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30 best iPhone and iPad apps this week - The Guardian (blog)

30 best iPhone and iPad apps this week - The Guardian (blog)

Welcome to this week's roundup of new and notable iPhone and iPad apps â€" those released for the first time in the last week, as opposed to updates to older apps.

As ever, the price in brackets refers to the initial download, so some apps may include in-app purchases. The 30 best Android apps roundup was posted earlier in the day. For now, read on for the latest iOS releases worth knowing about:

123D Creature (£1.49)

Even Steve Jobs would've raised a sceptical eyebrow if you'd told him a few years ago that in 2013, people would be modelling digital-clay monsters on their iPads then getting them 3D-printed out. That's exactly the idea behind Autodesk's 123D Creature app though: you sculpt and paint creatures then export them as images and 3D models, or order a 3D-printed version from within the app.
iPad

Kickstarter for iPhone (Free)

I wrote about this at more length yesterday, but the precis is this: crowdfunding website Kickstarter now has an official iPhone app. You can use it to see what projects musicians, artists, game developers and other creators are trying to raise money for and back them from your phone. And if you're running a project, you can keep an eye on your stats, and post updates to your backers from the device too.
iPhone

One Direction Scrapbook (Free)

Given One Direction's escalating global fame, this free iOS app should be a sizeable hit among fans. It's a digital scrapbook for fans to paste in photos of the British boy band, customise them with their own photos and messages, then share on social networks.
iPhone / iPad

Sound Uncovered (Free)

San Francisco's Exploratorium museum has launched this innovative and playful iPad app, aimed at all ages, which offers "auditory illusions, acoustic phenomena, and other things that go bump, beep, boom, and vroom". It's an exploration of sound, from growling saxophones to noisy gum-chewing.
iPad

Tempo Smart Calendar (Free)

Alas, us Brits clearly aren't smart enough for Tempo yet â€" this new calendar app appears to be US-only for now. Developed at SRI, the company behind Apple's Siri technology, it's a mobile calendar app that pulls in emails, contacts and locations to your plans, while providing directions, documents, LinkedIn profiles and even sending apologetic "running late" emails and texts.
iPhone

DrawQuest (Free)

Draw Something isn't dead just yet, but developers and startups are already trying to push the collabora tive-drawing genre of apps onwards. Canvas Networks' new effort is really interesting: less a competitive game, and more a daily drawing challenge: it provides the scenario for you to draw and share with friends.
iPad

Versu (Free)

More creativity on iPad, this time from Linden Lab â€" the company behind virtual world Second Life. No flying 3D penises here though: it's an "interactive reading experience where the readers become the characters". Two stories are included initially, with you influencing the plot by taking actions at specific points. Choose Your Own Adventure did this a long time ago, of course, but Versu looks an intriguing update on the idea.
iPad

America's Presidents (£2.99)

More heavyweight literary action comes with this app from the Smit hsonian Institution, based on its National Portrait Gallery's collection of US presidential portraits. The app guides you from George Washington to Barack Obama, with high-resolution versions of the paintings, plenty of information on the presidents, video interviews sharing more light on the artists, and even audio of Franklin D. Roosevelt's radio broadcasts.
iPad

JOOL (£0.69)

Sometimes just one feature is enough to make an iOS game stand out from the crowd. In this case, it's the fact that you can switch between the game's two heroes by spinning your device 180 degrees. It's more than a gimmick though: this is an engrossing action-platformer game with a look all its own. Oh, and "really nasty death animations", if that's your bag.
iPhone / iPad

Essential Anatomy (£2 0.99)

Would you pay 21 quid for an anatomy app? You might if you were a medical student, because this app from 3D4Medical looks very polished indeed. It offers 3D models of six systems â€" the skeleton, connective tissue, muscle, veins, arteries and nerves â€" as well as the brain and heart, with more to come.
iPad

Wunderlist 2 (Free)

Excellent to-do list app Wunderlist 2 has been out for smartphones for a while, but now it has a native tablet version too. It's good for building all manner of lists, with reminders, notifications and social features thrown in for good measure.
iPad

NASCAR RaceView Mobile '13 (Free)

This might just be one of the whizziest second-screen TV apps yet: a full 3D visualisation of the US NASCAR Sprint Cup Series races: "You can pan, zoom and spin to focus on a specific driver, or pull back to view the entire field", all while listening to live race-broadcast radio or audio from the drivers and teams.
iPhone / iPad

Flick Champions Winter Sports (£0.69)

There's a long tradition of multi-event Winter sports gaming â€" I happily wasted weeks of my teenage life playing Epyx' Winter Games back in the day. Chillingo is bringing the idea into 2013 with this collection of six sports: slalom, skating, ski jumping, ice hockey, curling and snowball fighting.
iPhone / iPad

