A round up of new apps for iPhones and iPads. apps this week
Write for Dropbox
Already out for iPhone, the excellent Write is now available on iPad too. It’s a marvellously-minimalist word processor / note-taker which synchronises all your documents using Dropbox, and has some clever features to work with the iPhone version such as remote typing and a remote clipboard.iPad
Alas: Scheduling Re-Invented for Mobile
Another productivity app in a year that’s seeing lots of innovation around email, calendars and meetings. The latter are the focus here, promising to make “1-1 scheduling and group scheduling easy and elegant”. It helps you schedule meetings from your calendar rather than from your inbox, with dial-in numbers for conference calls close to hand, and the ability to sync with Google Calendar, iCal, Yahoo or Outlook.iPhone
Snoop Dogg’s Snoopify Sticker Camera!
Snoop Dogg’s new release is a photo-sharing app called Snoopify. It’s about taking photos, customising them with Snoop-themed virtual stickers, and sharing on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Some stickers are free, but others are bought in packs via in-app purchase.iPhone / iPad
The Doors
This tablet app sits somewhere between a box-set and coffee-table book in its efforts to put The Doors’ career in perspective, with articles, photos, videos and a wealth of material on Jim Morrison and his bandmates including a graphic novel to tell the infamous Miami Incident story. For more background to the app, read this interview with Elektra Records founder Jac Holzman, who put the project together.iPad
Running With Friends
Zynga’s latest social “With Friends” game is more action-oriented than its predecessors: a Temple Run-style endless runner game with Pamplona-esque bull-running, and head-to-head score-battles against your Facebook friends (or, if you prefer, against strangers and/or people whose usernames you know). The link above is for iPhone, but here’s the separate iPad version.iPhone / iPad
FourFourTwo Magazine
Still the best monthly read for football fans, magazine FourFourTwo is making the leap to the iOS Newsstand with this iPad app. It offers a redesigned version of the print edition with video interviews and screen-filling photos, with individual issues costing 2.99 and subscriptions available too.iPad
The Terrifying Building in Eyeville
To many parents and children, this will just be a good story about a town named Eyeville disrupted by a villain named Kanser, whose “dreadful building” spreads throughout the town. But to others, it will be much more important and valuable: an allegorical tale that aims to help adults explain cancer to children whether the kids have it themselves, or know a friend or family member that does.iPhone / iPad
The Loop Magazine
Keen Apple-watchers know all about Jim Dalrymple’s The Loop website, which has forged a strong reputation for its lack of me-too coverage of Apple not to mention other tech, design and gaming topics. Now it’s got a Newsstand magazine app, with Dalrymple and guests writing in fortnightly issues for a 1.49 monthly subscription.iPhone / iPad
Hipstamatic Oggl
Photo-sharing app Hipstamatic never became as popular as Instagram, but the people who loved it really loved it. Now the company is trying something new: still photo-sharing with the lenses (filters) from its original app, but with a user interface that may have wider appeal. The app shares to its own community as well as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Foursquare, Tumblr and Flickr, and will charge by subscription.iPhone
Fraggle Friends Forever
Fraggle Rock is back, Back, BACK! Courtesy of Cupcake Digital and The Jim Henson Company, this app marks the Fraggles’ debut on iOS with a story about Boober coming “face to face with a very big, very hungry, very ticklish Slurp” (kids, ask your parents. In fact, young parents, ask YOUR parents...) Interactive activities include mini-games and colouring.iPhone / iPad
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