Food allergies and special diets are becoming increasingly common, and chances are you or someone you know has foods they need to avoid. Planning a holiday or family gathering is hard enough without having to worry that you've served the wrong (and potentially dangerous) food. We've gathered a list of apps to help you cook for the allergic, the celiac, the heart-healthy, the vegan, and the vegetarian.

The holidays mean family gatherings, which for many means breaking out the board games in the closet. This year, why not try using your iPad instead? We've completely revamped our iPad Board Games AppList to help you find the best iPad versions of the games you remember.

Retro iStation is a new accessory that can turn your iPad into an Apple I.

This AppList will help you sort through the many comic-buying options in the appstore to find the best place to buy the title you're looking for.

Adobe Flash may be dead on mobile devices, but it's still used all across the web. Fortunately, it's easier than ever to access that content on the iPad, and we'll show you how.

Just how much of the mobile gaming market pie do iOS and Android own?

Find out how to get rid of those iOS notification banners that tend to overstay their welcome.

Find out how to use Apple's Find My Friends app in today's iOS Academy.

Bloomberg releases the TV+ application for the iPad.

The iPad is so popular, it could soon cost each of us more whenever we check into a hotel. This is the conclusion of a report recently published by The New York Times.

In November, Amazon will release its long awaiting tablet, the Amazon Fire. The arrival of the $199 device, however, isn’t keeping Apple’s CEO up at night with worries. In fact, Tim Cook suggested the Fire’s entry would do nothing to Apple’s market share in the tablet arena, according to BGR.

Team17 has released another game. It will allow you to play the most exciting game of golf ever.

Adobe's popular PDF application, Adobe Reader, has now hit the App Store despite the whole Flash versus Steve Jobs fiasco.

Little Lost Chick hits the App Store with more physics based puzzle goodness.

With the November 15 debut of Amazon’s Kindle Fire now official, attention turns to what this means to Apple and the iPad and to the tablet industry as a whole. The answers might surprise you.

Amazon’s highly anticipated “iPad-killer,” the Kindle Fire, will be priced at $199 it was announced today. This price-point alone could soon change the face of the entire tablet market and affect Apple accordingly, says Bloomberg News.

A university study investigating exactly how helpful iPads are in an academic environment has recently shared its findings.

The iPad's virtual keyboard is good enough for quick emails, Twitter updates or short note-taking, but if you want to really utilize Pages and type out an entire document, mistakes can easily be made. While there are a variety of dock and wireless keyboards available for Apple's iPad, "Levitatr" - a new product that's currently in its Kickstarter phase of development - looks to be one of the more elegant and impressive iPad keyboards out there.

For no apparent reason, the shipping estimates for many products in the Apple Online Store rose recently. The products affected include the iPhone 4, iPad 2 and several Mac products (which are not due to be refreshed for some time).

As we suspected, the Facebook app update we told you about last night did, unfortunately, more than just add features.

The Amazon Tablet is very real, according to TechCrunch. Now, let the real tablet wars begin.

It sounds like a lot to ask for - an iPhone, iPad and an Apple TV. But if you do happen to own all three devices, an app called "Joypad" can allow you to play your favorite iOS games on the "big screen," provided the games' developers implement its API.

Apple has uploaded a new iPad 2 TV commercial to its official YouTube channel. This ad is called "Learn," and it presents a variety of different semi-educational applications the iPad is capable of running.

A team of jailbreak developers has recently managed to install the Linux desktop operating system on Apple's A4 equipped iOS devices. The news comes as the image of an iPad running Linux was tweeted by one of the team's developers.