Free Apps to Download TODAY ONLY 10/07/2016

October 07, 2016 by macjeff

Dwelp , Forecast Bar - Weather, Radar, and Alerts , Pocket Earth PRO Offline Maps & Travel Guides and more

Universal:

Dwelp is familiar yet unique. The idea is to link same-colored dots in as few moves as possible by placing them next to each other. The catch, however, is that once two dots have been linked up, the rest of the same color will become locked in place. Each puzzle has more than one solution, but your ultimate goal is to find the one with the least amount of moves. You’re able to undo moves at any time. The game includes a total of 120 hand-crafted puzzles.

Forecast Bar aims to be the last weather app you’ll ever need. It allows you to customize the weather summary with any combination of 20 data points including everything from wind speeds to the location of the nearest storms. Forecast Bar also includes a variety of icons and backgrounds to choose from, a fully customizable widget, Apple Watch support, animated radar, and 3D Touch support.

No matter where you are, Pocket Earth will help you find your way thanks to its huge database that includes more than 100,000 locations and points of interest. Before heading out on your adventure, we recommend downloading your maps ahead of time. The storage space they take up is remarkably small. You’re able to search maps while offline, create routes, pin locations, share your current location, and even receive turn-by-turn directions.

Magic Launcher has the ability to launch over 100,000 different apps and actions right from your lock screen. Upon launch it’ll need to determine which apps are supported. After it has finished you'll able to add quick access icons for your favorite apps, contacts, settings, and services to your lock screen. The app also includes 3D Touch support.

There’s so much to do on Lily’s farm. Your child is able to choose from nine different base scenes and populate their favorites with over 100 fun and cuddly stickers. The stickers can be placed anywhere in the scene with a drag and drop, and they can be resized and rotated with common gestures. Tap on a sticker to bring it to life. Stickers are sorted be category, so it’s easy for your child to find exactly what they’re looking for.

Sketch Me doesn’t require a lot of tinkering. All you need to do is import a photo from your library or take a new one from within the app. Then tap on one of the 19 effects and enjoy the results. If you choose to, you can adjust other parameters like contrast and brightness. Sketch Me also includes 18 shapes that can be applied in order to show off the distinct effects.

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How to use Digital Touch in Messages for iPhone and iPad

October 06, 2016 by macjeff

Digital Touch debuted as a sort of gimmicky feature of the Apple Watch software. On iOS 10, Digital Touch has made its way into the stock Messages app, making it easy and to add various effects to photo or video attachments, send sketches, taps, kisses, heartbeats and more. In this step-by-step tutorial, you’re going to learn how to express your feelings in style with the Digital Touch features on your iOS 10-enabled iPhone, iPad or iPod touch.

Digital Touch system requirements

Digital Touch is supported on any iPhone, iPad or iPod touch with iOS 10 or later.

Digital Touch-enriched messages created on iOS devices render properly on Macs with macOS Sierra, as well as on the Apple Watch with watchOS 3 or later. On the downside, you cannot send Digital Touch effects from your computer because Messages for Mac lacks a built-in Digital Touch interface.

The Apple Watch permits you to send Digital Touch sketches, taps, your heartbeat and other animated expressions to friends and family, just like you can with Digital Touch on iOS 10 devices, with the sole exception of Digital Touch-enhanced photos and videos that do show up on the Apple Watch but cannot be created from your wrist.

What you can send with Digital Touch

Use Digital Touch to send the following things to your friends and family:

• Sketches
• Taps
• Kisses
• Your heartbeat
• Broken hearts
• Angry fireballs

You can access Digital Touch features whilst responding to an incoming message, composing a new message from scratch or replying to anyone you have an open conversation with already.

Creating animated sketches

Digital Touch makes it easy to create sketches by way of drawing with your finger on the screen. Digital Touch-enhanced sketches animate for the recipient the way you drew them.

1) Create a new conversation in Messages or tap an existing chat in the conversation list, then hit the Digital Touch button, it’s the middle icon to the left of the Messages text field.

2) Tap and hold with one finger, then drag the finger across the Digital Touch canvas to sketch anything you want on the screen. To take the Digital Touch canvas full screen, tap the upwardly pointing arrow in the bottom right.

You can sketch to your heart’s content before sending your creation. To use a different color, select it on the canvas then start drawing again.

You can pick from any of the following colors:

• Red
• Orange
• Yellow
• Green
• Blue
• Purple
• White

3) Tap the circled up arrow to send your finished digital sketch.

This is what an animated sketch will look like on the recipient’s end.

To clear it and start from scratch, tap the “x” in the upper left while you’re in the canvas.

Sending animated expressions

In addition to sending quick sketches, Digital Touch supports sending a single tap or a more complex pattern comprised of multiple taps. As a cool bonus, Messages makes it easy to express your feelings with big, nicely animated hearts, kisses, fireballs and other objects.

