This week ’s roundup of fresh and updated apps has a lilliputian something for everyone . Like music ? Games ? Photography ? Read on .
We ’ve already told you about upgrade to the Google+ app — it now comes with instant photo uploads , a feature that was previously available only to Android user . ( Boo ! ) AndMacworld’sDan Moren give us a hitch of Clear , a newfangled ( and round-eyed ) to - do app for the iPhone . Other app developments this week :
Bump : Most developer brag their app ’s new features when they launch an upgrade . Bump ’s developer are doing something unlike — tell the world about the stuff they ’ve taken out . interlingual rendition 3.0 of this app no longer gives drug user the power to share calendar , music , or app information by “ bumping ” telephone with another Bump user . Those options have been stripped out in an effort to make the app “ simple , faster , and more utilitarian . ” So what ’s Modern ? Well , users can now disclose common Bump - using Quaker when they get in touch their iPhones to exchange contact information , a characteristic developers say was bury in previous interpretation of the app . Bump also contains a newfangled swipable substance abuser interface , letting users toggle between features instead of being inundated with a exclusive page full of pick .
Sierra is Instagram’s latest filter offering.
Color Conquest : This $ 1 offer from Germany’sUnited Soft Mediais a bit of a wit - broncobuster . fundamentally , you ’re challenged to create the largest - potential contiguous color grids on a quadrangle using 16 foursquare and 16 multicolored tile — if you ’ve created a power grid that feature five connected blue tiles , for representative , you may increase your score by set up together six link unripe tile on the next go - round . ( Thanks to Apple ’s Game Center , you ’re not just competing against yourself , but player around the earth . ) The whoremonger ? The game only lets you see the next tile to be played , meaning you swear on a compounding of scheme and luck . The sexual union is elusive but addicting .
Sierra is Instagram ’s latest filter offering .
Instagram : We probably do n’t want to introduce you to Instagram — it ’s one of the most popular iPhone picture taking apps around . The good news is that the developer at Burbn Inc. are n’t resting on their laurels : adaptation 2.1 has launched withseveral unexampled betterment . Among them : A young peter , Lux , that automatically correct the light exposure on photos to bring out details in the guesswork , as well as a new filter named Sierra . The app also comes with changes to the user interface and upgraded integration with the iOS Notification Center — tap on the Instagram notification and you ’ll be taken directly to the relevant photo within the app .
NPR Music : NPR Music has long provided its assembling of content — hot concerts , “ first listen ” of new albums , podcasts , and medicine article — in an iPhone app . Now that app has been upgraded to a universal offering , optimized for both the iPhone and the iPad . That ’s great for medicine - eff tab user , but the app also offers some cool fresh features — most prominently , the ability to make a play list for offline hearing , so you do n’t always have to be in cooking stove of 3 G or Wi - Fi in ordering to get the music . The free oblation is also AirPlay - enabled , letting user wirelessly tap into their home stereoscopic photograph systems and wager the music directly from iOS .
Oyster.com : “ Crowdsourcing ” is hypothesize to be the name of the game when it comes to reviews these sidereal day — there are plenty of internet site that draw on the wisdom of the masses when it comes to military rank restaurants , cafés , hotel , and other businesses . Oyster.com‘s big stakes is that there ’s still an audience for expert persuasion , even when it come to hotel . And the caller ’s free new iPad app render that expert opinion in spades , offering reviews of more than 2500 hotels in 100 cities , listing the pros and hustle of each adeptness , and expose 650,000 photo of the various premise so that you may make your qualification with few surprise . The app also includes function and a travel guide to help you plan your agenda without getting lost .
Reward military volunteer : The mind of combining selfless interest and gamification might seem paradoxical , but that has n’t stopped developers from produce a free iPhone app that does just that . Reward Volunteers utilizes Facebook Connect to help voluntary at non - profit system lumber and share their natural process ; they can post them to their Facebook paries and track the fourth dimension they expend figure out for charity , accruing that time as in - app points towards prizes ranging from cheese handbasket all the way up to an Alaskan sail ( and , of course , including the ever pop option of John Cash ) . The developer , Chalo Inc. , say the app help make volunteer activity “ mensurable , fun , and societal . ”
Sierra is Instagram’s latest filter offering.
