You might think app design is the same, whether the software is being developed for iOS or Android. But creating highly polished, elegant-looking apps is simply easier to do when developing for iOS. That’s the prevailing conventional wisdom among developers who code for both platforms.Design is built into Apple’s DNA. Google’s legacy, on the other [...]

Bowel Mover Pro ($0.99 iPhone/iPad) Aficionados of the long-running sitcom Scrubs will know this one essential fact: Everything comes down to poo. Really. Tracking your bowel movements is apparently a great way to monitor your health on a day-to-day basis. This app will help you track what you ate and how it turned into a [...]

According to Korea IT News Apple will use Liquidmetal for the casing of the iPhone 5, which will be launched in June.Liquidmetal is the commercial name of an amorphous metal alloy developed by researchers at the California Institute of Technology and marketed by a company they set up called Liquidmetal Technologies.The alloy’s been used in [...]

There are several apps for iOS that can turn your iPad or iPhone into a remote control. Most of these are special-purpose apps. Whether the app controls your DVR like Xfinity’s application, your PC’s cursor or iTunes, you’re hooked up to a single device, usually through WiFi.But unless it has a little extra help, an [...]

After four months in the Apple’s review process, the journal software arrived at the App Store recently, but it still doesn’t seem ready for prime time.On a first-generation iPad, it’s often unresponsive, buggy and prone to frequent crashes. It’s not very intuitive, either.That’s a sad state of affairs, because the app, which turns the iPad [...]

Haters are always gonna hate, but Apple’s iPad sales will still put critics to shame.Apple has sold 3 million new iPads since the device’s Friday release, the company said in a statement on Monday. This makes the debut Apple’s “strongest iPad launch yet,” according to Apple VP of Marketing Phil Schiller. As with many of [...]

It is shaping up to be a critical year for mobile tech.Now There are new issues, and new challengers other than endless iOS versus Android market share reports, making 2012′s mobile landscape more complex and more important than ever before. Windows 8 is emerging as a viable threat to the iPad, while Android tablets continue [...]

Microsoft has filed a lawsuit on the OnLive Desktop — an internet service that streams Windows onto the iPad,but this won’t stop other free-thinking startup from sending Microsoft’s flagship operating system onto Apple’s tablet by way of the proverbial cloud.The Palo Alto-based Nivio offers an internet service:The nDesktop which streams Windows onto all sorts of [...]

When reports of Apple’s third iPad first started emerging, the prospect of the tablet including a 9.7-inch Retina Display seemed slim to none. Industry analysts said suppliers couldn’t manufacturer super-high-resolution displays at such large dimensions — at least not in time for an early spring iPad launch.On the eve of Wednesday when iPad was to [...]

Apple’s newest version of iPhoto is using maps from OpenStreetMaps instead of Google Maps for its journals and slideshow features as shown during the announcement of the latest iPad.But,Google Maps is still the default source of data for other areas of iOS,and iPhoto maps are now using information  by OpenStreetMaps. That organization gathers data from [...]