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Hands on with the latest smart phone and tablet applications

With thousands of new apps released every week there is a real needle / haystack to find the good feeling. Here are the latest crop of applications, we have 've tests.

Euro Star trains

iPhone / Android, free
Aside from a few brave souls who commute regularly from London to Paris or Brussels (or vice versa), most of us take the Euro Star train is relatively rare - why get an app to book tickets, rather than do it online? Actually, the killer feature for ? Star 's new app of mobile ticketing. You can buy tickets for the main destinations ? star review bookings book and control of your loyalty points, but also get a QR code to actually check in. While this feature isn 't made exclusively for bookings via the app, it' s good to have all in one place. Meanwhile, the app itself is very smooth and usable, and the fact that it 's launch on Android as the iPhone with Euro Star' s credit.

Official Rugby World Cup 2011

iPad / iPhone / Android / Windows Mobile / BlackBerry, free
The International Rugby Board 's official World Cup app makes an even better view when it comes to the view of IOS is available with four different versions. Obviously we can 't a final verdict until we see how it performs during the actual tournament, but all the ingredients seem in place for an efficient way, scores, statistics and video highlights to get during the World Cup. There are other features for everyone actually attended the tournament also: seating charts and other information about the different stages and hosting cities.

Spy Mouse

iPhone, 0.69 pounds
Spy Mouse is one of the most anticipated iPhone games this year because it 's the latest from the Australian studio Firemint: the company behind the Flight Control and Real Racing Games. Spy-mouse is equally impressive and captivating as the games, with an initially simple gameplay: you follow a line on the screen to your mouse to the output via lump cheese guide, avoiding cats. Soon throws in power-ups and gadgets to complicate the action, like the cats the pressure ramp. If you fight again, there '\ sa "Kiska" power-up purchasable for 69p to help you through levels, like the Mighty Eagle in Angry Birds. The gameplay is finely tuned, and the production values ??are top notch.

Seatwave tickets

iPhone, free
Seatwave ticketing service is the latest company looking to take on Songkick for the wallets of iPhone owners music fans. As the app, it is recommended you gigs on the bands that you yourself and your location, with tickets for sale on the iPhone. An extra seats that card allows you to choose where you sit in the larger towns. One thing to note is that Seatwave is a ticket exchange, so cards have a number of awards, including many that cost more than the standard price. Nevertheless, it 'sa good fallback if tickets are sold out, that it may be worthwhile to be a place on your home screen, alongside Songkick.

Peter Dickson 's Pocket Announcer

iPhone / Android, £ 1.49
Heard from Peter Dickson It 'sa good chance you' ve heard him: he 's voice over the chap responsible for the booming participants and guest star on X Factor intros. Now he is 's has its own app, which is partly a sounding board of the Peter screams comedy set phrases. So far, so novelty. But you can also set the creator mode Dickson to build their own announcements to call with a good variety of names, actions and other things for him. Granted, not novelty, but if the ability of the UK 's roar have leading prime-time speaker responds quips about friends and armadillos, this fun app. Perhaps a niche, yes.

Bug Village

iPhone / Android, free
Mobile games publisher Glu Mobile has quite a fan base for his recording freemium games in recent months with Gun Bros to pick up the group. For anyone who wants something a bit less ... Burlap provides a cutesy bow Village resource management game, that building a colony of ants and bees go. The impact of animated films such as A Bug 's Life and Antz lurks in the background, but the game is fun and accessible. As with Glu 's other games you can play for free, but paying for virtual coins and objects accelerate progress - even if it' s weighted rightly, do not feel as hard to sell too much of one. It feels like a game for younger players more than adults, but still polished and playable.