TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog - Posted Thu, 29 Jul 2010 21:00:00 UTC +00:00

Jul 29th 2010 at 4:00PM How about USING YOUR BRAIN. It could do with a little exercise beyond telling your fingers which icons to press. While I haven't had much opportunity to use it - most of our group eats have been rather rugby-like in figuring out how to split a check - it seemed, at least at a glance, to work well. Plus, great name and icon. Best app name ever! Did you mean to say this "If you CAN"T quickly split a bill, or split a bill fairly (say some guy ordered a bottle of champagne just for himself), then the calculator isn't for you."? Or did you mean to say "CAN". Or maybe change the "isn't" to "is". Auto-start ad videos = never coming back to this website again. That was my mistake, I'm very sorry. It has been fixed. Fair enough. Nice work on the quick fix. Read More

148 Apps - Posted Fri, 21 May 2010 12:45:32 UTC +00:00

This Friday, we look at a coloring app, a soccer game, and some other interesting titles from this week's releases. Fridays at 148apps mean a new Friday Five post, and here we are! Below are five apps that we’ve chosen to highlight from the past week’s releases. Some are silly, or functional, or simply fun, but we hope that all of them are interesting. Color&Draw Remember coloring books? Color&Draw takes that experience and attempts to translate it to the iPhone’s screen. You can draw on a blank screen and use it as a sketch app, or pick from the 50 included outlines, including various animals and cute things. Color&Draw even lets kids open up an existing photo and doodle on it. (Want to give Uncle Joe a mustache / wacky eyebrows / devil horns? No problem!) The limited color palette and the absence of a “paint bucket” filler option help bring Read More