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Top 10 iMessage Apps for Messages in iOS 10

September 13, 2016 by macjeff

The next app revolution is here. Ok it’s nowhere near as big as the App Store itself, but the iMessage App Store in iOS 10 is already seeing some very innovative apps, that run inside the keyboard in an iMessage conversation. But not all the apps available on day one are worth your attention. We tell you about the top 10 iMessage apps you should check out.

Read: To know how to actually install and use iMessage apps in iOS 10, check out our guide first.

1. Do With Me

Do With Me is a really good collaborative list app for messages. Here, using the iMessage app you can create shared lists, share list items and more, all in the iMessage window.

Download: Do With Me

2. Drafts 4

If you’re a pro user who uses the Drafts app a lot. You’re going to really like the new Messages app. It’s so simple. Just switch to the app and you’ll see previews of all your recent notes there. Tap on an note and it will be pasted in the text box that you can send along. There’s no Drafts branding, nothing. Simple and awesome.

Download: Drafts 4 ($4.99)

3. Scanbot

Excited to reveal the new iMessage extension for Scanbot. Read all about it here https://t.co/FhB9c9AaYp pic.twitter.com/3lrRtGrPhY

— scanbot (@scanbot) September 13, 2016

Another top pick for pro users. Scanbot’s iMessage app makes it really easy to scan a piece of paper, enhance it so everything reads much better, and send it to someone. All without ever opening the app.

Download: Scanbot

4. Genius

Genius app is great for learning the meaning behind lyrics. Their iMessage app lets you take a quote from a song, attach a photo and send it along in the conversation.

Download: Genius

5. Snappy Browser

Snappy Browser integrates an entire web browser inside the iMessage keyboard window. You can quickly search for a page and paste that link in the conversation. You can also select some text from the web page to send it along.

Download: Snappy Browser ($0.99)

6. xoxo

Tic Tac Toe is such a simple game, yet fun. And xoxo will let you play the game with your friend using Messages. Select your tile, send it along, and then wait for your turn.

Download: xoxo

7. Cipher

Cipher is an app for sending secret messages, but with a twist. Instead of you creating a code and then sending that code along to someone as well (which is kind of stupid when you think about it), Cipher uses TouchID to authenticate.

The message will only be visible to the other person when they scan their fingerprints. So this ensures that only the person to use the phone will read the message.

Download: Cipher

8. Words With Friends

This is the one iOS app that just won’t die. And aren’t you glad about that? This Messages avatar of Words With Friends lets you play the Scrabble style word game inside Messages app. It’s simple, you put in a word, the other person puts in a word. Ultimately one of you wins.

Download: Words With Friends

9. I’m In

This is a pretty cool app for deciding where to go and when, with your friends. The app lets you put it up as a question, and everyone in the group chat can decide the time and the place. No more annoying calls to 10 people every Friday night.

Download: I’m In

10. ESPN

Using the ESPN app, you can share scores for live events and highlights with your friends, without ever leaving the Messages app.

Download: ESPN

Your Favorite iMessage Apps

There are so many iMessage apps coming out today, I’m sure we missed a lot of good ones. Square’s Cash app comes to mind. Also Yelp and OpenTable.

What’s your favorite new iMessage app? Share with us in the comments below.

Top 10 Sticker Packs for Messages App in iOS 10

September 13, 2016 by macjeff

Stickers in iMessages are the hot new thing. Much better than use words, really. And there are all sorts of them. Fun ones, nerdy ones, annoying ones, and of course, Mario.

It’s day one of iOS 10 release so the App Store is filled with $0.99 sticker apps. But we’re here to tell you, not all of them rock. But we’ve found ones that do. Check out our tips picks for sticker apps below.

Pro tip: Before dropping a sticker in a conversation, pinch out with another finger to expand the sticker.

1. Super Mario Run Stickers

The only right way to start this list is with Mr Mario the plumber. Super Mario Run isn’t coming to iOS 10 till the end of the year, but the sticker pack is here to keep you company. This pack will give you classic elements from the Mario world, complete with versions of the Mario character, his hat and moustache as well.

Download: Super Mario Run Stickers

2. Bubbly Pico

You might remember the Pico character from other apps. Well Pico is now available in iMessage in this free sticker pack. There are lots of different stickers to choose from.

