The Week in iOS Apps: Look to the skies

31.08.2012
This weeks roundup of iOS apps will help you read a little better, play a little harder, and look to the skies.

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.