Easy Studio â€" Animate With Shapes (£2.49)

It's a really good week for creative children's apps, with Easy Studio being a marvellous example from French developer Les Trois Elles. It's an intuitive animation studio for kids to make scenes from shapes, then animate them. Two difficulty levels ensure younger children can use it too, with animations saveable for later amusement.
iPad

Stream That Song (Free)

Can any app hope to rival Shazam when it comes to identifying music that's playing? Stream That Song is a neat new app â€" made by a developer from Orange France's research labs â€" which identifies a song playing in the real world, then provides links to play it in Spotify or Deezer's mobile apps.
iPhone

The Flying Alphabetinis (Free)

Calling this game a Words With Friends for kids is slightly inaccurate â€" it's more like Boggle â€" but the idea of turn-based gameplay over the network is the main thing. It's designed to be played between children and their parents, although the use of in-app purchases to buy power-ups could create some interesting family competition.
iPhone / iPad

Die Hard (£0.69)

Bruce Willis is back, Back, BACK! in a new Die Hard movie this year, but this official mobile game concentrates on his character's son Jack McClane. It's an interesting splicing of the endless runner genre with third-person shooters: Temple Run meets Uncharted. Well, sort of.
iPhone / iPad

Twickets (iPhone)

This is a great idea from developer Future Platforms: a "free fan to fan ticket exchange" that helps people buy and sell spare tickets to gigs, sports matches and other events in the UK. Tickets can't be sold for more than their face value â€" so it's not a tout's paradise â€" with an elegant design and social features tying into the existing Twickets Facebook and Twitter communities.
Free

Pokémon TV (Free)

Yes, an official Pokémon app â€" the second in a few months, in fact, following the release of the Pokédex on iOS in 2012. This time round, the focus is on the Pokémon cartoon series, which is 700-odd episodes in now. The free app streams selected episodes, while also offering new film t railers and other exclusive features for Pokéfans.
iPhone / iPad

Talking Friends Cartoons (Free)

700m downloads later, Outfit7's Talking Friends apps, including Talking Tom Cat and Talking Ginger, are one of the biggest digital brands of the App Store era. This app gathers the 10 animated shorts produced for Disney, and previously distributed on YouTube. It's had some teething problems at launch â€" an ad promoting a £4-a-week mobile content subscription service has been swiftly removed â€" but there's no denying the popularity of Tom and friends.
iPhone / iPad

Gifted2you (Free)

This is a really nice idea: an app that reminds you of special occasions, and enables you to browse a catalogue of products from "artisans and smaller producers" to friends and family. It can connect to your Facebook (but doesn't have to), and sends physical gifts within the UK.
iPhone / iPad

The Poppin Princess (£2.99)

This French children's app has recently been translated into English, which deserves to bring its charms to a wider audience. It revolves around a contest between a bunch of princesses to become the wife of a prince called Archibald, with lovely illustrations and plenty of interactivity for kids.
iPhone / iPad

Matthew Kenney's Everyday Raw Express (£1.99)

Not a euphemism. This iPhone cookery app is about food that isn't cooked: "delicious, healthy and quick raw food recipes" from chef and author Kenne y. The app offers more than 50 recipes to try, with videos, photos and nutritional data also included.
iPhone

Rotolla (£1.49)

This game has been described as a cross between Tetris and Super Hexagon, which pretty much nails its charms. It sees you organising blocks as they rotate inside a hexagon, with the difficulty curve quickly ramping up to provide a proper challenge.
iPhone / iPad

Hunches in Bunches - Dr. Seuss (£2.49)

The latest Dr Seuss book-app from Oceanhouse Media stars creatures including a Sour Hunch, a Very Odd Hunch, the Homework Hunch, a Four-Way Hunch, the Nowhere Hunch â€" all trying to give the young hero advice, of varying qual ity. Impish rhymes and good features for children learning to read make it a winner.
iPhone / iPad

Dino Land (Free)

On the one hand, Dino Land is a fun-looking free-to-play game for children, teaching them about dinosaurs as they collect a set of prehistoric monsters and learn facts about them. On the other, its in-app purchases go as high as £69.99 for virtual bones, which seems a bit much for a children's game. Parents will want to make sure their IAP settings are locked down before letting their kids play.
iPhone / iPad

Red in Bed (£1.49)

This excellent children's app teaches kids about the colours of the rainbow. It tells the tale of the colours painting the world, apart from Red (who's ill in bed). Each colour gets its own musical note, too â€" ideal for tap-happy children.
iPad

Aces of the Luftwaffe (£0.69)

