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Byte The App: Must See Apps Of The Week 4/7

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.

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.

Sealy In Bed Tagger [iPhone, iPod touch, iPad and Android]
You know the classic fortune cookie joke? Just add “in bed” to the end of any prophecy and it’ll instantly become hilarious. Well, now you can use that tagline and plant it over anything you want using your smartphone’s camera. You take a photo of any text or signage and a transparent “in bed” appears, ready to be tagged on the end of any line. You can post the pics to social networks, making sure that weird innuendos and abstract non-sequiturs are the order of the day for some lowbrow amusement. It’s released by a mattress company called Sealy, but don’t let that bother you. Just embrace the randomness.

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FinalFight@CAPCOM ARCADE [iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad]
Ah, remember the glory days of late 80s/early 90s arcade games when Capcom ruled the noisy, flashing roost? We’ve been reliving those money draining days ever since Capcom released their free iOS app, Capcom Arcade, with nostalgia-inducing titles like Ghouls ‘n Ghosts and Street Fighter II. Now, they’ve come out with a side-scrolling beat-‘em-up featuring Guy, Cody, and Haggar fighting their way through slums and subways, picking up bins and empty oil drums and chowing down on burgers whenevery they’re feeling weary from slugging at all those bright-haired street punks. Their scrolling vertical shooter 1943, set in the Pacific arena of World War II, is now available too.

David Bowie – “Golden Years” [iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad]
OK, so this app isn’t out just yet but it’s David Bowie, so that makes it all fine. The White Duke is due to release his 1975 single “Golden Years” as an iOS remix app. According to Music Radar, you’ll be given “Bowie’s lead vocal, 12-string guitar, bass, drums, guitar, harmonium, percussion (including blocks, congas, claps) and backing vocals” as the stem cells. You’ll also get a multi-track view of the song and it will feature a shake to mix function, which sounds intriguing. You’ll be able to save any remixes as an mp3 to revisit and share with friends. Bowie did a similar thing to celebrate the 40th anniversary of “Space Oddity” in 2009. The “Golden Years” one will be out on June 6, but in the meantime, here’s the goblin king performing it live.

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Color [iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad]

This

much-hyped

and

hotly debated

app is currently only available on iOS, but they’re releasing an Android version soon, so hold tight. It combines the real-time capabilities of social networks like Twitter with photography and location awareness. You can use multiple smartphones to collate a public crowdsourced library of videos and images from everyone using the app. So if you were taking a picture at a particular spot, you’d get a real-time stream of other people’s photos who are at that same spot around the same time as you. Or you can see what people in your chosen network are busying themselves with. The people you comment on or like, or are often near, will show up more often in your calendar stream. The hivemind continues to grow… and get increasingly personal.

Popcode [iPhone, iPod touch, iPad and Android]
Recently released on Android, this augmented reality viewer has been out on iOS for over a year. What makes this viewer great is that it’s markerless, so you can say goodbye to QR codes. After scanning the Popcode logo, you can add augmented content to whatever you wish, allowing for audio content as well as web pages. This markerless technology where anything is clickable, paired with some augmented reality glasses, and we could be looking at a immersive gaming future where augmented art and games (and, very likely, advertisements) pop up all over our cities.