The Week in iOS Apps: Wonderful wizardry

04.05.2012
Eat, drink, and be Harry! This week's roundup of iOS apps features new ways to travel, make cocktails, and play games as your favorite Hogwarts wizard.

Already this week, we brought you news of revamped--and newly iPad-optimized--music-listening app; the launch of the new ; and two App Guides featuring the best of and apps.

Additionally, and offered updates to their iPad offerings. And --Rupert Murdoch's effort to create an tablet-based newspaper--launched its iPhone-only app.

Here are other new and updated apps that caught our eye this week.

: This free iPhone app is actually a relaunch of the offering formerly known as Food Network Nighttime. The old app was mostly a multimedia guide to the network's on-air schedule--featuring some video clips--but goes further to satisfy the appetites of its voracious fans, offering popular full-length episodes to digest, as well as a portal to the network's blog and Twitter feeds for those of you who need between-show snacks.

: If you need just the right alcoholic beverage to go with the meal the Food Network app inspired you to make, never fear: magazine has launched its new app for the iPhone. The app includes recipes for more than 350 drinks, as well as a "definitive" guide to the country's top 100 bars and lounges. Now you'll be ready to try making your very own , instead of ordering it at your local watering hole. That's the spirit!