Apps.

I've been testing a couple of these apps on my iPad, using them to remotely control Windows PCs and Macs at my home and office.

If checking-in isn't compelling to most people, then why do so many apps still make it a central to their user experience?

He said it is too early to say that apps are any more effective at getting children ahead.

The language is still being developed so I don't want anyone trying to ship apps with it yet.

Even if it wouldn't fly to give users the ability to remove the apps altogether, how about at least letting us hide them from the launcher?

Here's what I can say: Most of the user experience in Chrome OS apps still seems to be unpolished.

Do you know of any other similar apps that can be used to manipulate the PC in this way?

A fresh instance of Chrome will open, ready to be customized with its own set of apps, bookmarks, extensions, and other settings.

It still seems a bit far fetched in 2009, yet there are apps that are beginning to make it a reality.

Play around with a bunch of your newly installed jailbreak apps and see if you see a huge drop in the amount of memory used.

We think this is an interesting story, as it points out some of the problems developers face when trying to market their apps.

Even after being out for over a year the list of apps available for the E61 was pretty dismal.

Another section says apps that look like they were "cobbled together in a few days" could be rejected.

She said the average consumer would prefer to purchase apps through a well trusted source such as Apple.

It should be noted that apps released over a year ago, and which haven't experienced much, if any, success, will not be listed for sale.

WSJ: What are the apps you think might be particular exciting for Chinese iPhone users?

"I feel sorry for Lady Gaga - she's just a plastic doll generated by the music money marketing machine, " Apps said in a press release.

It was one of only two apps I tested (the other was HBO) that wouldn't work when the iPad is connected via cable to a TV.

Friends are a key part of that, as are the apps and brands that are part of your profile.

Unless Asia has any exclusive "killer apps" of its own, it is hard to see how such a triumph could alone condemn the West to disaster.

The company plans to add the operating system to numerous devices, including laptops, and hopes that this scale will attract many more apps.

Palm Pre developer events are going on all around the world, though, so expect to see more apps for that platform quickly.

Part of Google Apps' appeal is its cheap and simple-to-understand price: $50 per user a year.

And the traditional BlackBerry interface cries out for a major overhaul in a touch device like this, especially when you add a lot of apps.

Navigation apps consume lots of data when they retrieve map images, up to a megabyte a minute.

Of course, your apps don't care much about spacing, so this is no problem; it does make it a bit harder to read, though.

If Apple ever does decide to let all iPhone apps be free, it would be a radical departure from its typical way of doing business.

Apps like Last. fm, Spotify and Netflix are still perfectly usable, as long as you know the demands they place on your data.

These improvements will make it much more fun for you to enjoy the thousands of games and apps available in Ovi Store and elsewhere.

A bit of mental adjusting is required since Mango operates differently than most smartphones: Actions focus on people rather than apps.

Google Apps are another alternative but it is yet unclear if Google's treatment of your data is always going to be secure.

So you'd expect the company to at least offer some of the apps' makers -- its business partners -- an explanation, right?

Google said it had not changed its strategy on Apple devices, but rather was continuing to build apps for all devices.

'We watch what apps you download, how frequently you use them, how much time you spend on them, how deep into the app you go, ' she says.

The updater can automatically check all your apps in PortableApps. com Format and let you know which are out of date.

Remember: Apps come in many rounds and seasons for a reason. You could be ready to go again in just a few months!

Fonts and layouts may be changed, and none of the apps I tested was able to display revision histories in Office documents.

Apps are usually free or low cost, so it's easy to give them a try and see what sorts of things you really want to do on your device.

Online businesses will find new ways to drive revenue online, and selling apps may well be one of them. But it will not be the only one.

Large, tile-based navigation seems to be the overarching trend found in most of these apps.

There are quite a few mobile office apps in the App Store, but today we're going to be taking a look at Documents To Go Premium .

Besides those four things, I have to say that RTM is still one of the best web apps out there for helping you stay productive.

Let me know what you think of the web apps featured and feel free to share your personal favorites.

Because the screens are smaller, such mobile traffic tends to be driven by specialty software, mostly apps, designed for a single purpose.

What apps have caught your eye recently? Let me know what you think of the apps above.

In the end, it was hard to tell whether I was really getting apps that were a good fit for me or just a random bunch of new app suggestions.

News reports from around the country indicate that at least three people have used it or similar apps to trick drivers into pulling over.

I did this on my MacBook and, though it was a little clumsy, Appolicious imported 44 titles of my apps in just a few seconds.

In other words, it's sort of like a digital magazine that highlights certain apps for users.

