This Week in iOS App: Slam dunkin’
This weeks roundup of iOS apps offers a closer look at zombies, planets, and donutsas well as a deeper insight into a classic movie.
Already this week, we told you about the latest update to Instagram. We also brought you roundups of the best game sequels and football apps for iPhone. Read on for some of the other new and updated apps that caught our eye this week:
Articles: This $2 app has been taking Wikipedia articles and making them beautiful on the iPad for a couple of years now. This weeks update turns the offering into a universal app that runs equally well on the iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch, but it also has a few other new tricks up its sleeve. The iPad version of the app, for example, lets users do in-page searches for key words and terms. And the app now has a read later function, making it easier to reference your references later on.
Dunkin Donuts: You know all the old jokes about how theres a Starbucks on every block in big cities and malls? Well, in certain parts of the countryNew England, for exampleDunkin Donuts is just as ubiquitous. So the new Dunkin Donuts app for iPhone should be very popular indeed in those locales. Yes, it lets you browse the menu and find nearby stores quite easily, but the most significant function of the app is that it lets you pay for your donuts and coffee using your iPhone: If youre in a store, you can tap the app and it will show a barcodethe employee behind the counter will scan it, and your purchase will be charged to your account. (Users can load their virtual card with money ahead of time.) And theres even a social element: You can send a DD Card to your friends so they can buy their own glazed donuts, and know without a doubt how much you love them. Your friend, that is, not the donuwell, maybe a little of both.
Full Metal Jacket Diary: Well admit: This is the kind of app where wed usually pull a quote from the movie and use it to make a joke. Only & none of the really popular quotes from the movie are fit for print. So well just tell you that the $15 Full Metal Jacket Diary app for iPad is the iOS version of a limited edition book published several years ago by the actor Matthew Modine, who played Private Joker in Stanley Kubricks 1987 classic movie about the Vietnam War. The app contains Modines photos and diary from the movie shoot, and includes a four-hour audio version of the text read by Modine himself.
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