What's new on the app stores on Tuesday 2 August 2011
A burst of 9 apps for your consideration
Wolfram Sun Exposure Reference App
Wolfram Alpha is known mostly for its number-crunching "answer engine", but the company has been branching out with a bunch of reference apps in recent months. The latest will come in handy for anyone in the summer sun: it calculates how long you can stay out without burning, based on your skin type, location, the time of day and what sun lotion you're using.
iPhone / iPad
The Phantom Of The Opera Piano Songbook
The Phantom Of The Opera is there, inside your iPad tinkling on the ivories. This songbook app offers piano sheet music for 12 songs from the famous musical, with backing tracks to help. It's the work of Musicroom, which has similar apps for Adele, Coldplay and Bob Dylan.
iPad
Trail Maps by National Geographic
The National Geographic Society's latest iOS app is all about the trails, whether walking, biking, sailing or kayaking. The app provides details USGS maps, backed up by Bing aerial images, with the ability to track specific routes and measure waypoints. Probably more useful for US users, although it's available in the UK App Store too – good for anyone planning a trail-focused trip to the States.
iPhone / iPad
PIAS
Music group PIAS has released its official iPhone app, offering news and videos from artists including Tiesto, Dinosaur Jr, Editors, I Am Kloot and Grace Jones. The app will also livestream selected gigs, and has augmented reality features thrown in for good measure.
iPhone
FunDJ
The latest DJ app to be released for iPhone is FunDJ, whose USP is the ability to mix songs by motion rather than touch, using the iPhone 4's gyroscope sensor. Rotate for a flanger or shake up and down for a loop, for example.
iPhone
RCRD LBL
US blog-cum-label RCRD LBL has plenty of fans online, but now it has an official iPhone app. The app lets users download tracks from its catalogue to store on their iPhone, while also sharing details with friends. Creating playlists and getting mixes from featured artists are exclusive app features too.
iPhone
Geodog Mobile Pro
£86 to GPS-track where your dog goes? The Android Geodog apps are targeting a specific audience, it's fair to say. This is less about home-dwelling pooches and more about rescue or hunting dogs, who are more likely to be out in the wild for long periods at a time. We'd like to see something like this done for cats, mind.
Android
Condé Nast Traveler Magazine
Condé Nast Traveler now has an official iPad app for its magazine, having launched a few spin-off apps in the last year. The app is free to existing print subscribers in the US and Canada, but is available in the UK too, with issues sold via in-app payments.
iPad
Scribd Reader
Online documents firm Scribd has launched its Scribd Reader app, which it's describing as a "social reading app". That means pulling in articles from newspaper, magazine and blog sites, as well as documents stored on Scribd's own service.
iPhone
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Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/appsblog/2011/aug/02/apps-rush-phantom-rcrd-lbl-pias
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