And parents are modeling their own smartphone addictions to a whole generation of children growing up with apps, he said.

Facebook apps have generally been a bit of a mixed bag for travel firms since the social network's API was opened to developers in mid-2007.

Check out this list and find out how much money you can save by using freeware apps.

A spokeswoman said the company expects to offer more than 70 apps by the end of this year, and has no plans to stop selling cartridges.

The lack of spell-check when searching for apps is just a minor reason why navigating the Android Market can be so frustrating.

He said: 'Our focus is making sure that users have control over what apps they install, and notice of what information the app accesses'.

Its ability to grow over time with more downloaded apps makes it a smart investment for parents.

One day last spring, in the bank's sunlit atrium, Mr. Zoellick's team doled out prizes for a contest called Apps for Development.

But even so we may see more of a focus on 'real world' problems from now on and a move away from consumer apps as the primary focus.

One of the killer apps of the information highway has turned out to be social networking.

Augmented reality--overlaying the virtual world on top of the real world--has been used in everything from neuro surgery to iPhone apps.

Since he received the iPad, Owen has been trying to read books, and playing around with apps like Air Guitar.

The trouble is, even though it's easy to develop apps for Android, there aren't many incentives to do so.

Those servers are basically ready-to-install server products and are ready to deploy apps instantly.

I've installed, configured and tested many apps on the Galaxy S, and for a while, I was even jealous that he had the newer phone.

But whereas most apps have to ask permission to access location data or the camera, that's not so for the accelerometer.

If you need a strong set of apps that will work in virtually any educational environment, then be sure to take a look at openSUSE Education.

New services that help people avoid trips to the bank or ATM may be helping boost the popularity of mobile financial apps.

It made its debut a year ago with a TV app built in, and it continues to gain new TV apps.

You can sideload apps but that's a bit geeky for most users and only a few apps are legally available to sideload.

I have had some apps break or become unusable, and the only solution was to delete them from the multitasking menu and "relaunch" them.

Probably the biggest change was that Google Apps ramped up this year, starting with the release of Google Apps Premier in February.

"If all of these app stores are populated with all of the same apps that's kind of a waste for developers, isn't it? "

Apps are cheap to make and easy to distribute, forcing many old-line industries to rethink the way they do business.

The location apps seem to be feeding from our desire to be more adventurous when we leave our homes.

In many ways, apps are representative of the changes taking place in personal technology.

And the company plans to offer a free, stripped down version of its web apps that will compete directly with Google's mass-market offering.

Strong sales of smartphone "apps" , or software, suggest that readers are prepared to pay for content on mobile devices.

Just as a PC can be isolated to run separate apps, so can a smartphone.

Free apps tend to be run 6. 6 times more often than paid apps, but even with that increased usage, it is not enough to make more money.

It's clearer now what sort of services work better with apps, versus those that just need a TV-optimized site.

If your iPhone is still sluggish then you're remaining option is to uninstall apps one at a time.

No need to manually upgrade to a new version every time. And I don't have to go through a lengthy install process to use my web apps.

StumbleUpon, which just went mobile with iPhone and Android apps, is a better solution for that at the moment.

If it can combine productivity and fun with a responsive interface and an active apps ecosystem, it might put up a good fight.

Your sites and apps should be better because you thought about this article, not just because you blindly put it into practice.

On a tablet those apps will give users the impression that most songs, TV shows, and movies are just a click away.

To help you rapidly deploy cross-platform mobile apps and websites, there's a wide range of JavaScript frameworks you can take advantage of.

Today, many users are outside the private network and access SaaS apps over the Internet with no need to go through the company network.

And for that same January to October time period, downloads of new apps from China grew from 1. 2% to 12% over the course of the year.

We also ran into a few issues with apps hanging and the Wi-Fi connection suddenly vanishing without explanation.

Over the next months, I'll dig deeply into specific techniques to get the most out of the apps.

If you do a good job I would definitely be open to working with you again on future trivia apps and possible updates to this app.

Many apps tested by the Journal appeared to violate that rule, by sending a user's location to ad networks, without informing users.

Developers have been working overtime to churn out apps for the iPad and for the growing number of tablets that will use Android.

A few months later, Google opened it up to all account holders to use with apps such as mail and calendars.

I edited my list, adding more pre-made apps and creating some of my own using a built-in tool that lets you enter a Web site.

I would like it to be an online store for accessories, apps, etc. but I don't have the time.

While Apple specifically references its iWork apps here, it seems pretty clear that the company is using them merely as examples.

At least, however, Apple isn't blocking these apps, which are, after all, competing with the downloadable shows in iTunes.