Fancy some old-school shoot 'em up action? HandyGames' Aces of the Luftwaffe pitches you into the Battle of Britain, trying to fend off the massed ranks of Luftwaffe fighter planes, including the odd boss battle.
iPhone / iPad

KakaoAlbum (Free)

Hundreds of new photo-sharing apps are released every week for iPhone, so why single this one out? Well, it's a spin-off from KakaoTalk, a hugely popular messaging app in South Korea and south east Asia â€" with well over 50m users. So while it may not rival Instagram in the UK, expect its mixture of social sharing and collaborative photo galleries to be a hit closer to its home.
iPhone

Newsies Photo Booth (Free)

Finally, a fun branded app from Disney to promote its Newsies Broadway musical, adding characters into your own snaps, then helping you share them. On a more practical level, it also provides news and ticketing details for the musical.
iPhone

That's this week's selection, but what do you think? Make your recommendations or give your opinions on the apps above by posting a comment.

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Iceman gets iPhone, iPad apps for kids - Gazzetta del Sud english

Iceman gets iPhone, iPad apps for kids - Gazzetta del Sud english

Bolzano, February 15 - Italy's famous Iceman mummy is set to hit iPads and iPhones with a new app allowing youngsters to learn about his Copper Age life and the stream of scientific discoveries made about him. The application aims to provide "fun ways to get to know Europe's oldest natural human mummy", including games featuring his well-known tattoos - rumoured to have been copied by Brad Pitt - and "his extraordinary gear including his bow and arrow", said the Larixpress publishing house in the Iceman's northern Italian hometown of Bolzano. Larixpress developed the app in collaboration with the Alto Adige (South Tyrol) Archaeological Museum, where the mummy is kept in a refrigerated cell. New discoveries about the 5,300-year-old Iceman, dug out of a northern Italian glacier in 1991 and also known as Oetzi from the Alpine valley where he was found, are being made all the time. Last May traces of blood were found on him, the oldest blood sample ever found. A year ago the first complete DNA map of the ancient man found that he was lactose intolerant, or unable to digest a sugar in milk. The study also showed Oetzi had a predisposition towards heart disease, a finding corroborated by the thickened arteries in the body. The mapping said the Iceman probably suffered from Lyme Disease, a tick-borne infection whose symptoms may include fever, headache, fatigue, depression, and a characteristic circular skin rash. According to an international team, the rugged mountain man also shared a common ancestor with the inhabitants of today's Sardinia and Corsica. He had brown eyes and his blood group was O, the team said. The Iceman attracts thousands of visitors a year to his Bolzano home. He had an anniversary bash there in September 2011 when the purpose-built museum celebrated 20 years since two German tourists spotted him peeping out of the glacier. ''Oetzi has been great for us, the city and tourism in the entire region,'' Alto Adige Archaeology Museum Director Angelika Fleckinger said as the mummy, 2,000 years older than Tutankhamen, 'welcomed' kids to play with prehistoric weapons and offered 'neolithic' food for visitors. Fleckinger said the anniversary celebrations had a "special resonance" for her. ''Sometimes I think it is so strange. He died 5,000 years ago yet this person, this Iceman, has become an important part of my life''. Forensic science has made great strides since the Iceman was found in the Oetzal Alps by a couple of German hikers on September 19, 1991. ''We know so much about him, that he had brown eyes and a few diseases, was getting on a bit at 46, and died from an arrow wound. ''But we will maybe never know what really happened in the last hours and minutes of his life''. The Iceman may still be something of a mystery but his generosity to his adoptive home town is no secret. According to the most recent figures, the refrigerated man earns a total of four million euros each year for restaurants, hotels and souvenir-sellers, Fleckinger said. Year round, except for Christmas Day, New Year's Day and May Day, he also raises 3.5 million in ticket fees at the restructured bank that houses him. That means he pays about half of the Bolzano Archaeological Museum's costs, drawing in over one thousand people a day. This compares to the average of 15% which other Italian museums defray out of visitors' pockets. The Iceman's status as a global star is reflected by the 26 documentaries made about him by the world's TV companies. He is perhaps the world's most famous mummy outside Egypt. The body, which dates back to 3000 BC, has spawned a global cottage industry of studies. As well as discoveries about what he ate and what illnesses he suffered from, there has been a keen debate on how he died from the arrow wound found in his body - initially, it was thought, in a fight with rival hunters. One theory says he was assassinated in a tribal power struggle. Another suggested he was the victim of ritual sacrifice. Another study - fiercely contested by patriotic residents of the formerly Austrian region who see Oetzi as their proud forefather - reckons he was cast out from his community because a low sperm count rendered him childless. An eerie aura has also grown around the Iceman because of the allegedly mysterious deaths of seven people who came into contact with him soon after he was found.

