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Google Is Heavily Promoting Google Maps For iPhone In Web Search On iOS
Google Maps for iPhone rocketed to the top of the App Store in just 7 hours, and today Google confirmed that the app was downloaded over 10 million times in less than 48 hours. Those are crazy...
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iPad Is Still King Of The Web With 87% Of Tablet Web Traffic [Report]
Thanks to affordable offerings like the Amazon Kindle Fire HD and the Google Nexus 7, Android tablets continue to increase their market share and claw away at the iPad’s lead. However, Apple’s tablet...
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Izik Tries Something New With Web Search On iOS [Review]
More pictures, more finger-friendly Izik is a new web search app from the makers of Blekko, a web search engine for people who are looking for a change from Google. You could be forgiven for saying...
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Amazon Brings Its In-App Purchasing Service To Games On Mac, PC & The Web
Amazon has today announced that its in-app purchasing service, which is already available on the company’s Kindle Fire tablet and other Android devices, is coming to Mac, PC, and web games. This will...
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You Can Now View Your Entire Instagram Feed From The Web
This day was bound to come sooner or later, and finally, it has arrived. You no longer have to pull out your iPhone when you’re at work if you want to check your Instagram feed to see all your...
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Opera Announces It Will Be Shifting All Of Its Browsers To WebKit This Year
Opera has announced that it will gradually phase out the use of Presto, its own rendering engine, in favor of WebKit this year. It will utilize Chromium, the open source project from Google, which...
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After Two Weeks, iOS 6.1 Accounts For Over Half Of All iOS Web Traffic [Chart]
By now we know that iOS users update their software pretty quickly. One month after Apple released iOS 6.0, the software accounted for 60% of all iOS web traffic. Now that Apple has released iOS 6.1,...
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Send URLs Right To Gmail App With This Mobile Safari Bookmark [iOS Tips]
So, you’re surfing along on your iPhone or iPad and you want to email your buddy a fantastic new site that you’ve found. You hit the Share button, and then curse because it sends it to the default iOS...
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Forecast, An Amazing Web App From The Maker Of Dark Sky
Remember the app Dark Sky? If you’re outside the U.S., what you’ll remember is the frustration of not being able to use its amazing real-time rain warnings, which would literally tell you when it...
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Kids Games With In-App Purchases Under Investigation By U.K. Office Of Fair...
The U.K.’s Office of Fair Trading is investigating children’s games that charge in-app purchases for additional content and virtual items. The watchdog will look at games on mobile and on the web, and...
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Evernote Reminders Now Available On Mac, iOS & The Web
Evernote has today rolled out a new Reminders service to its clients on the Mac, iOS, and the web. The new service rolls three of Evernote’s most-requested features into one, delivering in-app and...
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Later.fm Is Like Instapaper For Music
Later.fm is like Instapaper for music. And like Instapaper, it is beginning its life as a web-only app, although it works so well in Mobile Safari that you won’t care about the lack of an actual iOS...
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You Can Now Read Your Favorite Flipboard Magazines In Your Browser
Flipboard is no longer a service that you can only enjoy on mobile devices. From today, more than 2 million magazines on every topic imaginable are available to read in your web browser. Each one...
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Users More Likely To Share Web Content Via Their iPhone Than Any Other Mobile...
ShareThis, the popular content sharing button on many websites, reported a study in which user patterns suggest that the iPhone is the “Most Social Device,” accounting for three times as much sharing...
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CloudConvert, A Dropbox-Friendly Online Document Converter
You know the drill: you get some crazy attachment in the mail, and you need to convert it to a format you can use. And – of course – you’re on your iPhone or iPad. Maybe it’a a FLAC file you want in...
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Microsoft Brings Xbox Music To Android & iOS, Offers Free Streaming On The Web
Microsoft has today launched Xbox Music on Android and iOS almost a year after the music streaming service made its debut alongside Windows 8. The apps allow subscribers to stream tens of millions of...
View ArticleBring The Conversation To Your To-Do List With Comments For Wunderlist Pro
Wunderlist, the hugely popular cross-platform productivity app that now boasts over 5.3 million users worldwide, got a new feature called Comments this week, which brings the conversation to your to-do...
