"If there is an app for that"

Free Apps to Download TODAY ONLY 06/26/2016

June 26, 2016 by macjeff

Zenge , Gravitations - Player Made Missions , Mind the Gap! Learn English Language – not just Grammar and Vocabulary and more

iPhone:

It's able to track all of your most critical performance metrics like calories, distance, time, speed, altitude, and pace. It also provides you with real-time map data, voice feedback, and even the local weather. The app includes history, automatic pause detection, and the ability to share your results via your favorite social networks.

Universal:

Zenge is void of points, timers, tutorials, move counters, and rating systems. They’re just a distraction from the art and sound. The idea is to slide puzzle pieces together in order to complete the image. The only thing stopping you are the puzzle pieces themselves since they can block each other out if put into place too soon. Take your time. Relax. Enjoy.

Guide your ship through space and around obstacles by dragging points along its path. Your goal is to not only successfully make it from one station to the other, but also recuse every last astronaut along the way. Keep in mind that you have a limited amount of fuel to complete your mission, so you must create the most efficient path. The game includes more than 4,500 user-created missions to complete, more than 30 spaceships to utilize, and the ability to create your own missions using a library of interstellar objects.

Mind the Gap takes authentic English text and cuts out words. It’s up to you to reconstruct the missing fragments by trying to understand the context of each sentence. After you’ve done your best, allow Mind the Gap to go over your answers and provide feedback. You can look up unfamiliar words in the dictionary so you don’t make the same mistake twice and go over your personal stats. Mind the Gap includes 15 subject areas and more than 500 pieces of text to work through.

Brain Wave Zen Meditation offers advanced brainwave entrainment therapy. You’re able to select from morning, afternoon, and evening 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 alpha, theta, and beta waves. The app also allows you to adjust the signal intensity and save your settings for later use.

Facie allows you to import any photo from your library or capture a new one from within the app. It will then automatically detect the outline and contours of your face. You’re able to mix and match a variety of selfie-improving filters like pure skin, lean face, bright smile, and divine light. The intensity of each filter can be adjusted as well.

Division Flashcard Match Games is loaded with positive reinforcement. It will help your child learn to divide by having them play a variety of memory matching games. You’re able to choose the best number range for your child’s skill level, but no matter which you choose your child will be able to hear the numbers and equations as they are touched. After each round, they’ll receive positive feedback and balloon popping rewards. Hints are available along the way, and “Show Me” and “Peek” features make it even easier for young learners to enjoy.

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Bvddy, Radar, WalletHub and other apps to check out this weekend

June 25, 2016 by macjeff

In this week’s installment of our Apps of the Week roundup, we’ve put together a list of unique apps and great games for you to check out over the weekend. Looking for a gym partner or tennis buddy? Bvddy can help. Going on vacation soon? Grab Radar for tips on the best places to visit. Keep reading for the full rundown.

Bvddy

Bvddy helps you discover new friends that play the sports you love. It’s kind of like Tinder for sports partners. So are you looking for a tennis buddy? Someone to run or do yoga with? A fellow gym rat? Bvddy will take your interest and skill level and find the perfect match. Then you can chat with them to coordinate your meeting, and locate nearby venues like yoga studios and soccer fields. Finally there is a review system to help weed out the bad sports. Bvddy is available for free.

Radar – Travel Smart

Radar is a new app from Yahoo that delivers personalized recommendations of sights to see, activities to try and restaurants to visit when you’re on vacation. The app sort of acts like a smart travel guide, with data sourced from several trusted websites across the web. You can filter recommendations based on individual preferences and time of year, create your own bucket list, view your itineraries, and get need-to-know tips from other travelers who have been there. This app is available for free.

WalletHub

WalletHub sells itself as the “first and only app” to offer 100% free credit scores with full reports that are updated daily. The app uses TransUnion for its reporting, and even offers 24/7 credit monitoring to warn you of identity theft and fraud. Plus you’ll get customized credit-improvement tips and personalized savings alerts. I know there are a bunch of these services out there, most notably Credit Karma, but WalletHub may be worth a try. Setup is easy, and the app is secure and well-designed. This app is available for free.

Twilight Struggle Mobile

The #1 rated strategy board game comes to iOS. Twilight Struggle puts the player at the center of the Cold War, the political and economic struggle between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R that spanned 5 decades from the 1950’s to the 1990’s. You control one of the two modern superpowers, as they work to spread their dominance throughout the world via political influence and coup attempts. But if either side triggers nuclear war, it’s game over! This game is iPad-only, and is available for $7.99.

Rodeo Stampede – Sky Zoo Safari

Saddle up and get ready to wrassle with the stampede-iest critters this side of the Savannah, in Rodeo Stampede. Lions and Tigers and Bears are no match for this rodeo star. Armed with a lasso and a ten gallon hat, swing from the backs of stampeding buffalo, elephants, ostrich, alligators, and more. When the stampede’s over, the zoo begins! Fill enclosures with your four-footed friends and let your patrons gaze in wonder. This is one wild ride that you don’t want to miss. This game is available for free.

