When 360 Panorama hit the iPhone last year, we liked being able to spin in a circle and have the phone create a panorama in real-time. Now Android users can do the same, thanks to some impressive trickery.
Oh dear God, here comes Christmas. Get your iPad ready for culinary survival, finally check your Gmail with a "native" app, and you know what, let's check out Japan. If you're thinking about spending the holidays in Asia, Japan's pretty sweet.
Photoshop Touch: Photoshop Touch brings a feature packed version of Photoshop to tablets. Costing under a ten bucks, Photoshop Touch introduces full support for layered images to mobile, along with the usual selection tools, filters, effects and more. Pretty flippin' sweet on a tablet.
Apps make the iPhone shine. And you want your new (or even old) iPhone to shine, right? Here are the best iPhone apps this week! It's a bigger than usual list.
We first reported on the official mobile version of Minecraft way back in September, when it was an Android exclusive. This week the block-building phenomenon finally made the leap to iPad and iPhone, and potentially to the single largest audience the game has ever had. So what on earth are we/they/you going to make of it? Put down that lump of granite for a minute, and let's find out.
The Brian Blessed iOS alarm app features "over 30" newly recorded clips of the big man himself, promising to aggressively shout you out of bed earlier and more alert than ever before.
You probably shouldn't use it as a full-time replacement, but in-between regular checkups with your doctor you can use Philips' new Vital Signs Camera App with an iPad 2 to easily monitor your heart and breathing rates.
Do you remember going on school trips when you were little? Someone always got busted trying to smuggle a ninja star home in their luggage. The teachers didn't object to pornographic playing cards, or firecrackers, but the death-dealing shurikens really seemed to provoke their ire. If you were one of those kids, Ninja Throw is the game for you.
Sky's popular mobile Sky+ apps are about to get a serious technical refresh, with the TV company set to add full Series Link remote recording support to the iPhone and Android tools.
The amazingly hit-and-miss crafts site Etsy has made its own iOS app, which lets fans of things made out of sticks and leaves and saliva browse and buy stuff through their mobiles.
Three months after being booted from the App Store for employing, "iPhone volume buttons in a non-standard way," the popular Camera+ app is once again for sale—volume button functionality and all.
Two weeks after the horrendous launch of Gmail for iOS where everyone ignored the four long years they waited for a Gmail iPhone app and immediately started blasting the terribleness of it (I never felt so together with you guys!), Gmail is back in the App Store (rolling out country by country). And it's not half bad. But it's still half an app.
One thing that the Japanese have over us? Sushi. Oh, and ramen. Oh and Japanese curry. Oh and their entire cuisine. And their style. Damn, Japan is a pretty awesome country. Fotopedia Japan takes you on a photography tour of the super tasteful country.
Foursquare's undergone something of a Renaissance over the last few weeks—packing on new features like Radar and unlockable badge levels. Now, the social-mobile site is shifting its focus away from check-ins and towards exploration while optimising the site for tablets.
Some apps look and play like the 8-Bit classics from the golden age of gaming. Others take a modern approach, employing sleek graphics to show their cutting-edge credentials. And Amazing Breaker? It looks like the kind of game that a Las Vegas magician would have made. We're thinking David Copperfield, or perhaps Siegfried & Roy.
If you really don't have anything better to do on November 25th, Kent Council is holding a "Developing Solutions Camp" where local IT boffins can submit ideas, work up prototypes, have a free buffet lunch and maybe win some cash.
