Articles tagged "apps"

Six years ago, I broke up with a jerk, and I yearned for some way to just turn this person off. With KillSwitch, a free get-over-it app, I've finally found a way.

The White House just got itself a tumblr page, and it's accepting GIF submissions now. Here are a few suggestions for the inaugural entry.

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When Google releases Project Glass, possibly later this year, they won't just be letting its early users take pictures of anything they see, or do Google…

These days, people are best motivated by what essentially amounts to e-masochism.

Vine is like Twitter, except the ideas move. And maybe give you a headache.

If trying to get to Mildura, Australia, do not use Apple's maps. Or they might kill you.

Here's a quick, somewhat obvious thought: musicians as a body (imagine it exists) let technology dictate itself. Not like production and sound technology, but all of the other stuff -- the websites and blogs and streaming services. All of this other

In the lower level of the American Museum of Natural History, I was having trouble paying attention to the First Deputy Mayor Patti Harris. My mind wandered to the press conference-y backdrop behind her, which covered the entrance to the “Hall of Pla…

Here's the thing with regard to relative coolness: it's good to be cool and it's hip to be square; no one likes to party with losers and if you'd like to have a say, it's important to stay on top of trends. Being cool is different than being "popular…

Smartphones and a host of tiny, tiny computers are about to automate your home. So sayeth the futurists, and so sayeth the profit-seeking siliconed youth. And, most recently, so sayeth the founders of Ube, a startup that thinks that one day, we shoul…

Here I am, in present day Astoria, Queens, on my landline. There are no tricks in this image, no filters, only a bit of cropping. I'm on my "AT&T trim-line 210":http://www.amazon.com/AT-Corded-Phone-Black-Handset/dp/B00005MITU/ref=pd_cp_e_0. It's no

Some of the most powerful images in the United States come from the clean white rows of headstones in Arlington National Cemetery. But as haunting and pride-inducing those "'gardens of stone'":http://www.arlingtoncemetery.mil/Image.aspx?ID=2814e6f8-4…

Normally I'd rather read about flaming bag of poo than some new app, but here's the exception: a new iPad app contains scanned slides of sections of Einstein's brain, available for anyone to poke and prod at. Sure, it's $9.99, but how else are you go…

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but you're going to have to cancel your mobile drone tracking plans for Labor Day weekend. It was a really fun plan, I know. Pull out the lawn chairs, find a sunny spot in the grass — beer in one hand, iPhone in th…

By the time this election is through, billions of dollars will have been spent between the two presidential political campaigns—and the lion's share of that will be used to fund TV ads. Boring, obnoxious, terrible TV ads. And thanks to the glorious e…

The world was so much work before the arrival of smartphones. Remember when you had to carry a camera and a cell phone when you went on nature walks? And even then you couldn't check your email on the trail. Or what about the dark time before that wh…

With the narrative of the 2012 presidential race pretty much set in stone -- both President Obama and challenger Mitt Romney will ceaselessly hammer each other on the economy, and little else -- the biggest question of the summer has been who Romney

Whether you like it or not, your smartphone knows where you are and can probably guess what you're doing at all times. You wouldn't necessarily know it, though, because all of the data lives in the background, accessible to apps that might need it bu…

I'm sure you're pirating most of your music nowadays; you probably have a torrent client opened up right now, swallowing tracks from the next pop-up that will allow you to get away with it. It's probably been a couple years since you last slid a CD i…

This summer, more young people than ever will be engaged in app development. When you think of app designers, you probably imagine shaggy 25 year olds with an idea for a hyper-efficient mobile payment system burning in their hearts like a $1.75 Jesus…

The Internet is buzzing about a new iPhone app that can help you self-diagnose skin cancer, but I'm not so sure this is a good idea. A few weeks ago I discovered iTriage, a smartphone app designed by a couple former ER doctors that invites you to inp…

NASA's new App doesn't teach Rocket Science 101 like they used to.