Download: Bubbly Pico

3. Monstermoji

You know what’s cute? Monsters. At least, in the Monstermoji sticker pack. You get more than 25 stickers, with a range of emotions all from surprised to enraged. The app costs $0.99 but I have to say, the stickers look pretty fun.

Download: Monstermoji

4. Places: Stamps and Stickers

If you’re a stamp nerd, you’re going to like this app. The stickers, which are stylised as stamps, look gorgeous. The attention to detail on these things is amazing. You can now share stickers from cities like Rome, London, NYC and lot more. It’s a great way to communicate your travel plans or aspirations.

Download: Places: Stamps and Sitckers

5. The Iconfactory Mega Pack

Iconfactory is an indie app studio that makes Twitterrific, among other apps. On day one, you’ve release 8 sticker packs. They’re simple ones. Ranging from Route 66 stickers, to Pixel World to Floriography.

Download:

6. Slicker Stickers

Slicker Stickers is a collection of variety of stickers, from various artists. It’s from JibJab and they’re stylized in a funky yet minimal manner.

Download: Slicker Stickers

7. Nounji

For me, this is the most surprising sticker pack. You see, The Noun Project is this awesome site where designers can find all kinds of icons, for free. Now, they’ve turned their vast resource of icons into an iMessage app.

So if you want to communication something using icons instead of words, Nounji will probably have your back.

Download: Nounji

8. Comic Talk

Comic bubble text are pretty cool. What’s much more cooler are the effects that we see in comics. Comic Talk brings those effects, for text like “OMG”, “GULP” and more, in the form of stickers. The app costs $0.99.

Download: Comic Talk

9. Doodler

Doodler is an app that allows you to doodle on your iPhone. Now, using the iMessage app, you can convert those doodles into reusable stickers. They’re pretty cool.

Download: Doodler

10. Emoji Sticker Pack

What’s better than emojis? Emojis that are stickers. This sticker pack is full of fun emojis.

Download: Emoji Sticker Pack

Your Favorite Sticker Packs

What are some of your favorite sticker packs? Share with us in the comments below.

The Complete Guide on How to Use All the New iOS 10 Features

September 13, 2016 by macjeff

Apple today released iOS 10 for all supported iPhones and iPads. The latest version of iOS brings with it a number of new features and enhancements for you to play around with.

If you are not particularly tech savvy, the new features and additions in iOS 10 might be a bit too overwhelming or you might not be able to figure out how to use a particular feature. To help you with this, we have compiled all the new features that Apple has introduced in iOS 10 below along with relevant how-tos on how to use them.

iMessages

The new iMessages app in iOS 10 packs in plenty of new features to help bring your conversations to life. This includes a dedicated app store, sticker support, attachments, and more.

Read: How iMessage Apps will work

Stickers

iMessage now has its own App Store where you can download stickers, GIFs, and more. To get you started though, Apple already includes four set of sticker packs in iOS 10.

Tapback

You know how you can send a Like in the Facebook Messenger and how you can react to status updates in Facebook with different emoticons? This lets us quickly acknowledge that we’ve read the message and even show how the message makes us feel, very quickly, without even typing anything. The new Tapback feature in the Messages app of iOS 10 lets you do just that.

Bigger Emoji

Among the most innovative features in the new iMessages app in iOS 10 is the ability to send bigger emoji. And even better, you can replace words with Emoji in the Messages app easily.

Digital Touch

It means is that for a second or two, your iPhone’s screen becomes your canvas. And whatever you doodle/write on it is send to the conversation, with an animation of exactly how you drew it. It’s pretty cool. You can do it on photos and videos as well.

Manage Attachments

iMessage in iOS 10 is making it easier to manage attachments that you send or receive. By managing your iMessage attachments smartly, you can keep your iPhone free from clutter.

Effects

There’s no escaping it. The new bubble and full-screen effects in the Messages app in iOS 10 are loud. Colorful, and loud. If you are unsure on how to use Effects in iMessage, check our how-to below. And if your brain is annoyed by so many colors or sudden movement from the effects, we have a solution for that as well.

Send GIFs

Did you know that you can now send GIFs in iOS 10? And you don’t have to manually hunt for a relevant GIF as well. Its all inbuilt.

Invisible Ink: Ever wanted to send some a secret message? Like in those movies. The message would only be revealed when they put it under this certain light. Well, you can do a version of it in the Messages app in iOS 10. It’s called Invisible Ink.

