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By Rob LeFebvre on December 29th, 2011 As 2011 winds on down, we take a look back at some of the finest apps released this past year. Pocket Informant – While iCal is nice, sometimes we need a more robust solution – hopefully one that works seamlessly with Google calendar. This is that app. While there’s no universal app yet, we find this one to be compelling enough on either device type. $7.99 $12.99 Released: 2009-03-27 :: Category: Productivity $9.99 $14.99 Released: 2010-07-22 :: Category: Productivity American Presidents for iPad – With over 300 gorgeous vintage images and photographs, this is an educational app for everyone. There are biographies of every US president, a historical timeline, and detailed quizzes on the text itself. Presidential history never looked so good. $4.99 iPad Only App - Designed for the iPad Released: 2011-08-04 :: Category: Education Camera+ – This one gets a lot of play on our personal iPhones, bringing a ton of extra funtionality we really wish the native Camera app had, including multi touch exposure adjustment, grid line compotition help, and loads of effects and post-processing abilities. Also, it’s super easy to share to a ton of different services, not just the default Apple ones. $0.99 Released: 2010-06-07 :: Category: Photography 1Password – Seriously, we have a ton of passwords out there. Some we use a lot, and remember, while others, well, not so much. We’re guessing you do, too. Enter 1Password, the super vault of all those pesky passwords that we can’t seem to keep track of any more. There’s a version for iPhone only, iPad only, and a universal version. $5.99 $9.99 Released: 2008-07-29 :: Category: Productivity $5.99 $9.99 iPad Only App - Designed for the iPad Released: 2010-04-01 :: Category: Productivity $8.99 $14.99 Released: 2009-06-17 :: Category: Utilities Sketchbook Mobile – Feeling creative? Artsy, even? Want to doodle a little while you wait for your constantly late friend to show up to the cafe? Pull out that iPhone and sketch a little, why don’t you? The smaller version of this app (there’s also a pro version available for iPads) packs quite a punch in a tiny little package, including multitouch navigation, up to 6 layers per image file, and 10 levels of undo and redo. $1.99 iPhone App - Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad Released: 2009-09-17 :: Category: Entertainment $4.99 Released: 2010-04-01 :: Category: Entertainment Band Read More

iPen es un nuevo proyecto en Kickstarter: un stylus activo. ¿Y que significa esto de activo? Pues que al contrario que los stylus normales, este nos permitirá tener precisión a la hora de escribir y dibujar en nuestro iPad. Claro que, esto tiene sus pros y sus contras, tal como podemos ver en el vídeo explicativo. Los pros están muy claro, y es que por ejemplo, no solo ganaremos precisión por el lápiz en si, sino que ahora no tendremos que preocuparnos por tocar la pantalla con la palma de la mano mientras dibujamos o escribimos. El principal “inconveniente” es que no será compatible con todas las aplicaciones, así que al igual que pasa con el iCade, por ejemplo, será cada uno de los desarrolladores los que tengan que adaptar su desarrollo. De inicio, ya se anuncia que funcionará con unas cuantas, así que si sois usuarios de alguna de ellas, estáis de suerte: Ghostwriter Notes, My Notebook!, ArtRage y SketchBook Pro. Otro inconveniente, que tampoco lo es tanto, es que para poder usarlo será necesario enchufar un sensor en el iPad, que hará de receptor. Por ahora se puede financiar a partir de $1 de apoyo. El precio final será de $89, pero los primeros 250 lo podrán tener por $50. Read More

Posted by Comments . Autodesk SketchBook Express for Android is a fun and intuitive drawing application, optimized for use on Honeycomb tablet devices. Get a taste of the professional-grade paint and drawing tools available in the award winning SketchBook Pro. Price: Free, $1.99 Pro Mobile Version, $4.99 Pro Tablet Version Content Rating: Everyone Pros Cons My husband is an artist, so as part of the review process for this app, I let him give it a try. And I couldn’t get my tablet back for a while. This app has a wide range of brush types and effects for sketching and drawing on the tablet. As with the Express version, it’s designed to give users a good sample of the tools and power it can bring to the table, with the Pro version available for hard core artists who want to have a wider range of tools. One thing I really found impressive was the pop-up menu of brush options you can pull up right in the work space. It’s a rotating wheel, so it’s very easy to quickly switch between different brush types to very easily get different looks and feels as you work. The color palette tool is also very intuitive, and lets you really fine-tune the exact color you’re looking for, as well as letting you choose brush types in that screen as well, along with a preview of exactly what it will look like. The video below is of the full, Pro version of the app, but while the options in Express are a bit more limited, the app works the same way, so you can get a good feel for it: For anyone who loves to sketch or draw, and has an Android tablet (though there is a version for phones too), this is an incredibly useful app. It replaces a bag of paper, pencils, erasers and other artist tools, and puts them all in a device you’re already carrying anyway. Both my artist tester and I found this app very intuitive and easy to use. Everything is where you’d expect it, and the tools faded into the background, allowing you to just focus on the art. This is the app you’ll use every time you go to draw. As I mentioned above, everything is very intuitive, and just works, which allows you to really focus on the reason for the app – the art. (4.2 Read More

