Already this week, we brought you roundups of the best and apps, and we also let you know about the arrival of apps from .
Here are other new and updated apps that caught our eye this week:
Most weeks, we end up telling you about retro-style games that didnt exist in the 1980s, but were built to look like they were. No fake-outs here: The free game for iPhone and iPad reproduces games from the companys Reagan-era golden age. It comes with the classic Kaboom! game for freeafter that, you can pay $7 for access to all 45 titles in this apps game collection, or $3 for your choice of 11 games. Over time, thatll still be cheaper than the quarter-per-game youd pay at the arcade.
Some app developers have it ruff. Yes, the iOS platform can do a lot of things, but we still wouldve said theres meow way youd use your iPhone or iPad to check a pets heartbeat. But thats exactly what the does. This may not be the kind of app youd use at homeit appears designed for veterinarians, and requires the purchase of a to relay medical information to the doctors phone or tablet. The good news? The monitor is unobtrusive enough to require no shaving in a majority of cases. Fido will howl with joy.
We gave this a four-mouse review earlier this year, praising it for taking basic phone functionsmail and texting, in particularand doing them better. Now the app has been completely overhauled, with new themes that let users customize its look. Moreover, it offers users more ways to organize their contacts list, with new frequent and outgoing folders; the app also features improved gesture controls, allowing the user to swipe away from a contacts list straight to the phone dial. The app makes it easy to send bulk emails and textsand not just to individualsdirectly from your iPhone.
The changes to this have a distinct back-to-school whiff. Yes, the app now allows readers to more easily adjust the margins of their digital tomes, but the biggest difference is in how the app treats print replica textbooksletting users highlight photos, illustrations, and charts, and including a notebook that lets you tag and filter your annotations within the texbook. (Textbooks also now have page thumbnail navigation to let users jump back and forth with ease.) The highlighting function is also faster and easier to use, and users also have better control of the screens brightness. Maybe that, in turn, will help your student control their own brightness.
With all the recent attention paid to the Mars Curiosity lander and the death of Neil Armstrong, interest in the skies seems to have taken off of late. Two beloved apps have received timely updates to take advantage of that interest. The $3 app for iPhone, which gives users a point-and-look augmented-reality tour of the heavens has been revamped with new visual effects and new sharing functions. The $2 app is newly universal, running on both iPhone and iPad for the first time; it has added thousands of new stars and other space objects to its library, giving users a deeper and wider base of knowledge to explore.
The recent trend in weather appsand there are lots of weather appshas been toward minimization: Monochromatic displays with just a few pieces of information to help you decide whether to tote that umbrella to work. The free app for iPad goes in the opposite direction, raining down information on amateur weather-watchers. It offers hourly conditions, seven-day forecasts, video updates from local forecasters, air quality reports, and even an almanac of historic highs and lows for the day. It will blow you away!
These days, even your to-do list is socially networked. , a free iPhone app, isnt exactly a getting-things-done offeringinstead, its more like a wish list of things youd like to do, with contributions from your friends, somewhat like . The app lets you create lists of things youd like to dowhether its movies youd like to see and road trips youd like to makeand lets your friends on Twitter or Facebook weigh in with suggestions. Its a way to crowdsource your goals, only by bringing your own crowd.
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