Senior Writer with the 148Apps Network since September 7, 2010
Jen lives in not so sunny Wales in the UK. She's been playing games of all kinds for the past 20 years. She's a freelance writer and would be utterly lost without her faithful iPhone.
This week’s Five for Friday is pretty heavy on the apps front but that’s not to say it’s all seriousness here. We’ve got a fun selection of ways to entertain the kids, a powerful web development tool, a companion app for avid golfers and an intriguing travel based move from the one time ruler of search engines, Yahoo.
101 Ideas: Flying with kids
Anyone who’s taken a flight with a child knows that it’s tough to keep them entertained, especially on long trips. With Summer break nearly upon us, it’s an ideal time to try out 101 Ideas: Flying with kids. The app offers exactly what the title states: 101 ideas to entertain the kids. Most only require a few simple tools such as paper, pencils and coins, many only involve the imagination. It could well keep many a family saner on a long haul journey.
iPhone App - Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad
Released: 2012-05-18 :: Category: Travel
Diet Coda
We’ve already mentioned its impending arrival but Diet Coda deserves further mention now that it’s finally out. The app offers powerful web editing capabilities right from the iPad. Syntax highlighting is there along with FTP file management and a revolutionary new way of positioning the cursor. It’ll even double up as a dedicated preview window for users of Coda 2 for the Mac.
iPad Only App - Designed for the iPad
Released: 2012-05-24 :: Category: Productivity
Nike Golf 360°
Big golf fan? Then, this should be right at the top of your purchasing list. The app lets golf players track all their stats and download scores from more than 13,000 courses across the US. Sync it up with the website and it’s possible to analyze all kinds of things about your performance. Essentially, it’s the golfing equivalent of apps like RunKeeper.
iPhone App - Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad
Released: 2012-05-22 :: Category: Sports
Yahoo! TimeTraveler Yahoo has had a turbulent time in recent years, losing its foothold as the most popular search engine to Google. Presumably with an aim to fight back, it has just released Yahoo! TimeTraveler amongst other apps in order to entice new users. The app allows users to create easy to follow trip plans for dozens of cities across the world. A custom itinerary is created according to the start and end point, hopefully providing a fun way of checking out things around the chosen city.
+ Universal App - Designed for iPhone and iPad
Released: 2012-05-24 :: Category: Travel
Subway Surfers
We couldn’t have a Five For Friday without covering at least one game and this is it: a fun casual endless runner by the name of Subway Surfers. Reminiscient of Temple Run, gameplay is all about dashing fast and dodging oncoming trains. You can even grind along the trains and perform some great acrobatic tricks. It’s simple yet addictive fun that should make a great change of gaming scenery over the weekend.
In a matter of weeks, one of the biggest soccer tournaments out there begins: Euro 2012. Qualification is over and 16 European teams are all lined up to prove which one is the best of the bunch. As a Brit, I’m ever hopeful that England will achieve glory but regardless of what happens, I’ll be enjoying seeing some high quality action. In honor of such good times ahead, we thought we’d take a look at the four best apps out there to use alongside the tournament.
Total Euro 2012
We might have covered Total Euro 2012 previously but it’s unparalleled in what it offers and deserves mention again. The app offers pretty much everything any soccer fan could want during the tournament. Detailed statistics on every player are offered, along with past performance analysis. This will all tie in perfectly with the app’s future live updates, formations and live commentary that will be offered with every match during Euro 2012. Arguably, fans won’t need another app when they have this.
iPhone App - Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad
Released: 2012-05-09 :: Category: Sports
Football Attack Euro 2012
Soccer fans love to discuss with friends just what they think the score will be in each match. Heck, we’ve all been there. I always have a competition with a friend every tournament where we predict each match and whoever gets the most right, wins a prize. Football Attack Euro 2012 is the internet based equivalent using Facebook accounts to collate everything. It’s simple yet immediately appealing to groups of fans.
iPhone App - Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad
Released: 2012-03-28 :: Category: Games
Official UEFA EURO 2012 app
For obvious reasons, UEFA is guaranteed to have the most reliable information on all things Euro 2012. Official UEFA EURO 2012 app keeps all that knowledge on an iOS device with the latest articles and news, as well as a calendar, group standings and lineups. Personalized alerts can be set up so users can see all the news about their favorite team quickly. Highlight clips and video interviews are set to be included during the tournament.
iPhone App - Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad
Released: 2012-04-23 :: Category: Sports
Euro 2012 Football Quiz
Think you know everything about football and the Euros? Euro 2012 Football Quiz tests this knowledge with 500 questions on the tournament. Everything from fixture dates to memorablia questions are asked here and it’s a fun way of learning some new facts.
