It was just a few weeks ago that I wrote about N2A Cards’ new Android 4.1 upgrade options for the Barnes & Noble Nook Color and Nook Tablet. Now the company offers a similar option for the Nook HD+ (by all accounts a fantastic tablet). Whether you’re not a fan of Barnes & Noble’s heavily …

You know how most movies appear letterboxed on your iPad? Those black bars are kind of a waste of space. So what if you slid the movie upward and filled the empty bottom area with, you know, stuff? Things like actors’ filmographies, still images and art from the movie, little bits of trivia, sharing and social-media options, and so on? …

With GTA Radio for Android, you get all the great Grand Theft Auto radio stations without having to buy the games. Keshav Verma Playing the new Grand Theft Auto: Vice City on my iPad (it’s coming soon for Android) made me nostalgic for other GTA games. Not so much for the gratuitous violence, but for the radio stations that have …

Has it really been 10 years since Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto: Vice City made its PlayStation 2 debut? And has it really been 26 years since the big hair, pastel suits, and electronic-infused pop celebrated in that game were all the rage? Heaven help me, I’m old. Just as Rockstar brought Grand Theft Auto 3 to smartphones and tablets to …

There are countless ways to find free apps for your iPhone, iPod, or iPad. You can peruse the App Store. You can subscribe to a Twitter feed like 148Apps Now Free. Heck, you can even use an app; I continue to be a fan of Appsfire Deals, which serves up a huge helping of freebies every day, right on your …

I love audiobooks. Nothing makes a car ride faster or more pleasant than a good spoken-word book piping through the speakers. That’s why I’ve routinely championed smartphone-powered services like Audible, Audiobooks.com, Simply Audiobooks, and Tales2Go. Now there’s another app worth adding to your audiobook arsenal: Audiobooks HQ, which gives you access to more than 5,000 public-domain titles — all for …

Joke all you want, but Siri is pretty cool. And Google Search? Even cooler. Just one problem: These voice-powered assistants require you to take your phone out of your pocket, purse, briefcase, or whatever. You can’t just talk to the air and have your commands recognized. What you need is one of those “Star Trek: The Next Generation”-style communicators, the …

It’s been about 18 months since I first wrote about Zapd, a clever app that lets you build simple, attractive Web sites using nothing more than your iPhone. Why would you want to do that? To chronicle something cool, of course, like a wedding, vacation, party, or even a work project. I mean, your photos are already in the phone, …

There are plenty of apps that can stream movies and TV shows to your tablet or smartphone — Amazon Instant Video, Crackle, HBO Go, Hulu Plus, Netflix… shall I go on? — but very few that let you download content for offline viewing. That’s kind of a bummer, because it means if you want to watch something on, say, an …

Note to Apple: Nice job with the cameras and all, but Camera Roll? Not so great. See, browsing photos on an iDevice kind of sucks. You’re stuck either swiping through tiny, disorganized thumbnails or paging through endless full-screen snapshots to find what you’re after. Flayvr for iOS turns your Camera Roll into nicely organized albums, offering a much cooler way …