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What’s new on the app stores on Friday 3 February 2012

Super Bowl XLVI Guide

The NFL has launched an official Super Bowl app just in time for its season finale, as the New York Giants take on the New England Patriots. It includes a guide to host venue Indianapolis and an NFL Huddle feature to keep tabs on social media buzz around the event. The link above is for Android, but here’s the iOS version.
Android / iPhone / iPad

RBS 6 Nations Live Challenge

In a big day for fans of chasing odd-shaped balls round a field, rugby’s 6 Nations tournament also has an official app. Here, the focus is more on testing your knowledge: answering trivia questions before matches, then predicting the results of conversions and penalty kicks during games. Facebook is integrated to see how you compare to your friends’ scores.
Android / iPhone / iPad

Avid Studio

Avid’s tools have been used by professional film and TV editors for a long time, but now the company wants to take on Apple’s iMovie on iPad. Avid Studio is aimed at regular users looking to edit their home movies and share them on YouTube and Facebook. However, it can also export to the PC version of Avid Studio.
iPad

Marie Claire Runway Spring/Summer 2012

IPC has launched a new offshoot from its Marie Claire magazine – Marie Claire Runway – focused on fashion. It’s a standalone print mag, but also an iPad app that costs £2.99 versus the print issue’s £6. Expect footage from fashion shows and editors’ verdicts on the key trends.
iPad

Camden Crawl

Going to London’s Camden Crawl festival in May? There’s an app for that, with schedules, artist info, maps, social features and “money saving offers”. The latter will have to be good to convince people to pay £2.99 for the app, we sense.
iPhone

Remarks – Write notes and Annotate PDFs

Readdle’s latest iPad app does what it says on the tin, enabling you to take a PDF file and add annotations, highlighting, underlining and scribbles. Social features mean you can also collaborate with other Remarks users.
iPad

Gameloft Live!

Mobile games publisher Gameloft has launched a standalone Android app for its Gameloft Live! community, with mesaging, discounts and other social features built in. It’s fair to say Microsoft is an inspiration: there are 3D avatars and a “gamer score”.
Android

Doodlecast Pro

Doodlecast was a fun app for children that let them draw while recording their voice, turning the results into a video to be shared with family. Now the idea has evolved into a professional tool for presentations: “Perfect for teachers, students, business people and anyone needing an elegant way to share ideas…”
iPad

TallyTots

iOS kid-app TallyTots has made the leap onto Android, offering 20 mini-games to teach children the numbers one to 20. Chipmunks, apples and racing cars are all promised, along with a song.
Android

Guess Who? for iPad

Sadly nothing to do with the famous boardgame, but still a very interesting app. Based on Kyoung Kook Lee’s print book of the same name, this gets children to guess which characters are coming up on the next page, while listening to music and recording their own voices.
iPad

Despicable Me: Storybook

More iPad fun for kids comes with this book-app based on the animated movie Despicable Me. The core storyline is augmented with a soundboard, interactive blueprints and other playful features.
iPad

Sir Benfro’s Brilliant Balloon

Lovely-looking iOS game Sir Benfro’s Brilliant Balloon sees you flying the “naturalist, scientist and explorer” through forests, oceans and down into the depths of the Earth in search of bizarre beasts.
iPhone / iPad

BlipSnips Social Video

Android’s equivalent to SocialCam on iOS makes its debut. BlipSnips claims to be an easy way to shoot, tag and share video footage, including pushing it out to Facebook and Twitter while tagging friends on those social networks within the video itself.
Android

Babylon Translator

Text-translation firm Babylon has taken its app to Windows Phone, translating words between more than 75 languages, with a currency converter thrown in for good measure.
Windows Phone

Sector 33

The latest game to follow in the wingtips of Firemint’s Flight Control is Sector 33, which gets you merging arriving planes into a single traffic stream over California. The developer knows a thing or two about airspace, as well. Who are they? Oh, NASA…
iPhone / iPad

We will be taking a good look at a product named as the “fastest, most versatile I/O ever” in this Apple Thunderbolt Display review. Via a compact port, the Apple Thunderbolt device can be used to turn the Mac mini, MacBook air, iMac, and MacBook Pro into a desktop workstation with one cable for convenience.

