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Apple’s free app of the week: Toca Life: School

April 06, 2017 by RSS Feed

Apple on Thursday updated its App of the Week promotion with the app Toca Life: School. For the next 7 days you can pick up the hit children’s title for free on both iPhone and iPad—a solid savings of $3.

Toca Life: School is another fun and educational app in the popular Toca franchise. It features 5 interactive locations for telling stories about life at school, including a classroom, playground and lunchroom.

From the App Store Editor’s Notes:

The makers of the charming, child-friendly Toca Life series have created an enthralling school setting for kids to explore, packing it with cute customizable characters and unique digital props. Without time limits or set goals, it’s a perfect way for little ones to express themselves, create their own stories, or simply have fun shooting hoops at recess and jamming with the school band.

And here’s a clip of the app in action:

Toca Life: School is available in the App Store for free.

Source link: http://www.idownloadblog.com/2017/04/06/free-app-toca-life-school/

Apple’s Clips Social Media Video App Available for iPhone, iPad

April 06, 2017 by RSS Feed

Apple’s Clips video editing app for social networks hit the App Store on Thursday. The app lets iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch users capture and edit short videos to share on Facebook, Twitter, and more.

The Clips app includes video filters, background posters, stickers, animations, and titles that can be added during recording or later when editing. Video can be captured in the app, or you can use videos you previously recorded and stored in Photos.

You can share your videos on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube. The app also includes a Smart Suggestions feature that uses facial recognition from Photos to suggest who you might be in your videos, and you can share your creations with those people via Messages.

Clips requires iOS 10.3 update and is compatible with the iPhone 5s and newer, the iPad mini 2 and newer, iPad Air, iPad Pro, the just announced 9.7-inch iPad, and the 6th generation iPod touch—in other words, you need a 64-bit capable iOS device. You can download Clips for free at Apple’s App Store.

Source link: https://www.macobserver.com/news/product-news/clips-social-media-video-app-available/

Stimulate Your Brain With the Elements in Trilogic

April 05, 2017 by RSS Feed

Trilogic ($1.99) by 1Button SARL is a minimalistic puzzle game that can be considered a follow-up to the popular Bicolor from the same developer about three years ago. If you like no-fuss puzzle games like KAMI 2, Strata, and Open Bar, then you will love what Trilogic has to offer.

I’ve been under a bit of stress lately, and when this happens I like to escape in a world of video games. While most of my game time has been spent on the Nintendo Switch in recent weeks, I’ve been taking a break from that and turning to my iPhone for some quick gaming sessions in my downtime. If you’ve followed my work on AppAdvice over the past few years, then you should know that one of my favorite game genres are puzzles. Why? While I like to relax, I prefer to keep my mind busy and stimulated, and I find puzzle games are the perfect medicine, especially when there’s zero hassle with them. I’ve been a fan of 1Button for a while now, since they’ve released some great little games like Bicolor, Poptile, and Quetzalcoatl. So when I got news of Trilogic in my inbox a few weeks ago, I knew it was another game I had to check out, and boy, I’m not disappointed.

Following in the footsteps of all of the other 1Button games, Trilogic features a super minimal design that looks basic but is still aesthetically pleasing to the eyes. The game has a flat, 2-D appearance and is composed of just three colors and simple icons to go along with each color. The typeface used is bold and easy to read, so there should be no issue with figuring out how many moves each tile can move before running out. While there are only three colors used in the game, they’re bright and vibrant, and animations are smooth and fluid. The transitions from completing a stage and moving on to the next level are seamless, so everything just comes together nicely. There is no background soundtrack, but there are some bubbly and quirky sound effects that are a delight to listen to as you play.

Just like other puzzle games before it, Trilogic is level-based, featuring nine puzzle packs that contain 20 stages in each. If you’re doing the math, then that means that Trilogic comes with 180 puzzles initially, which is a lot for your money. Another great thing about Trilogic is the fact that you can play the stages in any order you want, as long as you have access to the chapter. Once you complete enough puzzles, the next section becomes unlocked and available to you.

So what is Trilogic? Each of the three colors on the screen represent an element, which is indicated by the symbol with a number inside. Green means leaf, red means fire, and blue means water. Going by simple logic, leaf consumes water, fire burns leaf, and water extinguishes fire. The number on a tile indicates how many squares it can move and fill in before it runs out. To move a square, just tap-and-drag it where you want it to go. As you fill in squares with that element, the number decreases until it’s no more. The goal is to end up with a single element by the end of the puzzle (the type is indicated by the background color of the level pack you’re in), so the trick behind solving the puzzles in Trilogic is the order of the elements that you move. It’s a simple concept, really, but be careful — the puzzles get trickier as you progress, but it’s never too overwhelming. If you make a mistake, you can swipe left with one finger to undo one move at a time, or swipe right to re-do that move. Using two fingers undoes everything. A tap anywhere on the screen brings up the in-game menu options, including level select, restart, and using keys to clear a level if you’re stuck.

