App of the Week
December 22, 2008
The Weather Channel
If you’re traveling this holiday season, be sure to take the Weather Channel with you. Yes, everyone’s favorite source for weather now takes to the road on iPhone and iPod touch. The Weather Channel app offers location-based weather, customizable weather maps, and severe weather alerts. You can even share a weather alert or forecast by emailing it from your iPhone or iPod touch.
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December 15, 2008
iBird Explorer Backyard
If birds are visiting your backyard this winter, your iPhone or iPod touch can help you identify the species coming to your feeders. With iBird Explorer Backyard — a true multimedia field guide — you can hear bird songs, read behavior and identification notes, view range maps, and see both illustrations and color photos of birds. (Want to see all the versions of the iBird field guides available in the App Store?)
View in iTunesNovember 24, 2008
Grocery IQ
Thanks to Grocery iQ ($4.99), you may never have to write another shopping list. Now you can tap to quickly build a comprehensive and highly legible list on iPhone or iPod touch, arrange your list by aisle to match the layout of your grocery store, check off items as you add them to your cart, build a purchase history and a list of favorites. Grocery IQ even lets you email your list to a designated shopper.
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November 17, 2008
Air Sharing
Wish you could copy that new proposal to your iPhone and review it on the plane? Now you can. Air Sharing ($6.99) from Avatron Software lets you wirelessly connect iPhone or iPod touch to a Mac, PC, or Linux computer. Drag documents (including MS Office docs, Pages documents, Keynote presentations, PDFs, images, and others) to your iPhone or iPod touch. And view them on the go.
View in iTunesNovember 10, 2008
X-Plane 9
Fasten your seat belt. It’s time to jet away. With X-Plane 9 ($9.99), Laminar Research brings “the Gold Standard for accurate flight simulation” to iPhone and iPod touch, letting you fly your choice of 4 planes. In turbulent or calm skies. Over oceans or mountains. What’s it like to fly a plane using only your iPhone?
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November 3, 2008
Spore Origins
This week, Electronic Arts delivered Spore Origins to the App Store. In the game, you use the Creature Editor to fashion your own archetypal species. Then set it loose. Using the accelerometer on iPhone or iPod touch, you guide it through the primordial sea to search for food, score points, and fend off nasty predatory creatures. Got an iPod? There’s a version of Spore Origins for you, too.
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