Now you can own your city, thanks to a new location-based game called Turf. Turning your city into a virtual Monopoly board of sorts, Turf lets you buy up properties you visit, and try and steal your favorite locations from other players.
Purchases are made not by price and instead by chance. Buying a location involves spinning a virtual slot machine. Each spin costs a certain amount of coins. Stopping on a "Win" square will win you the location from its current owner; stopping on a "Lose" means you'll have to try again.
The odds of winning a spin and the cost of a spin vary depending on the property in question and what its current owner has done to it.
Could Saga be the next Siri? The app observes your real-world activity and then makes recommendations for you based on what you've done in the past. For instance, the app might suggest you visit a location based on where you typically like to frequent.
Saga also gamifies your life. The app translates the things you do in real life into experience points (XP), allowing you to rack up XP each time you do something cool.
Spotify for Android was updated this week to include radio streaming. The feature, which is available only to Premium subscribers, lets users listen to an unlimited number of stations and songs. Spotify users who aren't Premium subscribers can try the feature by signing up for 30-day free trial.
Digg revamped its mobile app this week. Delivering some of the most interesting and talked-about stories on the Internet right now, the app lets you read those stories and then share them with friends instantly on social networks such as Facebook and Twitter.
Amazon Instant Video is now available for iPad. Already available on the Kindle Fire, the app lets you stream videos from Amazon's library of 120,000 videos, and gives free access for Amazon Prime members to over 17,000 of those videos.
Now you can own your city, thanks to a new location-based game called Turf. Turning your city into a virtual Monopoly board of sorts, Turf lets you buy up properties you visit, and try and steal your favorite locations from other players.
Purchases are made not by price and instead by chance. Buying a location involves spinning a virtual slot machine. Each spin costs a certain amount of coins. Stopping on a "Win" square will win you the location from its current owner; stopping on a "Lose" means you'll have to try again.
The odds of winning a spin and the cost of a spin vary depending on the property in question and what its current owner has done to it.
If you want to keep up to date on the latest polling data for this year's election, then PollTracker is the app for you. The app collects information from a variety of different sources – such as Gallup and Rasmussen – and displays them as an average. The app also offers in-depth breakdowns such as demographic info like age and gender of voters.
TripAdvisor launched SeatGuru for Android this week. The app helps users find cheap flights, offers real-time flight status updates and has seat maps and flier tips to help users find the perfect seat on the plane when they fly.
Thirst is now available on the iPhone. A new way to look at Twitter, the app uses its own natural-language processor to filter and organize tweets into an easily digestible format that will change the way you look at your Twitter stream for good.
Could Saga be the next Siri? The app observes your real-world activity and then makes recommendations for you based on what you've done in the past. For instance, the app might suggest you visit a location based on where you typically like to frequent.
Saga also gamifies your life. The app translates the things you do in real life into experience points (XP), allowing you to rack up XP each time you do something cool.
Spotify for Android was updated this week to include radio streaming. The feature, which is available only to Premium subscribers, lets users listen to an unlimited number of stations and songs. Spotify users who aren't Premium subscribers can try the feature by signing up for 30-day free trial.
If you often take photos while you're with your friends, then you'll want to check out Flock. Using iOS's photo detection API, the app cross-references your geographic area with Facebook friends to figure out who was present in the photo you just took. The app then creates an album, uploads all your pics, and when you and your friends leave the area, it notifies everyone in the album that the photos are available to view. Photos can be commented on, downloaded, or emailed from directly within the app, as well as pushed to Facebook.
Digg revamped its mobile app this week. Delivering some of the most interesting and talked-about stories on the Internet right now, the app lets you read those stories and then share them with friends instantly on social networks such as Facebook and Twitter.
Amazon Instant Video is now available for iPad. Already available on the Kindle Fire, the app lets you stream videos from Amazon's library of 120,000 videos, and gives free access for Amazon Prime members to over 17,000 of those videos.
It can be tough to keep up with all the new apps released each week. But you're in luck: We take care of a lot of that for you, creating a roundup each weekend of some of our favorite new and updated apps from the week.
This week we found an app that turns your city into a virtual Monopoly board. Another app helps you find a seat on your next flight, and yet another gets to know you and will make recommendations such as where you should grab dinner based on what you've done previously.
If you want to keep up with the latest news, we found an app this week that will send the latest headlines to your handset, as well as another that uses a special language processor to read through your Twitter feed and sort through what's important.
Another app from the week will let you tune into your favorite radio station, and another will automatically create galleries of photos from the last party you attended with your friends.
Want to keep up with the election poll results or watch a movie? We've got some new apps for that, too.
Scroll through the gallery above for a look at this week's app highlights.
Still looking for more? See one of our previous Apps to Check Out for some other interesting mobile apps worth a look, and let us know about your own app highlights from the week in the comments.
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