Have you ever wished you had a home sonogram machine so that you could listen to your own or your fetus’s heartbeat? Pushing the limits of the iPhone hardware is a new app from developer Matis, Inc., called My Baby’s Beat. While this app will not replace an actual medical appointment, it uses the iPhone’s [...]

Losing weight and staying fit gets tougher these days, as more and more of our jobs get us out of the sunlight and into a desk chair. Managing your diet and caloric intake is important, which is where intelli-Diet from developer Barracuda Partners comes in. Input your vital statistics, tell it what foods you like [...]

One of the best advantages to having a tiny computer strapped to your arm during your exercises is having the ability to play music, view a map, and keep connected to your family and your job. Since an iPhone is basically a more powerful computer than the first three owned by us old-timers combined, it [...]

An oracle is something with authority, something that tells you what to do. A lot of us need that at the gym, someone to tell us how to use the machines in both a physical sense and how to combine the machines’ functions in order to produce the best future results for our bodies. Normally [...]

Owen Lars may have had no need for a protocol droid on his remote moisture farm, but etiquette is a resource that is sorely lacking in today’s society. What most people think of as stuffy, boring traditions are actually the framework by which we’ve managed to maintain a more or less civilized society for so [...]

With the New Year well underway, it’s about time some of us get started on our resolutions. In an unscientific poll that I just made up, 75% of New Year’s resolutions involve fitness: getting in shape, losing weight, eating better foods, etc. There are no shortage of fitness apps in the App Store, but there [...]

Getting and staying in shape are tough enough tasks on their own, but they can be made easier if you have specific goals in sight, as well as knowledge of some basic fitness facts. Tracknburn by Healthy U Technologies tries to make setting and keeping goals easier by giving you the ability to track your [...]

Pranayama is a form of breathing that can supposedly promote better health, relaxation, and has numerous benefits for the body and mind. Health Through Breath is an app that is designed to help the Pranayama practitioner learn the proper methods of breathing in order to fully realize the benefits of this ancient aspect of yoga. [...]

Staying healthy is more than just a matter of going to the gym or running a marathon. It’s also about maintaining a positive attitude, not just about your environment but also about yourself. Mental and spiritual well-being is just as important as keeping your body in shape. Health Yourself by Kagan Media Net is an [...]

At the ripe old age of none-of-your-business, I finally decided to join a gym and get in shape. I half-heartedly poked around the app store looking for something to track my diet & exercise routine, but it wasn’t until I recently came across FitClick Diet & Workout Tracker that it seemed the promise of an [...]