A burst of 9 apps for your consideration
Postman Pat SDS
Postman Pat's modern incarnation gets his first iOS game, helicopter and all. P2 Games' app consists of nine mini-games designed for 3-5 year-olds, with in-game achievements using Apple's Game Center community – something not often seen in apps for children.
iPhone / iPad
AVG Security Suite
AVG is well known for its desktop security software, but now it's also mobile, with a Windows Phone application. It's mainly focused on web surfing, directing people away from phishing and malware sites.
Windows Phone
Shakespeare In Bits: A Midsummer Night's Dream
The Shakespeare In Bits series has a new iPad app today, with three hours of animation telling the story of A Midsummer Night's Dream – presented alongside notes, character biographies and the original text. It follows previous editions for Macbeth and Romeo and Juliet.
iPad
Kinetik
Apps about apps? It's been a while since the last flurry of app recommendation apps, but Kinetik is a new effort launching for iPhone. It aims to provide "an easy way to share the apps you love" and serve up recommendations and trends in response.
iPhone
My Secret Hideout
Andrew Plotkin's My Secret Hideout isn't a game, as such. "It is an interactive toy... or rather poem... or artwork..." according to the App Store blurb. It's an iPad app based around a virtual treehouse, with the text and imagery changing as people play with it. "No goal, no score, no trophies. Explore it, or play with it, until you find a result you like."
iPad
Banksy Bristol Tour
Book publisher Tangent Books and app developer Gravitywell have teamed up for a location-based guide to graffiti artist Banksy's early work in and around his hometown. It can be used in the city, but also remotely, with images and – in the Android version – Google's Street View.
iPhone / Android
Crack69
Crack69's claim to be "the first ever interactive book for adult audiences" is a bit dubious, but the app is intriguing. It's sold as part dystopia, part black comedy, part parable and part mystery, with an anonymous author and, er, world leaders characterised as "marionettes dancing to the tune of a mechanism inside them".
iPad
Gym Training by Weightplan.com
Fitness site Weightplan has launched its iPhone gym training app, which weighs in at a musclebound 538MB. That's because it has more than 600 photos and videos to guide users through its 30 gym routines.
iPhone
Snap & Share Kids Cam
Children love messing about with the camera on an iPhone or iPod touch, but what to do with their snaps? Snap & Share Kids Cam is a camera app designed for children, making it easy for them to take and send photos to their family members.
iPhone
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