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Free Apps to Download TODAY ONLY 10/15/2016

October 15, 2016 by macjeff

A Noble Circle , Tiggly Submarine: Preschool ABC Game , Tiggly Story Maker: Make Words and Capture Your Stories About Them and more

iPhone:

Modern Labyrinth is casual gaming at its best. It doesn’t have a ton of bells and whistles. Just launch the game and get rolling. As with all labyrinth games, your job is to avoid falling down the wrong hole on your way to the highlighted one by tilting your iDevice. Try to move quickly and achieve the best time possible. The game includes 36 levels.

Universal:

A Noble Circle is from the creator of A Dark Room and The Ensign. If you’ve played those games, you’ll have a better idea of what to expect from A Noble Circle. If not, you have to try it anyway. On the surface it’s a high score game that has you moving a circle higher and higher with taps. But as you progress, a rather unique story will unfold right before your eyes.

Your child is able to explore the sea by tapping and dragging Tiggly and his submarine around. When they come across a character, they can latch on to an anchor point and start creating short words. There’s no wrong way to play. Just explore and create.

Your child is presented with two consonants that sit at the bottom of the screen with a space in the middle. They get to pick any vowel they wish from the top of the screen to create a word. If the word is valid, an object, person, or animal will appear. If it’s invalid, it will be ejected from the screen. When they’re done generating words, they can use any or all of them to create an animated story.

Blurify is remarkably easy to use yet its results are unmatched. Pick a photo from your library or take a new one from within the app. Then tug at the sliders that are popping out from the right side of the screen to adjust the blur, saturation, color, and contrast levels. Not really sure what you’re trying to achieve? Don’t worry, just give your iDevice a shake and have Blurify randomize the sliders.

TypiMage makes it fun and easy to create beautiful text designs. The app contains a collection of stock images that you can utilize or you can import your own. You’re able to create your message using as much text as you like. Then tap on a style and watch the magic happen. Every tap results in a new typographic design, so if it’s not something that fits your mold, just keep tapping. The app includes 62 different styles, endless randomizations for each style, text effects, filters, and the ability to add your own watermark.

A galactic syndicate has invaded our solar system. It’s up to you and your squadron to fight them off using all of the weapons at your disposal. The 35 missions will take you from the clouds of Jupiter through the Rings of Saturn. Earn medals and credits for defending key targets in order to build up your squadron and unlock new weaponry.

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Spoil, Chartistic, Serial Box, and other apps to check out this weekend

October 15, 2016 by macjeff

It’s the weekend again, and you know what that means. That’s right! It’s time for another Apps of the Week roundup. This week we have some great selections, including an app for easily ordering same-day gifts, a great new chart and graph-maker, and an app for creating awesome lip-sync videos.

Spoil

Here’s a cool idea: Spoil is the easiest way to send same-day gifts anywhere in the US. I think the service has been around for a while, but just recently launched its mobile app. Anyway, the point is that within a few taps you can order a wide variety of gifts including candles, cupcakes, flowers, stuffed animals, and even hand-written notes and have them delivered that day. If nothing else, tuck this app away for a rainy day. Spoil is available for free.

Chartistic

There are two ingredients to a great presentation: a powerful storyline and the data to back it up. Meet Chartistic, the app that allows you to create great interactive charts on the go. It comes with an assortment of bar, line, area and pie charts, and has a unique data-powered clipart visualizer that is sure to drive your points home. Create the perfect chart in minutes, export as an image and embed it into your emails, tweets, documents, and more. Chartistic is available for free.

Serial Box

Here’s another kind of cool concept: Serial Box Publishing. Serials are like books, but more fun! You can read or listen to weekly episodes by best-selling writers. Serials run for 13 weeks, with new episodes released each Wednesday, and last around 40 minutes. The Serial folks believe that reading should be as convenient and captivating as the best TV shows. The downside: first episodes are free, but beyond that each one costs money. And the pricing is rather steep. This app is available for free.

Lip Sync Battle App

Now you can join in on the fun seen on the popular TV show Lip Sync Battle. The official app allows you to lip-sync along to your favorite songs and record awesome videos that you can share with friends. Choose your song from a library of hits from major artists, add a mask and other props, record your video, add fun post production effects and filters, and share your creation within the app, via social media or even via text. You can also vote on your favorite performances and participate in contests. Lip Sync Battle is available for free.

Really Bad Chess

If you really want to like chess, but the lack of chaos turns you off, this game is for you. Really Bad Chess is very similar to the age-old classic, but the twist is: you get totally random pieces. So you may end up with 8 Knights, 4 Bishops and only 3 Pans. Crazy, right? The game includes an AI mode, a Freeplay mode, and Daily and Weekly challenges. A single in-app purchase removes ads, displays captured pieces and lets you choose alternate colors. Really Bad Chess is available for free.