Oft nachgefragt: ein Beitrags-Update über meine ‘Homescreens‘. Seit März 2011, als die letzte Aktualisierung dieser Artikel-Serie erfolgte, hat sich die eine oder andere App verschoben, geändert und aussortiert. Der derzeit aktuellen Stand ist an dieser Stelle festgehalten. Vielleicht finden an diesem Montag ja speziell frische 4S-Käufer, die einen ersten Grundbedarf an Software benötigen, die eine oder andere Anregung. Ich persönlich ziehe jede individuelle Empfehlungen allen generischen ‘Hitlisten’ vor. Genau deshalb soll mein privater Einblick auch nicht alleine bleiben: Wer Screenshots oder Tipps von seinen verwendeten Apps in den Kommentaren kundtun möchte, ist dazu herzlich eingeladen. Zwei Anmerkungen noch: Die zwei benutzten Hintergrundbilder gibt es hier und hier. Auf meinem Standby-Screen befinden sich dieses und dieses Bild. Außerdem führe ich zwei Ordner mit ‘Review’-Software, die ich mir für dieses Blog noch genauer anschauen möchte. Da diese Programme (noch) keine Empfehlungen sind, verbleiben sie für diesen Artikel ohne Erwähnung. Außerdem verstecken sich in den iPhone-Ordnern: Delivery Status touch (3.99 €); Dropbox (kostenlos); eBay (kostenlos); iCab Mobile (1.59 €); Skype (kostenlos); WeatherPro (2.99 €); Tumblr (kostenlos); Verbs (0.79 €); WhatsApp (kostenlos); PayPal (kostenlos); Analytics Pro (4.99 €); Boxcar (kostenlos); Articles (2.39 €); Instapaper (3.99 €); Facebook (kostenlos); Kicktipp (kostenlos); Flickit Pro (3.99 €); 360 Panorama (0.79 €); Lab (0.79 €); Halftone (0.79 €); Instagram (kostenlos); Finnish English (2.39 €); Evernote (kostenlos); Reeder (2.39 €); CrashPlan (kostenlos); Meine Freunde suchen (kostenlos); Shazam (kostenlos); Synonymwörterbuch (19.99 €); iSSH (7.99 €); Handoff (1.59 €); Screens (15.99 €); Google+ (kostenlos) und AirPort Dienstprogramm (kostenlos). Außerdem verstecken sich in den Ordnern: Evernote (kostenlos); iOutBank (9.99 €); Pages (7.99 €); iSSH (7.99 €); Dropbox (kostenlos); iMovie (3.99 €); Skype (kostenlos); Numbers (7.99 €); Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery (3.99 €); Bumpy Road (2.39 €); Cut the Rope (1.59 €); Emberwind HD (1.59 €); Groove Coaster (2.39 €); The Last Rocket (2.39 €); Contre Jour HD (2.39 €); ShadowGun (3.99 €); Comic Zeal (5.99 €); Flipboard (kostenlos); Kindle (kostenlos); Tagesschau (kostenlos); Wired (2.99 €); Zeit Online (kostenlos); Big Picture (2.39 €); Color Splash (1.59 €); Instagallery (1.59 €); Instamap (1.59 €); PhotoSync (1.59 €); Remote (kostenlos); Boxee (kostenlos); iCab Mobile (1.59 €); Simplenote (kostenlos); Air Display (7.99 €) und PDF Expert (7.99 €). * Alle Affiliate-Links (Danke!) führen direkt in den App Store. Read More

