Austin City Limits has been recording and broadcasting some of the best musical performances available on TV for more than 30 years. But TV isn’t the only place to watch the concert recordings anymore. A new app called ACL Archive brings some of the best performances to Apple’s iPad. ACL Archive is available as a free download from the App Store. But you only get… Read more »

Avid is one of the big names in audio and video production software. The company offers professional media editing software for prices as high as $2499, and the Avid Studio home movie-making suite runs $170. But now the company is launching a $5 version designed for the Apple iPad. Avid Studio for iPad is optimized for touchscreen input and the Apple tablet’s small screen. The… Read more »

The BBC iPlayer delivers digital videos for popular BBC programming. When the iPlayer launcher, it was only available in a computer web browser… and in Britain. Since British residents pay a TV license fee to fund the BBC, the iPlayer service was free in Britain, but unavailable elsewhere. Earlier this year the iPlayer went global… or at least partially global. The BBC launcher a global… Read more »

Apple’s GarageBand app for iOS lets users create and edit music on a mobile device. When the app launched last year it was an iPad exclusive. But now Apple has released a major update which allows GarageBand to run on an iPhone or iPod touch as well. You can use the app to tap out tunes on a virtual keyboard, strum a virtual guitar, tap… Read more »

Apple has released a new free app called iTunes Movie Trailers, available in the App Store today. The app allows users to find the latest movie trailers and clips in high-def, view a full-year’s worth of movie releases in a calendar, and check out on-set photos for upcoming films. Though the app centers around the ability to conveniently view the latest cinema-related media, you can… Read more »

Popular photo-editing app Instagram has been updated to v2.0, adding an overhauled interface, new editing features, and more. The most significant aspect of this update is its revamp of the app’s editing technology. Besides a much crisper and easier-to-navigate camera UI, it includes an innovative new feature called ‘live filters.’ These are updates to the original photo filters which are now “200x faster” and allow… Read more »

Logitech’s Harmony Link is a new wireless solution designed to provide a one-step remote connection between your mobile device and multimedia system. The Harmony Link serves as the connectivity piece between your remote (iOS or Android device) and up to eight external devices, including DVRs, Blu-Ray players, TVs and various media streamers. By operating within a dedicated free app (to be released in October,) you… Read more »

Video discovery app Fanhattan for iPad has received a major update, bringing a host of new features and a social dimension. The central update in Fanhattan 1.1 is tight integration with social networks. Signing into Facebook, for example, will bring recommendations of movies and TV shows ‘Liked’ by your friends in the form of a social graph. Whenever you ‘Like’ something in the app, Fanhattan logs the… Read more »

Google Music is now available on the iPhone, thanks to a web app. You could always use an iPhone web browser to access the full desktop version of Google’s music streaming service, but the new wep app is optimized for small, touchscreen devices. The service allows users to store up to 20,000 songs in Google’s cloud database, as well as stream music to various devices. Google… Read more »

Flipboard, a popular social news-magazine app for iPad, is planning to add books, movies and TV content to its ‘pages.’ The company will also be launching an app for iOS devices with smaller screens son. Currently, Flipboard offers content from various magazines like the Economist and Rolling Stone, while hosting customized news-feeds via Facebook and Twitter. How Flipboard will include books in your personalized feeds… Read more »