More apps you should check out

• BitTorrent’s new media-streaming app for iPhone, iPad and Apple TV is arriving soon
• Apple’s free app of the week: Give it Up! 2
• Microsoft releases a free iOS client for SharePoint enterprise collaboration suite

These apps have been updated

• YouTube adding ability to live stream video to its mobile app
• Dropbox gains document scanner, secure file sharing and other productivity improvements
• Adobe CC update with content-aware crop in Photoshop and more now available

Free Apps to Download TODAY ONLY 06/25/2016

June 25, 2016 by macjeff

Puzzledrome , MailTime Pro - Email Messenger for IMAP, Gmail, Yahoo, Outlook Mail , Subtraction Flashcard Match Games for Kids in Kindergarten, 1st and 2nd Grade and more

iPhone:

MailTime reimagines the way you deal with email. It grabs your email threads and turns them into bubble chats, allowing you to cut through the clutter and communicate more efficiently. If you want to view the original email, just tap the bubble. MailTime’s smart inbox system also learns from your email behavior, automatically sorting email from accounts you’ve already interacted with into a separate tab, helping you quickly find the threads that matter. The app also includes a bunch of other handy features like the ability to quickly create and assign to-dos using the "@" symbol, warnings for messages that ramble on, and quick access buttons to cloud services.

What’s better than a bunch of regular monsters? Cute mini ones, of course! Your child is presented with more than 30 beautifully illustrated pages, each featuring an interactive monster that will assist them with recognizing and learning a specific number. They can flip through the pages on their own, or they can listen to the narrator sound out words for them. They’re also able to put together a collection of jigsaw puzzles.

Universal:

A palindrome is a word, phrase, or sequence that reads the same backward as it does forward. In Puzzledrome, the objective is to create palindromes by swapping tiles. Every column and row has to line up perfectly before the puzzle is complete, and you must try to complete the task in as few moves as possible. The game includes 303 puzzles, special tiles, and an arcade mode.

Subtraction Flashcard Match Games creates a fun environment for your child to practice subtraction in with its eye-popping visuals and positive encouragement. Your child can work on matching problems to their answers or matching problems to other problems. The difficulty can be adjusted by changing the number range and by showing the cards or keeping them face down. The game also includes a bubble popping reward after each round.

It’s so much easier to recall important events and ideas when you can actually see them, which is why we’re recommending Photo Reminders. All you have to do is snap a photo of something related to the event or idea you want to recall later, and then add a title and note. The photo will be turned into a large thumbnail, which can easily be viewed, edited, and shared from the main screen. Additionally, Photo Reminders allows you to attach audio notes and alerts to all of your events and ideas.

Just like Cutie Mini Monsters, your child is presented with more than 30 beautifully illustrated pages, each featuring an interactive monster that will assist them with recognizing and learning a specific number. They can flip through the pages on their own, or they can listen to the narrator sound out words for them. They’re also able to put together a collection of jigsaw puzzles.

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Top 4 Home Decorating Apps You Should Try

June 24, 2016 by macjeff

No matter how much you love your home’s decorations, you will eventually want to make some changes. When that time comes, turn to these four apps. They offer features that will inspire you to bring a new aesthetic to the rooms in your home.

IKEA Catalog

Price: Free

Available for: iPhone

IKEA catalog lets you browse the amazing catalog with iPhone or iPad so you can transform your home’s current look. The app provides information on more than just big furniture items, it also helps you with small, decorative pieces, but you will, of course, also find larger products like chairs and tables.

If you like one of the products that you find, then you can purchase without leaving the app. This gives you an easy, secure way to buy the things that catch your eye.

Chairish

Price: Free

Available for: iPhone

Chairish is similar to IKEA, but with this app you get to buy items from individuals as well as a store. That makes it possible for you to access a wider range of products through Chairish, including:

• Antique furniture
• Artwork from professional painters, sculptors, and designers
• Knickknacks that will add flair to your home

In most cases, you will have to pay for shipping and handling, but sellers can also offer a local pickup option. This is a convenient way to avoid shipping fees, especially when you buy from sellers located in or near your city.

Chairish is more than just a place to purchase new and antique items for your home. You can also use it to make money from things that you no longer want. If you have a table that doesn’t match your new decorating scheme, then you can sell it on Chairish. It’s free to list items on the app, and you get to keep 80 percent of the selling price.

ColorSchemer

Price: Free 

Available for: iPhone

Mixing and matching colors is essential to making your home look beautiful. The last thing you want to do, however, is buy new furniture, decorations, and paint without comparing color schemes. What looks good in your head doesn’t always translate so well to reality. That could mean that you waste a lot of money on ideas that aren’t as attractive as you imagined.

The ColorSchemer app gives you an opportunity to see exactly what various colors will look like together. You can use it to automatically generate concepts based on complementary, monochromatic, and triad colors.

ColorSchemer also lets you draw inspiration from previous concepts made by over 450,000 members of its COLOURlovers community. If you see something that you like, you can copy it or make a slight alteration to get the perfect color scheme for your room. In the end, this app can help you save a lot of time and money.

SnapShop

Price: Free

Available for: iPhone and Android devices

Just because a piece of furniture looks beautiful in the showroom doesn’t mean that it will look equally nice in your home. In some ways, you can’t really know what a couch or chair will look like in your living room until you move it in.