Users can transfer data between their computer and high performance devices very quickly through the Apple Thunderbolt devices. Two Gbps throughput channels are utilized in the system. Comparatively, it is significantly faster than a USB 2.0. It is actually up to 20 times faster. It also leaves FireWire 800 in the dust in terms of speed, clocking in at up to 12 times faster.

Via one port, users can connect up to six different devices when using the Thunderbolt. The amount of power and flexibility that was unheard of and inaccessible is now available to users via the Apple Thunderbolt Display.

The creator of the Apple Thunderbolt Display was Intel. Developing an input/output technology that far exceeds any current product on the market was the goal of the device. While the company would like to create the extremely quick I/O technology, it also wanted the device to be virtually plugged into anything. It was then that Intel and Apple worked on the project together. As a result, it is perfectly suited for the company’s Mac computers.

This project was not Intel’s or Apple’s first venture into the data transfer technology. The invention of the PCI Express and USB by Intel were partially credited while Apple was acknowledged for the FireWire. Using this knowledge, the companies collaborated to come up with the fastest, most impressive I/O technology to hit the market.
Two familiar and effective technologies, the DisplayPort and PCI Express, were combined for the first time via the Thunderbolt. Because of this combination, this became the first I/O device to be incredibly fast and complex while supporting high resolution displays.

Overall, the Apple Thunderbolt Display is an excellent device. The device was created through a combination of the very best and most advanced technologies from some of the industry’s most successful companies.

The Apple Thunderbolt Display is an incredible device that has lots of people talking. For quick data transfer rates and high quality resolution, many users are talking about the Apple product, making it one of the most sought-after device. Hopefully, this Apple Thunderbolt Display review has been helpful and will aid individuals in deciding whether or not the Apple Thunderbolt Display device is right for them.

We will be taking a good look at a product dubbed as the “fastest, most versatile I/O ever” in this Apple Thunderbolt Display review. This Apple Thunderbolt device, via a compact port, can be used to transform the Mac mini, MacBook Air, iMac and MacBook Pro into a desktop workstation with single cable convenience.

Users can enjoy incredibly fast transfer of data between the computer and high performance devices by using the Apple Thunderbolt devices. There are two Gbps throughput channels. It is significantly faster compared to the USB 2.0. The comparison showed that the Apple product is up to 20 times faster. It also leaves FireWire 800 in the dust in terms of speed, clocking in at up to 12 times faster.

The Thunderbolt is capable of connecting up to six different devices, all through one port. The Apple Thunderbolt Display provides users with an amount of power and flexibility that until now, has been unheard of and simply not available to the public.

The creator of the Apple Thunderbolt Display was Intel. Developing an input/output technology that far exceeds any current product on the market was the goal of the device. The company wanted to create an I/O that was super fast and which virtually anything could be plugged into. Because of this goal, Apple and Intel decided to work together toward this goal. As a result, it is perfectly suited for the company’s Mac computers.

This Apple Thunderbolt Display is neither Apple’s nor Intel’s first foray into data transfer technology. Apple was credited for creating the FireWire, and Intel was credited to an extent for the USB and PCI Express inventions. Because of the collaboration between Apple and Intel, they have created the fastest and most impressive piece of I/O technology.
The Thunderbolt was the first device to utilize the two familiar and effective technologies, the DisplayPort and PCI Express. Because of this combination, this became the first I/O device to be incredibly fast and complex while supporting high resolution displays.

Looking at all of its dimensions, the Apple Thunderbolt Display is a fine piece of technology. The device was created through a combination of the very best and most advanced technologies from some of the industry’s most successful companies.

The Apple Thunderbolt Display is an incredible device that has lots of people talking. For quick data transfer rates and high quality resolution, many users are talking about the Apple product, making it one of the most sought-after device. By checking this Apple Thunderbolt Display review, hopefully this has been helpful in your decision about purchasing the device.

