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Physics puzzler Pull My Tongue goes free as Apple’s App of the Week

May 19, 2016 by macjeff

Apple on Thursday updated its App of the Week promotion with the game Pull My Tongue. This means that for the next 7 days, you’ll be able to download the popular physics puzzler for both iPhone and iPad for free—a solid savings of $1.

For those unfamiliar with the title, players are tasked with helping feed popcorn to a hungry chameleon named Greg. You do this by pulling his tongue through a series of fun puzzles that include zappers, spikes, chewing gum and balloons.

From the App Store Editors’ Notes:

Greg the chameleon loves popcorn, and he’s willing to stretch his tongue around all kinds of frightful obstacles to get at it. This captivatingly cute puzzler has a simple goal—pull the chipper lizard’s tongue to the crunch kernels, picking up as many stars as possible along the way—but introduces new twists and turns throughout its 90 levels. Moving pegs, whirling blades, arcing electricity, and more will have you flexing your brain as much as Greg’s tongue. Suddenly, the price of movie theater popcorn doesn’t seem all that unreasonable.

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

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If you’re interested, Pull My Tongue is available in the App Store for free.

Yahoo Esports now has an official iPhone app

May 19, 2016 by macjeff

Esports are the real deal, and with Yahoo’s brand new Esports for iPhone app following your favorite teams, keeping track of the scores and watching online events just got easier.

Available for free on the App Store, the official app has many of the features and functionality found on the web and in its Android counterpart, which launched last month.

You can set reminders so that you don’t miss upcoming matches, see live stats on match pages, watch both past games and real-time tournament broadcast coverage, see breaking news, highlights and league scores for all your favorite games and more.

Yahoo Esports for iPhone supports customizable push notifications and alerts and delivers up to 1080p video of live and recorded games, players and events.

You can follow updates from all your favorite MOBAs, shooters and fighting games, and see stats for League of Legends, Dota 2, Counter-Strike: GO, Heroes of the Storm and Street Fighter V.

"Keep an eye on us over the coming months as we continue to push out new features and awesome experiences for esports fans across all our platforms," said Yahoo.

Thankfully, you can disable game spoilers within app settings.

Pricing and availability

Yahoo Esports requires an iPhone, iPod touch or iPad with iOS 8.0 or later.

The app lacks a native Apple Watch component, is not optimized for iPad screen sizes and is localized in English, Arabic, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian and Vietnamese.

Grab Yahoo Esports for free on the App Store.

5 awesome web browsers for iPhone

May 19, 2016 by macjeff

Browsing the web on a smartphone is not as difficult as it once seemed, thanks to Apple's flagship mobile device. Check out our top picks for the best web browsers for the iPhone so you can peruse the web using something other than Safari's mobile incarnation.

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Free Apps to Download TODAY ONLY 05/19/2016

May 19, 2016 by macjeff

Pull My Tongue , MultiFlow: Times Tables Reimagined - Practice Multiplication , Solve - A colorful graphing calculator and more

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Greg has a bit of a popcorn addiction. He just can’t get enough of it. It’s up to you to help him feed his need by pulling and stretching his tongue all over obstacle-filled levels. His tongue will bend at will, but cleverly placed spikes, zappers, chewing gum, and other puzzling objects must be avoided. The game includes five worlds and 90 levels.

Three of the four modes challenge you to solve problems as quickly and accurately as possible. The Pick 'Em mode allows you to choose the tables you want to practice and solve problems without a time limit. The app includes multiple levels of difficulty, support for multiple profiles, and achievements and leaderboards via Game Center.

Solve is not only the best graphing calculator around, it’s also the best overall calculator thanks to its unique colorful interface. The colors aren’t there just to pretty things up. They also serve as separate calculators that can interact with each other. For example, if you store an answer within one calculator, you can swipe across the color bar to recall and use it in another calculator. Whenever you have an equation with variables that can be plotted a “Touch to Plot” button will appear, allowing you to quickly turn it into a graph. The app is loaded with other great features, and thankfully in-depth tutorials are available to help you take full advantage of all of them.

Smoosh takes classic sliding puzzle game mechanics and adds a colorful twist. Like similar games in the genre, your job is to get colorful Blops to their matching holes by swiping in the direction you want them to go. Each level has a target number of moves, and your Blop won’t stop until it either hits the hole or a wall. What makes Smoosh unique is its color mixing mechanics. You’ll have to smash Blops together to mix new colors, and you’re able to utilize blocks and tubes to do it. The game includes six worlds and 120 levels.

No matter how big or small the idea, Dream-X will help you realize it in visual form. You’re able to choose from two different themes and then get right to your mind mapping. Start off with a single idea and then branch out from there. You’re able to create new branches by selecting the idea you want them to branch off from and then tapping and holding on a spot on the screen. Each branched off idea can be color coded, include photo and message, include a task or subtask, and sport an icon. You’re able to freely rearrange your ideas just by dragging them around the canvas. You’re also able to export your mind maps and share them via email. The app includes tutorial videos and samples to help you get started.

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Best app deals of the day! 6 paid iPhone apps free for a limited time

May 19, 2016 by macjeff

Everyone likes free apps, but sometimes the best ones are a bit expensive. Now and then, developers put paid apps on sale for a limited time, but you have to snatch them up fast. Here are the latest and greatest apps on sale in the iOS App Store.

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