Apps

If Darth Vader had a favorite iPad app, it would be the new Solar Walk 2.0. Hands down one of the most stunning creations for the iPad, Solar Walk is an app that puts a...

MoMa Art Lab—a new app from New York City's Museum of Modern Art—will teach a kid who Henri Matisse is at a very young age. And mom and dad might learn a little something too....

Downtime is hard to find, whether you're working 9 to 5, going to school or raising your kids full-time. When you do have that extra hour or two, and you inevitably take out your smartphone, shouldn't you spend the time wisely with a few good apps? SEE ALSO: 12 Apps You'll Use This Weekend You could scroll through Instagram, Pinterest and Facebook until your fingers ache, but we found 10 apps that'll help you relax and enjoy your free time even more.

It's been a long week, and you deserve a break. Fortunately, this week's set of apps for iPad are full of fun and relaxation, and there's even app ready to do the work for you. Lucky you....

Russian startup Coursmos reckons it’s spotted a soundbite-sized gap in the e-learning delivery space. Unlike the long-form commitment required to take a typical MOOC, its online courses are broken down into “smaller, more manageable chunks” — basically minutes-long video lessons that can be gobbled down on your phone on the bus to work.

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When Star Walk launched it was one of those "only on the iPad" kind of apps. Since then many have used it as their digital window to space....

Today is the first time in a decade that I actually wished I was back in school. Mathpix is an iOS app that can recognize and answer handwritten math equations in seconds. Open the app, point the camera toward your math problem (you'll need legible handwriting, or it won't work properly), and it'll give you the correct answer along with step-by-step directions to reach the solution. Mathpix even works with more complex equations that require graphs or charts....

So it's almost the new year, and you want to start being more organized and productive, right? Well we've put together a list of great iPhone apps to help you manage your...

Now VP of product marketing at Apple, years ago Michael Tchao worked on the team that invented the Newton. Considering that was one of the first touchscreen "tablets" around, wouldn't you just love to know his favorite iPad apps? Luckily, we are privy to such details, with his recommendations being shown off at the MIPCOM conference in Cannes, where Recombu acted fast and copied them down. Unfortunately they're all paid-for (excluding Flipboard), but consider this list a curated menu of what one of the...

The Daily App Deals post is a round-up of the best app discounts of the day, as well as some notable mentions for ones that are on sale. Trackmaster (Android Market) Previously $9.99, now $4.99. Trackmaster for Android is a statistical tracking app for motorsports lovers of cars, karts, and motorcycles. Record your track video and data to include: position, speed, acceleration, split times, lap times, and more. Get it for $4.99. (via Apps-aholic) iOS Android iOS Android Windows

Apps are generally free or cheap, setting users back a few bucks here and there, a slight blip in the bank account. But amid the flurry of inexpensive games and photo...

Chris Crowell is a veteran kindergarten teacher and contributing editor to Children's Technology Review, a web-based archive of articles and reviews on apps, technology toys and video games. Download a free issue of CTR here. In this week's Top 5 Kids Apps, your kids can play with a spatial puzzle that lets them reassemble photographs they upload themselves. There's also a chance to learn and have fun with geography trivia and explore Australia with an illustrated story.

iPhones. iPads. Android. Windows Phone. We've updated all of our essential apps lists to include a few forgotten favorites, some long awaited arrivals and, as always, even more amazing apps. Check them out!...

After embracing gamification, hitting $3.6 million in revenues and raising $7 million, technology education startup Treehouse has launched its first iPad app....

In conjunction with Computer Science Education Week’s “Hour of Code,” Codecademy has released its very first mobile app.

AT&T launched a new iOS app meant to give babies--and parents-- an educational way to interact with their TV.

Apple on Monday debuted its curated list of the best content available from its various digital platforms, including apps, music, movies, books, podcasts and more.

There was a time when kids curious about the world around them would have to go to the library and check out books, or sit around thumbing through the family’s encyclopedia. But these days, access to knowledge is within easy reach, thanks to the internet, high-speed connections, and mobile devices. However, not all that content is appropriate for children. Today, publisher Houghton…

There's no point in fighting it. Technology is working its way into the lives of digitally native tots earlier and earlier, and it might be a more positive evolution than...

“Grumpy Cat! Grumpy Cat! More Grumpy Cat, please!” – That’s basically my two-year-old’s review of FarFaria, a new subscription-based children’s storybook app for the iPad. (To translate: she loves it, and especially that story about the grumpy cat.) The app, to be clear, doesn’t just offer the one story – not that my kid seems to care right now – it’s a collection of nearly one hundred stories with more added all the time. And despite being independently sourced and illustrated (or perhaps because of it...

This could be an app that makes you relinquish control of your iPhone and see the nearest kid around you begin a lifelong journey in wildlife appreciation. The free Project Noah app lets you snap photos of a plant or animal and submit it to find out details on exactly what it is, and what it's good for. Otherwise, the app takes advantage of the phone's GPS to show you plants and animals that are within your area, and if you're lucky enough to actually spot one, you can participate in one of the field...

For a generation now creating advanced things and placed in corridors of power, LeVar Burton was a god-king: both Star Trek's Geordi La Forge, and the guy who taught us to like books on Reading Rainbow. Now, the two Burtons are fused—and it's pretty incredible. LeVar Burton has an app—it's available starting today. Sure. Lots of people have apps. But it's doubtful anyone cares as much about their app as LeVar Burton. I step into an expensive hotel room in Midtown Manhattan, and Burton springs up,...