If you often find yourself driving around and around while seething “I have got to find parking near me”, then the good news is that there are now ‘find parking apps’ that allow someone just leaving a parking spot to, in essence, scalp the parking spot to someone trying to find parking.

Last week a BBC staffer testing their breaking news app alert system disappointed countless Game of Thrones fans when they sent a test alert stating “BREAKING NEWS No nudity in latest episode of Game of Thrones!!!”

If you’re wondering “what’s the point of the Yo app,” you’re not alone. Let us explain. Yo is the single-purpose app that allows you to send a “Yo” to someone else. Period. That’s all it does. You can’t customize the message, you can’t do anything else with it. But Yo’s simplicity is also its strength.

You’re going on a trip and you’ve arranged for a pet sitter, but what about your poor, lonely plants? Now you can not only water them from anywhere in the world, but you can FaceTime with your plants, too! That is part of the idea behind a new app and indoor “microfarming” plant care system, Sprouts.io

Apple just released iOS 8 (and OS X Yosemite). Now your iPhone (4S and later), iPad, and iPod can have Quick Type predictive typing, Voice embedded Messages, Home Kit home automation, and Health Kit health and activity monitoring, along with some less interesting ‘upgrades’. Well, not now, literally, as you will have to wait for the fall to get either iOS 8 or Yosemite.

Want to know how to take a selfie that will make you look like a supermodel or a superstud? Well, the clothes and makeup are up to you, but here is how to take a selfie that will eliminate the arms-length limitation, and the arm itself. Better than a camera timer, the CamMe (“cam me”) app waits for you to give it the signal, then snaps your selfie picture.

Everyone knows that the squeaky wheel gets the grease. And every new parent knows that we are hardwired to pay attention to the urgent cries of a child. But how many of us realize that we have been slowly, but steadily, trained to respond to every single new message notification on our phones, computers, and other electronic devices, as they happen?

Sick of scrounging change for the parking meter, or having to remember to feed the meter or parking station? Then you will love the mobile parking meter app ParkMobile. The ParkMobile app is a mobile parking payment app that lets you pay for parking – and reload your meter – from your smartphone.

The ParkMobile app is really convenient – mobile parking payment and mobile parking meter monitoring are awesome. What isn’t so convenient is that there is no printed list of locations that use the ParkMobile mobile parking app! There is a map, with tagged locations, but that is not nearly so useful as a good old-fashioned list. So, here is a list of ParkMobile Zones locations.

Scheduled text messages are nothing new, but a new app called Bro App has packaged them in a novel way: scheduled sweet nothing text messages to your girlfriend or girlfiends (yes, plural, let’s be realistic here; the sort of guy who would use an app like this may also be the sort of guy who is, in the vernacular, a playah). What could possibly go wrong with that?

The Zello Walkie Talkie app is quickly becoming the one to one, and one to many, secure communications app for protestors around the world. That’s because Zello (not to be confused with Zillow) is secure, light weight, available in many languages, works over 3G, GPRS, Edge, and wifi, and it’s free. There are versions for iPhone, Android, Blackberry, and PC. It’s available in Chinese, Czech, English, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Arabic, Bulgarian, Dutch, Hebrew, Indonesian, Japanese, Portuguese and Swedish.

An issue with the 2014 version of Quickbooks 1099 creation module has led to the under-reporting of some 1099 payments (and so 1099 income on the 1099 recipient’s side).

If you’ve seen the warnings on Facebook, you may be wondering “Is the Talking Angela app safe?” The Talking Angela app is basically safe for children, despite the revival of the Internet hoax chain letter on Facebook that is making the rounds. The post which is being shared around Facebook begins with “I cant even in words say what I just found out.. I am SHOCKED…” and goes on to tell how Talking Angela was caught asking their child inappropriate questions.

Dong Nyugen, creator of the wildly popular Flappy Bird, has pulled his creation less than a year after it first hit the app stores. Here’s what all of the flap is about.

Facebook Paper is the new Facebook app that, says Facebook, is going to change the “face” in Facebook. The Facebook Paper app essentially rearranges how Facebook looks on your iPhone, making it more like a news magazine than a social network, and that is exactly the look that Facebook is…