This week ’s roundup of iOS apps will help you read a little better , play a picayune hard , and look to the skies .
StarWalk has been overhauled with unexampled nontextual matter . See below .
Already this week , we brought you roundup of the best spy games and political convention converage apps , and we also have you know about the comer of apps fromAudiobooks.com .
StarWalk has been overhauled with new graphics. See below.
Here are other new and updated apps that caught our eye this week :
Activision Anthology : Most weeks , we cease up telling you about retro - style games that did n’t exist in the 1980s , but were establish to appear like they were . No fake - outs here : The free Activision Anthology game for iPhone and iPad reproduces game from the company ’s Reagan - era golden geezerhood . It comes with the classic Kaboom ! game for free — after that , you’re able to bear $ 7 for admission to all 45 title in this app ’s game collection , or $ 3 for your pick of 11 games . Over time , that ’ll still be flash than the quarter - per - secret plan you ’d pay at the arcade .
AliveECG Vet show that iOS is even translate the veterinarian ’s practice .
AliveECG Vet shows that iOS is even transforming the veterinarian’s practice.
AliveECG Vet : Some app developers have it ruff . Yes , the iOS chopine can do a great deal of things , but we still would ’ve say there ’s meow way you ’d expend your iPhone or iPad to ascertain a pet ’s heartbeat . But that ’s exactly what the AliveECG Vet app does . This may not be the kind of app you ’d apply at abode — it appears designed for veterinarians , and requires the purchase of a$200 heart monitorto relay aesculapian information to the MD ’s sound or tablet . The secure news ? The admonisher is unnoticeable enough to require no shaving “ in a legal age of vitrine . ” Fido will howl with delight .
Buzz Contacts makes it gentle to pass along with group from your iPhone .
Buzz Contacts : We gave this $ 1 iPhone app a four - mouse review originally this year , praising it for taking basic headphone functions — mail and texting , in special — and doing them better . Now the app has been completely overhauled , with new themes that let drug user customize its feeling . Moreover , it offer users more ways to organise their touch lean , with new “ frequent ” and “ outgoing ” folders ; the app also boast improved gesture controls , allow for the substance abuser to swipe aside from a touch name directly to the phone telephone dial . The app pass water it easy to send bulk emails and text edition — and not just to individuals — directly from your iPhone .
Buzz Contacts makes it easier to communicate with groups from your iPhone.
Kindle : The changes to this free einsteinium - Holy Writ say app from Amazon have a distinct back - to - school puff . Yes , the app now allows readers to more well adjust the margins of their digital tomes , but the biggest difference is in how the app address “ print replica ” schoolbook — letting user highlight exposure , illustration , and chart , and including a notebook that lets you tag and filter your annotation within the texbook . ( schoolbook also now have Thomas Nelson Page thumbnail navigation to permit user stand out back and onward with easiness . ) The highlighting map is also quicker and easier to use , and users also have better command of the silver screen ’s smartness . Maybe that , in turn , will help your bookman check their own brightness .
SkyView also received an update .
Star Walk / SkyView : With all the recent care pay to the Mars Curiosity lander and the end of Neil Armstrong , interest in the skies seems to have strike off of late . Two darling apps have get timely update to take vantage of that involvement . The $ 3 Star Walk app for iPhone , which give users a point - and - look augmented - reality tour of duty of the heavens has been revamped with new optical effects and young share-out functions . The $ 2 SkyView app is newly universal , running on both iPhone and iPad for the first time ; it has lend thousands of new star and other space target to its library , giving user a deep and wider base of cognition to explore .
SkyView also received an update.
WeatherCaster : The recent trend in conditions apps — and there are lots of weather apps — has been toward minimization : Monochromatic displays with just a few pieces of selective information to help you decide whether to tote that umbrella to act . The gratis WeatherCaster app for iPad goes in the opposite direction , raining down information on amateur atmospheric condition - watchers . It offers hourly weather condition , seven - day forecast , video updates from local forecaster , air quality reports , and even an almanac of historical highs and first gear for the day . It will blow you away !
Well : These days , even your to - do leaning is socially networked . Well , a free iPhone app , is n’t exactly a get - things - done offering — alternatively , it ’s more like a want list of things you ’d like to do , with contributions from your champion , moderately likeGoogle Schemer . The app let you produce listing of matter you ’d like to do — whether it ’s movies you ’d like to see and road trip you ’d wish to make — and lets your friends on Twitter or Facebook weigh in with suggestions . It ’s a mode to crowdsource your goal , only by bring your own crowd .
Other apps of note of hand : CNN for iPad has been updated with new navigation and election - relate subject matter … ESPN ’s ScoreCenter andCollege Footballapps have both been tittivate up … and Dolphin browser app has been vamp with improved tabloid management .
