Software

K9 Web Protection Browser attempts to fill the gap in Safari's access filters by providing a secondary browsing experience for children, combined with adjustment of some security settings. The built-in protection settings on an iPhone or iPad are fairly decent but are in some ways limited, especially for younger children. The Web browser in particular allows open access to the Internet if not filtered in some way. This is what K9 Web Protection Browser strives to fix.

The K9 browser looks identical to the Safari browser built into the iOS design, and while there are certainly some limitations as … Read more

Pic Maker, while finely made and easy to use, doesn't quite reach must-download status due to its lack of innovation. Combining many of the category's most popular features, it supplies a good all around experience, making it an app most will enjoy using.

The purpose of Pic Maker is exactly as it sounds. Choose a style, take a photo, and edit it with captions, additional images, or cutouts. There are quite a few filters here, and most of them work quite well; but the subtlety of many and the relatively limited sharing options (compared to other apps), make … Read more

Geography Friendzy is a fun and engaging way to teach children geography, though it has a number of limitations that make it hard to properly match the skill level of the student to the app.

When you first open Geography Friendzy, you can choose to immediately compete against players from around the globe in an answer-first quiz game or you can run through the practice questions provided in a flash card-style interface. There are dozens of questions for each level, and multiple levels to master. Unfortunately, this is one of the app's biggest issues. You cannot unlock higher levels … Read more

FaceBody is an interesting app in that it gives you two options for how to create and manage the animated bodies and heads you create in your images. The core draw of the app is that you can place your own face (or that of someone you know) on the body of a cartoon character, but this is purely optional, and the result is an interesting array of slightly awkward animated figures.

When you open the app, you can choose to take a photo of your face right away (or anyone else's). A handy onscreen guide shows you where … Read more

EyeEm manages to cut through the plethora of photo editing and sharing apps on the App Store to provide a unique, engaging experience, unrivaled by many of its peers. While not a perfect solution to some common photo sharing issues, EyeEm manages to provide much needed improvements to many issues in an easy-to-use photo sharing tool.

EyeEm is very similar to other photo filtering apps, but does many things differently that make it not only slightly easier to use, but more effective. When you create your account, you can choose to immediately connect to Facebook or to register an independent … Read more

The purpose of Easy IDPhoto is to provide an automated tool to create and print photos for government IDs and forms. It does just this, but with some minor issues.

Easy IDPhoto has a straightforward interface with a roller bar listing photo size options and a button to select an image. You can then choose an image from your Photo Library or take a new one with the front facing or standard camera. The app will then clip the photo according to the dimensions needed for the document you selected and save it to your photo library. The process is … Read more

Picture Perfect! combines a number of features common in other free photo editing apps into a full scale iPad tool that is effective, but ultimately weighed down by a messy interface. While it is an effective app, it lacks many of the features needed to make it a must-have tool.

The app opens to the main editing screen where you can take or import a photo, reset the photo onscreen back to the original, or adjust the app by drawing on it, changing colors, auto-correcting for things like brightness and contrast, and more. The onscreen guide shows you what each … Read more

The days of physical media are slowly but surely drawing to a close. Of the last 10 movies I rented, eight came from Amazon Instant Video and one from iTunes. There wasn't a shiny silver platter in sight.

That said, lots of folks have giant DVD libraries, and with good reason. DVDs are cheap. They work great in minivans that have DVD players. And, um, oh, what was that third one again? I can't...sorry. Oops.

I kid, I kid. I'm just jokingly making the case for why you might want BDlot DVD ISO Master, a free … Read more

Comic Book Camera is an impressive photo filtering app, managing to go above and beyond most other free options. Some of the photo apps on the App Store are incredible in what they enable your camera to do. From active filters that layer over your lens to video editing software, developers have done some impressive things with the camera in these devices. Comic Book Camera does all of this and more with a unique twist.

The premise of Comic Book Camera is to convert your photos into black & white, comic-style images that you can edit and add text bubbles … Read more