If Apple does make it forbidden to develop iPhone apps with Adobe's new tools, it would exacerbate a spat between the two companies.

And many mobile devices can display Office files for reading using built-in, free apps; iOS's Preview app is the most capable of these.

Full-screen apps: You can launch some apps, or individual browser tabs, in a full screen, just by clicking on an icon at the top right.

While form and dialog-based apps are easy to make, writing good graphical apps is more difficult.

The new product is going live for Apps for Business customers today as part of a preview program; everyone else will get it soon.

AM So far no word on multitasking, but we haven't seen it. Jumps into and out of apps, nothing running concurrently.

Everyone who took part in the research owned a smartphone and used apps on it at least four or more times a week.

But before we dive into the greatest portable Linux apps out there, there are a few things that you need to be aware of.

I feel I use it to its full potential -- as music player, as camera, for texts, for e-mails, for surfing . . . apps, games.

The mobile version of Digg and its suite of apps will also be revamped to mirror changes made to the site.

And neither text messaging nor apps can be used for political fundraising, making them even less effective as campaign tools.

Many of these will use bite-size chunks of software known as "apps" , some 18 billion of which are likely to be downloaded this year.

Another, called Happenings, shows your friends' latest updates on social-networking services, without requiring you to enter separate apps.

But this view completely misses the point: "Apps are not about technology, they are about a business model" as Owen Stephens pointed out.

Apple will sell the ads, with developers who create the apps getting 60% of the revenue of any mobile ads, and Apple taking the remainder.

And, with cloud file storage and apps, you could conceivably travel without any computer.

The Web versions are Microsoft's attempt to fend off a growing number of free Web-based office apps, including Google Docs and Zoho.

And I am in the software business. If Apple clones one of my apps. . . I'm out of business.

Apple has never hidden the fact that it has a stricter censorship policy for iOS apps than for other forms of entertainment.

There's also the matter of cloud-native "killer apps. "

Use your mouse as you would normally, though remember that you don't need to double-click to open apps.

The mobile apps will pull from and submit data to the mysql database used for my web based CakePHP application.

This makes it especially easy to write apps that support a language-neutral plug-in architecture.

The company now has apps for BlackBerrys and is working on software for devices running Google Android.

Text, pictures, videos are at the heart of these apps.

By focusing on SMS-based service, Google will be able to reach a far larger number of potential users than by working on web-based apps.

Recent deals with Alpine and Pioneer have allowed in-dash components to link up to Pandora via web-connected smartphone apps.

In this post we've compiled some of the best apps and websites that have come out recently.

Apps allow businesses to leverage nearly infinite resources of information and services by satisfying one highly targeted need at a time.

The research was carried out in the U. S. but it would apply to users downloading apps from anywhere in the world.

Yet, most of the major data breaches in recent news have been the result of attacks on Web apps like email and data systems.

If you don't use these apps for email, chat, and microblogging, this improved Ubuntu integration may be reason enough to switch.

"The top apps have been in the market for a year and have a million users, " he said.

You can open pre-installed apps from the launcher menu, though unfortunately these emulator images do not include the Android Marketplace.

Then people start to use the services in ways you never anticipated and you get a whole new set of apps being written against your services.

Armando Peruga said the names of some of the apps are very misleading.

He added that web technology is not improving quickly enough to fulfill Google's prophecy of web apps winning in the near future.

For right now, though, only a few apps have been selected to push information back into Places.

She recently wrote a post about apps that she likes on her phone.

Many iPhone apps have already been revised to fit a bigger screen and others are being developed to take advantage of it.

Support paid apps by means of an authorization model that uses existing identity systems like OpenID.

The Apps have an easy-to-use Admin Interface and will be offered for free as already mentioned.

Don Box joins in and explains the goal of Oslo as "to make it possible to build real apps purely out of data"

Apparently, there may be a few apps that have already caught Twitter's interest.

Once you've invested all that time and money buying apps and content, you're not going to want to switch to a new phone and start all over.

Searchable, and clearly laid out, the info in the apps is available offline, unlike other options that link out to external references.

While cellphone apps are made to complete transactions as quickly as possible, iPad apps tend to be for shopping as sport.

My pet peeve is all of the "Days until. . . " apps.

Think about the billions of people around the world whose lives could be touched by apps like this.

The apps are dangerous, she said, and need to be regulated.

Apparently, political candidates are allowed to release apps expressing their views, but single developers are not.

Well, today we'll take a look at how to use those barcodes (called "QR Codes" ) to install apps and share contacts with your Android phone.

