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App Smart Extra: Learning to Unlock Your Inner Matisse

The app stores have plenty of learn-to-draw apps — for adults and children.

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A Homing Beacon for Your Key Chain

Stick-N-Find, a Bluetooth beacon that is used with a phone, lets you home in keys or other easily lost objects.

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App Smart Extra: Dictionaries on the Go, Both Fancy and Simple

Looking up words on a mobile phone is easy, with a variety of apps that can help you with definitions, pronunciation, synonyms, even crossword puzzle questions.

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Baby Toys Get an App Extension

Toy companies are offering their very youngest customers motion-sensing, app-infused toys like the Fisher-Price Apptivity Gym.

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Three Noteworthy Apps for Children

"Little Red Riding Hood," a maze of fairy tale stories and a music-making app may all provide delight for the younger people in your household.

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How to Tell Google Now to Stop Peeking

The Google Now app anticipates what information you might want and puts it on your phone screen before you ask for it, which can seem wonderfully prescient or intrusively creepy, but there is an easy...

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App Smart Extra: More Ways to Stay Fit

With summer approaching, it's the perfect time to improve your fitness levels.

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App Smart Extra: Apps for Editing Photos

Some simple photo apps can turn ordinary photos into quirky works of art -- converting images into colored bubbles or warping them like a funhouse mirror.

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Q&A: Getting Passes for Passbook

You do not need a special iOS app to get coupons, tickets and other digital documents that work with Apple's Passbook electronic wallet.

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App Adds Smartphone Features to a GPS

Garmin’s Nuvi GPS now links to the iPhone using an app to add functions to the GPS. But some of those added functions cost extra, and some may not be worth the expense.

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Finding Inner Peace, iPhone in Hand

HeartMath, a creator of science-based solutions to reduce stress, recently introduced a new app called Inner Balance to help users achieve serenity.

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App Smart Extra: Timer Apps to Keep Track of Your Life

Timer apps for tablets and phones are more flexible than kitchen or wristwatch timers.

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Q&A: Backing Up Photos in the Cloud

Those photos taken with your smartphone could be gone forever if you lose the phone or it breaks, but you can back them up online without having to physically sync with a computer.

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Q&A: Streaming Videos From PC to Tablet

If your iPad doesn't have enough room to store a lot of movies, you can wirelessly stream the video files from the iTunes library instead with Apple's Home Sharing feature.

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Three Noteworthy Apps for Kids

Music and math for children in three noteworthy apps.

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