123D Sculpt is a virtual sculpture program designed by Autodesk, a software company known for its 3D business software like AutoCAD. Though Autodesk has a rich history of creating professional applications, 123D Sculpt is designed to the artist inside all of us. The iPad application lets you sculpt a 3D model out of a lump of virtual clay. It supports multi-touch so you can use all your fingers to mold thel clay into any shape you like. For the beginning artist, 123D Sculpt includes several pre-defined shapes that include animals, objects like cars and shapes like a cube. Once you decide on a shape, you can use a suite of tools to manipulate the clay by pulling, smoothing, pushing, pinching, flattening it and more. You can even apply textures and add color to each creation. And if you want a personal touch, you can import a photo from your camera or photo library and use it a custom texture. When you 're done with your sculpture, you can export it to a transparent PNG. It's unfortunate the app does not let you export the creation to a 3D file format. Though I am not an artist, I found 123D Sculpt to be very easy to use and enjoyable. The interface is intuitive and the app has a nice help section to explain what each tool and menu bar contains. A multiple undo feature lets you backtrack when you realize you've made some design mistakes. If you are a budding Michelangelo, then you should check out 123D Sculpt. It' s available for free from the App Store and ships with 15-20 clay models. Additional models are available as an in-app purchase. Read More

+ Universal App FREE! Our Review By Jennifer Allen on August 23rd, 2011 Rating: :: PLENTY TO DO Pixlr-o-matic offers plenty of different ways to add effects to photos but not quite as many ways to share them. Developer: Price: Free Version Reviewed: 1.1 Device Reviewed On: iPhone 4 iPhone Integration Rating: User Interface Rating: Re-use Value Rating: Overall Rating: Pixlr-o-matic promises to offer over 25,000 different finishes for any one image. An impressive promise to make for a photo filtering app that costs precisely nothing. It’s certainly worth taking the time to download too as while it might be a little simplistic, it’s entertaining to browse through. The pedigree of originally being a website feature clearly shows here in terms of ease of use. The app offers an experience akin to a dark room so turning up the brightness for it might be wise. Various color filters can be added, each with their own memorable name to consult again at a later date. Some offer black and white or sepia effects while others brighten the image more so truly transforming the photo’s appearance. Lighting effects can be added then adding anything from rainbow style effects to strobe lighting or my favorite, a rain style effect. Finally, to round things off a border or frame can be added to images before completion. With over 25 color filters and over 30 lighting effects and borders, there’s a lot of different options to try out. It makes for a fun way of adjusting images in a funky but entertaining style. Unfortunately the sharing options available aren’t quite as impressive with only the likes of saving to the photo album, sending to Facebook or image sharing service Imm.io available. It’s not a huge problem, certainly not for a free app, but it is disappointing that there’s no Twitter support at least. Minor gripe aside, Pixlr-o-matic is a fun filtering app made all the better by the fact it doesn’t cost a penny to acquire. An Universal app, iPad 1 owners will be pleasantly surprised to see that they’re supported with no need to take a photo directly within the app to use it. Review disclosure: note that the product reviewed on this page may have been provided to us by the developer for the purposes of this review. Note that if the developer provides the product or not, this does not impact the review Read More

By Lisa Caplan on August 14th, 2011 We look at some of the most interesting apps, both paid and free, from the past week - this time it's all about iPad. As always a flood of apps were launched in the past week, including the usual hot games. Summer must be drawing to a close because we are also seeing a lot of productivity and content consumption apps, too. This week some of the most interesting apps are iPad only. If we missed your favorite please let us know. Perfect RSS Reader There is a new sleek Google Reader for the iPad that may give perennial favorite  a run for it’s money. Perfect RSS Reader mixes a wide variety of features and several different viewing modes, has lots of sharing and support for multiple accounts, as one would expect. Perfect RSS Reader also has graphic interface so users can sort through their feeds in a number of intuitive familiar ways, including a sort of magazine format. It’s fast and looks fantastic. $1.99 $4.99 Released: 2011-08-11 :: Category: News Boxee for iPad Create video and share it everywhere with your friends on Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr, and see theirs too with this one simple app. Boxee for iPad makes sure to catch all uploads from friends on those networks. The app allows for playlist creation from almost any video streaming site from YouTube to TED talks – and upload to Boxee’s web site to watch any video on a real TV. FREE! iPad Only App - Designed for the iPad Released: 2011-08-09 :: Category: Entertainment 123D Sculpt Were this clay modelling app offered by someone other than Autodesk we’d be dubious. But since the developer is one of the top names in professional design apps, we are excited to give it a try. Users mold basic shapes like clay to give them a unique 3d look. Users just pinch, pull and then paint their creations and to be shared on Flickr, Facebook, Dropbox or YouTube.The app has Air Print, saves images as transparent PNGs for editing further with or any other painting app or desktop program. HD QuickTime renderings can be imported into iMovie as well. FREE! iPad Only App - Designed for the iPad Released: 2011-08-09 :: Category: Entertainment Macworld Express This free Apple news aggregator looks slick. It seems serving content up magazine-style is becoming a trend. Macworld Express is definitively Read More

