What's new on the app stores on Monday 25 July 2011
A choice of 16 apps for you today.
Streetmuseum: Londinium
The Museum of London and TV channel History have teamed up for this iOS app about Roman London. Based around a mapping interface, it lets users conduct their own virtual excavations to find artifacts, swiping and blowing away soil using the touchscreen and microphone. There are also videos overlaid on the real world using an augmented reality feature, and a soundtrack promising a taste of how Roman London sounded.
iPhone/iPad
Tekken Bowl
Beat 'em up franchise Tekken has yet to make it to iOS in its full glory, but one of its mini-games has made the leap. Tekken Bowl has three characters, a choice of puzzle mode or pass and play, and support for Apple's Game Center community. There are, it should be noted, no fisticuffs in sight.
iPhone/iPad
Buildings
Android-owning architecture buffs will love Buildings, which offers details on more than 40,000 buildings around the world, using the handset's location to identify the nearest ones. It pulls in text, images and videos about the buildings, with developer OpenBuildings saying the information is sourced from architects globally.
Android
Wreck This App
Book publisher Penguin Group's latest iOS app is based on the book Wreck This Journal, and promises to bring "destructive creativity to your fingertips". What that means is messing up your screen with holes, ink drips and scribbling, before sharing the results on Facebook and Flickr.
iPhone/iPad
Netgear ReadyShare Cloud
Netgear's new Android app is the latest to promise cloud storage, although in this case, it's personal. What that appears to mean is that Android users can access, store and share files on USB hard drives at home, from their phone. Photos can also be uploaded from the handset to the home USB drive while out and about, and music can be pulled back in the other direction.
Android
Magnetic Billiards: Blueprint
Developers John and Ste Pickford have worked for the likes of Rare, Nintendo and Sony in the console world, but are now switching focus to iOS. Their new game Magnetic Billiards blends pool with, well, magnets, scoring players based on their skill and risktaking behaviour. The game is already picking up rave reviews on the App Store.
iPhone/iPad
OzBook
Remember Alice for the iPad? The book-app was the first to take a well-known story and jazz it up with tablet interactivity. Now L. Frank Baum's The Wizard of Oz is getting the same treatment, albeit from a different developer – Slypot – and with a more modern feel to the illustrations.
iPad
BitCoins Mobile
Wanting to keep an eye on the new BitCoins virtual currency? Expect to pay £1.99 of real money for this iPad app, which offers live price quotes, historical charts, news feeds on everything BitCoin, and support for various exchanges.
iPad
Allied Star Police
Allied Star Police will get headlines for being the latest iPhone and iPad game from PopCap Games – or at least its 4th & Battery subsidiary. However, there's a story behind the side-scrolling shooter: it's the idea of a nine-year old called Owain who was introduced to PopCap by the Make-A-Wish Foundation charity.
iPhone/iPad
Virtual Patient
Virtual Patient is a demonstration app for Android from the University of Florida's Virtual Experiences Research Group. It's designed to help doctors and nurses improve their bedside manners by talking to virtual patients.
Android
Tywydd S4C Weather
Welsh broadcaster S4C has launched its own weather app for iPhone, offering local weather to the nearest kilometre - "weather forecasting at street level". It also offers 24-hour and 15-day forecasts, and yes, before you ask, it works outside Wales.
iPhone
Bandito
This music app appears to only be available in the US for now, which is a shame. Bandito is the work of PRX Public Radio Exchange, working with APIs from music technology firm The Echo Nest. It scans your iPhone or iPod touch library to see which artists you have been listening to most, and then pulls in news articles, blogposts and other online content based on them. Meanwhile, a Hotlist section spotlights new bands you might not have heard of.
iPhone
GeoSocials
GeoSocials is the latest social location game for iPhone, although Android and BlackBerry versions are on the way later this year. The game revolves around virtual treasure hinting in the real world, with local and global high score tables. The app also doubles as a local chat client when other GeoSocial users are nearby.
iPhone
Need For Speed Autolog
EA has brought its Need For Speed Autolog app to Windows Phone, offering a companion to the console and PC game Need For Speed Hot Pursuit. That means it hooks into the NFS community to compare times and recommend in-game events based on how you've been playing.
Windows Phone
Busy Beavers Jukebox
Parents wishing they had some way of letting their children watch 35 music videos featuring cartoon beavers singing educational lyrics? There's an app for them ... The Busy Beavers have apparently notched up more than 50m YouTube views, and now they have an iPhone app.
iPhone
Amy Winehouse Memory
Finally, with no link provided, shame on developer Borza Industries, who released "a pair matching memory game for all fans of Amy Winehouse, who has just recently left us". On Saturday night.
Android
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Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/appsblog/2011/jul/25/apps-rush-streetmuseum-londinium-tekken-bowl-buildings
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