Apps

Download these handy travel apps before you load the family in the car for vacation

I recently switched to Verizon from another carrier. Within the first couple days, I received three calls with the caller ID reading "Potential Spam," and one that read "Robocall." Verizon is reportedly rolling out a free robocall blocking app in the next few days (end of March)...

Two Louisiana high school students may have just solved the issue of long lines at the concession stands during sporting events and concerts.

You thought those apps were free, right? Well, as it turns out, we are giving up a lot of information to them!

When you gotta go, you gotta go. Here are some brilliant apps to help you locate a restroom, stat!

When it comes to our children, we're willing to violate a little privacy to ensure their safety. Kids are constantly hopping from app to app when it comes to which ones are cool to use, and this can keep parents struggling to keep up. There is one you might not be aware of, and one dad wants to make sure you do after he discovered some disturbing messages on the app that were sent to seven-year-old daughter.

Even if your team didn't make it to Super Bowl 51, there are still a lot of fun ways to enjoy football's biggest game!

We've got some pretty awesome apps that are easy and fun to use, and will help you get closer to your goal of a great 2017!

Traffic is something we all like to avoid. Here are two great apps that you really should consider installing on your phone and using anytime you've got a driving destination to get to.

With this app your kids will call you back or their phone will be locked until they do.

The TV show Mystery Science Theater 3000 is trying to make a comeback. The producers are asking for your help to make it happen.

If you've been to an Acadiana area McDonald's recently, you might have seen a new design on the french fry boxes. No longer red with the McDonald's logo, but new, artistic designs. The question, why? Well, there's a pretty cool answer.

The weather might be more ice cream trucks and long days at the pool, but the calendar is inching towards yellow buses and new backpacks. Every parent knows about back-to-school clothes and back-to-school supplies, but nowadays, back-to-school apps are just as important.

March Madness is in full-on, face-painted, trash-talking, ankle-snapping, buzzer-beating, swing. Unless you're 6'9" and play for Louisville, the only way you're going to the Final Four is to buy a ticket and make the pilgrimage to Atlanta or watch it on the big screen from your couch...

Because knowing the everyday minutiae or unsought opinions of anyone or everyone is essential to modern life, a new app has been created that allows "you" to continue Tweeting. Even after you've gone to that big social media network in the sky.

We all need someone to blame.

Google has now come out with an app that will put their maps back within your reach on the iPhone.  This comes after Apple changed out the Google maps app with their own when they updated the phone several months ago. So now that Google has their maps and turn by turn directions back in reach, will you download their app...

Find yourself wishing the holidays were over already? Well, thanks to a bug in the latest version of Google's mobile operating system, the month of December has been canceled altogether. Is Google the new Grinch?

kids-ipad iboy, Flickr A new study by the San Francisco-based non-profit group Common Sense Media found that affluent parents download apps specifically for their young children more than parents of lesser financial means do.

KPEL's Jeremy Lawrence talks with Jaci Russo about using Apps to brand your business.