What's new on the app stores on Thursday 17 November 2011
A selection of 23 apps for you today:
There's No Place Like Space!
US firm Oceanhouse Media has been turning Dr. Seuss books into apps for some time now. Its latest iOS app is a different beast, though: part of a new "Learning Library" series of educational apps based on the popular Seuss characters. In this case, it sees The Cat In The Hat introducing the solar system.
iPhone / iPad
Gmail
Stop us if you've heard this one before: Google has launched a native Gmail app for iPhone and iPad. Well, relaunched is the better word: the app was pulled from the App Store shortly after its debut due to a push notifications bug. Now it's available once more, in a fully working version.
iPhone / iPad
WildChords
WildChords for iPad is an innovative attempt to make learning guitar more enjoyable. It takes the form of a colourful game, controlled by strumming a real guitar in time and with the correct chords. The iPad's microphone is used to detect whether players are in tune or not.
iPad
Minecraft ? Pocket Edition
Android owners got the first crack at an official mobile version of creative indie game Minecraft, leaving iOS users to put up with a series of clones. Now the real deal has launched on the App Store, although as on Android, for now it's just the creative side of Minecraft, building and digging, rather than the even-more gamey Survival mode.
iPhone / iPad
Let's Golf 2
Gameloft's Let's Golf franchise has been popular on other smartphones, so now it's available on Windows Phone. As ever, cartoon golf with super-powers and different modes is the order of the day.
Windows Phone (spotted by WPCentral)
CIA: Operation Ajax
This iPad book-app from Cognito Comics tells the story of the CIA-led coup in Iran in 1953, offering 210 digital pages, sound and animation, as well as character dossiers and real declassified CIA documents.
iPad
Duke Nukem 3D
Reviewers of the latest console Duke Nukem game weren't impressed by it, but perhaps the brand's new tablet incarnation will fare better. It's just been released for the BlackBerry PlayBook, as part of a wider swell of 3D titles for RIM's tablet.
BlackBerry PlayBook
Official Norwich City FC
Norwich City are back in the Premier League, and now the football club is on the App Store too. Its official app costs �2.99, and provides news, player profiles, live text commentary and stats on match days, and ticketing info among other features. Fans who choose to pay a �2.49 monthly subscription will get additional video highlights and TV news.
iPhone
Sing and Sign
British baby-signing programme Sing and Sign has a new iPhone app, designed to teach parents and babies to communicate through sign language. And, yes, singing. The app covers more than 150 signs.
iPhone
BuddyCast
BuddyCast is all about turning an iPhone into a music-streaming server and radio broadcasting tool. It can play songs on the device, but also lets users play DJ, streaming their music to friends while talking over the top. Audio can also be streamed to external servers. And the licensing status of all this? A question music rightsholders may well be asking in the coming days.
iPhone
Peek-a-Zoo ? by Duck Duck Moose
Kid-apps publisher Duck Duck Moose has struck again with new iPhone app Peek-a-Zoo, which aims to introduce a series of animals to children, along with emotions, actions and activities. The app also features a soundtrack of jazz and classical versions of popular children's songs.
iPhone
Ashti Meets Birdman Al
And more from the kid-apps / jazz crossover... Ashti Meets Birdman Al is an American book-app that wants to teach children about jazz history, including the likes of Billie Holiday, Thelonius Monk, Dizzie Gillespie and Cab Calloway.
iPhone / iPad
Empire Online
Massively multiplayer online roleplaying game Empire Online has been a hit on iOS, and has now made the jump to Android. Lakoo's title promises more than 300 maps, 1,000 quests and more than five million players to interact with.
Android
Etsy
Online crafts site Etsy has launched an iPhone app, providing access to its more-than 11 million listings. Buyers can search for items and buy them, while sellers can use its features to manage their items from their iPhone.
iPhone
Home Electrical Safety Check
The UK's Electrical Safety Council (ESC) has released an iPhone and Android app to help people do quick visual checks of their homes, to see if the electrics should be causing them any concern. The ESC is pitching it as a useful app to have to hand when viewing accomodation before buying or renting, too.
iPhone / Android
Fish4jobs
Recruitment site Fish4jobs has launched an app across four smartphones at once: iPhone, Android, BlackBerry and Symbian. The app enables people to search for available jobs based on location, and apply for them using existing Fish4jobs or LinkedIn logins. There's also a salary calculator to inspire the jobhunting. Grapple Mobile made the app.
iPhone / Android / BlackBerry / Symbian
The Nutcracker Musical Storybook
Mouse King Media's debut iOS book-app tells the famous Nutcracker tale through animation and music, with an orchestral rendition of Tchaikovsky's score, and 25 chapters to read.
iPhone / iPad
Spy Mouse HD
Spy Mouse came out earlier this year on iPhone: it was the latest action-puzzler from developer Firemint ? the company behind Flight Control and Real Racing. Now it's been upscaled for iPad, including new content and beefier graphics.
iPad
Extraction: Project Outbreak
There's a lot of buzz around this iOS game, thanks to its spectacular graphics. It's an action-shooter game based around a mercenary trying to eliminate infected soldiers after a military experiment gone-wrong.
iPhone / iPad
Superman
Is that an angry bird, or a plane? Superman is the latest iPhone game from the original publisher of Angry Birds, Chillingo. It's officially licensed, and sees Superman flying across the city to save the world from Lex Luthor.
iPhone / iPad
Homerun Battle 2
Com2uS' original Homerun Battle 3D remains one of the best casual sports games on iOS, a couple of years after its release. Now it has a sequel, with more modes and social features. The core gameplay remains smashing home runs by tapping the screen, though.
iPhone / iPad
Pod Odyssey
Critically-acclaimed iPad space-maze game Pod Odyssey has a new version for iPhone and iPod touch, joining their bigger brother on the App Store as one universal title. The emphasis remains on guiding a space pod through mazes, avoiding robots and spiders along the way.
iPhone
Media Echo, The King's Speech Second Screen
Technicolor ? yes, that Technicolor ? has launched an iPad app based on film The King's Speech. Available in the US only for now, it's designed to be used while watching the Blu-ray version of the film, offering trivia, video, audio commentary, actor profiles and other information synchronised with the movie.
iPad
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/appsblog/2011/nov/17/apps-rush-seuss-wildchords-minecraft
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