What’s new on the app stores on Thursday 2 February 2012

A selection of 21 new apps for you today:

Longform

iPad app Longform is a bit like a Flipboard for longer articles. It aggregates longform journalism from magazines and websites around the world, then slaps them into a tablet-friendly interface, complete with offline mode.
iPad

Everpix

The latest hotly-tipped cloud service is Everpix, which focuses on photos. It automatically uploads shots from your iPhone Camera Roll, while also fetching others from Facebook, Instagram and Flickr. “View, rediscover, and share your best photos all in one place, effortlessly,” promises the App Store listing.
iPhone

Norton Safety Minder

The rush of security firms onto Android continues, with Norton launching Safety Minder, which encourages parents to “know your kids’ smartphone habits and help protect them from threats”. It sounds frankly a little creepy in places though. “See whom your kids text with and what they say, choose whom they can exchange messages with, view all the apps installed on their smartphone, and more…”
Android

Chopsticks Novel

Penguin’s latest book-app describes itself as “a breathtaking cohesion of images, songs, videos, letters, love and loss”, offering the tale of a romance between piano prodigy Glory and her neighbour Frank.
iPhone / iPad

Dream PetHouse

Zynga’s latest iOS social game focuses on animals, as you build a treehouse to keep an array of digital pets happy. Warning, includes in-app chipmunks.
iPhone / iPad

Vimeo

Video site Vimeo has launched an official app for Windows Phone, redesigned for Microsoft’s Metro interface. Users can watch videos, add them to their queue, and upload their own footage from their smartphone.
Windows Phone

Pocketstock

This is interesting: a stock photo agency allowing people to shoot and upload photographs directly from their iPhone, via it’s app. Users need an account with the Pocketstock website first, though.
iPhone

Cornered! App Edition

Horror film Cornered! has been launched as an iOS app, offering five minutes of footage for free, and an in-app purchase option to unlock the full movie as a stream or a download. Extras include posters, film-set blueprints and production photos.
iPhone / iPad

Tunnel for iPad

An iPad book-app all about tunnels? Why not? It’s the work of Japanese engineering photographer Hoichi Nishiyama, based on a print book published in 2005. 56 hi-res shots of tunnels and related machinery, soundtracked by dub-techno artist Mystica Tribe.
iPad

Fly With Me

EA makes its bid for the Tiny Wings crowd with new title Fly With Me, which was apparently dreamt up by a team of four people in its EALA studio.
iPhone

Saboriman: The Lazy Salaryman

More fun from Japan with this English language-learning app, with its cartoon hero an idle office-worker. The idea: Saboriman’s daily life teaches key English vocabulary and phrases, with plenty of humour along the way.
iPhone

Dr. Seuss Beginner Book Collection #1

Oceanhouse Media’s latest Dr. Seuss book-app bundles five stories together, including The Cat in the Hat, One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish, and Mr. Brown can MOO! Can You?
iPhone / iPad

Magic: The Gathering Toolbox

Card game Magic: The Gathering has oodles of unofficial apps on iPhone, but this one comes from the game’s publisher Wizards of the Coast. It’s a companion app for the main game, not a standalone title or conversion. “Track game state, search cards, build decks, read articles, learn about events, and more…”
iPhone

Walking Heads

Audio tour startup Walking Heads has launched an iPhone and Android app providing a guide to Glasgow’s musical history. Radio DJ Jim Gellatly provides the voice narration for a tour of the city’s venues and musical hotspots.
Android / iPhone

Limahl 1983

80s popster Limahl has a new iPhone app, although it’s harking back to his glory days. Limahl 1983 is based on his new single of the same name.
iPhone / iPad

Cyworld (Global)

Social network Cyworld is hugely popular in its native South Korea. Now it has a global Android app so the rest of the world can get a peek, with a news feed, club and photo-sharing features.
Android

Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective

Popular Nintendo DS game Ghost Trick makes the leap to iOS, with Capcom’s conversion continuing the original’s ghoulish action. It’s a free download initially, but the game is split into chapters, with some available as in-app purchases.
iPhone / iPad

Jigsaw Mansion 2

Social games publisher Mindjolt SGN has launched its latest iOS game, a sequel to Jigsaw Mansion. It offers traditional-puzzle solving action, including the ability to turn your own photos into digital jigsaws to be shared with friends.
iPhone / iPad

Reckless Racing 2

Well-received iOS driving game Reckless Racing gets a sequel, with a top-down perspective and detailed career mode complementing online multiplayer races.
iPhone / iPad

