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Already this week , we ’ve brought you news of howStarbucks now allows iPhone usersto fund natural endowment posting in their Passbook ; we ’ve told you how Google Maps Street Viewis now available in iOS Safari web web browser ; we ’ve shown you Camera Awesome ’s , well , awing , newfangled iPad interface ; and we ’ve brought you roundup of the bestApp.net clientsand “ second - screen ” apps .
Here are other new and update apps that caught our eye this hebdomad :
Boomtown Baseball / MLB.com : It ’s time for the baseball game playoffs ! If you ’re the variety of mortal who loves nothing sound than to watch or take heed to millionaires drop several 60 minutes playing a child ’s plot , then you plausibly already have the $ 4MLB.com At Bat appfor iPhone and iPad ; but if you ’re a casual fan who is just now pay attention , you ’ll be happy to screw the app has been update with all sorts of news , stats , and video features focused on the postseason . If , you ’re a lifelong Kansas City Royals fan , perhaps you’re able to content yourself with the freeBoomtime Baseballgame for iPhone and iPad , in which you’re able to act as a barnstorm 1920s histrion named “ Herman George . ” It may be the closest you ever come to playing baseball game in October .
Blue Note by Groovebug : If you ’re a jazz - bed iPad owner , theBlue Note by Groovebugapp might be all important . For a $ 2 - a - month subscription fee , you have access to more than 1,000 vocal from the legendary wind label ’s catalogue — including some entire albums from great musician like Wayne Shorter , as well as toppingly crafted play list create by Blue Note afficionados . Even if you do n’t want to blast out the subscription dough , there ’s still a depository library of slap-up textile for nothingness sports fan here , include musician bios , liner notes , photo galleries , historical newspaper articles , and more . We wo n’t lie : This app has us lie with .
Disney American president : So far in the roundup , we ’ve had an old - school baseball game and an app have old - school instrumentalist . Now for the old - schooltime politicians : The $ 4Disney American Presidentsapp for iPad was developed in conjunction with a former producer forThe Daily Show , and conduct the same sensibility of being both informatory and entertaining . Each chairperson is profiled , with interactive timelines that feature central events during their governing . The app offers two hour of video history , featuring presidential advisors and nemeses like Sam Donaldson , Paul Begala , and more . The app is AirPlay enable , and while it features its cockamamy moments — what ’s that video of George W. Bush and George Washington in a bathtub together about , anyway?—Disney appears to hope teachers will put it to use in the classroom .
Givit : Recording TV on your iPhone is somewhat well-fixed ; effectively editing that video , less so . The freeGivitapp allow you do both , and offers a few smashing features along the way : While you ’re recording a live result , you tap the screen to highlight critical here and now , making it easier to happen important footage when you ’re editing subsequently . you’re able to then splice clip together , add changeover and effects , layer in medicine , and either share the final product to YouTube or Facebook , or save it to Givit ’s swarm . Now everybody can be a movie managing director , armed with no more equipment than what fit out in your scoop .
Office Drop : Last we checked , there were exactly eleventy kajillion cloud - based storage service out there . It ’s arduous for any one of them to stand out from the remainder . ButOffice Dropis doing its darndest with the later update to its free app for iPhone and iPad : Users can now do a voice search for document containing keywords and phrase — just speak it into the microphone , and the app will turn up the files containing those words . Other improvement to the app admit the power to divvy up documents on societal networks like Facebook , Twitter , and LinkedIn . And Office Drop promises that integration with the new Passbook app in iOS is coming soon .
Tongr / Flashcard Elite : Learning new oral communication is , for most of us , very difficult . Two new apps assure to make it easier — one by connecting you to language speakers , the other via memory exercises . Tongris a free iPhone app that do as a sort of combination Facebook and Craigslist , letting users connect with other nearby foreign - lyric speaker to practise and mind ; a $ 1 “ premium account ” offers users live - chatting capability , as well as options to block other drug user who do n’t always act in the spirit of education . TheFlashcard Eliteapp for iPhone and iPad let substance abuser download flashcards fromQuizlet.com — including spoken language - learn exercise — to encourage memorize through brute - force memorization . Yes , your iPhone is make you smarter .
Other apps of note : YouMailhas been update with new audio features , admit one that lets user record notes for themselves … Netflix’siOS app now has a “ Just For tike ” section … theNew York Timesis now usable as aniPad - only HTML5 app ; it ’s still subscription - only .
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