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App Store Featuring Super Bowl Apps & Games This Week
We’re only 8 days away from what looks like a great Super Bowl XLVII. And the iPad App Store is featuring Super Bowl apps and games this week. The selection of apps and games for this Super Bowl...
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Looks Like iOS 6.1 Update Fixed the App Store Purchased Section Loading Issue
It looks like the iOS 6.1 update has fixed the longstanding problem with the App Store Purchased section not loading. As I posted about recently this issue was affecting numerous users and was a known...
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iPad App Store Now Shows Warning for Apps with In-App Purchases
After a number of recent headline stories about young children racking up huge bills with In-App purchases and Apple having to settle a class action lawsuit by parents relating to the iOS ‘freemium’...
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iPad App Store Features: 10 Apps that Wow
One of this week’s featured collections in the iPad App Store is 10 Apps that Wow. Here’s the description of it: From saving money on a last-minute hotel room to discovering the nether reaches of the...
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Age Ratings Now More Prominent in iPad App Store
Last week Apple made some minor adjustments to the layout of iPad and iOS App Store pages. One of the more notable changes is in the way that age ratings for apps are presented – they’ve been made a...
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New iPad App Store Featured Section: Learn More About In-App Purchase
Apple Is Trying to Make Users More Aware of the Pitfalls of In-App Purchases This week the iPad App Store has added a new section to help users understand In-App Purchases. The section is called...
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Need an App for Mom? Check out the App Store’s Mother’s Day Gift Guide
If you’re looking for inspiration in choosing an app or apps to gift a mom in your life for Mother’s Day, then you may want to check out the Mother’s day Gift Guide featured section in the iPad App...
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App Store Hits 50 Billion Downloads: All Time Best Sellers for iPad
Apple announced yesterday that the App Store hit the much-anticipated 50 billion app downloads milestone: Apple® today announced that customers have downloaded over 50 billion apps* from the...
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Father’s Day Gift Guide: Featured in the App Store this Week
One of the featured app collections in the App Store this week is titled ‘Father’s Day Gift Guide’. So if you’ve got a dad in your life who’s partial to a great iPad app you may want to give it a look...
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Fun Summer Learning for Kids: Featured iPad App Store Collection this Week
One of the featured app collections in the iPad App Store this week is titled ‘Fun Summer Learning for Kids’. That may be a sight for sore eyes for many students and parents as the hot summer rolls...
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App Store 5 Years Old Today, More iPad Games Gone Free
Today marks 5 years since the App Store officially opened. I can still remember the long wait for that day to arrive. I was already using a number of jailbreak apps on my iPhone back in those early...
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iPad Blank Updates Page Is a Known Issue, Apple Working On It
For the last several days many iPad users have been seeing a blank Updates page in the App Store, while the App Store app icon shows there are updates available. There are numerous threads about this...
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iPad App Store Updates Problem: Looks Like It’s Fixed Now
It looks like Apple has now fixed the issue with the blank Updates page in the iPad App Store. As of late last night, app updates are showing up fine again on my iPad mini. I’ve also heard from...
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App Store Near a Million Apps, Over 400K iPad Apps?
The App Store is heading for another big milestone – one million apps. And apps designed for the iPad now account for more than one third of those available in the App Store, despite the iPad being...
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PSA: Paypal IS an Accepted Payment Method – Even if the App Store Says It Isn’t
If you’ve ever used Paypal as your payment method for the App Store / iTunes you may have noticed that Apple seems to have quite a serious vendetta going against Paypal. I’ve used Paypal as my payment...
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Crazy App Store Numbers: $10 Billion Revenue in 2013
Apple announced some huge numbers yesterday for the App Store. Crazy big numbers in fact: – Customers spent over $10 billion in the App Store in 2013 – Over $1 billion was spent last December alone –...
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Clear from Realmac Software is Free Today
Clear is free for 24h Clear is a task manager centered around dragging and re-arranging your to-do list. There are no due dates, no tags, and no notes section (though I do miss the latter). All you do...
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Apple online stores remain offline, iPad purchase requests returned “cannot...
Apple has been experiencing a series of outages this morning to it’s Cloud services and online stores, including the App Store, iTunes, the iBook Store and the Mac App Store. As of this posting,...
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Learning with the iPad
images: Apple Last week Apple released a video highlighting the versatility of the iPad under the umbrella title; Everything Changes with iPad. iPad can change the way you do things every day. Take on...
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Thoughts on Budgeting for App Store Subscriptions
Wow. Some really big news about App Store changes dropped today. The best write ups are actually on The Verge and Daring Fireball. They’re great reads, but the super summarized news is this:...
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Going Native- Back to the Notes App Revisited
I got a few comments on my original article from Flipboard and Twitter that touched on details I thought were interesting and worth bringing back to the site. Before diving in, thank you to all reached...
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NCAA March Madness Live Returns
It’s that time of year again. Spring is closing in, and one of the best sporting events every created by man is about to tip off. The brackets have been announced. Potential Cinderellas are searching...
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Apple Aquires Workflow, Promptly Makes Existing Users Angry
When I saw the news that Apple had acquired the DeskConnect team and their very popular app Workflow last week, I was excited. This seemed like a perfect move, especially as the early battle for...
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The App Store in iOS 11- More Than a Fresh Coat of Paint
I’ve been using iOS 11 on my iPad Pro since I got my new 12.9” model, but I held off installing it on my iPhone until last week. I absolutely rely on my phone when I am in the field at work, and...
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GRID Autosport Shows What Gaming on iOS Could Be
While in-app purchases turned into dopamine-powered cash registers and Candy Crush knock-offs have dominated the App Store gaming scene in recent years, there are occasionally exceptions that show...
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Holiday Apps & Games Featured in iPad App Store
No great surprise here, but still fun to see this. A Holiday Apps and Games section is featured this week in the iPad App Store. The section includes just shy of 100 holiday-themed apps and games, in...
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App Store Best of 2012 Features Paper, The Room & More
Apple has got a new featured section in the App Store this week, celebrating their selections for the best iPad and iOS apps and games of 2012. It’s called App Store Best of 2012. Here are their...
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Ability to Gift Apps on the iPad is Back, with Some New Bells & Whistles
When iOS 6 came out it removed the ability to gift an app directly from the iPad or any iOS device – so you had to got to iTunes on a desktop PC to use the feature. A recent update to the App Store...
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App Store Milestones: Over 300,000 Native iPad Apps
Apple announced a set of staggering numbers for their App Store today. The headline number is 40 billion. 40 billion app downloads that is, and that’s unique downloads too – not counting updates or...
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Can’t Access Purchased Section in iPad App Store: Apple Says It’s a Known...
Have you had problems getting the App Store Purchased section to load on your iPad? Spent time staring at a screen like the one shown above just saying ‘Loading’ for a long while and then the App...
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