PLANET OF THE APPS: 17TH JANUARY 2012

Mr Stuart Dredge, resident app expert, is back to take us through some reviews on apps for smartphones and tablets.

Here's a line up of what Stuart discussed, and you can follow the links to find out more. H-appy Apping... Jeah!

Shazam Player

We know Shazam as the app that lets you recognise songs playing on the radio, TV or in a club. Now it has a new app for actually playing your music. Shazam Player lets you play the songs on your iPhone or iPod touch, but it also shows you lyrics while they play, and pulls in videos from the band.

iPone

Numberlys

US company Moonbot Studios made the excellent The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore book-app last year. Now they're back with Numberlys, an educational app for kids to teach them the alphabet, which is influenced by black'n'white films like King Kong and Metropolis, as well as the Marx Brothers.

iPhone / iPad

World Of Goo

This started as a PC game where you pull and stick balls of gloop together to solve puzzles, but its natural home is on smartphones and tablets thanks to their touchscreens. A beautiful game that doesn't require hardcore gaming skills to enjoy. And it's just sold its millionth copy on iPhone/iPad, with another 450,000 Android downloads.

iOS