What's new on the app stores on Thursday 21 July 2011
A burst of 15 apps for your consideration
Pixies Official
Alternative legends Pixies have their own iPhone app, which offers much more than simply news and tweets. There's a free stream of their Purple Tape album, as well as a download of their 2004 Coachella festival set, and on-demand streams of other gigs from the band's career. The app includes gamified features to earn badges, and it ties in to Foursquare, Facebook and Twitter too. Topspin Media and Mobile Roadie are the companies responsible.
iPhone
Björk: Biophilia
Bjork's long-trailed Biophilia app for iPhone and iPad is now out, with one song from the album available as an in-app purchase of £1.49, and ten more to come. The first, Crystalline, includes a tunnel-racing game. You can read more about the app in this article.
iPhone / iPad
Sid Meier's Pirates! for iPad
Gamers of a certain age will be jumping into their Barque and setting sail to plunder Trinidad, thanks to the iPad port of the marvellous Pirates. It's a faithful conversion of the more recent console editions of the game, with new controls for the touchscreen.
iPad
Amir Khan Mobile
Boxer Amir Khan has his own iPhone app, courtesy of developer Addictive Mobility. It serves up training videos, photos and news, along with a one-level preview of Amir's official boxing game, and a trivia quiz.
iPhone
Syfy for iPad
This iPad app is only available in the US, since it's for sci-fi TV channel Syfy. The app offers videos, photos and episode guides, pulls in tweets from stars and creators of shows, and uses the Getglue social service to allow Syfy viewers to check in to individual programmes while watching on another screen.
iPad
PEGI
Pan-European game age-ratings system PEGI has launched a Windows Phone 7 app which lets people browse its database of ratings. It worked with Microsoft on the app, which has search filters for platforms and ratings. The WP7 version joins existing PEGI apps for other smartphones.
Windows Phone
Morotobi's Adventure
Korean developer Tinrobot has released its first iPad book-app, Morotobi's Adventure. It's got more than 40 pages blending animation and sound effects, with interactive elements too.
iPad
Cars 2 World Grand Prix Read and Race
Disney's latest book-app for iOS devices is an original story based on the world of Cars 2, with a storyline taking in races around the world, plus "reader pit stops" for kids to control their own racing teams.
iPhone / iPad
Viber
Voice over IP app Viber has been really popular on iPhone, with more than 12 million active users. Now it has launched an official Android version. It also supports messaging, and works over 3G or Wi-Fi.
Android
Mingle
Mingle has released a pair of iPhone apps – one for New York and one for San Francisco – which are the latest to offer location-based information on bars, clubs and restaurants. The apps pull in data from social networking services to identify which venues are currently hot.
iPhone
SkyGrid for Tablets
SkyGrid is already one of the more popular news aggregation apps on iPad, but it has just been released for Android tablets too. News can be tracked by topic, with notifications and social features built in.
Android
IsoSketch
Pixelrevision's IsoSketch is a very innovative iPad geometric drawing app. Users draw on an angled isometric grid, pulling in backgrounds and then exporting the resulting vector art to be used in other image editing software.
iPad
Back to the Future Ep 5 HD
The fifth episodic installment in Back to the Future's iPad game series is out now from Telltale Games, offering a cinematic interactive spin on the popular movies.
iPad
Touch DJ Evolution
There's a lurking suspicion that soon, there will be more iOS DJ applications than there are people who actually want to DJ with their iOS device. Amidio's Touch DJ Evolution is the latest contender, a rewrite of an existing app called Amidio Touch DJ.
iPhone / iPad
Mielophone
Mielophone is described by CrackBerry as 'an open source music streaming app' for BlackBerry PlayBook, enabling users to search for songs and play them.
BlackBerry
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