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Apple’s free app of the week: Blyss

March 30, 2017 by RSS Feed

Apple on Thursday updated its App of the Week promotion with the game Blyss. For the next 7 days you’ll be able to pick up the popular puzzler for free on both iPhone and iPad—saving you a solid buck.

Blyss is essentially an endless puzzle adventure that features calming, serene graphics and a transcendent soundtrack. Features include unlimited, unique puzzles, 3 game modes, and a player leaderboard.

From the App Store Editors’ Notes:

Some dots take one swipe, some take two. But one thing’s for certain: if you want to clear every puzzle, you have to think through your moves. Failure’s inevitable in the high-stakes Endless mode—but trust us—you won’t mind restarting.

And here’s a video of the game in action:

Blyss is available for free in the App Store.

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Free Apps to Download TODAY ONLY 03/30/2017

March 30, 2017 by RSS Feed

Classicalc Music - piano sound playing calculator , Able Black , aTimeLogger 2 - Personal Time Tracker & Time Sheet and more

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Classicalc Music - piano sound playing calculator ( $0.99 → Free ) Lukasz Kowalski Classicalc isn’t your everyday calculator. It’s classier than most. The app includes 14 beautiful themes, each with its own set of grand piano scales that sound off when calculating. Besides looking and sounding great, Classicalc includes real-time calculations, the ability to start calculations on your iPhone and finish on your Apple Watch, and split screen support for iPad.

Able Black ( $1.99 → Free ) Scott Leach Able Black is a lonely android struggling to understand his purpose. He’s trapped inside of an underground habitat know as Ark 19, which was designed to save humanity from disaster. The game puts you in Able’s shoes, and requires you to solve a series of puzzles in order to unlock his backstory. Each puzzle includes five hints. You can cycle through the hints by pressing the button repeatedly. If you can solve the puzzles without using the hint button you will be rewarded.

aTimeLogger 2 - Personal Time Tracker & Time Sheet ( $4.99 → Free ) BGCI Thanks to its intuitive interface, aTimeLogger ensures you won’t waste a lot of time tracking your time. The main menu provides you with a large grid of activity icons, but if you can’t find one that suits your activity, go ahead and create your own. To track an activity, just tap on an icon to start the timer. At the end of the day you can view all of your stats and generate custom reports.

iPassion: Sexy Couple Game Quiz & Adult Sex Tips ( $2.99 → Free ) iPassion ApS iPassion will get the conversation started and help you get to know your partner even better. You’ll first have to sign up for an account and send a request to your partner. When the game begins, you must answer two personal questions and your partner will guess the answers and find out if they’re correct. Then it’s the other way around. For every correct answer you’ll receive 10 points. The first to 100 wins.

YouStar - Movie Maker FX & Special Effects ( $1.99 → Free ) Ipsita Senapati YouStar lets you shine. You’re able to shoot video from within the app, import your own video, or you can create a video from your favorite photos. But the fun only truly begins during editing. YouStar makes it easy to apply professional-quality animations, filters, and transitions. It just requires a tap! You’re able to do some of the dirty work yourself, however, by adjusting clips, adding text, attaching music, and performing voiceovers.

Bogga Easter ( $2.99 → Free ) Boggatap Your child must first hunt down the hidden egg. They can then apply all kinds of different designs just by tapping and dragging them onto the egg. After everything looks just right, your child can snap a picture of their unique egg and share it with the family.

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iOS 10.3: Using “Find My AirPods”

March 30, 2017 by RSS Feed

OK, I admit it. My AirPods are pretty much my favorite thing ever! Well, after my iPhone…and my Watch…

Well, anyway. I like ’em a lot, is what I’m saying, so I’m pretty jazzed about iOS 10.3’s inclusion of the new “Find My AirPods” feature. Not that I’d ever lose mine, oh no. They’d have to be out of my ears occasionally for that to ever happen.

So here’s how you’ll use this fine new ability. First, either open the Find My iPhone app if you’ve already got it installed, or download it from the App Store if you haven’t.