Who likes cake and other baked goods? Nearly everyone, right? 50 Easiest ever baking recipes from olive magazine provides exactly what it says: 50 easy to bake recipes.
Every skill level is catered for here and, in reality, over 50 recipes from easy cupcakes to cookies and New York-style baked cheesecakes.
Tantalizing photos of every dessert is included along with a clear-to-read ingredients list and step-by-step instructions. Six different categories make it easy to browse through the collection comprising of Celebration cakes, big cakes, little cakes, cookies and biscuits, tarts, pies and pastries, as well as sweet bread and muffins. 50 Easiest ever baking recipes from olive magazine even comes with some handy to know cookery tips and shopping recommendations.
There should be something within the collection to keep everyone with a sweet tooth happy.
50 Easiest ever baking recipes from olive magazine is out now for the iPad and priced at $4.99.
National Geographic has just released a new bundle of educational apps for iOS, aimed at young children.
The bundle, Look & Learn: Animals Vol. 1, includes Animal Bounce, Animal Match and Animal Words. Each title encourages children to discover more about the natural world through some great animal sounds and age-appropriate games. Throughout, the kind of photography we’ve all come to expect from National Geographic continues the beguiling theme.
Animal Bounce is focused on learning animal names and sounds, while Animal Match involves matching the animal to its shape. Animal Words teaches name recognition and basic alphabet skills. Each should be great fun for little ones.
The app is optimized for the new iPad but works just as well for iPhone and iPod Touch. It’s all designed to tie in well with the National Geographic learning books series for preschoolers.
Look & Learn: Animals Vol. 1 is out now, priced at $2.99. It’s an Universal app.
Parents know that the iPad is a fantastic resource of storybook style apps, ideal for young children. They’ve probably already read the tale of Peter Pan to their kids, either through an app or through a traditonal book. So what makes It’s Me! Peter Pan stand out? It allows kids to get right inside the action.
Parents are able to customize the app to use photos of their child’s face to replace Peter’s, thus throwing them right into the story.
It’s Me! Peter Pan continues the fun theme with the addition of child friendly puzzles and the ability to explore Neverland by touching and tapping on various objects and characters scattered around the story. The ability to paint and color in images rounds off the package.
It all makes for a cute and beguiling tale that should entertain many a young child.
It’s Me! Peter Pan is out now with a free version to try and the full app available for $3.99 via an in-app purchase.
The advantage to Cloud storage is the ability to consult files from anywhere that offers an internet connection. The disadvantage is trying to keep all these files in some kind of order, ever easy to check in with.
iExplorer HD sets out to make such things that bit simpler. It’s an iPad app that lets its users view all their files from within the one app, whether they be located on an FTP server, SkyDrive, Google Docs, DropBox, CloudMe or numerous other services.
It’ll help out during a multitude of situations such as for work purposes or just for using the iPad as a PDF reader or media player. A file viewer means iExplorer HD should be able to open pretty much any file format possible from PDF to iWork or Office files. There’s even a built in code viewer with syntax highlighting for languages such as Objective C, Java, PHP and more.
With such a well rounded complement of functions, iExplorer HD should help many a work focused iPad user. It’s out now, priced at $4.99.
The iPhone looks pretty attractive the moment it’s purchased but sometimes it’s nice to add that personal touch. It’s easy enough to adjust the home screen image and general background, but how about a whole new personalized cover for the device? That’s what CaseApp provides.
The app enables users to import images from their camera roll and position them on a case from within the app. 20 different themes are available to create a great effect and it’s possible to tilt and resize images appropriately. Once happy with the design, tap order and the case can be shipped straight away.