InstaCam

This unofficial Instagram client for Windows Phones lets you sign in and view photos from your Instagram buddies, although as far as we can tell, you can’t upload your own. However, there are Instagram-style filters to apply to your pics and then share them on Twitter and Facebook separately.
Windows Phone

Kimi Raikkonen ICEONE Racing

F1 driver Kimi Raikkonen? There’s an app for him: a 3D racing game by 24MAS that sees you driving in a bunch of different vehicles on tracks around the world.
iPhone / iPad

Scrolling down a recipe on screen during hands-on cooking is a mixed experience

My favourite cookbooks show the scars of countless mealtimes: the singed flyleaf from the time I panicked with a hot roasting tray; the dubious gravy stains; the dried fingerprints of flour from that ill-fated Victoria sponge.

So how practical is it to use recipes on cookery apps? Can a phone or iPad cope with the splatters of the kitchen? And how do you scroll to the next stage of a recipe when your hands are covered in flour or lemon juice or potato peelings?

First, I try out Epicurious, the app attached to the popular American foodie website. With more then 30,000 recipes, it’s much more comprehensive than the average book, and it’s free (though it costs £1.49 to sync the app with recipes you may have stored on the site). It’s easy to navigate: there’s an index featuring everything from “weekend brunch” to “bubbly cocktails”, and useful graded sections labelled “I can barely cook” and “I cook like a pro”. There’s also a nifty “shopping list” function: select a recipe, and the app imports the ingredients into a list, which you can then tick off as you go round a shop.

Many of the recipes sound exotically American (savoury pumpkin pie soup with cinnamon marshmallows, pepita streusel and whipped crème fraiche) or Hispanic (salmorejo; tacos al pastor). The measures, too, are all US-style – cups, 15-ounce cans – so when I do finally select a recipe (butternut squash and cannellini soup with bacon) and get cooking, I waste a good while frantically Googling the conversions.

I’ll blame this – as well as the fact that my phone keeps going to sleep, meaning I’m forever jabbing at the screen with squash-covered fingers – for the fact that I put in double the correct quantity of chicken stock, and the soup bubbles out all over the hob.

I fare better the next day with a British-designed app, Dishy (priced at £2.99). It has only 95 recipes, but you can search by course, ingredient, time or dietary requirements; there’s a shopping list tool; and the step-by-step guides are easy to follow. I make a rustic sausage casserole for dinner; not only is it delicious, but a built-in countdown timer ensures that I fry the sausages for exactly the right time. Best of all, the app somehow manages to override my phone’s sleep function, so I don’t keep having to rinse my hands to avoid slathering the screen with gunk.

Day three is the turn of Great British Chefs (also £2.49), a much-praised app featuring around 180 recipes devised by Michelin-starred chefs such as Marcus Wareing, Nuno Mendes and Tom Aikens. It looks fabulous – lots of sumptuous photography – but most of the recipes are pitched far above my basic skill level and budget (since when were cheese beignets and a burrata, pea, grapefruit, caviar and leek salad classed as “easy”?).

But Daniel Clifford’s cheese scones sound good, so I have a go; the method is easy enough, and there’s a handy voice-activation tool, so you can shout at your phone rather than cover it with sticky dough. The scones turn out almost perfect.

Last I try another British chef known for keeping things simple. Jamie Oliver has a number of apps out. I go for Jamie’s 20 Minute Meals. At £4.99, it’s pricey, but it’s well-designed and simple, and the videos are definitely pitched more at my level. The pea and prawn risotto recipe makes an easy and delicious weekday lunch (though it takes me a lot longer than 20 minutes). But there’s no voice activation, so I’m back to having to wash my hands every few minutes to scroll to the next stage.

