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This Ideas App Has A New Idea For Managing Your Ideas [Review]

Best suited to very creative people with LOTS of ideasIdeas is an iOS app for managing, organising and sorting your ideas and thoughts. It stands out from the crowd thanks to a refreshingly different interface that does the job very well. It usually costs...

TextWrangler: Still Free, Still Amazing, Still Amazingly Free [Review]

Full screen mode and more...Yesterday we highlighted the release of TextWrangler 4, the wonderful free text editor from Bare Bones Software. Here’s a closer look at the new stuff you’ll find in this update. Many of the new features first appeared in TextWrangler’s big...

Say What You See: This Rebus Puzzle App Looks Like Fun [Review]

Roll up, roll up...Rebus Show is an iOS Rebus puzzle game with visual style and flair. Even if you’ve not heard the name “Rebus puzzle” before, you’ll know the concept when you see it. The aim is to guess words represented by pictures. If...

Courier-Inspired Taposé: Nice Concept, Shame About The Bugs [Review]

The two-pane concept is clever, but beset with performance problemsRemember the Microsoft Courier? It was a concept tablet device from Microsoft, with two side-by-side digital touchscreens that could fold together like a book. Well, Taposé is a new iPad app inspired by that concept....

Voice Dictation Works Well On Older iPhones [Review]

Record, transcribe, send text on your older iPhoneVoice Dication, or Voice Dictation – Voice To SMS, Email, Facebook, Twitter And Other Apps to give it its full name, is a voice control app from Europe, designed to offer something vaguely Siri-like to those of...

Barefoot Atlas: Tour The World With Your Kids Before Bedtime [Review]

Every one of those icons has a story to tellBarefoot Books World Atlas ($8) is a kind of digital globe for children, giving them easy access to a simplified cartoon overview of the whole world. From the orbital view (for want of a better...

Arcam’s rCube: rMazing Sound, rNfortunate Price [Review]

rCube: Great sound and portabilityThis is the Arcam rCube, a high end speaker dock for iPhone and iPod touch. It’s a large-ish, solid cube weighing 11lbs, beautifully styled to match all your Apple stuff. It looks great, sounds fantastic, and offers some useful non-wifi...

Madonna’s App: More Marketing For The Material Girl [Review]

Lady MadonnaThere is a theory that apps are the new hit singles. You can’t make money from releasing a song any more, so you might as well try and make money from something people are still willing to pay for, like apps. And you...

DragonDrop Makes Drag And Drop So Much Less Of A Drag [Review]

Click, shake, drop in DragonDropIf you know your Apple history, you’ll probably know that NeXTSTEP, the grandfather of modern OS X, had a clever feature called the Shelf, a placeholder where you could temporarily drop files while dragging them from one location to another....

Frameographer Time Lapse App: This Is How You Do It [Review]

frames1.jpgFrameographer is an excellent $3 photography app for stop motion and time lapse video recording. It works because it keeps things as simple as they can possibly be. One thing I like about it is that it’s been made with the frustrations of time...

Hipstamatic’s New Instagram Sharing Is Convenient But Somewhat Cramped [Review]

It's direct sharing all right. But very densely packed.As we reported yesterday, the latest Hipstamatic update adds something that’s not just new for the app, but new for the App Store: direct access to the Instagram API. Does it make a startling difference to...

Meet Biologic, The Strangest, Cutest Social Networking App Around [Review]

biologic1.jpgBiologic is a – hmm, what is it exactly? It’s hard to describe. It’s not a Twitter client, although you can see Twitter with it. It’s not a Facebook client either, but your Facebook friends are all here if you want them to be....