Autodesk hievt seine iPad-Zeichen-App ‘SketchBook Pro‘ (3.99 €; App Store-Link) auf Version 2.0. Mit mehr Fingergesten, neuen Pinsel-Sets und Dropbox-Export wirft diese Aktualisierung einmal mehr die Frage auf, ob, wann und in welcher Form Apple sich dem Thema ‘bezahlte Updates’ annimmt. Ich habe für diese hochkomplexe ‘Malanwendung’ (siehe PDF-Handbuch) im vergangenen November 79 Cent auf den App-Store-Tresen gelegt. Und obwohl ich in den vergangenen sechs Monaten noch kein einziges Kunstwerk (und auch keine Schmiererei) damit auf die Beine gestellt habe, fühlt sich der Kauf immer noch nach einem grandiosen Deal an. Damals wagte obendrein noch niemand zu glauben, dass eine nächste iPad-Generation seinen Bildschirm an einen externen Monitor ausgibt, was nun (natürlich) auch SketchBook unterstützt. Obwohl sich Autodesk diese Neuerung nicht selbst auf die Fahnen schreiben darf, gehört es (für den Nutzer) schlussendlich dann doch irgendwie dazu. Für (Profi-)Grafiker hilft im Zusammenhang dieser Meldung vielleicht noch der kurze Hinweis, dass sich Macworld.com kürzlich der Begutachtung von 12 Touchscreen-Stiften für die präzise Eingabe annahm. Read More

By – Be first to play them! Position your Heroes – Aragorn, Gandalf, Legolas and more – and deploy ally units such as Elven Archers or Hobbits to defend strongholds from relentless waves of attacking enemy forces. Upgrade your Heroes to specialize them in one of four categories: speed, attack, range and skill. The battle for Middle-earth has begun — stand and defend against the evil of the Dark Lord Sauron. In Episode 1, Marty McFly is just getting re-acquainted with the 1980s when the DeLorean Time Machine he saw destroyed by a speeding train materializes before him. He finds out that Doc Brown is trapped somewhere in the past and that he must travel back in time to save the Doc‚Äôs future! The ultimate drift racer: fast, smooth, and with hairpin bends that you can take at 200 km/h! TinkerBox is a fun, free-to-play physics puzzle game. While it is full of interesting science facts and teaches basic engineering concepts, TinkerBox is more than just educational! Join Marcus as he travels to Rome in search of adventure of his life! Romance of Rome opens with the emperor announcing that thieves have stolen valuable imperial relics. The monarch promises his beautiful daughter’s hand in marriage to the one who brings them back. Help Marcus find the stolen relics and win the heart of the Emperor‚Äôs daughter. Explore the gigantic Coliseum, the fabulous Forum and other wonderful places for the whereabouts of the priceless pieces. Talk and help other citizens who will return your generosity. Related Posts Read More

Browsing the App Store this weekend?  If so, here are fourteen applications released recently.  Enjoy! An iPhone version of the Hasbro handheld game, with both single and multiplayer modes.  $0.99/£0.59. Use this note-taking app for free, or pay to remove the ads or upgrade to the premium version.  Now with the ability to lock the app with a passcode.  Free. A web browser for the iPad where you can take screenshots, annotate them and send them to friends, or simply store them up for later reading.  $2.99/£1.79. Find and compare prices of millions of products with Google’s Shopper app.  Free. A dual-stick shooter for the iPad, with exciting gameplay, bright graphics and several different game modes.  $1.99/£1.19. A multi-player version of Pac-Man for the iPad.  Free, US-Only. Learn basic engineering concepts with this physics-based game from AutoDesk.  Free. An educational app for the iPad, based on learning about vitamins through six interactive stories.  Free. A social app for TV fans, which is able to identify shows just by listening to them!  Connect with friends and get notifications when they’re are watching the same thing as you.  Free. An innovative web browser for the iPhone which can be used one-handed and expanded to fill the screen.  Also supports AirPrint.  $1.99/£1.19. A brilliant looking app for storing all the details about your travel adventures.  It uses GPS to note your location on a map, plus you can add text, video, photo and audio notes.  $0.99/£0.59. A steampunk-style game which uses up to eight of your fingers to control!  It has one hundred levels and two game modes.  $1.99/£1.19. Share the things you’ve never done, but probably intend to do some time, with your friends.  Free. Shop ethically by checking out 700 brands’ approach to the environment, human rights and animal welfare.  Based on the book of the same name.  $4.99/£2.99. Read More