Markup images

You can finally markup images in iMessage in iOS 10. Yes, drawing dog ears on your friend’s graduation photo and sharing it in a group chat just got infinitely easier.

Quickly Send selfies

You know what’s better than sending an emoji, a bitmoji, or a GIF reaction? Sending a picture of your actual facial reaction to the message you just got. Call me old fashioned, but it just has its own charm. If you think so as well, the new Messages app in iOS 10 just made this a lot easier to do.

App Store

iMessage in iOS 10 comes with its own App Store that features a variety of apps, games, and stickers.

Music

The Music app has received a huge overhaul in iOS 10 that makes using Apple Music simpler to use. The bold redesign means that you might have to make yourself familiar with basic features of the app once again.

Shuffle

Wondering how to shuffle songs from your library, from an album or from the Now Playing view?

Download and manage music

The redesigned Apple Music app in iOS 10 is making it easier to manage your music library and download new songs from Apple Music. It also makes it easier to differentiate between songs downloaded to your device and the ones that are available for streaming.

Optimise storage

If you own a 16GB iPhone, storing music on it can be a particularly tough task to manage since you are likely going to run out of space sooner than later. To ease your pain, Apple includes a handy new Optimise storage feature in Apple Music in iOS 10 to make managing space on your handset easier.

Lyrics

The updated Music app in iOS 10 now features built-in support for showing lyrics so you can sing along to your favourite songs easily.

Photos

Besides iMessage, the Photos app has also seen a major upgrade in its functionality in iOS 10. It borrows heavily from Google’s Photos app, with the only difference being that it manages to achieve all the features without having to upload your photos to cloud i.e. all the processing is done right on the device itself.

Searchable objects

The smarter new Photos app is capable of searching for people, objects, and texts and more in your photos. This might seem like a trivial feature, but it definitely comes in handy every once in a while. Think how easily you can pull up all the photos of a particular friend or family member by simply searching for their name in the Photos app. Cool, ain’t it?

Memories

There is a new Memories tab in the Photos app of iOS 10 that stores Memories. Here you’ll find albums of sorts – Memories – generated periodically by the app itself, based on certain context. It can be a time, place, people you were with, or all of the above. The best way to explain it is when you come back from your next weekend trip, you’re sure to find a “Memory” for that location inside the Memories tab.

Mail

New features

The Mail app in iOS 10 remains largely the same as before, but it does come with some major new features to help make managing your inbox easier.

Easily unsubscribe from Newsletters

The updated Mail app also makes it easier to unsubscribe from Newsletters

Lock Screen

Quick reply from lock screen

The Lock screen in iOS 10 has received a major revamp and now comes with features like raise to wake. It now also provides you with quick access to widgets and lets one quickly reply to messages without having to open the app.

Quickly call favorite contacts

Thanks to quick access to widgets, you can also quickly make calls to your favourite contacts without having to unlock the phone.

Disable Press to Unlock

The second generation Touch ID sensor on the iPhone 6s and iPad Pro is so fast that users were flying through the lock screen. Thus, whilst revamping the lock screen for iOS 10, Apple has changed the unlocking behaviour for iOS as well. Instead of simply keeping your finger on the Touch ID sensor, one has to press the button to unlock their device now. This is already causing confusion for new users. And people are worried that such a frequent use might wear out their home buttons. I personally think that we’ll all get used to it in a while.

Disable Lock screen widgets

Don’t like widgets on the lock screen? You can always disable them.

Others

Notes

The Notes app in iOS 10 has received some major new collaboration features and some basic new additions like checklists.

View Voicemail Transcripts

With iOS 10, Apple has introduced a new transcription feature for voicemail that automatically transcripts your unread voicemails.

Finding Your Parked Car Location

iOS 10 is all about getting a little bit smarter, and making small annoyances a thing of the past. One of those delightful little features in the Maps app is the ability to automatically find your parked car. Now, when you leave your car (as long as it’s not at your home address), iOS 10 will remember the location.

Clear all notifications

Apple has finally added the option to clear all notifications for all 3D Touch capable devices in iOS 10.

New widgets: Widgets in iOS 10 are finally getting the attention they deserve. Almost all the widgets in the stock app have been upgraded to make them more useful.

Remove stock apps

No longer will you have to create a folder called “Extras”, put in all the unused stock apps and drag it over the last Home screen. For Apple has finally, finally added a feature in iOS 10 that lets you delete all the stock apps.