View ArticleEverpix Revamps UI, Adds New “Nearby Photos” Section
Everpix – in case my constant droning on and on about it wasn’t clear enough – is my favorite cloud photo service by far (I’m currently auditioning Picturelife as a possible alternative, but so far...
View ArticleCrypstagram Hides Secret Messages Inside Glitched Photos
Crypstagram is a neat service for encrypting messages inside your photos. And as an added bonus it also ruins those photos along the way by adding glitches to them. You probably won’t want to actually...
View ArticleUse Safari, Chrome, Command, And Number Keys To Navigate The Web Faster [OS X...
Let’s talk about getting around the web quickly. Most likely, you’re using Safari or Chrome on the Mac to surf the information superhighway, and these modern browsers use tabs to open more than one...
View ArticleChange New iWork Documents Back Into Old iWork ’09 Documents With Cloud Convert
CloudConvert, you will remember, is a web service that lets you convert any document from you Dropbox into pretty much any other file type that makes sense. Now, it has added support for iWork...
View ArticleEditorially Adds Dropbox Export And Direct-To-WordPress Publishing
Editorially is a web-based text editor that I wish I used. It has a gorgeous interface, lots of great collaborative features, and now it even exports to Dropbox and WordPress, which would let me write...
View ArticleNew Evernote Safari Extension: Mark Up And Annotate The Web
Wow, the Evernote folks are on a real roll these days. Not only does the iOS app now not suck enough to use it every day, but the new Safari web clipper is good enough to make me use my Mac for...
View ArticleFacebook To Turn Super Troll This Week With Auto-Playing Video Ads For Us All...
UPDATE: Facebook has now confirmed auto-playing ads will rollout this week. See the update at the bottom of this post. Facebook’s auto-playing video ads, which first appeared on iOS last week, will be...
View ArticleInstapaper Daily Shows The Day’s Most Popular News Story
One of the best things about Instapaper now being owned by Betaworks is that the developers spend their time adding new features and services instead of complaining about things on their personal...
View ArticleFeedshare Lets You Share Your List Of RSS Feeds
Feedshare is a great new service for sharing your RSS feeds. That is, you can upload the OPML file containing all your subscribed feeds and it will be available to anyone who cares. And you don’t...
View ArticlePics.io Launches In-Browser Photo Editor, But Why?
Between your iPhone, your iPad and your Mac, it’s hard to imagine a time when you’d be online and need to edit a photo, but somehow not have access to an app like Snapseed (which has its own browser...
View ArticleMural.ly, A Flexible Corkboard App With Evernote Integration
Mural.ly is a mood-board app, or white-board app, or cork-board app, or whatever you want to call it, and it works in the browser and as an iOS app. I’ve been testing it out (briefly) and so far it’s...
View ArticleInterviewly Makes Reddit AMAs Look Beautiful On Your iPad
If you ever tried to look at one of Reddit’s excellent AMAs (Ask Me Anything) on the iPad, or even the desktop, you will have experienced the a sense of futility, the feeling that there are many gems...
View ArticleXKPasswd Generates Secure Pass-Phrases
Apart from “correct horse battery staple,” the most secure passwords aren’t words, they’re phrases. You don’t even need crazy symbols or hard-to-determine numerals (is that an l or a 1, a 0 or an O?) –...
View ArticleCreate Websites With Your iPhone In Seconds Using Webr
It’s not exactly hard to make a website these days, but Webr makes it just about as easy as could be. It’s a free iPhone app which lets you create and publish a website in just a couple of minutes,...
View ArticleApple Owns 65% Of Mobile Web Traffic, iPhone 5 Expected To Boost Share [Report]
Apple devices currently account for over half of all mobile web traffic in the U.S. and Canada, according to Chitika. During August 2012, Apple’s share of web traffic on mobile devices grew from 63.75%...
View ArticleAfter Just 18 Days, iPhone 5 Already Accounts For More Web Traffic Than...
It’s been just three weeks since the iPhone 5 started shipping, and Apple’s latest smartphones already accounts for more web traffic than the Samsung Galaxy S III, according to a new report. It’s...
