad. It’s important …
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Google Google launched the rollout for Android 5.0 Lollipop on Monday, but it also announced that Google Calendar and Gmail would receive significant updates. Google’s Gmail for Android got a new design update that continues to roll out at the time of this post, with a new look and inbox tweaks that should make it easier to use. Obviously, Gmail …
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