The Boston Globe teamed up with illustrator Edel Rodriguez and animation studio Chuck Gammage Animation on a special companion app for its Winter Arts Guide, which debuts Sunday.
iPhone, iPod Touch, and Android users who download the free app from Junaio will be able to hold their devices over select images in the newspaper’s special section and see animated images.
The Times Higher Education (THE), a weekly magazine that covers the higher-education sector in the United Kingdom, is looking to educate the iTunes App Store with its new app for the iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch.
Print subscribers who download the app (or THE app, as it may be) will receive free access to each issue, including all news, features, commentary, and job listings. Access to archives will also be included.
The app features fully searchable text, Pageflow navigation, and the ability to synch for offline reading. Non-subscribers can gain access to issues for £4.99 ($7.87) each via an in-app purchasing option.
Want to know what you should and shouldn’t eat during the holiday season (or, more likely, after the holiday season)? Men’s Health has got an app for that — Eat This, Not That! Restaurants, specifically.
ETNT Restaurants — available for $7.99 for the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad — offers users simple food swaps, calorie tracking for more than 13,000 menu items and 10,000 grocery products, personalized weight-loss plans, a weight tracker, nutritional grades for more than 13,000 menu items, a comparison cart, and a game challenging players to choose the better food.
Who says apps are only for use during the work week? Not CBS News, as it announced the launch of an iPhone and iPod Touch app for its Sunday Morning, available free-of-charge via the iTunes App Store.
The app was developed by CBS Mobile and Treemo Labs, and users have access to full video segments, clips, and “postcards” from destinations around the world, from Sunday Morning contributors including Martha Teichner, Rita Braver, Bill Geist, Tracy Smith, Mo Rocca, Serena Altschul, and Russ Mitchell. One-tap access to the CBS News app is also available.
The late-night app wars are starting to heat up, as NBC’s Late Night with Jimmy Fallon released an iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad app, LNJF, that includes four made-up apps, video clips, blog posts, and photos.
The fictional apps that became reality on LNJF include Axl Rose Relaxation, which features Fallon’s screaming Axl Rose impersonation over mellow mood music; and Moldova Y/N, which uses geo-location technology to inform users whether or not they are actually in Moldova.
From the LNJF iTunes App Store page:
Need a friend? We bet you do. Jimmy Fallon‘s willing, plus, he fits into your iPhone for maximum portability. What a pal! The new Late Night app lets you explore Jimmy’s phone and play around with his mini-apps from the show. Just what is the “iBanana” or “Axl Rose Relaxation?” Download the app and you’ll never wonder again.
You can also watch video from the show, read blog posts, flip through photos, and it’s all free. (You’re welcome.)
And don’t forget to tune-in to the show, Jimmy’s going to announce a bunch of contests, challenges, and features that use the app.
An Android version is also forthcoming.
Stressing over how to prepare the Thanksgiving turkey? There’s an app for that: CHOW Thanksgiving Dinner Coach, from CBS Interactive’s CHOW, which is available for the iPhone and iPod Touch, free-of-charge.
CHOW Thanksgiving Dinner Coach offers step-by-step instructions for nine traditional Thanksgiving recipes, as well as a timeline for getting through Thanksgiving day, including all of the prep work and shopping, and a shopping list.
NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams is reporting live from your iPhone or iPod Touch, as the show’s app is now available free-of-charge via the App Store.
The app offers access to top news stories, along with daily reports from Brian Williams and weekend contributions from Lester Holt. It also features content from Williams’ blog, Making a Difference reports, and health and science stories. And users can follow Nightly News on Twitter and Facebook directly via the app.
Daily Interactive Networks developed the NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams app.
NBC Nightly News executive producer Bob Epstein said, “Nightly’s app is just one more way for viewers to get the latest news and information where they want it, when they want it. We hope to engage more viewers in conversation about the latest news, and this is one easy way for everyone to participate on the go.
CBS Sports-owned high-school sports site MaxPreps.com debuted MaxStats, a free app for the iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch that allows users to keep real-time football stats during high school games and connects to the schedules and rosters for all varsity, junior varsity, and freshman teams at the 16,400 high-school-football programs across the country.
The app provides an interactive football field and scoreboard and allows users to: keep track of down, distance, play types, play results, score, ball possession, game clock, hash, and penalties for both teams; enter data quickly; set the preferred quarterback, receiver, and running back for each team; and import stats directly to MaxPreps.com.
MaxPreps.com president Andy Beal said:
With the MaxStats application, MaxPreps.com is providing high-school-football coaches and their programs the necessary technology to streamline the entire stats process for their games. MaxStats is the first step in giving families and fans of high-school football the ability to follow these games in real-time from a mobile device anywhere in the world.
The updated PBS NewsHour iPhone App is now available free-of-charge via the App Store, and it offers HD-quality video, multimedia content, updated news, and customizable news feeds.
The app is compatible with iPhone or iPod Touch devices with operating systems 3 or 4, and it syncs via Wi-Fi to download the most current news directly to devices.
PBS NewsHour host Jim Lehrer said:
The iPhone App is just the latest step in the NewsHour move to extend beyond the hour and offer our signature brand of journalism, MacNeil-Lehrer journalism, anywhere, anytime. Although the technology may have changed, our commitment to in-depth reporting, balanced analysis, and civil discourse is as strong as ever.
Executive producer Linda Winslow added:
The app is the latest in a series of digital offerings that have helped us extend the NewsHour‘s personal relationship with our audience. Online features of our oil spill coverage, including a widget, streaming video of the spill, and interactive interviews via YouTube and Google were all extremely popular, earning the Web site over 14 million views and expanding the NewsHour‘s growing community of fans and followers on Facebook and Twitter.
Parents is bringing back flash cards, Apple-style, as its editors teamed up with child-development experts to create Parents Flash Cards, a new app for the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad.
Parents Flash Cards are available for colors, shapes, letters, and numbers, with the first two offered free-of-charge and the latter pair priced at $0.99 apiece. The packs contain games including flash cards, quizzes, and tracing. Parents said packs for addition/subtraction and multiplication/division will be available by year-end.
Parents editor-in-chief Dana Points said:
The app uses animation, sound, and friendly graphics to keep kids motivated. And I love the positive reinforcement Parents Flash Cards gives kids as they make progress.
