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Brewster is a new app that helps streamline your contacts over a number of different services. Incorporating contacts from Facebook, Twitter, and email platforms, Brewster creates a profile for each person you know displaying all contact information in the same place.
The app offers quick access to the people you talk to most, and allows you to search through your contacts by name as well as city or interests –- such as sports teams.
Rovio, the creator of the popular Angry Birds series, launched its newest game this week: Amazing Alex. Available for iOS and Android, the physics-based game has you do things such as launch baseballs at complex contraptions, causing chain reactions.
The game is essentially a rebranded version of Casey’s Contraptions, which was released last year for iPad and was well-reviewed then.
If you can't make it to London this summer to check out the Olympics, NBC is making it a little easier for you to stay on top of the action with an app called NBC Olympics Live Extra. The app will provide streaming coverage of every competition in every sport — more than 3,500 hours of live video and 302 medal competitions
Digital comic book platform comiXology is teaming up with Matt Groening’s Bongo Comics to bring America’s favorite family to iOS. The free app includes digital versions of both recent and classic Bongo titles like Simpsons Comics, Bart Simpson and Radioactive Man.
Google updated its Google+ app for iOS this week, adding support for the iPad for the first time. The newest version of the app offers the ability to participate in hangouts on your iPhone and iPad, as well as support for the new Google+ Events.
Next Issue Media, a joint venture backed by five major U.S. publishers -- Conde Nast, Hearst, Meredith, News Corp. and Time Inc. -- is launching an all-you-can-read magazine subscription app for the iPad Tuesday.
For a flat monthly fee of $10 or $15, users can get access to the digital versions of 39 magazines from those publishers, including back issues.
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 own new and updated app highlights from the week.
This week we found an app that will help you keep up with the Olympics as well as another that will help you better keep up with your friends over different social networks.
If you’re looking to relax, one app we found this week brings together a number of comics from a popular animated series, and another that brings a ton of popular magazines to your tablet.
The guys behind one of the most popular mobile games on the planet also put out a new title this week that is bound to challenge you for hours.
Scroll through the gallery above for a look at this week’s app highlights.
Still looking for more? Check out last week’s 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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No links to any of the apps? Way to make our lazing American lives more difficult. Thanks Mashable. :(
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@David – They might be difficult to see if you have a dark screen, but I found links to most of them in the side bar, if you click on the articles highlighted in blue, there are details on each one (except for Next Issue and Amazing Alex, couldn’t see links to those).
Why not a QR code to each of the apps like Android Central does?
Brewster only on iOS + Android with the biggest market share = dumb iPhone snob developers.
But Android already does a lot of the stuff Brewster was designed for.
“Brewster is a new app that helps streamline your contacts over a number of different services. Incorporating contacts from Facebook, Twitter, and email platforms, Brewster creates a profile for each person you know displaying all contact information in the same place.”
Sounds an awful lot like the default Android contacts app to me.
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I tried NextIssue and the experience was fairly lackluster. The text has a bad case of the jaggies on the New iPad and a lot of the magazine functionality is broken. See the linked image here for an example of how some magazines render: https://twitter.com/brucesnell/status/224502958589616128/photo/1
Granted, the txt doesn’t look too bad at 1680×1050, but we all know the New iPad is higher rez
It looks like you can miss the NBC Olympics Live Extra app. You need to authenticate your cable account in order to view, the iTunes reviews say the quality is horrible and there is no landscape mode on the IPad. Although I wanted to, I’m not going to bother downloading it.
I sincerely don’t like game app probably because I’m not a game freak but a social media freak. I like the Google+ for iOS app. I think there is an Android version of the app too.
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