Data Store: Facts you can use. Best apps: our experts pick 50 of the most dazzling, useful and novel. The web has undergone something of a makeover in the past couple of years.
Apps, specialised miniature versions of internet-based services, now allow us to neatly populate our phones and tablet computers with our favourite bits of the web, from train times and painting tools to shopping services and karaoke. Simply packaged and easy to buy, apps have made niche corners of the web more accessible and mainstream. Software developers and publishers have enthusiastically embraced the app revolution, rising to the challenge of customising their services for smaller screens but also taking advantage of new opportunities.
How to be a data journalist. Data journalism is huge.
I don't mean 'huge' as in fashionable - although it has become that in recent months - but 'huge' as in 'incomprehensibly enormous'. It represents the convergence of a number of fields which are significant in their own right - from investigative research and statistics to design and programming. Paul Morley's Showing Off ... Squarepusher takeover. Video: Squarepusher in session.