How to send taps

Open Messages, tap the Digital Touch button to the left of the text field, then tap anywhere on the canvas with one or more fingers to create a burst of color. Your taps are sent automatically as soon as they dissolve from the canvas.

You can also change the color for your taps. If you’re fast enough and change the color before your existing taps dissolve, you’ll be able to keep adding new taps to the sequence.

Here’s what your custom tap sequence may look on the recipient’s end.

On the Apple Watch, the built-in Taptic Engine produces a vibration on your wrist for each received tap or tap pattern. On the iPhone, a Digital Touch tap may produce a single vibration.

Attention to detail: The entire tapping sequence is replicated on the recipient’s side in the correct order complete with the position of your taps.

How to send kisses

Open Messages and tap the Digital Touch button to the left of the text field. Next, tap the canvas with two fingers simultaneously, then let go to send an animated kiss to the recipient.

Digital Touch kisses always appear in purple and changing color has no effect on them. This is what your digital kisses may look like on the receiving end.

Attention to detail: The angle of the kiss graphics matches the angle between your fingers, as you’re seeing on the screenshot above.

How to send a heartbeat

Open Messages, tap the Digital Touch button to the left of the text field, tap and hold with two fingers on the canvas to produce a single animated heartbeat, then let go to send it away.

Once the recipient receives your heartbeat, this is what they may see on their iPhone.

Attention to detail: If you own an Apple Watch or another wireless sensor that captures heartbeat data, Messages will use it to send your actual heartbeat. Your Apple Watch-totting recipient will feel your captured heartbeat on their wrist.

How to send a heartbreak

To send a heart that splits in two, open Messages and tap the Digital Touch button to the left of the text field. Tap and hold anywhere on the canvas with two fingers until you see a heartbeat, then drag down to break the heart and then it will be sent to the person you’re messaging.

You can tap and hold for as long as you like before you split the heart in two pieces.

This is what the heartbreak will look like for the recipient.

Attention to detail: For the recipient, the heart will pulse for as long as you were holding your fingers pressed against the screen before it ripped into two pieces.

How to send a fireball

Open Messages and tap the Digital Touch button to the left of the text field. Now tap and hold with one finger, or press and hold with one finger on 3D Touch-enabled devices, and let go to shoot an angry fireball at the recipient.

This is how a person on the other side sees your fireball.

Attention to detail: The animation will loop on the recipient’s end for as long as you were pressing the Digital Touch canvas with your finger.

Pulling up animated expressions cheat sheet

If memorizing all those gestures for animated expressions is proving too much for your gray matter (and you’re not alone: I, too, have a heard time recalling them), Messages has you covered with a built-in cheat sheet for Digital Touch gestures.

To bring up an overlay listing all of the gestures required for producing Digital Touch taps, sketches and animated expressions, tap the area to the right side of the Digital Touch canvas.

Animated expressions on Mac and Apple Watch

As we mentioned before, animated expressions of your feelings will render properly in Messages for Mac and Messages for Apple Watch. You can also create and send these things from your wrist with Messages for Apple Watch (minus effects on photos and videos),

Messages for Mac cannot create any Digital Touch-enhanced messages.

TUTORIAL: sending animated Digital Touch expressions from Apple Watch

How to draw over photos and videos

In addition to applying Digital Touch effects to a black background, Messages supports sketching, drawing or stamping animated expressions on top of your photos or videos.

1) Create a new conversation in Messages or tap one of your existing chats in the conversation list, then tap the Digital Touch button to get to the canvas.

2) Tap the round Camera button on the left side of the canvas to invoke the built-in camera feature.

3) You can now tap the round black button to take a photo attachment, or start capturing a video attachment by tapping the round red button.

4) After the photo has been taken, add a Digital Touch effect to it.

Digital Touch effects can only be added while the video is being recorded, not after the fact.

5) Tap the Send button to send your Digital Touch-enhanced media as an iMessage attachment.

You cannot add Digital Touch effects to existing media in your Photos library.

Instead, take advantage of a built-in Markup feature to edit photos or videos from your Photos library before they’re sent with Photos’ built-in editing tools, filters and vector drawing tools, without ever leaving the context of the Messages app.

TUTORIAL: How to edit, annotate & manage attachments in Messages for iOS

Messages for iOS deletes received video messages after two minutes, and this includes any Digital Touch-enhanced video clips. Your recipient can tap Keep below the message to save the video permanently in Messages, or tell iOS to always keep all received messages by selecting Forever in Settings → Messages → Keep Messages.

TUTORIAL: using Messages low-quality image mode to preserve cellular data

Unfortunately, iOS 10 does not provide a dedicated switch that would let you tell Messages to always keep received video attachments on the device.

Related Messages tutorials

If you like this how-to, check out these Messages tutorials from our archive:

• Sending animated expressions from Apple Watch with Digital Touch
• Adding Tapback reactions to messages you receive
• Setting up iMessage read receipts on a per conversation basis
• Using stickers in Messages on iPhone and iPad

How did you like this tutorial?

