A burst of 6 apps for your consideration
Say What?!
We wrote about London startup 8linQ earlier in 2011: a joint venture including former developers of DJ Hero, it's focusing on mobile and tablet music games. Say What?! is its first effort: a game based around tapping icons to match the lyrics of songs from Kasabian, the Zutons, Scouting for Girls and – yes! – The Nolans.
iPhone
City Trading
City Trading is a BlackBerry OS 6 app from financial trading firm City Index. It claims to be the first live spread betting and CFD trading app for BlackBerry, letting people trade around the clock.
BlackBerry
Kinsky
Hi-fi firm Linn has released this iPhone and iPad app for people who want to remotely control their Linn DS system at home.
iPhone / iPad
Boxee for iPad
Boxee is best known for its set-top box, but now the company has a spin-off iPad app. It lets users stream video from their computer to their iPad over Wi-Fi, while also pulling down web videos shared by friends on Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr. Video can also be sent wirelessly to the Boxee box itself, for bigger screen viewing.
iPad
Bon Appetit: Pasta Perfect
The latest iPad cookbook app to hit the App Store comes from Bon Appetit, offering 100 old and new pasta-based recipes. It's the work of Conde Nast Digital.
iPad
Sketch Pad
Sketch Pad is an innovative app for HTC's Android tablets. Well, the ones that support its Scribble technology anyway. The idea: draw, write musical notation or scribble notes using the stylus from the HTC Flyer.
Android
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