For obvious reasons, shoppers don’t want to move heavy pieces of furniture into their homes before they know whether the furniture will look attractive. Until recently, people had to rely on educated guesses. Today, they have SnapShop.

SnapShop is an augmented reality app that lets you see what new furniture will look like in your home. You just choose the item you might want to buy, open the app, point your cell phone’s camera where you want to place the furniture, and your display will show you the piece placed within the space you chose. The combination of a fast, reliable network and smartphone with large display and high-definition camera makes SnapShop a perfect home decorating app. If you still aren’t sure whether you like what you see, you can share the image with friends to get feedback. It’s one of the most effective ways to choose furniture without unnecessary lifting.

The next time you want to make some changes to your house or apartment, these four inspiring apps will help make the job easier. Instead of doing all the work on your own or hiring an expensive decorator, download these apps to revitalize your home.

Perchang is a Challenging Puzzler with Gizmos and Charm

June 24, 2016 by macjeff

Perchang ($1.99) by Perchang is a physics-based puzzle game that involves plenty of various mechanical contraptions, small metal balls, and goals. If you enjoyed classic games like Casey’s Contraptions and Amazing Alex, then you will love what Perchang brings to the modern world of contraption-based puzzles.

Ever since mobile gaming erupted in a boom with the App Store back in 2008, puzzle games have been one of the best things about mobile gaming, for me at least. Many of the popular iOS games that resulted have always been puzzles, such as the Angry Birds franchise, Cut the Rope series, Monument Valley, Square Enix Montreal’s GO games (Hitman GO and Lara Croft GO), and more, so it’s obvious that I’m not the only one who likes puzzles on iOS. However, one thing is certain — it’s been a long time since a contraption-style puzzle game hit the App Store. But now that Perchang has arrived, it’s definitely a must-have title for any physics-based puzzle fan’s collection.

In terms of visuals, Perchang has a minimalist aesthetic going on due to the bright white background (off-set slightly with a vignette effect around the edges), simplistic-looking gizmos that are all completely rendered in 3-D, hues of black, gray, and white with subtle splashes of red and blue color for the parts of the contraptions that you can control with the corresponding buttons. Animations in Perchang are buttery smooth, so it’s rather mesmerizing once everything starts getting into the flow — before you know it, the puzzle is solved and you’ll be moving on to the next one. The soundtrack in Perchang is rather atmospheric and soothing, which is just the icing on the cake. The developers have created a fantastic visual and audio package with Perchang that all puzzle fans need to experience for themselves.

Like other puzzle games, Perchang is level-based, with a total of 60 stages (50 regular levels and 10 challenging Gold Runs that need to be unlocked first) spread out over 10 areas. The objective in each stage is to get the required amount of balls to the goal, which is always indicated by the numerous black bars. When one ball gets to the goal, a bar will light up, and you repeat the process until they are all lit. The levels start out easy enough with just one goal, but soon you’ll experience multiple goals and much more complex layouts for the gizmos, so you’ll need all of your hand-and-eye coordination to solve the puzzles later on. To make the game even more challenging, you have to race the clock on every level — the faster you are, the better chance you have of earning a gold medal. A progress bar at the top right corner tells you the threshold of medal you’ll be receiving with the elapsed time so far.

Controls in Perchang are super simple and easy-to-understand. There are two buttons in the bottom corners: one red and one blue. Pressing these buttons will activate the corresponding gizmos on the stage, which include flippers, magnets, portals, fans, anti-gravity hoops, and much more. But sometimes you’ll notice that there are too many of one color for the contraptions, or you need to change a color to make things flow better. Fortunately, the color of any working gizmo on the stage can be changed with just one tap. It’s all easy enough that anyone can pick up on it, but mastering the timing and coordination of everything is an entirely different story.

The only problem I have with Perchang is the fact that after the short countdown to start each level, the timer for the medals begins. I don’t think this is enough time for one to properly plan out the solution, and as a result, you may feel a bit rushed. You will also end up replaying a level multiple times if you always strive for the gold medal, which may be annoying. I think a better way to implement the countdown is to have it start after you press the buttons. It’s not a super big deal, but hopefully it’s something that the developers can consider.

As mentioned, Perchang will initially start off with 50 levels, but if you do well enough, you unlock the Gold Run challenges, which are even more difficult tests of your coordination. There are also leaderboards supported in the game, in case you like to get competitive with friends.

I’m still in the early stages of Perchang, but so far I am loving every second of it. The game looks gorgeous with the minimalist aesthetic, the music is immersive and calming, controls are easy enough for everyone, and the puzzles are challenging enough to make you really use your brain. Plus, the addition of the countdown makes it a true test. I just hope to maybe see more levels coming in future updates, as well as considering changing the countdown so that it only starts after a button is pressed. Other than that, Perchang is a fantastic physics-based contraption machine puzzle game.

I highly recommend Perchang to anyone who loves contraptions, physics, and puzzles. This is a great addition to any game collection. You can get Perchang on the App Store as a universal download for the iPhone and iPad for just $1.99. There are no in-app purchases.

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