The first to download them was Japan. Over the last century, one Asian country after another has downloaded these killer apps.

I found upgrading easy, and compatibility with existing apps to be very good.

The company has approved over half a million apps for its App Store as of May, double the amount currently found on the Android Market.

But with the launch of the iPhone in June, it was almost inevitable that some Web Office vendors would create apps for iPhone.

People familiar with Apple's thinking say it wanted to acquire AdMob to profit off the advertising in some of the apps in its App Store.

The iPhone's many game apps has made the smartphone a serious competitor to stand-alone game devices like the Sony PSP and Nintendo DS.

Plus, it's a new OS, so there will be a shortage of apps initially and all that.

If you do have something that you've grown fond of, please do drop us a comment. We're always looking out for new apps.

Because some apps are obviously quite similar, developers will also be able to filter out apps from their competitors.

All my books are available on all my devices, with automatic synching that keeps track of my place even as I hop between Kindle apps.

They do a lot less than traditional computers -- you can't run desktop apps, and a lot of peripherals like printers aren't supported.

Apps were also submitted by large technology companies, although these cannot be considered for prizes.

that had infrastructure and support as an after thought or a necessary component to run the apps they were building .

Despite all the email, photos, music, tweets, apps and voice data traveling across the network, the single largest type of traffic is video.

We provide anonymous crash logs from users that have opted in to third-party developers to help them debug their apps.

Are native apps really where it's at? What do you see in the browser's future, and do you think Web games are a good way to get there?

Part of making the mobile experience smooth for Parallels included boosting speed of the app to make it launch and run apps faster.

Thanks to a new device policy management API, developers will now also be able to write apps that can perform remote wipes.

The new iCloud would include the MobileMe apps, written from the ground up, he said.

Your apps have gone through rigorous QA testing, and you're confident that your code is going to fulfill the business requirements.

With the explosion of apps, and an expansion now under way to tablet computers like the iPad, the mobile internet is evolving quickly.

But I found that, as on other iPad apps for remotely controlling computers, controlling PC and Mac screens is difficult using iPad gestures.

It also allows you to choose four commonly used apps that you can immediately jump to from the lock screen.

That's the kind of solution to the user-level "cold start problem" that Facebook Connect has been so helpful with for web apps.

I was a nay sayer from the start and had been on Pocket Pc platform for years- even developing apps for it.

You won't be able to stream DVD movies or music CDs via remote disc, but it's fine for getting files and installing apps.

Sling had already announced its return to the 3G network at the beginning of the month, but the apps update just appeared this morning.

Apple's terms also specify that subscriptions offered through apps must be "the same (or better)" than those offered outside the app.

One factor: Apple's well-curated, well-populated App Store presents consumers with a wide variety of quality apps to choose from.

Some say they submitted apps and waited months, only to be rejected without much of a reason why.

With hundreds of thousands of 'apps' available, smartphones allow users to do anything from checking their bank balance to booking a flight.

The company also submitted the same number of apps to the iPhone App Store and the Nokia Ovi Store.

The cons would seem to far outweigh the pros, so the answer should be simple: stick to 32-bit apps.

Linux lovers, let's hear what apps you'd recommend Windows users try out on their newly Linuxed Frankenstein PCs in the comments.

Imagine running iOS on your TV, complete with a wide range of Apple TV-optimised apps.

Facebook hopes to one day sell advertising across all of its partner sites and apps, not just on its own site.

Seagull is a well-established PHP framework used for building web, command line and GUI apps.

Developers will be able to set daily budgets for their apps and allocate this budget across CPU, bandwidth, storage, and email.

Three of the top 10 apps, including FarmVille, also have been transmitting personal information about a user's friends to outside companies.

So, you can launch apps with LC, huh? Pretty cool. But, what about launching an app at a certain time to remind you to use it?

While it may be one of the most difficult apps to set up, it's well worth it.

EBay, for instance, is building Android tablet apps and a new version of its Web site designed for tablets.

Users who jailbreak can download apps that allow you to customize everything on the device from your homescreen images to your icons.

The iPhone's touchscreen is sure pleasant, but it takes a lot of tedious finger work to put your apps where you want them.

You can download the freely available, open source Flex SDK, which contains tools that allow you to compile and debug your Flex apps.

Chinese Apple fans complain that the company's local app store has too few China-specific apps on offer.

Adobe also offers tools and IDEs to help developers and designers build Flex apps, including Flash Builder and Flash Catalyst.

Some are apps closely tied to a web designer's daily work, while others aren't likely to be used as often, but are still useful.

