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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iPad 2 and the moment the tablet became a creative notebook
Apple’s 2011 tablet launch paired cameras with music and video tools, suggesting a useful approach to making small projects.
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Springpad vs Evernote: smart notes, saved ideas, and keeping your data
Revisit Springpad’s 2011 approach to organizing notes, its later shutdown, and the export checks that still matter when choosing a notes app.
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Show of Hands: the mobile polling app reviewed in 2011
Revisit the app’s question-and-results workflow and how to read a voluntary poll carefully.
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Square in 2011: turning a phone into a payment point
Revisit the early Square reader and the mobile-payment workflow discussed in the original article.
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CrispApp’s Facebook Messenger: calling Facebook friends in 2011
This February 2011 app came from CrispApp. Explore its original voice-calling pitch and watch the historical iPhoneApplicationList demonstration.
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iPad 2 and Motorola Xoom: the expectations before launch
Read the January 2011 comparison as a record of tablet speculation, with confirmed announcements kept separate.
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iPhone app trends in 2010: bigger screens and a broader platform
A retrospective on the iPad, iPhone 4, and iOS changes that gave app developers new choices in 2010.
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Angry Birds: revisiting an App Store-era favorite
Understand the original game’s legacy and distinguish it from Red’s First Flight and other Angry Birds releases.
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Instagram in 2010: a focused beginning for mobile photo sharing
Revisit the early Instagram experience through the original iPhoneApplicationList review.