IPHONE APPS / NEWS / DISCOVERY
iPhone apps, news, and accessories.
Discover useful apps, see what’s new, and get more from your Apple devices.
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Airwork: iPhone shifts and same-day pay for workers
Airwork is a Winter 2022 YC iPhone app for flexible shifts, with same-day pay and location-limited work in Ontario.
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Canva AI Photo & Video Editor for iPhone: a mobile design suite
Canva’s iPhone app combines photo editing, video creation, templates, and collaboration in one mobile design tool.
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Kaagaz PDF Scanner & Compress for iPhone
Kaagaz is a free iPhone scanner and PDF tool for documents, folders, and cloud backup.
Latest perspectives
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Home and office camera apps: evaluate access, support, and privacy
A practical review framework for an authorized camera system, without assuming that an old app remains secure or supported.
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Mobile video monitoring with Mobiscope app
Mobiscope’s 2013 iPhone camera app revisited: original product imagery, live viewing, motion alerts and the difference between past features and current availability.
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An old iPhone or iPad as a second screen: the iDisplay idea
The 2012 post proposed a specific reuse for an older device through SHAPE’s iDisplay.
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iPhone 5 and app layouts: the question before the taller screen arrived
Revisit the September 2012 discussion of screen proportions, with the later announcement kept separate from predictions.
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Camera Awesome: SmugMug’s camera app and the photographs it left behind
Why Camera Awesome belongs in iPhone photography history, and what owners of an old installation should know about exporting images.
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Picksie and AroundMe: the local-discovery comparison behind Partnership Potential
The 2011 article proposed combining two approaches; it did not announce an actual business partnership.
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Microsoft’s Skype acquisition: what happened, and what it means now
Microsoft announced its $8.5 billion Skype deal in May 2011. Revisit the acquisition, its significance for iPhone users, and Skype’s later retirement.
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Hungry Penguins: the physics puzzle behind the 2011 headline
Identify the original penguin game and its fish-collecting, obstacle-navigation challenge.
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Facebook, Facely HD and iSocialize: a 2011 interface comparison
The original article compared three ways to reach Facebook from an iPhone.