Apps Rush: Slices, British Airways Perfect Days, Daily Mirror News, Paul Daniels Calculator and more

A selection of 20 new and notable apps for you today: Slices Twitter may be cracking down on third-party clients, but it would be a shame if that spells bad news for Slices – a slick new filter-focused app for Twitter. Developed by OneLouder, it turns your timeline into category-based "slices", while also helping you find people to follow in different areas. Android / iPhone British Airways Perfect Days British Airways makes an intriguing step into the social travel-apps space with this "part travel diary, part inspiration guide". It wants to get people keeping a record of where they go and what they do in cities, then share them via Facebook. Meanwhile, the app provides recommendations for cities including London, Madrid, Rome, New York and others. iPhone Daily Mirror News British newspaper the Daily Mirror has relaunched its iPhone app, offering news, gossip and sports articles, as well as horoscopes, columns and videos. A My Mirror feature provides personalisation too. iPhone Amazon Instant Video US-only for now, this is Amazon's official iPad app for its Prime Instant Video service, providing more than 120,000 films and TV shows to watch, either through streaming or downloading them to the device itself. iPad Paul Daniels Calculator for iPad Now THIS is magic. Possibly. Magician Paul Daniels is getting in on the apps game with a calculator app. Well, it looks like a calculator app: it's more of a magic trick to play on friends, as the man himself explains in this promotional YouTube video . iPad Green Day's Official App Warner Music has used Mobile Roadie to make the new official app for Green Day, which offers a mixture of news, photos, videos and tour updates, as well as some photo-manipulation fun. The link above is for Android, but here's the iPhone version . Android / iPhone Barefoot World Atlas Touch Press' excellent Barefoot World Atlas has been a big hit with children and parents alike on iPad. Now it's been squeezed down for the iPhone too, with the same features: a 3D spinning globe, and lots of animation, music, photos and text about the world and its inhabitants. iPhone Agent Dash Full Fat made games including Flick Soccer and Flick Golf, so its latest title is causing a stir. No sports here though: Agent Dash is more of a Temple Run-style game, as your agent dashes through a series of 3D environments grabbing power-ups and avoiding traps. iPhone / iPad Gears & Guts Glu Mobile has released a succession of freemium action games for iOS and Android, with Gears & Guts the latest. If you think that title means a game involving driving fast cars into zombies... you'd be right. In-app purchases for virtual currency provide the business model. Android / iPhone / iPad SpotQueue / SpotQueue Remote This pair of apps works together as a way to "remotely control Spotify between iPads, iPhones and iPod touches". For example, connecting one device to your stereo and then using another to control Spotify on it. iPhone Alien Breed Back in 1991, Alien Breed was the business on the Amiga. How will it fare in 2012 on iPhone and iPad though? Released by original developer Team17 Software, the top-down shoot 'em up includes classic and enhanced modes – the latter has beefed-up graphics and audio. iPhone / iPad Monster Life Coming on like a day-glo cross between Pokemon and FarmVille, this freemium game from Gameloft involves raising and training monsters before sending them off into battle, while also building the town that they train in. iPhone / iPad Happy Street Godzilab's Happy Street takes inspiration from a different Nintendo-based franchise: Animal Crossing. Well, albeit in a sideways-scrolling way, as you build a village, fish, make objects and make friends with a series of cutesy animals. iPhone / iPad Monsters vs Superheroes Comic Book Maker Popular children's app-maker Duck Duck Moose has a creative new app for iOS that helps kids create their own digital comics. It involves dragging and dropping characters and stickers onto background scenes, while recording their own voice to tell the story. The link above is for iPhone, but there's a separate iPad version . iPhone / iPad Pool Pro Online 3 Namco Bandai's multiplayer pool game returns in a third incarnation for Windows Phone, enabling you to play digital pool (or snooker) with other players around the world. Windows Phone Trainz Driver iPad app Trainz Simulator has proved to be pretty popular with rail-fans. Now there's a spin-off for smartphones, driving "locomotives from around the world". It ties in with the iPad version too, where routes and sessions can be created and shared with the smartphone editions. Android / iPhone A Not So Fading Light If you're looking for a well-crafted book-app for kids this week, A Not So Fading Light is well worth a look. It tells the tale of two children's adventure to try to save the sun (note, not The Sun), with illustrations, voice narration and interactivity. iPhone / iPad Dinosaur - Picture Me Another book-app here, and one that puts your children's faces into the story itself. That story concerning dinosaurs, with audio narration, word highlighting and interactivity. But its use of the camera is what may please kids most, as they see themselves in virtual dinosaur outfits. iPhone / iPad Molome BlackBerry owners may be waiting a while for Instagram to come to their devices, but Molome is hoping to fill the gap. It's a filter-based photo-sharing app, which like Instagram has its own social network, but can also post pics to Facebook and Twitter. BlackBerry AstroWings3 - Icarus Craving an old-school shoot 'em up game for Android? AstroWings3 might be it. Sitting in the bullet-hell sub-genre (i.e. perhaps look elsewhere if you're a wet-eared novice), it's visually impressive. Android