Rediscover your pics with Picmatic app

Like most smartphone users, I have a lot of photos stored on my iPhone and iPad. Pictures of friends, travel albums, kids, pets, relative...

Apple and Microsoft: The retail experience

Microsoft store at the Pentagon City Mall Two computer stores in the same mall. One had five or six customers, the other was jammed with peo...

Concert Vault app streams thousands of live sets

With three top-name acts from the seventies coming to the Louisville area this week -- Fleetwood Mac, Janis Ian, and Karla Bonoff -- it seem...

Turtle Shell speaker is built for Spring Break

Want to take your tunes along on your spring break? Of course you do. Here's a Bluetooth speaker that built for serious beach time. The ...

Google maps returns to iOS

After a months-long absence, Google Maps is again available for Apple's iPhone and iPad. Google’s mapping app arrived late Wednesday in ...

iPad + iCade = Asteroids!

An iPad and iCade cabinet from Ion Audio will take you back to the days when video games were played standing up with a roll of quarters in...

These apps deliver a lift for holiday shoppers

TGI Black Friday app If you plan to do battle in the Bargain Wars on Black Friday or the following weeks, you might want to take along som...

Dark Sky app nails weather predictions

While the sunshine was giving way to dark clouds earlier today, I was wondering if I had time to walk the dog before the rain arrived, or if...

Logitech Folio soaks up the sun

The iPad is so versatile that you're tempted to make it your full-time portable computer. But there's one hitch: It doesn't have...

Coby's Bluetooth dock helps beat the heat

Here's what I need to chill out during a mid-summer heat wave: A tall cold drink, the new Ken Follett novel on my Kindle, an evening bre...

Book review: My New iPad

All I wanted was a simple task: drag and drop some digital photos from my Windows PC to my iPad. I had done it with videos and iTunes, but I...

Au revoir mon ami

We are planning a trip to Paris and London this summer, so I have my iPad loaded with Speakeasy French ($1.99 in the Apps Store). I think I...

Get a grip on your tablet

We want our tablets and ebook readers to be thin and light, but that can also mean they're slippery and sometimes difficult to hold. If ...

An iPad case made from . . . paper?

Put your iPad in a paper bag? Sounds like a crazy idea, and the Austrians who make the Papernomad cases would surely admit that they are a l...

A dash of iPad safety

Yes, Apple's iPad cover is bit of magic with it's magnetic wake-up switch. But it doesn't protect the slim and slippery tablet f...

iPad gets a cushy pillow

There are loads of iPad apps to keep young children entertained, but do you really want those little hands gripping your precious hardware? ...

iWow finds the hi-fi in MP3s

Putting your music collection on a portable device usually means trading quality for convenience. In order to squeeze thousands of songs ont...