View ArticleFrom You To The Web, Instantly: Photoset Does One Thing Very Well [Review]
Quick, answer this one: what’s the quickest, easiest, no-sign-ups required way to get a bunch of photos from your iPhone to the internet, right now? Instagram? Nope. You’re kind of right, but Instagram...
View ArticleOne Month Later, iOS 6 Market Share Climbs Beyond 60% [Report]
Apple released iOS 6 to the masses on September 19th, and it was reported that 15% of all iOS devices had been updated to the new operating system within the first 24 hours of availability. Chitika...
View ArticleBrand New Today: Pocket For Mac
Hey, Pocket users, good news: today sees the release of Pocket for Mac, a native OS X app which you can download for free from the Mac App Store. Pocket, which started life as a service called Read It...
View ArticleLiquid Helps Information Flow Smoothly [Review]
Liquid is a productivity helper for OS X. It comes in two flavors – free and paid. The idea is to speed up your information seeking workflow. You find something you need to research, and a few key...
View ArticleLogitech Releases Long-Awaited Mac Compatible Software for Its Alert Security...
Finally. Logitech’s Alert security system seemed pretty impressive when it first popped up on our radar: advanced indoor and outdoor cameras, night vision, lots of options — and here’s where your ears...
View ArticleApple’s Made It Impossible For Developers To Optimize Websites For iPad Mini
Even though they’re not leading in marketshare, Apple’s iOS devices account for more than 60% of all mobile web consumption. Because of this, many websites provide custom layouts for multiple devices...
View ArticleiOS Devices Have Been Dominating Mobile Web Traffic For The Past 6 Months...
Android technically sells more smartphones than Apple, but iOS devices continue to dominate mobile web traffic. Chitika Insights has been tracking web traffic on the top mobile platforms, and iOS...
View ArticleGetting the new MacBook? Avoid Google Chrome for better battery life
There’s no question that Google Chrome is one of the best web browsers you can get, but it’s long been a resource hog under OS X. By simply avoiding it on the new MacBook, your battery could last more...
View ArticleGoogle wants to help you surf the mobile web at lightning speeds
Google wants to make your mobile browsing experience better than ever with its new Accelerated Pages Project. The company hopes to dramatically improve the performance of the mobile web so that pages,...
View ArticleWhat the modern web looks like on an original iPhone
When Steve Jobs unveiled the iPhone nine years ago this month, he made a big point about iOS Safari, the first desktop-class mobile browser. He said — and proceeded to prove — that Mobile Safari could...
View ArticleInbox by Gmail gets new Smart Reply feature on the web
Google Inbox’s awesome Smart Reply feature, which was launched on mobile back in November, is now available on the web. The feature is already being used for 10 percent of all replies on Android and...
View ArticleApple’s Live Photos can now be embedded on the web
Apple has paved the way for its Live Photos to takeover the web with a new JavaScript API that makes it easy for developers to embed the moving images onto websites. The new LivePhotosKit API was...
View ArticleFree web tool CleverPDF gives you all the PDF editing tools you need
This post is brought to you by CleverPDF. PDFs are pretty much a daily part of life for anyone who works at a computer. They’re the 8.5-by-11-inch sheet of digital documents. But like a sheet of paper,...
View ArticleTwitter gives you more control over pesky notifications
Twitter’s latest update gives users more control over the notifications they receive. It’s now easier than ever to block pesky alerts while still receiving those you want to see. A recent change to...
View ArticleDon’t ditch Safari if you want the fastest browsing experience
If you want the fastest possible web browsing experience on Mac, don’t sway from Safari. Apple promises that Safari 11, which will debut in macOS High Sierra this fall, is “the world’s fastest desktop...
View ArticleStreamline how you type, build websites, and more [Week’s Best Deals]
Another week, another raft of great new deals at the Cult of Mac Store. This go around, we’ve got a typing assistant that can save you serious time at the keyboard. There’s also a code-free tool for...
View ArticleGmail’s new ‘Confidential Mode’ locks down sensitive messages
Gmail is getting a gorgeous redesign on the web, which will include a bunch of awesome new features. One of those is a “Confidential Mode” for sensitive messages, which prevents them from being...
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