The Week in iOS Apps: A better Facebook
This week’s roundup of iOS apps offers new ways to shop, track your life, and make new websites. Already this week we brought you news of the Angry Birds Star Wars game, word of updates to the Clear and FreshBooks apps, as well as the announcement that Microsoft Office may finally be available on iOS in 2013.
Here are other new and updated apps that caught our eye this week.
You can now explore the Apple Store using Siri.
Apple Store: Siri: Buy me a new iPad mini! OK, so we’re not sure that gadget shopping will be quite that easy, but the latest update to the Apple Store app for iPhone does let you use Siri to shop around and compare prices on Apple products. (Of course, you’ll have to have a Siri-enabled device—an iPhone 4S or 5, or a third- or fourth-generation iPad—to take advantage of the new features.) The updated app also lets you buy gift cards and have them emailed to friends from within the app—and those cards can even be loaded into the recipients Passbook. Apple’s technology has finally found its best purpose: To make it really easy for you to buy more of Apple’s technology.
Evernote on iPad now displays notes in card form.
Evernote: This free app for iPhone and iPad—which lets you save pictures, notes, and clippings from just about everything that you read or experience—has long been one of the best-selling offerings in the App Store. Now it’s received a massive overhaul to its user interface, with a new homepage that allows easier access to notes, notebooks, tags, and premium features. (On the iPad, there’s also homepage access to your most recent notes.) And the note list has been reconfigured to a “card style” to showcase the content therein. What’s more, geotagged notes can be displayed on a map to show when and where you collected them.
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