Looking for a quick last-minute gift? Not feeling up to fighting the holiday traffic, crowds and checkout lines? Just too lazy busy to shop? Then you may want to consider giving the gift of an iOS app. You can gift any paid app from iTunes on your computer or from the app’s description page on your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch. Just scroll down past the screenshot and look for the “gift this app” button. All you’ll need is the recipient’s email address to complete the transaction. This app list includes both new releases and old favorites. It’s entirely subjective! Note that some of this year’s best apps are free, so they aren’t on here. (Waving to Instagram, Path, Spotify, Flipboard, Pinterest, HBO GO, etc.) Also, everyone already has Angry Birds (the original). It’s not on here, either. 1. iMovie ($4.99) Everyone should have this app from Apple, the fun moviemaking app for Read More

Looking for a quick last-minute gift? Not feeling up to fighting the holiday traffic, crowds and checkout lines? Just too lazy busy to shop? Then you may want to consider giving the gift of an iOS app. You can gift any paid app from iTunes on your computer or from the app’s description page on your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch. Just scroll down past the screenshot and look for the “gift this app” button. All you’ll need is the recipient’s email address to complete the transaction. This app list includes both new releases and old favorites. It’s entirely subjective! Note that some of this year’s best apps are free, so they aren’t on here. (Waving to Instagram, Path, Spotify, Flipboard, Pinterest, HBO GO, etc.) Also, everyone already has Angry Birds (the original). It’s not on here, either. 1. iMovie ($4.99) Everyone should have this app from Apple, the fun moviemaking app for Read More

Editor’s note: Contributor Brad Spirrison is the managing editor of mobile app discovery services Appolicious, AndroidApps.com and AppVee. With this post, he continues an annual tradition of picking the best iOS apps of the year. It’s telling that Apple chose an app that debuted more than 14 months ago, Instagram, as its “iPhone App of the Year” for 2011. This should not imply that there was a shortage of quality and groundbreaking apps released this year. Far from it. From social magazines to music discovery apps to console-quality games that players can hold in the palms of their hands, there are hundreds of new titles in the iTunes App Store that will inform, organize, and entertain virtually anyone who owns an iOS device. As more choices become available to different kinds of consumers, however, it’s difficult to identify the undisputed champions of the app world. We picked 20 of the best Read More

Golfers with mobile devices have an edge on those without, at least if those devices are loaded with the apps mentioned in this week’s App Smart column. Tiger Woods: My Swing ($10 on Apple), iSwing Golf ($3 on Android and Apple) and Golfplan with Paul Azinger $1 on Apple) are the category stalwarts, but a new app from Jack Nicklaus, ShotView ($25 on Apple), could challenge them. Unlike other golf apps that offer rangefinders, scorecards, statistical tracking or swing tutorials, for instance, ShotView includes all of these features. The Stats feature is best suited to those with the energy to record their shot after every stroke. Their diligence will be rewarded with graphics showing their fairway accuracy off the tee, among other things. The app’s most valuable asset, though, is the video tutorial section, which includes 26 segments from Mr. Nicklaus’s “Golf My Way” video series from 1983. The videos look Read More

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Browsing the App Store this weekend?  If so, here are fifteen applications released recently.  Enjoy! Google’s location app finally gets an update and now includes check-ins and improved performance for background running.  Free. Improve your golf game with the help of Tiger Woods’ new iPhone app, with side-by-side swing comparison, analysis, helpful videos and a lot more.  $9.99/£5.99. A highly anticipated game which is as much audio and video experience as it is video game.  $4.99/£2.99. An online version of the classic Battleships game, with a pirate theme.  An in-app purchase is required to play the full game.  Free. A word search game with definitions of all words included, plus 23 different categories with thousands of words to find.  $1.99/£1.19. Take a picture with your iPhone’s camera and add your own notes right on to it.  Then share it via Facebook, Twitter or email.  $1.99/£1.19. The latest set of pinball tables Read More

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...Woods: My Swing app allows someone to record your swing using your iPhone and for Tiger to give you virtual feedback by comparing your swing to o... Read More