When the app opens, tap on your AirPods from the list of devices…

…and you should see them appear on a new map screen.

See that “Actions” button at the bottom? If you tap that, you can play a sound on your AirPods to find them if you’ve lost one or both.

While the sound is playing, you could mute either AirPod if you’ve just lost the left one or the right one. The tone that plays will progressively get louder, so unlike the “Find My iPhone” sound, for example, it won’t just leap straight to “dogs two towns over are howling now” levels of loud.

Snarkiness aside, there are a couple of other things to note here. It doesn’t look like the AirPods can be located unless they’re connected to a paired device, so sadly that means that you can’t find them if you lost them inside their cool case. Bummer. Also, you could use iCloud.com to locate them now, too, if you want to see them on a map or play a sound from your computer instead of your iOS device.

I would like to take this opportunity to apologize to my neighbors for this tip. That was a lot of high-pitched sound-playing during my testing, and I’m so sorry. But hey! I always listen to music through my AirPods instead of through a speaker, so that’s something for you to be grateful for, right?

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The new Search app for iOS app includes Gboard, Google’s third-party keyboard

March 30, 2017 by RSS Feed

the new google search app with gboard makes it easier to find emoji, gifs, and more.

android may be google’s operating system, but that doesn’t mean the search giant’s ignoring its second-largest market: apple’s ios. this week, google rolled out a string of updates to one of its most popular iphone products: search.

starting this week, the google search app for ios now includes google’s third-party gboard as part of its download — you will see the option to enable gboard in the google app’s settings.

more: google updates iphone search app with a smarter google now and customized alerts

gboard, google’s third-party keyboard for ios, already boasts an impressive number of features. the headlining feature is a built-in google search bar that lets you send weather forecasts, videos, images, news, restaurant recommendations, emojis, gifs, and anything else google’s servers manage to find. gboard’s support for glide typing lets you compose replies by swiping a finger across the keyboard (a faster alternative to tapping out the letters individually). and voice transcription’s on board, too.

the new search app for ios also boasts “trending on google,” a widget that features breaking news and other topics based on trending searches across google. tapping on an item launches the google app, so you can read more.

apple’s 3d touch features heavily in the new update. a 3d touch on the search app’s icon surfaces up options to start a voice, image, or incognito search, and a tap on the ‘g’ icon at the bottom of the screen quickly starts a new search. a 3d touch on the search results themselves, meanwhile, shows a preview of the content in question.

more: the new and improved google app makes it easier to keep track of recommendations, reminders, and interests

the new widget’s easy to add. tapping on the edit button from the button of the notification center brings it up, as does a 3d touch.

increasingly, google’s search app is becoming a one-stop shop for the search giant’s services.

two years ago, google rolled out an update that added conversational voice. basically, it put voice questions in context — asking, “what’s the weather like?” and immediately following up with, “how about this weekend?” will show results tailored to the second query.

last year, google rolled out a streamlined search app that broke results into two categories: current topics and upcoming events. news, sports, weather, and other topics populated the former and info about calendar appointments and important emails took up the latter.

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Reunite Ellie & Max in This Ever-Shifting Puzzle Game

March 29, 2017 by RSS Feed

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Ellie & Max ($1.99) by Appetizer Games Co., Ltd. is an adorable puzzle game about a girl and her best friend. If you enjoyed games in the vein of Monument Valley and Fez, then you will like what Ellie & Max have to offer.

While most of my gaming time is spent on my Nintendo Switch with The Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild these days, every now and then I like to take a break from Hyrule and kick back with some iOS games. If you’ve followed my work here at AppAdvice for the past several years, then you will know that puzzle games are one of my favorite genres. This is because while I like to relax, I prefer to keep my brain stimulated with something that is both fun and challenging. Even though it feels like I’ve played almost every well-known puzzle game on iOS so far, I can’t help but keep my eye out on new releases. When I saw Ellie & Max on the App Store, I was intrigued by the screenshots, which reminded me of my brief time with Fez. Needless to say, if you’re a fan of optical illusion puzzle games, then Ellie & Max is one that is worth checking out.