Syncing with BlackBerry Enterprise server has long been one of the most requested features among Google Apps customers.

In my tests, with both products, I was able to open Web pages, check email, view photos and use productivity apps.

As mobile devices and the cloud help to expand the business of apps, it wouldn't be a surprise for that number to jump even more.

In addition to apps and games, you'll also be able to browse movies and books available for purchase from the Market.

For access to all other sections within the apps, we will ask you to become a digital subscriber.

Support standard navigation, including a Back feature, search, clickable headlines, and a homepage for most apps.

We don "" t want users to worry about closing their apps, but rather make it appear that all of the applications are always running.

I disconnected from the office Wi-Fi and, after about a 30 second pause, I was able to keep using some apps in offline mode.

Out-of-browser applications will run in a secure sandbox mode, which makes installing the apps very easy.

Among the most controversial apps are the ones that warn drivers about drunk-driving checkpoints.

Web apps enabled students to turn in homework, look up campus maps, watch lecture podcasts and check class schedules and grades.

Firms are also developing apps that let employees unlock some of the data that are held in head-office enterprise systems more easily.

Add "Dog Whisperer" to the list of apps we'd like to see hit the store in coming years.

One of its apps, OneNote, also synced in my tests with Microsoft's consumer-focused SkyDrive Web file-storage system.

The only apps that get listed are those that have been approved by Apple.

Some apps for phones, like the popular game Angry Birds, filled the screen beautifully and worked fine.

But a few third-party apps allow printing of some items from an iPad to a networked printer.

Then you just submit these apps to the various marketplaces (and hopefully watch the money roll in! ).

Now, while WIRED might have more money on the launch day than our apps ever will, I am still very pessimistic about long term sales.

The stars of the new interface are what Microsoft calls "Metro-style apps, " which will be available through a downloadable app store.

Private clouds are apps or platforms dedicated to a specific organization and deployed on-premises, usually behind the firewall.

Its aim is to be a complete package to replace legacy non-free apps which aren't customizable.

The publication of the app review guidelines could also help get new apps into the marketplace sooner and minimize some of the clutter.

I never actually made any money off the apps pre-voodoopad, but it was fun anyway so I kept on coding.

Get those apps into production faster, and you are impacting the bottom line in a positive way.

Yang thinks current apps for children aren't comprehensive enough to nurture early child development.

We look at new apps all day around here and would like to share 3 of the very best we've found already this new year.

The company just released its latest State of the apps report showing trends in application usage in Q2 2009.

And a third of the apps revealed the phone's unique ID, sometimes along with the phone number and SIM card serial number.

Since its debut last spring, it has been one of the fastest-growing apps in the history of the Internet.

This isn't the case in Windows 7: The only windows and apps using video memory are those visible on your screen.

Additionally, if Apple also controls advertising across apps, Zynga will lose another of its competitive advantages in cross promotion.

High on our list, for instance: Make spell-check work consistently across the platform and sync with business-grade Google Apps calendars.

Disadvantages: Uses a "virtual machine" to run portable byte-code rather than native machine code, so apps are slower than true compilers .

The apps will probably be added to Whirlwind once the company approves other devices, Bodin says.

It could also soothe them by offering them a generous share of revenues if it extends its advertising platform to their apps.

You can build apps with your current skill set and deploy them in an app store.

As for apps that make use of Drop. io's APIs, those services "will stay online for a longer period before the company winds down. "

It allows you to dramatically reduce the time spent waiting for apps to redeploy when working with tc Server.

Plus, as you will see, Visual Studio 2005 provides some conveniences when it comes to working with resources and localizing apps.

The firm says it has also developed a technology to tackle "the 25% of apps" designed specifically to run on Arm-based processors.

Still, stifling Android developers is the lack of a simple market for third-party apps.

The multitasking user interface allows you to quickly switch between recently used apps.

"We view Apps different than books or songs, which we do not curate, " explained the document.

Instead, Microsoft currently positions Silverlight as a tool for creating rich media, line-of-business and smartphone apps.

That's where the Magic Trackpad comes in, making controlling all those apps as natural as tapping on an iPhone screen.

AIR is a great option for deploying desktop apps like one of our top 10 apps worth installing Adobe AIR for.

InfoQ: What are the characteristics of this intiative that make it different from a 'lets-integrate-our-legacy-apps-using-xyz-ESB'?

The website built pretty much from the ground up but we already have working forum software (IPB) and a google apps account we use.

Think of them as like the different versions of Vista, but with many more apps in each package.

'It just hit us so hard, ' added Mr. Streza, who said he works for readitlater. com, which develops apps for Apple products.