Noddy and friends are racing their way onto iPhone and iPad
A selection of 16 apps for you today:
Noddy in Toyland
Noddy is the latest famous children's character to pop up on the App Store, with a game for iPhone and iPad. In fact, it's a collection of mini-games from publisher Avanquest, focused on reasoning, deductive skills, memory, concentration and observation skills. The link above is for the iPhone version, but there's a separate HD iPad game.
iPhone / iPad
Comet
This Christmas is expected to be a big one for mobile shopping. Comet is the latest UK retailer to launch its own app, which is available on iPhone, Android, BlackBerry and iPad. Developed by Grapple Mobile, it includes a feature for people to scan barcodes in-store and then read reviews from consumers and experts.
iPhone / Android / BlackBerry / iPad
360 Panorama
There are a number of apps helping people shoot photographic panoramas, but 360 Panorama looks like one of the slickest. Available for iPhone and Android, it helps users to stitch together shots as they take them.
iPhone / Android
Dream Zoo
It's a busy mobile month for Zynga, having already released new games Mafia Wars Shakedown and CityVille Holidaytown. The company's third iOS release in November is Dream Zoo, an all-new game that involves building a zoo, breeding animal varieties and playing mini-games.
iPhone / iPad
Toy Village
Glu Mobile's latest mobile social game is (yet) another spin on the FarmVille / CityVille town-building genre, except this time with toys as the digital citizens. Expect crops, shops and in-app purchases for virtual currency.
iPhone / Android
Timelines for Facebook
Facebook has yet to roll it new Timeline feature out beyond developers, but Loytr – the company behind iPad app MyPad – has got in early with a new app that brings Timeline-like features to the social network. It looks very slick, although the question is how appealing it will be if and when Facebook brings official Timelines to its own iPad app.
iPad
31 Days of Mango
Here's an app for developers about... developing apps. It's all the articles from a series called 31 Days of Mango, about making software for Microsoft's latest Windows Phone OS.
Windows Phone
Top Eleven
We wrote about social football management game Top Eleven when it launched on Android, but now it's on iPhone too. Based on an online game with 3.5 million players, it involves buying and selling players, choosing tactics, and playing friendlies against friends.
iPhone
Fondu
Soon, we'll need an app to rate all the apps that rate things. Fondu is the latest iPhone app wanting people to exercise their critical faculties out in the real world. In this case, it's restaurants getting the user-generated reviews treatment, although bars, cafes and clubs are also included.
iPhone
Once Magazine: Issue 2
San Francisco-based iPad app-mag Once focuses on longer "photo essays", with the photographers sharing in revenues generated by the app. Its second issue includes three essays: the US-Mexico border; cockfighting in Kabul; and female soldiers in Kurdistan.
iPad
Fairy Tales 2 Oxbridge Baby
Parents looking for a new book-app to use with their children may enjoy Fairy Tales 2, the second app from Oxbridge Baby. It includes six fairy tales, from Puss in Boots and Cinderella to Little Red Riding Hood. Each offers original music and visuals from a hotshot new British animator.
iPhone / iPad
Mixmag Magazine
Dance music bible Mixmag is the latest print magazine to join Apple's iOS Newsstand, selling individual issues for £2.49. The App Store description may need a little editing though: it talks about "our cover CD this month".
iPhone / iPad
Uno for BBM
Gameloft has rejigged its mobile version of board game Uno to tap into RIM's BBM messaging service, including a multiplayer mode to play against those BBM friends.
BlackBerry
Bigsby's Best Friend
Hallmark is best known for its greetings cards business, but the company is getting into book-apps too. Bigsby's Best Friend stars a shy monster who goes on an adventure with his best mate. The twist: people can buy a Bigsby Story Buddy stuffed toy in the real world, which responds to phrases in the iPad book-app.
iPad
RetroGram
iPhone app RetroGram is aiming squarely at Instagram users who want pure vintage filters for their photographs. 12 are preloaded, and people can combine two or more of them for different effects.
iPhone
HQSexyTexts
Dating coach Hayley Quinn has released a new app designed to help nervous men ask women out via text message. And if they're really nervous, they can just pick one of the 125 included messages to send.
iPhone
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