Category: IPod Touch

Our friends at Digiarty Software have teamed up with us to give away 10 $15 iTunes gift cards (valid on the U.S. iTunes store) and a free software download for everyone in celebration of their two new products: PetsWar (an iPhone game app) and MacX iPhone Mounter (which lets you transfer files between iOS devices such as the iPhone to your Mac).Continue
SugarSync, a file sharing and backup service we’ve written about before, has updated its iOS app to version 2.2, and it’s a big improvement over previous versions.
Like a lot of my WWD colleagues, I’ve been a big Dropbox user. But the new version of the SugarSync app adds some unique and attractive features, including:Continue
LogMeIn Ignition, a nifty remote control app for the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad that we’ve written about previously, has received an update that includes a file manager that will allow users to view, save and transfer files between remote computers and their mobile device.Continue
The original Rackspace Cloud app came out last year when the iPad launched. Today, the iPad 2 is launching and the app is making a second entrance. This time with capabilities that make it usable for communities far larger than the systems administrator crowd.
The new Rackspace Cloud app has new features for the system administrator to better manage cloud infrastructure:
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Looking for a way to keep your team up-to-date with project data when they’re out of the office? Wrike, a well-designed project management tool that we’ve written about previously, now has companion mobile apps for iPhone, iPad and BlackBerry. The apps are free for Wrike users.Continue
Google has released its Android 3.0 (code-name Honeycomb) software development kit (SDK) preview, allowing mobile developers to get an early hands-on with what the first tablet-only version of the Android operating system has to offer. With Honeycomb, built from the ground up for devices with larger screen sizes, there's a new "holographic" user interface, as Google describes it, plus improvements to multitasking, notifications, widgets and more.Continue
Remember the story of the 14-year-old Robert Nay whose Bubble Ball iPhone app knocked out Angry Birds from the #1 spot on the App Store's free apps list? Well, the software development kit (SDK) Nay used, Ansca Mobile's Corona SDK, has just been made available on Windows.
That means that PC developers can now develop Android apps using Corona's tools and can then port their code and assets to Mac for building iOS apps for iPhone, iPad and the iPod Touch.Continue
Nuance Communications recently provided access to its Dragon NatuarllySpeaking software development kit (SDK) to mobile developers building apps for the iOS or Android platforms. With the SDK, developers will be able to integrate speech recognition capabilities into their mobile applications and/or create "speech aware" apps.
Beyond the new era of talking to your phone! (Or maybe not...)Continue
On Saturday, Apple announced its iTunes App Store had reached a new milestone: 10 billion app downloads. The 10 billionth app was downloaded by Gail Davis, a resident of Orpington, Kent, U.K. She won a promotional contest Apple hosted to celebrate this event, and is now the lucky winner of a $10,000 iTunes Gift card. Her kids are thrilled, no doubt, considering it was actually their download that led to the win.Continue