In this week’s app roundup: leafs, identified; music, voice recognized; Jackass, documented; keyboards, personalized; BBC News, Androidified; Amazon free apps, notified; food, stylized; and much, much more. More »
Hound is an app that’s like a reverse Shazam. Made by SoundHound (a Shazam-like app), it’s a voice recognition app where you say a song title or artist and Hound will gather all the relevant details in one tidy page. More »
Aelios for iPad re-imagines how you search for weather. It uses a clever ring dial that smartly pinpoints cities on a map and gives you the necessary data. I haven’t had this much fun cruising around a map since I discovered Google Maps. More »
Instapaper is indispensable on my iPad. Articles I don’t have time to read, magically appear when I want to read. Watchlaterapp is just like that, but specficially made for videos. So instead of missing out on videos, it’s all right in the app. More »
Valve’s Portal 2, the much anticipated and loved video game, obviously took a huge undertaking to create. In the Final Hours of Portal 2, journalist Geoff Keighley observed Valve for three years to tell you how it all happened. It may be an app, but it’s long form journalism brilliantly told on the iPad More »
Have you ever looked at Twitter trending topics or Google Trends and wondered who the heck is that or what in the world are these people talking about? I do that every single day! HitPad explains those trending topics by giving you the relevant news, tweets, videos, pictures and web links about them. Don’t ever feel left out again. More »
Woodstock is perhaps the single most mythologized pop culture event of the ’60s, perhaps the most mythologized decade in pop culture history. And because your hippie aunt’s account of the historic concert can’t really be trusted (if she did it right), the interactive On the Way to Woodstock app is an invaluable resource for the tablet generation. More »
iPhones. iPads. Android. And Windows Phone 7! We’ve updated all of our essential apps lists to include a few forgotten favorites, some long awaited arrivals and, as always, even more amazing apps. Be sure to check out all the lists! More »
While the iPad has ramped up my of internet reading considerably, I still prefer to tackle books in their physical form, largely because there’s no real advantage to reading them on the tablet. Our Choice, the latest volley in Al Gore’s noble crusade for climate change, is evidence that when crafted with care, the electronic book can surpass its paper predecessor in style and substance. More »
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