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Apple’s free app of the week: Impossible Road

October 06, 2016 by macjeff

Apple on Thursday updated its App of the Week promotion with the game Impossible Road. This means that for the next 7 days, you can pick up the popular arcade racer for both iPhone and iPad for free—a solid savings of $3.

In Impossible Road, you must guide your vessel down the roller coaster-like track at high speeds, scoring through each gate you make it through. Navigate hair-pin turns, jumps and banked curves in a quest for the perfect line.

From the App Store Editors’ Notes:

How far can you roll a sphere down a super-steep, never-ending ramp before falling off? Find out in this devilishly tough but instantly accessible score-based racing game—a masterpiece whose simple controls and wonderfully minimalist presentation will keep you coming back again and again. Whether you stick to the road with precision driving or fling yourself into the unknown with wild jumps, you’ll be engrossed and pushed to your limits.

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

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Impossible Road is available in the App Store for free.

Free Apps to Download TODAY ONLY 10/06/2016

October 06, 2016 by macjeff

The Blocking Dead , Markdown - Powerful markdown editor for Medium , iPassion - Couple game to get to know your partner and more

iPhone:

Recipes is focused on simplicity. You’re able to add your own recipes, and organize them within categories. Each recipe can contain a header photo, a list of ingredients, and step-by-step directions. The ingredients from any recipe can be added to your shopping list with a tap, and recipes can be shared via email. The app also includes a handy temperature and weight converter.

Universal:

The zombie apocalypse is finally happening. It’s a good thing you’ve been preparing for this moment all of your life. It’s your job to save the brains while squishing away the zombie heads. The only problem is, they’re all stacked together. You must remove the correct zombie heads as quickly and efficiently as possible in order to avoid accidentally squishing or tipping a brain off the screen. The game includes 70 levels and a wide variety of block types to keep things interesting.

When your documents need to be beautifully formatted and shared with the world, there’s Markdown. It allows you to easily create documents using Markdown syntax thanks to its custom keyboard. Your documents can include bold text, headers, links, tables, and more with the tap of a button. Markdown allows you to preview your work to ensure everything is formatted correctly before sharing it as a webpage, posting it to Medium, or simply syncing it with Dropbox.

Today only: Disable ads free of charge! Start a game with someone and you’ll have the opportunity to disable ads for yourself before the fun begins. 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.

The basic gameplay mechanics in Zero are simple enough. You must slide positive and negative numbered tiles around the board in order to achieve zero. The first few levels consist of just ones and twos, but things get crazy pretty quickly when large numbers and new kinds of modifier tiles enter the mix. Also, keep in mind that tiles won’t stop sliding unless they run into something. The game includes a total of 120 levels.

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Free Apps to Download TODAY ONLY 10/05/2016

October 05, 2016 by macjeff

Numbers and Counting Early Learning Math Match Games for Kids in Pre-K, Kindergarten and 1st Grade , Membot - Memorize and Learn Instantly , Painting 101 - Anyone’s a Painter and more

Universal:

The app is loaded with fun and colorful items to count and match. Depending on their ability level, your child can either play with cards face down or face up to make things easier. Hints are also available if need be. The game includes professional narration for every included item, positive reinforcement, and parental controls.

Membot teaches you definitions through repetition. You’re able to create an unlimited number of custom cards with definitions. Then set the amount of time between each card being displayed. Times range from 15 seconds to one hour. Close the app, allow it to remain running in the background, and wait for your first card to appear as a notification. When a notification comes in, you’re able to peek at the definition with a downward swipe.

You’re able to browse through the knots by category or search for something specific. Each knot includes a difficulty rating, a description, and step-by-step instructions accompanied by 3-D animations. You’re able to share knots via Facebook or Twitter, and leave a comment and a rating. The app also includes the ability to favorite knots and adjust the animation speed.

Next requires your complete and utter attention. All you have to do is tap numbers in their correct order as quickly as you can. The difficulty is that the numbers are spread out across a complicated and completely random grid. The game includes two modes, with one requiring you to find all of the numbers at your own pace and the other having you race against the clock. Both allow you to utilize power-ups in case you find yourself stuck.

Painting 101 brings out your creative side by allowing you to utilize your own photos as your canvas. After importing a photo, Painting 101 will turn it into a sketch. You can then stylize and paint over the top of it using a wide variety of tools that ensure everything turns out perfectly. You don’t have to use a photo, however, as there is a vast selection of canvas styles to choose from.

Paper Spiral takes a different approach to painting and drawing on your iPad. Instead of requiring you to create separate pages for your work, you’re provided with an unlimited scrollable canvas. The canvas can be resized with pinch gestures, and a two-finger swipe will allow you to unroll it. Paper Spiral’s velocity sensitive brushes and erasers give your work the look and feel of the real thing. The app includes 12 brushes, 12 erasers, and 12 smudge tools.

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