A&E Television Networks Mobile has created a very unusual app known as The Civil War Today. It is created by Bottle Rocket Apps, it is exclusively for the iPad, and it allows the user to follow the Civil War, one day at a time, literally. Right now, the app plans to update the …

This particular app for iOS is known as RockMelt. That sounds like it is supposed to be some music media player, but it is actually a browser. It is more than just some sort of search engine, because the user can search and get instant updates from Facebook, Twitter, and more. It also enables …

I’m pretty sure that we have talked about Dropbox before, for those of you who are not familiar with Dropbox, it is a mobile app that allows users to share files such as documents, photos, videos, and music over the Internet, or, in this case, a smartphone. The user uploads whatever media he or …

Remember in the days before cell phones, where drunk dialing was obvious? The obvious slurring of your voice made it clear to the other side of the line that you are intoxicated, and hanging up would be the best thing to do. However, drunk dialing has led to drunk texting, and you might …

I can still remember when Prince Charles married Lady Di back in the early eighties. Seeing the whole Catherine and William wedding hype is just a weird reminder of that whole time. I’m sure if the iPad had been around during Charles and Diana’s nuptials, there would have been an App for that. …

I think we all know that cell phones can interrupt White House Press Conferences, and that Barack Obama is a BlackBerry man. It would appear that the White House is getting more into smartphone culture as they are getting an Android application. The Android App allows users to get behind-the-scenes photos and videos, …

For those that have always wanted to have a floorplan of your house on your iPhone, you can get it with MagicPlan. According to the iTunes description, MagicPlan is the only application that measures, draws, and publishes an interactive floor plan on the web, all by taking pictures with the iPhone 4, iPod Touch, …

Some of you might remember a popular PC game called You Don’t Know Jack (YDKJ), but it was quite a phenomenon back then. YDKJ is a trivia game like a game show, but with a lot of irreverent sarcasm. You can see from the question to the right as an example of that. YDKJ …

What you are seeing here is News.Me, and it is a newsreading app that is similar to many others on the iPad, such as Flipboard. News.Me is a social news reading app that allows the reader the chance to see what your friends are sharing on Twitter, but also what they are reading. …

It is pretty easy to see where Qwiki gets its name from, as it is a Wikipedia for the iPad. This is more than just the Wikipedia for the iPhone, and a huge quantum leap from the Wikireader. The Qwiki App “combines thousands of sources to present concise, interactive summaries of millions of …