Condition One is a new app that uses the iPad to deliver interactive, immersive video. Benji Lanyado demonstrates how it works, and showcases the Guardian’s first commissioned immersive video, shot in Tokyo

What’s new on the app stores on Wednesday 1 February 2012

A selection of 17 apps for you today:

The Humble Bundle for Android

Bundles of independently-developed games have been very popular on PC, but now the idea has come to Android. The latest Humble Bundle includes Anomaly: Warzone Earth, Osmos and Edge – all marvellous – with a pay-what-you-want model. Pay more than the average user, though, and you’ll get World of Goo thrown in too. What’s more, buying the Humble Bundle for Android also gets you the games for Mac, Windows or Linux, as well as the soundtracks. At the time of writing the average purchase price is $5.91.
Android

BBC News

The BBC has upsized its Android news app to make it native for Android tablets, initially in the UK but with a global edition to follow. It runs on Honeycomb-toting devices, with tablets running earlier versions of Android sticking with the smartphone version.
Android

TNW Magazine

Excellent tech website TheNextWeb has launched a “digital monthly magazine”, pulling in some of the key articles from each month online, as well as exclusive content. Available as a free iPad download, it costs $1.99 a month or $9.99 for an annual subscription.
iPad

Being Global

iOS and Android book-app Being Global is aimed at parents who want to “cultivate conscious little ones” – kids who respect other traditions, religions and values. Besides the story, there is a colouring feature, a quiz game and a digital diary.
Android / iPhone / iPad

Aviary Photo Editor

Startup Aviary’s photo-editing SDK has been used by a number of apps, but now it has a standalone plug-in for Android devices. It’s not a standalone app – instead, it’s accessed through the share option when viewing photos on the device. A range of editing features are included, as well as effects packs bought in-app.
Android

Bosch Navigation UK & IRE

Bosch is the latest company to enter the mobile satnav market, with its iOS app for the UK and Ireland (separate versions are available for other countries). Expect 3D maps, offline navigation to save on data costs, and integration with Facebook and Twitter.
iPhone / iPad

Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land

H.P. Lovecraft’s Call of Cthulhu is reborn as an iOS turn-based strategy RPG. Battle against an “ancient enemy” in a First World War setting, with beefy visuals and a choice of tactics.
iPhone / iPad

Likes!

Android app Likes! uses Facebook to pull in things your friends have liked on the social network – everything from restaurants and pubs through to films and plumbers, apparently. It also uses location to show the things that are nearest to you right now.
Android

Inside the World of Dinosaurs

Stephen Fry provides voice narration for this new book-app, which claims to be “the most comprehensive interactive dinosaur encyclopedia on the iPad”. More than 60 dinos are included, with 200 pages of text, 84 videos and – wait for it – 60 “original dinosaur sounds”.
iPad

Tag your Love by Moët & Chandon Rosé Impérial

Brands’ desire to spend money on commissioning social apps knows no bounds. Here’s champers brand Moët & Chandon with an app encouraging people to get “tagging your photos with a touch of graffiti chic and discover the secrets of the world’s most loved champagne”.
iPhone

Edge Extended

Mobigame’s block-based puzzler got an extended edition for iOS last year, and it has now made the leap to Android. Roll your cube around 48 levels, evading obstacles and recording the best times.
Android

PhatPad

PhatPad is a new Android note-taking and collaboration app that includes handwriting recognition features and Dropbox integration. The idea being that Android tablet users can scribble notes and pictures (and even record voice notes) before sharing the documents with friends and colleagues.
Android

Luster

iPhone app Luster promises “your fashion world on the go”. Which means a way for people to take photos of their new clobber, tag the location it was found in, and share it with other Luster users.
iPhone

Ghost Finder London

Take a tour of the capital’s spooks with this iPhone app, which maps more than 300 haunted locations across the city. Stories are included on each so you know which ghoul should be doing what, wherever you are.
iPhone

Report A Taxi

Report A Taxi helps people to report poor service from cab drivers, for the benefit of other users. It’s initially only for New York City and iPhone, but Android and BlackBerry versions are on the way, along with global support (including London).
iPhone

Kidz4Mation

iPhone book-app Kidz4Mation stars a cheerful monkey called Mikey, who aims to help children be “more confident, stronger and happier”. The idea being a story that also inspires self-confidence in kids.
iPhone

Shrek Forever After

Android has lagged far behind iOS in the number of good book-apps for kids, but there’s a discernible tide-turn happening in 2012. iStoryTime’s Shrek Forever After has made the jump from iOS to Android, with a story based on the film of the same name.
Android