There were times when Apple was mostly associated with convenient and popular iPod music players. This tiny white gadget with a trendy touch-based wheel that made it possible to listen to favorite tunes and bring along all your music collection wherever you go is still a perfection of the Apple’s UI ergonomics. When new upgraded iPods, iPods Touch and iPhone were presented the hearts of music lovers around the world were conquered by hundreds of diverse paid and free music apps. To make it easier for you to sort the wheat from the chaff we offer to read about the most interesting and popular iPod/iPhone tools for music lovers.

Shazam

It is not hard to imagine the situation when you are in a new night club or a foreign cafe and suddenly hear a nice but unknown tune pouring through the loudspeakers. The most annoying thing is that no one will be helpful to name the tune’s title or at least the artist while the tune is playing. To save the day in these situations one must use Shazam.

As a general rule, tiny high-tech gadgets turn out to be too fragile for use by children since little users simply don’t know how to play with such “toys” and prefer breaking them. An alternative is the not-so-tiny iPad, which has a lot of interesting features to offer, not just adults, but also their children. In addition to the dozens of games you can install for the iPad, you can also install a few development-boosting applications to let your child spend his time in a useful way while playing with his dad's tablet. For instance, the iWriteWords app will help your kid practice the basics of the alphabet while playing a game.

The app can help your child develop his spelling, writing, and word pronunciation skills. The education process is well-planned and at the same time simple: the application demonstrates a word and requires the child to write it letter by letter while simultaneously showing and pronouncing each correctly written letter. The interface is very simple and free from any mess. As you might have guessed, the app offers a finger-drawing pattern for writing letters – the user must catch a tiny, funny crab and place it on the appearing letters. However, it is better to buy a pencil-like stylus to help your child develop his fine motor skills more quickly.

Since childhood, we all know that a funhouse mirror is a simple way of evoking uncontrollable laughter. You have probably passed by a set of such mirrors in the mall at least once. A phenomenal thing about curved plastic with a reflective layer is that it makes even those children who are over 30 years old smile. But is an iPhone any worse that a funhouse mirror in a shopping center? No way! The reason is that there is an app that allows anyone to play around with funhouse mirrors to his or her heart's content and even make an avatar picture out of the funniest result.

This review is dedicated to the bright and ever-changing world of fashion. It does not matter if you just like to flip through glossy magazines to get updated on latest trends, fly to Milan regularly to attend all of the fashion shows, or get crazy about a good shopping trip. No matter in what category you fall, you’ll surely find a couple of good iPad applications that are right for you. Thanks to a great amount of information and outstanding app implementations, the iPad will soon become, not just a stylish accessory, but also a key supplier of fashion information from fashion runways in Milan, Paris, Rome and the world’s other fashion capitals.

There is hardly anyone who would doubt the immense gaming capabilities of the iPad and the iPhone today. Both devices are powerful enough to deliver console-level graphics. The recently released Infinity Blade II is a prime example of such capabilities, but the key gaming advantage of the platform is the availability of casual arcades for a wide range of users. As happens in any big hypermarket (with which App Store can be easily compared), over a half of the games are quite poorly made and are not capable of entertaining a player for any considerable period of time. However, they create a background for those few and magnificent masterpieces of mobile gaming that are worth getting acquainted with.

Blowup!!

Our review opens with a fervent and long-lasting game called   Blowup!! which is a sort of an improved Tetris.

Unlike in classic Tetris, the blocks that fill the screen differ only in color, and they need to be gathered, not into even rows, but into groups of 8 or more blocks of one color. The more blocks you put together, the more of them transform that into the heads of robots. No, seriously: colored cubes turn themselves into the parts of a robot from an old Japanese cartoon. As soon as you make a bigger construction out of blocks, destroy it with a double-tap and get energy to replenish the ever-melting stripe at the top of the screen. Actually, this is the key aim of the game. As a reward for your efforts, new parts of background melody will gradually be unlocked, and in some time, the soundtrack will become quite an entertaining tune.

Have you ever spent hours and days in dating chats and forums? At this point, doing so may seem like a waste of time and effort. Nevertheless, many people have found great friends and buddies, if not their other halves this way. The search for happiness and a family is hindered by the hustle and bustle of modern life, which barely leaves time for looking at the latest news, let alone managing your private life. However, we’ll try to combine the pleasant with the useful thanks to ubiquitous mobile gadgets since application developers have invested much thought and effort into solving this modern-day problem. 

To begin, there is no need to rush into searching for the chosen one on the web. Try taking a second look at your close circle of friends. It may well be that happiness is somewhere nearby and is just waiting for you to recognize it. However, there are many people in this circle, and trying to sort through them in your head may be difficult.

Yes, iPhones can make people rich. No,  we are not talking about those at Apple, who brought in their pile of cash selling iPhones. We are talking about those developers and companies who earned their fortunes off of iPhone apps.

So, let's take a look at an iPhone app that made a fortune for its author. We will not repeat all the well-known stuff about well-known apps such as Angry Birds and why they so are so popular. Instead, we consider the 3rd best-selling app from Apple's App Store, a game called Fruit Ninja. Funny name, for an app, right? Nevertheless, this game with a $0.99 price tag was sold over 10 million times.

A simple calculation reveals that Apple customers together have paid  around 10 million bucks for this game. So, what's so cool about Fruit Ninja? Well, the game itself is pretty simple: it allows you to slash the fruits that fly onto the screen using a sword. Blade movement is controlled by finger swipes. This turns out to be amazingly addictive ; people can spend hours upon hours cutting various fruits in pieces.

Although seemingly providing some valuable features Gmail app for the iPhone is a really over-hyped one. There is really not much reasons to use it. If You see many of them Your name is probably Sergey Brin.

With Google and Apple heightening battle for mobile market it is no wonder that the rivals are trying to get some footholds on each other`s ground. Apple released Siri with powerful search functions thus casting a shadow on the very idea that Google is really best in searching stuff. Google tried to get to iPhone with Gmail app and failed.

 When Gmail app was first revealed to the public on November 2nd 2011 it was pulled out of the App Store in a matter of hours. The user outcry was so overwhelming that Google confessed in its official blog “Sorry, we messed up”.

And there were reasons for that. The first version of Gmail app would break iPhone`s notification system sending rays of love from iPhone users to Google. In fact this was not the only problem with the app but that was revealed only after Google uploaded a fixed and updated version of Gmail app on November 16th.

With its rich set of features, it is no wonder that the iPhone is a widely preferred source of entertainment for many. The entertainment, however, gets really weird sometimes. Here we review some of the craziest iPhone apps available, ones which allow you to incarnate as a demonic entity.

“Unleash the Demons in all of us!” is how the description of the Demon Cam app starts.

The idea behind the application is to transform anyone's face into a half-human, half-demonic face.

And that is exactly what the application delivers.

5 iPad apps that will help you win a girl over. It does not really take a luxury Lamborghini or a shiny, new 50-feet white yacht to impress a girl. Just use your brain and some clever iPad apps that will take her breath away and make her eyes shine. Here, we have explained how your iPad will help you.