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Free iPad apps (February 2013) - CNET

Free iPad apps (February 2013) - CNET

There are a ton of great iPad apps out there, priced 99 cents and up, that are worth every penny.

But you know how it is. Sometime you catch yourself browsing the App Store for some free app that can offer some momentary entertainment.

Apple keeps a running tally of its most popular free iPad apps over on iTunes, which is updated constantly to reflect current trends. At our request, we asked Apple to provide us with a list of the Top 5 most popular apps based on their most recent weekly totals.

The following CNET Top 5 video recounts Apple's official chart of the top free iPad apps for the week ending February 11. Even though the present-day ranking has certainly changed by the time you see this, it's nevertheless an interesting snapshot of the kinds of free apps that are holding our attention right now (for better, or worse).

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iPad Apps Class at the Skaneateles Library - Auburn Citizen

iPad Apps Class at the Skaneateles Library - Auburn Citizen

Join tech trainer Margie Creamer at the Skaneateles Library at 10:30 am on Saturday, March 2nd for an iPad Apps workshop. Participants will learn what apps are, how to find them and how to use them. Don’t forget to bring your questions â€" and your iPad!

The class is free, but please call the library at 315-685-5135 or stop by the circulation desk to register.

For more information or to request/suggest a program, contact Nickie Marquis at 315-685-5135 or nmarquis@skaneateleslibrary.org.

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iPad Mini is a Reality

The long awaited moment has arrived, after Apple officially presented the iPad mini, its fourth-generation tablet just 7.9 inches, to battle the Nexus 7 and Kindle Fire. This new iPad mini is equipped with an A5 chip and begin to be available from November 2 in the main international markets, with an entry price of $ 329. Now we finally have the new generation of the most successful tablet market: the iPad . As expected, Apple unveiled its new tablet of 7 inches , but they are actually 7.9, called as many expected (happily), iPad mini. This iPad mini has the following characteristics: In the field of the screen, remember that is 7.9 inches, with the same resolution as the iPad 2, ie, no Retina display for this model, only 1024 x 786. Yes, its casing is made ​​of aluminum, not plastic, as Phil Schiller said, alluding to the Google Nexus 7. It weighs 300 grams. 

The processor of the iPad mini is the dual-core A5, the same as we have in the iPad 2. But here it should be emphasized that there has been a new version of the iPad 3 (new iPad), with A6x processor, which offers twice the performance that we found in the iPad 3G chip A5X. The iPad mini has a battery capable of exceeding 10 hours, said Apple, though that will check if the device can be tested by users. Furthermore, it indicates that it is the finest that has been designed by Apple engineers: just two millimeters wide. 

The FaceTime camera of iPad mini is capable of recording video in HD (720p), while the back features 5 megapixel camera. Its connectivity is: 4G LTE, Wi-Fi 802.11a/b/g/n dual band Lightning connector port. Now time to talk about the most important, availability: It will be in different versions, for example, the iPad mini 16GB with only Wi-Fi will cost $ 329, while the 32 GB and 64 GB, U.S. $ 429 and U.S. $ 529 respectively. But if you want the iPad mini with 4G LTE connectivity, these are the prices: $ 459, $ 559 and $ 659. The iPad hit the market as of November 2, but it can pre-order this Friday (only Wi-Fi version for 4G LTE connectivity will have to wait two more weeks). What do you think? 

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iPad Gives Life to a Print Ad (Video)

It is said that advertising in print media is becoming less profitable, so it would have to find a way to make these ads a little more interesting, so that readers give them the attention needed to create them an impact. And an attempt that task could be the one seen in this video, which is used in a print magazine and iPad. I do not know how effective the advertising in the media written currently, but in fact that there are so many other ways to place ads more striking and interesting, the press should be working hard to get back to making advertising printed as profit as in previous times. And an example would be the Lexus has introduced its new car for 2013 Lexus ES, using CinePrint technology, which has allowed it to spice up your ad in the version printed in a magazine thanks to the intervention of the iPad. 

Its operation is as follows: In the October issue of Sports Illustrated, a warning of 2013 Lexus ES, and there you are invited to download the version of the magazine on the iPad. Once you do, you can stay in the same print ad, but you will see it differently, if you place the iPad with page ad sheet behind the magazine. That way, you'll see a warning printed really impressive, and the paper begins to glow, to recreate the day and night, turn on the headlights of the vehicle, and even you can watch in the car. Perhaps the words not understood very well, so, I invite you to watch the video then I leave. But before I leave you with the question that has arisen in many people after seeing this notice: if you spent already enough in the digital version of a magazine, why would you ever want to spend on the print version? It may not be very smart to do that, but at least we can enjoy good effects for a moment. 

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