The Covert Cocktail

Flare: It's a video recorder app that records in High Dynamic Range. Which means it allows for a greater range of luminance between the lightest and darkest areas of an image to bring a more detailed look at the world. I've always thought HDR photos, when done stunningly, exposed a living and breathing unreality that laid quietly underneath what we see. HDR videos take that to a whole 'nother level. $1 Gourmet live: The former Gourmet Magazine, reinvented on the iPad as Gourmet Live has undergone the...

Uh oh. It’s your turn to host your crew’s weekly Movie Night, and you’ve gotta come up with a theme. The Austin Powers guy made bangers and mash and forced everyone to speak in a British accent. Harry Potter girl pulled out all the stops with a wand-making craft hour and lightning-shaped temporary tattoos. How ever will you top that?! Don’t worry, you’ve got a trick up your sleeve: You’ve got James Bond. And Booze. Bond Mixology for iOS is to alcohol in Bond flicks as Mr. Skin is to nudie scenes in ever...

Honestly, if you thought James Bond's only tipple was a martini shaken, not stirred, think again—and cough up $2 for the Bond Mixology app, which carefully catalogues every drink from every scene from every Bond movie. You can choose drinks depending on the movie, with contextual film info being pulled straight from IMDB for small anecdotes as you pour your chums a drink or two from the recipes provided. It's $2, and available for both the iPhone and iPad.

If you’re only casually familiar with James Bond then you might think that the only drink he ever ordered was his classic “Vodka Martini. Shaken, not stirred.” But Bond was…