More apps to check out

• Apple’s free app of the week: Shadow Bug
• 8 great iPhone and iPad games to get you in the Halloween spirit

Apps updated this week

• You can now stream Facebook videos to your TV while browsing your News Feed
• Periscope update brings camera and sharing improvements & more
• Google Photos for iOS gains new features that suggest rotations, resurface images & more
• Pokémon GO updated with catch bonuses, easier gym training, improvements to gameplay
• Snapchat launches Story Playlist, no longer automatically loads the next Story
• Dropbox for iOS gains iMessage app, PDF signing, iOS 10 widget, PiP video & more
• Skype for iOS picks up new contact notifications & iOS 10 CallKit toggle

Free Apps to Download TODAY ONLY 10/14/2016

October 14, 2016 by macjeff

NINE - Create visual to-do, reminder, shopping and wish lists with your photos , Brain Wave Study Smart - Advanced Binaural Brainwave Entrainment for Studying , Briefcase Pro - File manager, cloud drive, document & pdf reader and file sharing App and more

iPhone:

It’s so much easier to recall important events and ideas when you can actually see them, which is what makes Nine so effective. All you have to do is snap a photo of something related to the event or idea you want to recall. You can then add a title, note, and tag. The location at the time the entry was created will be attached automatically. All of your entries can be viewed in a single scrollable list, or you can filter them by tags.

Next Emoji provides you with quick access to more than 1,400 emojis including all of the new ones found in iOS 9.1. The app also includes a wide variety of playful stickers including huge emojis, cute characters, slang words, and Buzzfeed-inspired stamps. All of the emojis and stickers can be used in your favorite messaging apps. Next Keyboard includes 20 colorful themes to choose from as well.

Universal:

Brain Wave Study Smart offers advanced brainwave entrainment therapy. You’re able to select from morning, midday, afternoon, evening, and late night programs, and choose a soothing background sound to accompany them. Then hit play and allow the app to sync your brainwaves to the deeply relaxing low frequency delta, theta, and beta waves. The app also allows you to adjust the signal intensity and save your settings for later use.

Briefcase Pro can do it all. Files can be imported from cloud services including Dropbox, SkyDrive, Box, and GoogleDrive. You can also pull files in from your photo library, email, or your computer via Wi-Fi or iTunes File Sharing. Files can be viewed, played back, favorited, categorized, search for, and uploaded back to the cloud. You’re able to create your own TXT files as well. And, if you’re worried about document security, you can activate Touch ID or utilize a passcode.

The app includes randomly generated content, so your child shouldn't tire of Millie. And really, how could they? She's an adorable puppy. The app also includes 40 real life videos of Millie in action, hidden items to discover, narration, and more.

Ready to knock on more doors? Millie is! Something new to discover is hidden on every page. You and your child will be knocking on doors, watching Millie perform fantastic tricks, collecting virtual stickers, and so much more. The stickers that you collect can be used to create custom Halloween cards. The app includes 40 videos in total.

Today only: Unlock everything free of charge! Simply tap the “Unlock” button on the main screen, and enter the provided passcode to confirm your action. All current and future content will be available to you and your child free of charge. Various amounts of cards will appear on the screen face down. Your child can tap on them to reveal what’s on the flip side. They must then find all of the matching pairs of shapes and colors to complete each game. When tapped on, your child is able to hear the object or color pronounced. The app also includes a Show Me mode where the cards are all face up, making it easier to play.

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Apple’s free app of the week: Shadow Bug

October 13, 2016 by macjeff

Apple on Thursday updated its App of the Week promotion with the game Shadow Bug. This means that for the next 7 days you can pick up the popular platformer for free on both iPhone and iPad—a handsome savings of $4.

In Shadow Bug, you play an underdog ninja hero that must save your home forest from the evil factory by taking out monsters. The game has been praised for its mesmerizing, parallax graphics and breathtaking soundtrack.

From the App Store Editors’ Notes:

Shadow Bug may be tiny, but he’s got the skills and reflexes of a dozen full-grown ninjas. We adore this innovative mix of lightning-fast platformer and crafty puzzler. The only thing more satisfying than chaining together aerial attacks on evil beasts is sussing out the path to each level’s shining exit.

And here is a clip of the game in action:

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Shadow Bug is available in the App Store for free.

Free Apps to Download TODAY ONLY 10/13/2016

October 13, 2016 by macjeff

Interlocked , Cinderly SuperEmojis , OrasisHD and more

Universal:

Each puzzle presents you with a group of interlocking blocks, and your job is to take them apart as quickly as possible. You're able to rotate the structure by swiping outside of it, and you can interact with the blocks by swiping over them. The game includes five chapters, 45 puzzles, and achievements via Game Center.

Cinderly SuperEmojis are pure eye candy. The app includes 38 insane stickers, half of which are animated. It has everything from mermaids to tacos to a bag of chips. Grab your Cinderly SuperEmojis sticker pack and start sparkling up your messages.

You’re able to import any photo from your library or take a new one from within the app. Then allow Orasis to automatically enhance your photo, or you can tweak the settings to get the exact look you want. In the end, your retouched photos should look closer to what your eyes perceived when you took them. The app includes 14 presets and the ability to share your correct photos via email, Facebook, or Twitter.

The object of the game is to move one of your towers into the opponent’s home row. How you accomplish that, however, is up to you. On the first move you can select any tower you wish and move it in a straight line or diagonally forward. Every turn after that requires players to move towers that have the same color as the square the last turn ended on. For example, if your opponent’s tower lands on a pink square at the end of their turn, you must move your pink tower on your next turn. The game includes local and online multiplayer, and AI opponents with five difficult levels.

The app includes a total of 40 different dinosaurs to learn how to draw including Tyrannosaurus, Stegosaurus, Triceratops, and Velociraptor. Each lesson includes step-by-step instructions, or you can pose the dinosaur yourself and draw it from any angle. You’re able to use the lessons as a reference, open the app in split view with your favorite digital drawing app, or download the steps and poses to your library.

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