A burst of 6 apps for your consideration
Jack Kerouac's On The Road
Faber has enjoyed big success with its iPad app for The Waste Land, and now Penguin is hoping to follow suit with an iPad version of Jack Kerouac's On the Road. It includes the full text, as well as family photographs, audio clips of Kerouac reading an early draft, video footage, a slideshow of cover art, an interactive map covering the book's events, and a host of reviews and writing about Kerouac himself.
FunChat
FunChat is the work of mobile firm FunMobility, and combines chat, gaming and a virtual currency. Available for iPhone and Android, it taps into HTML5 casual games.
Friendthem
Friendthem wants to help you make Facebook friends when out and about. Launching on iPhone - but with Android coming soon – it identifies other Friendthem users within 1,500 feet and lets them send Facebook friend requests to one another. Our main quibble, considering conferences are a key use case, is why Facebook rather than LinkedIn and/or Twitter?
Little Star
Parents looking for fresh book-apps to keep their children amused should check out Little Star. It's the first iPad release from developer BiBoBox Studio, and offers interactivity, illustration and animals in equal measures.
Frenzapp Music
Frenzapp Music is the latest social music app for iPhone, joining a handful of rivals that have all been released this year. The idea: share details of what you're playing with friends, and browse a feed of their favourites.
Friskies Call-A-Cat
For those of you who like to froth at the mouth at the sight of branded apps, we present Friskies: Call-A-Cat. It's a soundboard app designed to call your cat to heel, including "the pop of the top of a can of Friskies". Although we sense Nestle Purina's app will result in legions of miffed mogs if their owners don't back up the sound with an actual can...
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