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Best iOS apps of 2013, as chosen by the Talkcast team
'Tis the season for wrapping up the year that was into a neat bundle of best-of reviews, and who are we to argue with tradition? On Sunday's live Talkcast, I gathered a gang of eloquent experts to dive into the best iOS apps of 2013. Here, organized by recommender, are their picks and suggestions. Remember, you can subscribe to the Talkcast in iTunes -- and keep an eye out for a new feed for the show in the new year! Julio Ojeda-Zapata (technology writer for the Pioneer Press, author of The Mobile Writer): The visually impressive Yahoo Weather app; the "Uber of snowplowing" Plowz app; the Xfinity TV Go app; Google's steadily improving suite of iOS apps like Hangouts, YouTube Capture, QuickOffice and Google Drive; Pocket Casts; and Feedly. Gedeon Maheux (principal and co-founder of The Iconfactory): Kingdom Rush Frontiers (game); Oceanhorn (game); Drawquest (game, new for iPhone); Groove Music App (music player); and a second vote for Yahoo Weather. Jeff Gamet (managing editor of The Mac Observer): Paper by 53; Status Board; ComiXology; Bungie's legendary FPS Marathon Trilogy -- Marathon, Durandal and Infinity; and SkySafari Pro 4. Runners-up: Bossjock, MyCreate and Forbidden Island. Brett Terpstra (TUAW contributor, mad scientist, developer of Marked 2): Editorial, MindNode and Drafts. Runners-up: BTT Remote, Camera+, SneakyPix and ReadQuick. Ben Roethig (host at GeekBeat.tv): Spiral Episode 1, Fantastical 2 and Calendars 5. Steve Sande: Apple's revamped iWork for iOS, the Pages/Keynote/Numbers "2013 edition" apps; Parallels Access (see Steve's review here); the Dropcam client; Sphere (360 Camera); United Airlines; and Knock. Shawn "Doc Rock" Boyd: 2013's GarageBand; Plex; Terminology; the smart-ass Carrot to-do app; DeskConnect; Square Cash; XScope Mirror; Droplr; and SmartGlass for Xbox One. Kelly Guimont: Riposte; Dark Horse Digital; AirVideo; The Room TWO, from Fireproof Games; Favd (AdN photo sharing); Springpad; and PDFPen Scan +. Mike Rose: Spin (previewed here); Citymapper; DeskConnect; Dumb Ways to Die; Minecraft Pocket Edition; Uber; Sleep Cycle; and -- with the appropriate disclaimer that I do work for Salesforce -- the awesome Salesforce 1. Did we miss any must-haves? Please let us know in the comments!
Site tracks growing list of retina Mac apps
Do you have a Retina MacBook Pro, wondering which apps are going to look their best on the massive amount of glossy pixels before you? Well, Microsoft might not be ready, but quite a few developers have updated their apps, and those are showing up on Retina Mac Apps. It's a simple site with a simple purpose: to show you which apps are ready for the big (resolution) screen.
TUAW TV Live: It's the Air Club for Men
With all apologies to Dave Caolo, who first coined the term Air Club for Men, I had to hijack his awesome phrase for today's TUAW TV Live. Given that most of the Mac App demos on today's show will be done on an 11.6" MacBook Air, I thought it fitting to use his jocularity as a title for the show today. Some of the apps I'm planning to demonstrate during today's live show include the new sleek and beautiful email app known as Sparrow, the wonderful graphic tool Pixelmator, Splashtop Remote and possibly another new low-cost 3D graphic tool. From your Mac or PC, go to the next page by clicking the Read More link at the bottom of this post, and you'll find a livestream viewer and a chat tool. The chat tool allows you to participate by asking questions or making comments. If you're driving somewhere and would like to watch TUAW TV Live while you're stuck in traffic, please don't -- keep your eyes on the road! However, if someone else is doing the driving, you can watch the show on your iPhone and join the chat by downloading the free Ustream Viewing Application. If you're on an iPad, you should be able to use the Skyfire Browser to watch the stream, although you will not be able to participate in the chat. We'll start at about 5 PM ET, so if you're seeing a prerecorded show, be sure to refresh your browser until you get the live stream.
TUAW Talkcast live tonight at 10pm Eastern
Sunday night means it's time for our world famous talkcast, and tonight's going to be a good one. I'll be hosting the last pre-Christmas show, so I'm sure we'll fit in some last minute gift discussion, and we'll chat about the most popular posts of the past week, including Operation Chokehold, AT&T's thoughts on it, and the aftermath, our favorite free Mac apps of the year, and why iPhone users are delusional. And of course we'll have a nice panel of TUAWers on board -- I'm told Joachim Bean, Kent Pribbernow, and Steve Sande should be on the line to chat live. It starts at 10pm Eastern / 7pm Pacific this evening right over on Talkshoe -- it's just the thing you need to have a nice enjoyable night of Apple news discussion right before the holiday season takes over later this week. See you tonight! To participate on TalkShoe, you can use the browser-only client, the embedded Facebook app, or the classic TalkShoe Pro Java client; however, for maximum fun, you should call in. For the web UI, just click the "TalkShoe Web" button on our profile page at 10 pm Sunday. To call in on regular phone or VoIP lines (take advantange of your free cellphone weekend minutes if you like): dial (724) 444-7444 and enter our talkcast ID, 45077 -- during the call, you can request to talk by keying in *-8. If you've got a headset or microphone handy on your Mac, you can connect via the TalkShoe 'ShoePhone' VoIP client or with the free Gizmo (now a Google product) or X-Lite SIP clients; basic instructions are here. Talk with you soon!
