Apps rush: Eurostar Trains, Forkly, Melon Meter and more

A burst of 11 apps for your consideration Eurostar Trains Eurostar has launched its official iPhone and Android app this week, which includes the ability to both book tickets and have them delivered directly to the smartphone as mobile tickets. The app also ties into the Eurostar loyalty schemes and also offers up service updates. iPhone / Android Forkly There are already several popular apps for food-lovers to share details of their meals with the wider world. Forkly is the latest, having been launched by the former team behind social location service Brightkite. Users share photos and thoughts about their food and drink, with the aim of generating recommendations for others. iPhone Melon Meter Melon Meter is marvellously simple in its intent: it tells you whether a watermelon in a shop is ripe enough to eat. How? You thump it with your hand, then the app analyses the sound to tell you whether to buy or leave. iPhone Nokia Nearby Nokia has launched a new "hyper-local search" app for Series 60 and Series 40 handsets that don't have GPS or mapping features. Launched by the company's Beta Labs division, it searches for venues near the user's current location. Nokia Star Alliance FareFinder The Star Alliance network of airlines has a new iPhone app to help people compare prices and book flights. Well, the first of those anyway: they are then directed to the member airline's website to actually book their tickets. iPhone United Airlines United Airlines has just launched its official Android app, enabling passengers to book flights, check their status and check in on the go. Push notifications and airport maps are also included. Android Sherlock Holmes w/ Booktrack Startup Booktrack has an interesting idea: to provide soundtracks for book-apps on iOS. This one serves up Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Adventure of the Speckled Band with atmospheric audio: horse's hooves, wood fires and other effects. iPhone / iPad Robin Nixon: HTML5 Crash Course With HTML5 mobile web apps rising up the priority list for many developers, what better way to learn how to make them than... a native iOS app? Robin Nixon's new book has its own app, offering 20 chapters and more than three hours of video tutorials. iPhone / iPad W Front Row W Magazine has launched a spin-off iPhone app focusing on the Fashion Weeks in New York, London, Milan and Paris. It offers a guide to shopping, eating and drinking, hotels and culture in the four cities, while pulling in Fashion Week tweets. iPhone Pure Flow Pure Flow is the work of Katy Connor and Duncan Rowland: a mobile artwork whose App Store blurb promises that it "transforms iPhone and iPad into a Live probe revealing the noise between GPS satellites, 3G networks and Wifi hotspots as a tangible presence in the environment". It ties in with September's Brighton Digital Festival. iPhone Desire Wedding Inspiration Board Creator Indulge your inner Bridezilla with this wedding board app for iPad, which makes it easy to save and display photos as inspiration for your wedding day, while sharing them via Facebook and email. iPad You can follow Guardian Apps Blog's Apps rush on delicious To suggest links, tag articles on delicious.com with "guardianappsblog"