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Visually speaking, Ellie & Max is beautiful and fun to look at. The game is rendered in both 2-D and 3-D since it makes use of optical illusions to change perspectives, just like Monument Valley. Everything is rendered in an isometric, voxel style like Minecraft, so the aesthetic is both retro (think 8-bit) and modern at the same time. Despite the cube-like visuals, the game manages to pack in a lot of finer details, such as environmental textures and appearances of every character (more to unlock later). The color palette in Ellie & Max features a nice mix of both soft pastel hues and bolder, more vibrant tones. Characters have lively body language that breath life into the game, and animations are smooth and fluid so I had no issues with lag on my iPhone 7. The game also has a quirky soundtrack that just adds to the overall charm of the game, and the sound effects are fun to listen to as you successfully complete the puzzle one step at-a-time. I think the developers did a pretty good job in terms of Ellie & Max’s visual and audio design.

Like other puzzle games, Ellie & Max is level-based, and players must go through each stage in chronological order, so it’s fairly linear. At the moment, there are over 80 levels, so there’s plenty of content for your buck, and more will be added in the future.

The game has a pretty generic storyline going, which involves a girl named Ellie, and her pet dog Max, who both get lost and separated from each other in a strange and mysterious world. The objective of each puzzle is to help Max find Ellie, who’s hidden somewhere on the stage, and then reach the goal point (marked by glowing butterflies) together. While it sounds easy enough, things get challenging when you take into consideration the ever-changing perspectives of the stage, as well as the fact that you only have a limited number of spins in order to successfully clear it. If you ever get stuck, though, the game does have a helpful hint system that shows you what you need to do for the part that you’re having trouble with. Your score and number of stars earned (up to three) are purely dependent on the number of moves you make as well as how many cookies you collect.

Controls in Ellie & Max are simple and fairly intuitive. To direct Max, just tap on where you want him to go. Max will go there if he is able to, and he can jump up one block automatically, but he cannot go upwards more than one block. He can jump down more than one block, though, so don’t be afraid of dropping down a few blocks. Since Ellie & Max is dependent on shifting the view and changing perspectives, you rotate the stage by dragging your finger horizontally across the screen. The stage will “snap” into place once you release your finger.

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Unlike other games, your movement is not limited to the number of times that Max actually moves, per say, but the amount of times you spin the stage. The number of spins allowed is shown at the top of the screen, and it will decrease by one each time you rotate the screen, so try to be conservative with those spins. Another thing to keep in mind is the fact that Max must be visible after each spin, otherwise it is considered invalid. Sometimes you will have to rotate the stage a few times before you see what you have to do, because each shift can change the stage subtly or dramatically. While you may see the end point early on, nothing will happen when you go to it unless you have Ellie with you. To make things more interesting, some levels will also be separated into several parts, so once you get to the checkpoint of one section, the next section reveals itself.

After a certain point in the game, you will unlock “Hard Mode” that can be selected for every stage. This means that the location of each character will be different each time, so the solution you memorized before won’t work. This spices things up for each stage, which adds replay value. The game also has achievements to obtain, so there are goals to strive for if you’re into that. And if you’re a completionist, there are cookies to collect on each stage, which just help you earn three stars on the stage (along with using the fewest number of spins possible). You also get coins (currency) and gems (premium currency) that can be spent to unlock new characters (100 gold coins for a random character), though they are purely for cosmetic purposes.

I’ve only just started Ellie & Max in recent days, but I’m enjoying the game so far. The game’s aesthetics remind me of Fez, which is not entirely a bad thing, considering that Fez is not on iOS. The visuals are definitely appealing with the isometric voxel style, and the music is delightful. The puzzles start off easy enough, but things pick up in difficulty at a nice, gradual pace, so it’s never overwhelming. Adding a hard mode that changes everything up keeps the game interesting, and gives you brand new opportunities to beat your previous high score.

I recommend giving Ellie & Max a try if you like shifting perspective puzzle games. You can find Ellie & Max on the App Store as a universal download for your iPhone and iPad for just $1.99. There are in-app purchases for gems.

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