Julia Hardy
Arts, Entertainment & Technology Editor
‘Tis the season for new gadgets. Ask Santa to put these top ten tech items under your tree this holiday season.
Tag: Apple
App of the week: Passbook
Julia Hardy
Arts, Entertainment & Technology Editor
With or without the iPhone 5, all Apple users who downloaded iOS 6 found themselves with a new application on their home screens. Passbook is now a standard app with the sole purpose is making life a little less chaotic. How? By centralizing your gift cards, tickets and coupons into one paperless location for easy access.
App of the Week: Flow Free
Let’s face it, school isn’t exactly easy. With homework to do, tests to study for and projects to complete, it’s nice to have the chance to challenge your mind without the results ending up on your transcript. How about by trying to connect colored dots together with pipes to fill up a board?
App of the week: Snapchat
Julia Hardy
Arts and Entertainment Editor
Stop fighting the urge to share an embarrassing selfie with your friends for fear it will end up public: with Snapchat, you can send any picture instantly to another user and set the amount of time, from one to ten seconds, that the photo is visible. After that time limit is up, the picture is erased forever. The person who sent the picture is alerted if the receiver tries to take a screenshot, so no worries about any photos ending up on Facebook or Twitter.
App of the week: GifBoom
Julia Hardy
Arts & Entertainment Editor
If you haven’t been hearing buzz about this app yet or seeing it pop up on your news feed, you will be very soon. Considered by The Next Web to be “a Tumblr user’s best friend,” GifBoom is a photo app that’s gaining recognition as the perfect tool to make videos like the ones common on Tumblr.