I’m still in the early chapters of Trilogic, but I’m enjoying the game a lot so far. The visuals and sound effects are pretty simple but still lovely to see and hear. There are plenty of puzzles for the price, and while they do get challenging as you get further along, they never once feel overwhelming, so this is a puzzle game fit for all ages. While you can buy keys to skip levels that you are stuck on, I feel that almost all of them can be solved through trial-and-error, so the keys are completely optional.

I recommend picking up Trilogic if you’re in the mood for relaxing but stimulating logic puzzles. You can find Trilogic on the App Store as a universal download for your iPhone and iPad for just $1.99. There are in-app purchases for the optional level-skipping keys.

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Free Apps to Download TODAY ONLY 04/05/2017

April 05, 2017 by RSS Feed

Water Reminder - Drink Water Tracker & Daily Alert , Nice Shark! Good Kitty Cat and Penguin Too! Emoji , Toca Life: School and more

iPhone:

Water Reminder - Drink Water Tracker & Daily Alert ( $2.99 → Free ) Ahmad Rakib Uddin The human body is made up of around 60 percent of water, making it vital to your health. Water Reminder will ensure you drink enough by helping you track your intake throughout the day. The app asks you to determine what a small glass and a big glass will be along with your daily goal. Then every time you drink water, just choose between the two. The app also includes customizable reminders, Apple Watch support, HealthKit integration, and a lock screen widget.

Universal:

Nice Shark! Good Kitty Cat and Penguin Too! Emoji ( $0.99 → Free ) Eggroll Games LLC This sticker pack will brighten everyone's day. It includes more than 30 unique stickers to peel and stick onto your messages. You’ll find a happy kitten, loving penguin, sweet snowman, and, of course, a nice shark.

Toca Life: School ( $2.99 → Free ) Toca Boca AB Anything goes in Toca Life: School. Children are able to navigate a house, cafeteria, school building, youth club, and playground with taps. Along the way they’ll be able to play sports, start food fights, play in band, perform science experiments, and so much more. Each location is its own mini adventure with tons of interactions to discover. The app includes a total of 34 characters to play with and different outfits to wear.

Big Clock - Alarm and Weather ( $0.99 → Free ) Rao Studios, Inc. With Big Clock, there will be no more squinting. No matter if you place your iDevice in portrait or landscape orientation, you’ll get to see big clock numbers. The app is also able to display the date if you wish. Big Clock features a fully customizable alarm clock, allowing you to set music from your library as your alarm, set a time between snooze button hits, and set a maximum number of snooze button hits. A weather widget is available via in-app purchase, but you can give it a one month test run free of charge.

SharpScan Pro + OCR: scan documents to clean PDF ( $2.99 → Free ) Pixelnetica Scanning is a breeze with SharpScan Pro. You’re able to scan a single page or multiple pages rapidly. The app’s powerful camera engine ensures every pixel counts, getting rid of noise, shadows, distortions, and other artifacts. It’s also able to automatically detect the edges of your documents, but you can manually adjust them if need be. After scanning your documents you’re able to recognize the text in over 50 languages. Documents can be stored in the app, on your iDevice, or in the cloud.

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Microsoft Launches ‘Sprinkles’ Camera App With Machine Learning Features

April 04, 2017 by RSS Feed

Microsoft is no stranger to camera apps for iOS devices, and the company is back with yet another one.

As originally reported by TechCrunch, Microsoft recently launched a camera app for iOS called “Sprinkles.” Microsoft says it can make the user’s photos fun in two seconds, and it does so with machine learning and other features based on artificial intelligence. The new camera app’s features allow it to detect the subject’s age and emotion, which means it can pull up a caption to use with the photo all on its own.

As an example, if someone in your picture is frowning, Sprinkles is aware of the emotion on display, and can pull up a caption that suggests the subject “turn that frown upside down.” The app can also figure out a subject’s celebrity look-a-like, and more. All of this is available for free from the iOS App Store now.

On top of all that, Sprinkles also includes emoji and stickers, and they can change based on the day of the week and time of day, just like other camera-focused apps out there.

“However, Sprinkles is the first to really aim young, with an app that’s a bit derivative in terms of its inspiration (decorate your photos!), but also cleverly aggregates a lot of the silly but fun technology Microsoft before showcased only in its standalone side projects. Sprinkles similarly feels like just another side project that’s meant to act as a demonstration of its technology.”

The app is available now (it launched on April 1).

Download

[via TechCrunch]

Source link: http://www.iphonehacks.com/2017/04/microsoft-sprinkles-ios-app.html