Category: appstore

Google Now For iOS Tutorial: Get the most out of Google Now

We explained the setup process in a separate tutorial here. Google Now, Google’s vocal assistant, can be a powerful tool, if you know its’ abilities and limitations. There are two parts to Google Now. The first is called “cards”, and the second is voice search. We’ll start with cards. Cards are like little apps to check on different parts of your life. Cards are...

How And Where To Get Google Now For iOS

Google Now, Google’s popular virtual assistant, has come to Apple’s iOS, but it’s not where you’d think. Several people have asked me where the app itself is. Here’s the secret. There’s no app. Google Now is built right into google’s search app, which was their first app on the store, and has been on it practically since its’ inception. To access Google Now, do...

Quick Review: WhatsApp Messenger

iMessage is great when all of your friends have iPhones, but when your friends and family around the globe have Droids, and Blackberries, and Windows Phones too, it gets frustrating to send them all messages (and downright expensive). That’s where WhatsApp messenger comes in. I had family abroad last year with a Blackberry (i Know right?) so I turned to a combination of WhatsApp...

7 Most Groundbreaking Apps For Breaking News Junkies

Perhaps no market has more completely unique apps than the news category. There are so many different news apps for iPhone that it can be overwhelming to find good ones so today I’m making it easy. Ten unique tried-and-tested apps that will get you the news you want. Google Currents (free): Google Current is basically a personalized newspaper app. Currents has thousands of “channels”...

Mac Simplified: Every Preloaded App on Your Mac: The Complete Guide

What Applications Are included with the Mac, and what do they do? This is the first question we’ll answer in our new continuous series on simplifying the Mac. We’ve created a huge guide to simplify and demystify each and every app, and even some hidden ones, on your mac, so even a new mac user will never have to say “What does that app do”? We...