Wake Alarm in Clock

iOS 10 brought a lot of little things. One of these features was tucked under the new “Bedtime” tab in the redesigned Clock app (that dark mode looks amazing though). Wake Alarm feature is simple. Basically, you tell the Clock app what time you usually wake up, how much time you’d like to sleep and the app will take care of the rest.

Screen Filters

iOS has always been the leader in terms of accessibility features, and with iOS 10 Apple is making things even better by introducing Color Filters to help people with color blindness.

Home App

Home is an entirely new app iOS 10, that’s supposed to be the only app you’ll ever need for controlling all the smart home (HomeKit) devices that you own. Once you’ve setup the particular devices using their own apps and pairing systems, you’ll see them in the Home app.

Let us know how your experience with iOS 10 has been so far.

Free Apps to Download TODAY ONLY 09/13/2016

September 13, 2016 by macjeff

Super Phantom Cat - Be a jumping bro. , WordHue , Alice for the iPad and more

Universal:

Mr. White is an everyday cat that dreams of being something more. You must collect life changing data modules on your way through a colorful universe in order to allow him to change his form. The game features whimsical character and level designs that make it a joy to run, jump, and pounce on your enemies. Keep an eye out for hidden paths along the way because the data modules won’t always be in plain sight.

WordHue utilizes classic word game mechanics and gives them a colorful twist. You’re presented with a five-by-five letter tile grid. The letter tiles start off as white, and every time you create a valid word they’ll change color. The first color change will match the color meter at the bottom. Try to create words using the matching tiles in order to earn more turns or time. Every time you use a letter tile, its value will increase. Do your best to avoid creating three letter words as they’ll block out the letter tiles for a short period of time. The game includes two modes, daily challenges, and unlockable color schemes.

After picking a photo from your library or a snapping a new one within the app, you're able to scale and position it on the wall. The moment your fingers leave the screen, your photo will be turned into graffiti. You can then adjust parameters, change filters, freely paint on the wall, and even tag your work. When everything looks in order, you can share your work of art via Facebook, Twitter, or email.

This isn’t some trimmed down version of Lewis Carroll’s masterpiece. It’s a complete and unabridged version of Alice in Wonderland featuring 250 pages of content. On those 250 pages you’ll find 20 breathtaking animated scenes, dozens of illustrations, and loads of interactive content like the ability to help the Caterpillar smoke his hookah pipe and throw darts at the Queen of Hearts.

Based on Alice Through the Looking Glass, Alice in America takes you on a tour of Manhattan with the Red Queen as your guide. As you dig into the 136 pages of content you’ll get to ride in a taxi with Tweedledee and Tweedledum, ride an elevator through the Empire State building, eat oysters with the Walrus and the Carpenter, and so much more. Of those 136 pages, 27 are filled with delightful interactive illustrations.

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Free Apps to Download TODAY ONLY 09/12/2016

September 12, 2016 by macjeff

Scrivalry , Reminders Widget , Swysh - Gesture Based Music Controller and more

iPhone:

Swysh puts the conductor baton in your hand. Start your favorite song or album from the native Music app, and launch Swysh to control the playback. Wave your iDevice to the right to skip to the next song, wave to the left to go back, and wave downwards to pause and play. You’re able to adjust the sensitivity of the controls as well.

Wordid is simple, casual fun. In each game you’re provided with 45 seconds and a jumble of letters. You must drag and drop the letters into the spaces at the top in order to create valid four-letter words as quickly as possible. Each valid word will earn you points, stickers, and additional time on the clock. You’ll also be provided with a new set of letters. Keep the game going for as long as you can to climb the leaderboards.

Universal:

Each participating player receives eight random letters to be used on the game board. Swipe to pan across the nine square mile board, and pinch to zoom in on the board and place a word. You’ll want to move quickly since the gameplay takes place in real time and other players will be trying to use the same bonus tiles as you. Once you’ve created a valid word, tap to submit it and earn experience points. Scrivalry’s massive game board is persistent, which means every word placed will stay forever.

Reminders Widget enhances the way you use reminders. It taps into the native Reminders app in order to pull any entries you’ve already created. You can then access all due or overdue reminders from a convenient Today widget. The widget also allows you to create new reminders, sort reminders, scroll through groups, and complete reminders.

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