Thursday, March 21, 2013

great new ipad apps

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Touchgrind BMX app
Touchgrind BMX
Price: £2.99
This is a great example of a game
that could only work on a touchscreen
device. This ingenious
creation sees you pulling off
impressive BMX stunts by
manipulating your bike in real time
using the multi-touch display. It’s
an ambitious concept but work
beautifully in practise, off ering
some of the purest fun of any App
Store game. Your inner show-off
will appreciate the option to record
your most outrageous BMX tricks
for posterity and share them with
friends.
iMovie app
iMovie
Price: £2.99
The camera on the iPad mini is
impressive, shooting 1080p HD
video that you can then edit in
iMovie. Thanks to its built-in image
stabilisation you can capture rocksolid
footage from which iMovie can
cherrypick the best parts and stitch
it into a cohesive narrative. As well
as a range of snipping and editing
tools, there’s cross-support for the
GarageBand music app which allows
audio tracks to be imported. It even
makes movie trailers for you.

iBooks app
iBooks 3
Price: Free
A real appeal of the iPad mini is
that its 7.9in screen and light,
compact proportions make it ideal
as an e-book reader. Older iPads
soon got heavy, but we’ve had
no trouble reading whole books
on the mini. Publications bought
through iTunes or downloaded
from elsewhere appear in your
iBooks. With the latest update you
can enjoy animated books and
song books as well as crisp text and
images. A must-have app.

100 Greatest Hits app
100 Greatest Hits
Price: £8.99
While Rovio is busy bringing 70s and
80s classic film plots into its wildly
successful Angry Birds app, retro
gamers have their own treat in store.
These classic games were originally
written for the ZX Spectrum and the
Atari console. Now you can relive
the early days of computer gaming
and sink battleships and play space
invaders all over again. Expansion
packs let you supplement the 25
games initially supplied with the
8-bit classics of your choice.

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