Home sweet home.
Techy tots take notice! Many parents allow their tots to play with their smartphones and tablets — and let's face it, sometimes they know how to use the devices better than their parents. With the number of iPad apps for preschoolers increasing every day, it's time to let your tot get spooky with technology — and check out these 10 Halloween iPad apps! Read more
Sephora has just taken full advantage of the bright and shiny, interactive features an iPad can provide with the debut of its new Sephora App For iPad (free). The app features various tabs based on category: social, beauty report, virtual mirror, and video. The social tab provides a home for the brand's Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube updates, along with a BeautyTalk feature, where users can get Read more
Remember those awesome Choose Your Own Adventure books you had as a kid? (What should he do? To go into the cave, turn to page 25. To walk down the beach, turn to page 32.) Now that same sense of writing your own story comes to the iPhone; a perfect fit if you ask me! The U-Ventures app costs $4 (it is a story, after all) and besides mimicking a beloved book of yore, also incorporates sound, Read more
IPad's recent launch has technology buffs giddy with excitement, but homeowners, renters, and DIY fanatics can get in on the fun too. Everyone's drooling over the iPad for its sleek look, but I'm excited about the tablet's usefulness in keeping up with another coveted pad of mine: mi casa. The latest and greatest is not only about gaming or picture viewing. Here are five iPad applications bound Read more
Vogue just announced its first-ever iPad app, Vogue Cover Exclusive ($1), which brings some scintillating exclusive content to your digital magazine-reading life. Coming packaged with the cover story from the print edition (vs. the entire issue), the iPad app will be focused on exclusive extra content, like behind-the-scenes videos from the photo shoot, image outtakes, additional interviews with Read more
We got a peek inside Oprah's iPad when she chatted about her favorite apps recently, and now, Gwyneth Paltrow has called out a few of her own inside the pages of the UK's Stylist magazine. Gwyneth has been on top of the pop culture train recently, with performances at the Grammys and on Glee (not to mention her hilarious stint on SNL), so it makes sense that she'd be rocking one of the hottest Read more
If you're looking for something — anything — near you, Craigslist is probably one of your first online stops. The site has essentially re-created newspaper classifieds for the Internet. Now, there's an iPad app that re-creates Craigslist for the iPad, using a classic newspaper design. Lifelike Craig is a new (old?) way to view and post to Craigslist with the look and feel of a newspaper's Read more
Thing that is awesome: discovering new music. Thing that is more awesome: discovering new music curated by a top music magazine on your iPad. Spin magazine has just announced its new iPad app, Spin Play, the basic version of which is free. It includes a stream of constantly updated news and reviews. For $2 per month or $8 for the year, users receive over 60 streaming songs and over 30 exclusive Read more
Microsoft's Bing search engine has just released a shiny new iPad app, aimed to help users search and discover what they're looking for within a bright, colorful, and engaging interface. The app's homescreen image changes daily (similar to Bing.com and its other mobile apps), and also features smaller tiles for staying in the know. Also included, Bing's image search, displaying search results in Read more
Watching your favorite shows on your TV at home is so 2010. Thankfully, cable providers are slowly but surely allowing us to untether from our sofas and take our TV-watching on the go with a few handy iPad apps. Check out the streaming TV landscape in this guide, where all the apps are free with a paid subscription to your cable provider! Read more
