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5 New iOS 11 Features That Will Make Your Life Easier

Apple’s new iOS 11 became available earlier this week and while any major change can be a little daunting, this latest update comes with some pretty incredible features that users are going to love. And we’re not just talking about new emojis either. The new iOS 11 is packed with some really useful features that […]

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Gotta Catch ‘Em All: 5 Reasons Why You Should Still Play Pokémon Go

One year ago today, Pokémon Go was released as an app for mobile phones and became an instant hit. Though there were complaints about the functionality and navigation of the app, all summer long people walked around their respective cities trying to catch as many Pokémon as possible. There were a lot of benefits to playing, including […]

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6 Apps to Help You Keep Your New Year’s Resolutions

Living in a culture inundated with the urge to change our ways once a new year hits can be incredibly intimidating. Not only is it hard to figure out our resolutions and work at them every single day, but it can be stressful seeing others start on goals, while you wonder how they truly do it. From […]

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Making Friends in a New City

When we were kids, all it took to make a new friend was sharing your snacks with the kid beside you on the playground and, fortunately, that kind of bond could last right up until everyone graduated high school and headed off to the college or university of their choice or, even longer, until everyone […]

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A Beginner’s Guide to Effective Couponing

Cutting coupons from the Sunday newspaper has fast become a relic of the past thanks to technology. With smartphones revolutionizing the coupon market, there has been a sudden surge in the past few years of mobile apps and websites helping you save money or earn cash and rewards back. Whether you are on a budget […]

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6 Awesome Back-To-School Apps to Rock Your Semester

The start of a new school year is an exciting, yet busy time for students across the country. As many gear up for another semester full of homework, projects, tests and assigned readings, technology has never been more useful to the enterprising student looking to organize their day-to-day studies and heavy course loads with the help of their […]

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Best Photo Editing Apps for Your Summer Snaps

It’s August, which means that we are deep into the summer season with long warm days filled with golden light. It also means vacations and adventures, and prime photo-taking opportunities! The cameras on our smartphones are always improving, but even with technological advances, we sometimes need a little bit of help taking our photos to the […]

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At the Beep: Chatting with Beep’s Pieter Parker and Nick Barth

In September, actor Will Smith sent his fans a thank you message, but he didn’t use Twitter or Facebook to do it. Instead of showing his gratitude in text for all the birthday wishes he had received, Smith opted for something more personal. He sent is fans and the whole world a message with his […]

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7 iPhone Apps for the Foodie

For those of us whose lives tend to revolve around food, it’s natural to want to get our hands on anything related to it. From reading cookbooks as though they are novels, to watching hours of Anthony Bourdain on our TVs, there is no such thing as over saturation on food for foodies—we want all […]

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Wasting Time: The Moment App

There is a statistic out there—I’m not sure where it comes from to be honest—that says that the average smartphone user looks at their phone around 150 times in a day. The average user, the person who primarily has a smart phone for Facebook and Instagram, not for some work-related purpose. If each look at […]

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Not Quite Revolutionary: The Pippit App

A couple of weeks ago the creative forces behind two popular lifestyle blogs launched what they said was meant to be a “beautiful mobile community that bridges blogging with social media,” the new app called Pippit.

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The New Slideshow: Flipagram and Stayfilm Review

We live in a photo-documented world.  Our phones are pretty universally equipped with cameras of always-improving quality (a recent advertisement for a Nokia Lumia Windows phone focused entirely on the features of the camera) and Apple claimed back in April of this year that the iPhone was the world’s most popular camera.  Massive amounts of […]

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‘Avengers Alliance’: The ‘Fantastic Four’ who should make the cut next season

For over a year now, I’ve been playing the turn-based social network game Marvel: Avengers Alliance on my Facebook account. Developed last year by Playdom, players assume the role of a rookie S.H.I.E.L.D. agent recruited by S.H.I.E.L.D. director Nick Fury. Your mission: Assemble and fight alongside a who’s who of legendary Marvel superheroes – including […]

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