CaseApp promises a delivery date of 3-5 business days with prices under $30 + shipping and handling.
The kind folks at CaseApp have given 148apps readers 30% off any order they make between now and May 23rd though so it’s the ideal time to purchase. Just use the promo code caseapppc30 to get the discount.
It’s a varied selection for this week’s Five for Friday. We’re covering stuff like a convenient and quick-to-respond note-taking app, a fun music-making app for kids, and a Hidden Object game based on a classic piece of literature. Without further ado, let’s take a look at what’s on offer and get on with enjoying the weekend!
Inkflow
At first glance, Inkflow looks to be a pretty run-of-the-mill note-taking app. It very nearly is but its great benefit comes from its speed and precision. Writing or sketching with a finger is frequently a little sluggish, but with Inkflow, there’s hardly any lag at all. Extra functionality comes from the ability to create numerous pages of notes for later reference.
+ Universal App - Designed for iPhone and iPad
Released: 2012-05-14 :: Category: Productivity
Pride and Prejudice: Hidden Anthologies
A Hidden Object game based on Pride and Prejudice? Yup, that’s exactly what we have here. Keeping closely to the plotline of the book, the game offers a great new take on the classic novel. It’s quite delightful to look at and offers some fun, casual gaming.
+ Universal App - Designed for iPhone and iPad
Released: 2012-05-13 :: Category: Games
Morton Subotnick’s Pitch Painter
Finger painting has provided hours of fun for kids over the years. Morton Subotnick’s Pitch Painter brings that idea to the iPad along with the ability to play musical notes, all at the touch of the screen. It’s aimed at the younger end of the market and should provide a great introduction to the iPad.
iPad Only App - Designed for the iPad
Released: 2012-05-15 :: Category: Music
Hiragana Pixel Party
Learning the many characters of Japanese Hiragana and Katakana is tough for those more used to English. Hiragana Pixel Party is a fun way of making a game out of it all with players progressing through numerous different worlds and tapping in time to the entertaining soundtrack. After all, the best form of education is the kind that doesn’t feel like work.
+ Universal App - Designed for iPhone and iPad
Released: 2012-05-14 :: Category: Education
Storypanda
Kids love to read books but they also love to use their imagination to create their own story. Storypanda offers the best of both worlds with the ability to read new stories through the service and create their own along with fun animations and pictures. It should be an ideal tool for families to use together.
One of the biggest events in the international soccer calendar is starting in a matter of weeks: Euro 2012. Thanks to this, a plethora of apps are trickling their way through to the App Store for keen soccer fans to enthusiastically check out. While we’re going to be taking a closer look at the selection very soon, Total Euro 2012 deserves mentioning now.
The app contains a huge amount of information for Euro 2012 fans. There’s detailed head to head comparison of all the teams participating in the tournament, along with recent matches and past Euro/World Cup performance. Each player comes with detailed statistics along with their past performance of the previous two seasons.
Once the tournament begins, live updates will be provided with live commentary and up to date statistics with the promise of push notifications and post-game video highlights.
Total Euro 2012 is set to be a very comprehensive app that will be ideal for soccer fans to check in on regularly.
It’s not an organization that many of us would automatically expect an official app from. Regardless, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO to you and me) has recently released its own news app.
It’s an iPad-only affair but it offers all the latest news from the organization. That kind of news covers everything from important visits to the NATO Headquarters to statements on major issues in Afghanistan.
Alongside text-based news comes a number of videos from NATOchannel.tv, the official video focused site for the crucial organization.
Combined, NATO News should be the ideal portal for those in need of greater insight on all the things NATO does at the moment and some of the background information about the organization. For news hounds such as myself, it should form a great resource in times of major world news as there’s a lot more detail to releases than major news networks would suggest.
The board game of Monopoly is an impressive 112 years old. That means plenty of time for multiple different varieties of the game. Vying away from the likes of Simpsons, Lord of The Rings and World Cup soccer editions, now there’s a new and technologically advanced variety in the form of Monopoly zAPPed.
