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Byte The App: Must See Apps Of The Week 12/8

Flipboard comes to iPhone, Time Ducks interprets arcade classic Frogger, Wu-Tang’s RZA gets appy, Charlie Brown gets interactive and Tate Modern schools us on Modern Art.

The app stores are teeming with new releases, but who has time to go through them all? We do. Bringing you a selection of the most interesting, creative, and innovative apps each week. Submit your suggestions for next week in the comments below.

Flipboard [iPhone]
The iPad app that lets you turn your online life into a magazine has made the transition to its smaller sibling, the iPhone. From Instagram to Tumblrs, Facebook and your news feeds, it collates them all together and reads like the old media you used to love. With a new feature for the iPhone called Cover Stories, you get an easy-to-access, on-the-move page to skim over so you can see what’s being shared at any given moment.

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Time Ducks [iPhone, iPod touch and iPad]

The game’s described in the blurb as a mix between arcade classic

Frogger

,

Braid

and slot machines where you have to safely guide a selection of animals across a busy road by drawing routes for them. But the trailer is something else—a disruptive onslaught of mashup imagery and songs—but with rewinding and fast-forwarding being a mechanic of the game itself, you can forgive them.

RZA’s World [iPhone, iPod touch and iPad]

Wu-Tang Clan’s

RZA

is a chess fan, “A game of chess is like a sword fight,” he’s been known to say. And so, in his app we get a multi-level, 3-D chess game along with something called a “Soundtrack to Your Life” that does what it says by scoring your life with “beats and advice.” If you’re into Wu-Tang, then you’ll already be downloading this. If you’re not, then come on! It’s a

RZA

app. Bobby Digital’s living up to his name, yo.

A Charlie Brown Christmas [iPhone, iPod touch and iPad, Android

]

While the app is aimed at children, what adult doesn’t like this bittersweet tale?

Peanuts

is fondly remembered by pretty much everyone who’s seen it. If you’re a big fan of the old animated cartoons, you’ll cry salty tears at this interactive storybook app as it follows Charlie Brown and the gang as they try to discover the true meaning of Christmas, featuring original music, dialogue and narration from Peter Robbins. If you’re going to get a Christmas app, it might as well be this.

Tate Guide to Modern Art Terms [iPhone, iPod touch and iPad]
Postmodernism, neo-concrete, direct carving, it’s all here in over 300 terms for you to secretly consult when the need arises. You can look like a total artspert while everyone around you stares in awe of your vast knowledge of this minefield that we call Modern Art. Styles, movements, techniques, schools—it’s like having one of those thick reference books in your pocket, which is what mobile tech is all about, no?