Apps

You know what they say - there's an app for that. Find out about upcoming, featured and cool apps covering everything from productivity to gaming.

TextEdit: The Built-in Text Editor of Mac OS X

TextEdit is a text editor that comes preinstalled on your Mac. It allows everyone to be able to write documents, similar to Pages or Microsoft Word. It’s more of a basic application that people usually assume won't work for their needs. In reality, TextEdit is a powerful tool if you need to write a document for work, school or for fun. You can find TextEdit in your Applications folder in Finder or in LaunchPad.

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How to Start Creating Apps for iOS, OS X, watchOS and tvOS

Have you ever wanted to make an app that people could download from the App Store? App development has quickly become an incredibly popular hobby and profession. Whether you are looking to create Apple apps for fun or are looking to make money off your development, it’s actually pretty easy to get started.

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Advanced Features in Preview for Mac

If you've ever opened a PDF on a Mac, you may have noticed it opens in an app called Preview. At first glance, Preview appears to be a simple PDF viewer. Don't be fooled. Preview is a surprisingly powerful PDF editor with some incredibly useful features.

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App Review: Sky Guide

The sky has an outstanding high number of stars in it. Star gazing is fun, but it is even more enjoyable to know what you are looking at in the sky. Sky Guide, an app on iOS, does just that. Along with being one of the most popular paid iOS apps of all-time, Sky Guide allows you to use your iOS device to see star designs, names and information.

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Free Up Your Mac's Storage with Monolingual

Dealing with a Mac with a full hard drive can be a pain. When your Mac is full or nearly full, it will slow down or potentially become non-responsive. Monolingual is a free, handy application that will immediately clear up a few gigabytes (GBs) of space from your Mac without messing with your personal documents and data.

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How to Get Rid of Duplicate Contacts on iPhone and iPad

Have you ever had the issue on your iPhone or iPad of going through your contacts and somehow there are multiple entries of the same contact? Unfortunately, this can happen and it is an extremely frustrating and time consuming issue to fix. The only way to really fix this from the Contacts app is to manually go through and delete the duplicates - until now.

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App Review: Adobe Lightroom for iPhone

Lightroom, a photo editing application by Adobe, is available on iOS. Lightroom allows powerful editing on-the-go from your iOS device.  Unlike the desktop application of Lightroom, you don’t need to purchase the app or have a subscription to Adobe Creative Cloud to use the mobile app.

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App Review: Two Dots

Two Dots is an awesome, fun and challenging game for iOS. Best of all, it's free. When playing Two Dots, you have to use your brain to think about how one move can affect the moves later on. It’s fun, fast paced and makes you think and try to picture where the dots will move once you make your next move.

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App Review: Monument Valley

Recently, I went on the App Store looking for a good new game to play. As many do, I was scrolling through the Top Charts section of the App Store trying to find something really interesting that looked fun to play. I came across Monument Valley, a game which I had heard of before, but never played. I decided to give it a try. Monument Valley is an enticing and beautiful puzzle game that is well worth its $3.99 price tag.

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Spotify Isn't Going Anywhere

The launch of Apple Music had just about every Spotify user thinking the same thing: "What will happen to Spotify?" Spotify is Apple’s biggest competitor in the music streaming industry. They charge the same monthly price of $9.99, offer almost identical music catalogues and similar features app-wide. Many thought the launch of Apple Music would destroy Spotify altogether. But, Spotify is hitting back - hard. Over the past few weeks, they’ve announced some stunning new features to compete with Apple Music.

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