Monopoly zAPPed relies upon special credit cards that can be scanned with an iOS device. Keeping up with the 21st century focus on using plastic rather than cash to spend, these devices automatically transfer funds between players’ accounts once swiped. A selection of mini games also stem from the app which can help players escape jail and jail fines.
It all makes for a fun twist on the traditional Monopoly experience and is bound to keep fans happy.
The app is available now and is free to download. Although, bear in mind that the Monopoly zAPPed board game is required to use it fully.
Shazam has done wonders for that moment where one hears a clip of a song and has no idea what the song actually is. Now, there’s an app that promises to do the same for movie trailers. Movie Pal is that app.
All the user has to do is listen to a few seconds of a trailer with the app and it immediately tags the film for future reference. It uses this information to then remind the user of when it’s coming out.
Further functionality comes from the options to see ratings, show times and even buy tickets from within the app. Hundreds of movie trailers can also be viewed and there are movie recommendations for what to watch on iTunes and Netflix. Movie Pal looks set to be an ideal way of keeping up to date with all things movies and just in time for summer blockbuster season to get into full swing.
The App Store is far from low on filtering apps that adjust users’ images in numerous quirky ways. PreggoBooth is one such new addition but it does so with some pretty neat results.
The app enables the user to see how they’d look if they were pregnant and at various stages of pregnancy. Refreshingly for such an app, there aren’t any freak results, all are quite appropriate. 3 months, 6 months and full term are possible here and the app doesn’t just place a big bump on the person’s stomach. Instead, it adjusts everything about the person making for a more realistic look.
PreggoBooth is still meant to be light hearted, however, which is why users can also adjust men to look pregnant with some startling but fun results.
The app might not revolutionize anyone’s life but it’s a fun break from life and would ideally suit something like a baby shower or even bachelorette party. All images can be shared with all the major social networks.
Bored of Words with Friends? Maybe it’s time to try something a little different such as MindFeud.
MindFeud is a game in which players must lay a number of tiles down in the correct formation so that there are no duplicates and they each match with the nearest tile in some way, such as all blue tiles together or all circles in the same row. It’s easy to learn but as with many board games, it’s challenging to master.
MindFeud offers a single player mode through the robot opponent AI called ADAMA, as well as the ability to play against friends or strangers through the social features available. Real time chat has been included to make this side of play more compelling.
It’s simple yet addictive fun regardless of who you play against. Even better, it’s free to play and an universal app for added convenience.
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Who likes cake and other baked goods? Nearly everyone, right? 50 Easiest ever baking recipes from olive magazine provides exactly what it says: 50 easy to bake recipes. 
National Geographic has just released a new bundle of educational apps for iOS, aimed at young children. 
Parents know that the iPad is a fantastic resource of storybook style apps, ideal for young children. They’ve probably already read the tale of Peter Pan to their kids, either through an app or through a traditonal book. So what makes It’s Me! Peter Pan stand out? It allows kids to get right inside the action.
The advantage to Cloud storage is the ability to consult files from anywhere that offers an internet connection. The disadvantage is trying to keep all these files in some kind of order, ever easy to check in with. 
The iPhone looks pretty attractive the moment it’s purchased but sometimes it’s nice to add that personal touch. It’s easy enough to adjust the home screen image and general background, but how about a whole new personalized cover for the device? That’s what CaseApp provides.
One of the biggest events in the international soccer calendar is starting in a matter of weeks: Euro 2012. Thanks to this, a plethora of apps are trickling their way through to the App Store for keen soccer fans to enthusiastically check out. While we’re going to be taking a closer look at the selection very soon, Total Euro 2012 deserves mentioning now.
It’s not an organization that many of us would automatically expect an official app from. Regardless, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO to you and me) has recently released its own news app. 
The board game of Monopoly is an impressive 112 years old. That means plenty of time for multiple different varieties of the game. Vying away from the likes of Simpsons, Lord of The Rings and World Cup soccer editions, now there’s a new and technologically advanced variety in the form of Monopoly zAPPed.
The App Store is far from low on filtering apps that adjust users’ images in numerous quirky ways. PreggoBooth is one such new addition but it does so with some pretty neat results. 
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