Music-streaming service Songza has added a premium option for listeners who want it. Dubbed Club Songza, it offers ad-free listening and twice as many song-skips (12 instead of 6) for 99 cents per week. Wait a second — ads? What ads? I’ve never heard so much as a single commercial while listening to Songza on …

Got plans for the Fourth of July weekend? If they involve long car rides, lines you can’t escape, or just lots of couch/hammock/poolside time, consider stocking up on games for your iDevice. Warner Bros. will help keep you entertained on the cheap. Ending soon, 11 Warner Bros. iOS games are on sale for 99 cents each. Here’s the list, with …

Codemasters’ Colin McRae Rally holds a special place in the pantheon of racing games, earning legions of fans for its realistic simulation of breakneck rally racing. If you’re among those fans, or you just like a good high-speed race against the clock, you’ll be glad to know Colin McRae Rally is now available for iOS. CMR is all about off-road …

Slowly but surely, Next Issue is getting better. The service slings unlimited digital magazines to your tablet (or Windows 8-powered PC) for a flat monthly rate, and its catalog is closing in on 100 titles (quite a jump from the 40 or so it offered when it first launched about a year ago). Haven’t tried it yet? Now’s your chance …

Whenever I envision the perfect smartphone, it has one key feature: a kickstand. (Bet you thought I was going to say freeze-ray. That’s no. 2 on the list.) Why the deep-seated longing for a pop-out propper-upper? Because my phone is my constant companion, used for everything from reading while I eat breakfast to watching movies on long flights to showing …

For a long time I’ve been a fan of N2A Cards, which sells a simple plug-and-play way to turn Barnes & Noble’s Nook tablets into full-blown Android tablets. After all, if you’ve got good hardware, why not unlock its maximum potential? Now Kindle owners can get in on the action. N2A’s new N2Aos service will install Android 4.2 (Jelly Bean) …

If you’re anything like me, you have an iTunes library you’ve amassed over the course of many years, one that includes everything from ripped CDs to Amazon MP3 purchases to song downloads from any number of outside sources. In other words, it’s a messy collection, with duplicates, missing album art and tags, and so on. There are plenty of utilities …

The Pocket Tripod can hold your iPhone vertically or horizontally. Geometrical Inc. An iPhone needs a stand. There, I said it. Whether for watching videos on an airplane, reading your Flipboard feeds over breakfast, or snapping rock-steady photos, nothing beats having your screen propped up at the perfect angle. For a long while, my preferred solution was the Zero Chroma …

One of my favorite apps of 2012, Bad Robot Interactive’s Action Movie FX, just got even better. Available for iOS, the app lets you add Hollywood-style special effects to videos you’ve shot with your iPhone or iPad. What kinds of effects? Suppose you’re making a movie that involves blowing up a car (as all good movies should). Action Movie FX …

The Smart Cargo is cleverly designed to roll up inside your Smart Cover. Dotan Saguy You know what the iPad really needs? Storage. I don’t mean more memory, though obviously there’s never enough of that. No, the iPad needs a place to store your keys, stylus, sync cable, earbuds, and all the other detritus that typically clutters up your pocket, …