If you’re old like me, you can remember the first time you played Tomb Raider — and what a thrill it was. Not only did you get a refreshing change of perspective (from first- to third-person), you also got to play as a female protagonist. The game combined elements of Pitfall, the “Indiana Jones” movies, …

Are you constantly having to carry around two phones, one for personal use, one for work? Do you travel internationally and routinely swap “local” SIM cards for your primary one? If you’re an iPhone 5 user, there’s a product in development that might make you smile. The Digirit SIM+ case lets you carry two SIM cards in one iPhone. And …

When the time comes to view that hot new YouTube video everyone’s talking about, which would you rather do: gather around a laptop, tablet, or, horrors, smartphone, or kick back and enjoy it on your big-screen TV? Thought so. Although YouTube was built for Web browsers, it can easily find a home in your living room. All you need is …

Google Drive for iOS continues to take small steps in becoming more like its Android counterpart. Yesterday, Google updated the app with two small but welcome additions: file sorting and a find/replace feature for documents. Now, when viewing your main file list, you’ll see a Sort button in the upper-right corner. Tap it to access the following new options: Last …

For weeks now I’ve been sorely tempted to buy the Republic Wireless Moto X, but there’s one thing preventing me from pulling the trigger: the 16GB of unexpandable storage. That’s just not enough for the amount of apps, music, and video I want to carry. Thankfully, because the Moto X supports USB OTG, it’s a fairly simple matter to plug …

For years, various computer games and mobile apps have attempted to capture the essence of constructing Rube Goldberg-style puzzles — complex contraptions designed to perform simple tasks. The Incredible Machine was perhaps the most famous, and the similar Crazy Machines debuted for iOS more than four years ago. Now comes an “official” game approved by the Rube Goldberg estate: Unity …

Does your iPhone case merely protect your iPhone? Bo-ring! Why not spruce things up a bit with a case that combines protection with festive, blinky coolness? That’s the idea behind this line of VanD flashing iPhone cases. Available in a variety of styles for iPhone 5/5S and iPhone 5C, the LED Cover Flashing Clear Case offers a seemingly transparent protective …

With the arrival of iOS 7, iPhone and iPad users received a smattering of Instagram-style visual-effect filters for snapping photos. But they can’t be used when shooting video. Enter Spotliter Video, a free app that provides a choice of distinctive filters for video recording. It is, quite simply, like Instagram for video, though without the integrated sharing options. Related stories …

Think about how you process your daily snail mail. If you’re anything like me, you separate the important items — bills, letters, cards, and so on — into one pile and the fliers, catalogs, magazines, and other stuff into another. Free iOS app Cannonball applies that same concept to managing e-mail on your iPad, automatically separating the wheat messages from …

There are lots of magic tricks you can perform with your smartphone, usually using some combination of real-world objects (like, say, cards) and an app. For example, with Card2Phone, physical items like coins and cards seem to disappear into an iPhone, then reappear again in the real world. But with iBalance, the phone itself becomes the illusion. This new trick, …