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Modern Atlas, Lemon, VUE and other apps to check out this weekend

June 18, 2016 by macjeff

Whew! What a long week. Apple held its annual WWDC keynote on Monday, where it unveiled new versions of iOS, macOS, tvOS and watchOS, and we spent the rest of the week following up on those announcements. But now it’s time for the weekend, and we plan on kicking back and relaxing with some of our favorite new apps and games, which we’ve listed for you below.

Modern Atlas Travel Guide & City Maps

Folks looking to go on vacation this summer will definitely want to check out the Modern Atlas app. It features travel guides and maps to over 21,000 cities, and has information on more than 1.5 million landmarks and hidden gems. The guides are written by independent travelers from Wikivoyage / Wikitravel and contain the best places to see, eat, and sleep while on your trip. Apple Maps integration, with 3D Flyover, and a beautiful interface make this app a must-try. Modern Atlas is available for $0.99.

Lemon

Get to know your money with Lemon, an app that helps you stay up to date on everything happening with your finances. Lemon allows you to view all of your accounts in one place, gives you spending insights and budgeting tips, sends you reminders about upcoming charges, and offers customizable alerts for transactions and account balances. It even offers you deals for merchants you visit frequently. Lemon is available for free.

VUE

This one is for all of you amateur film-makers out there, or just folks who want to get more likes on their Instagram and Vine videos. VUE is a video editing app that offers a number of filters and effects to help make your clips more enticing. These tools include an easy montage creator, 30 designer stickers, 12 cinematic filters, and an ultra wide video mode. And of course, once you’re through creating your masterpiece, VUE lets you easily share the video with your favorite social network. This app is available for free.

Get ‘Em

Get ‘Em is an action-packed, open world game in which you play as superhero crime-fighting dogs, on a mission to track down the city’s most ruthless gangster. Essentially, a Yorkie named Leila has been dognapped, and three best friends come together to rescue her, with the ultimate goal of making the police K9 unit. It features beautiful 3D, comic book-like graphics and you can choose to either roam around freely, or complete set missions. Get ‘Em is available for $3.99.

Bonecrusher

Looking for a new arcade game to kill some time this weekend? Check out Bonecrusher. It sounds dark, but actually it’s a very simple, fun arcade title that is easy to play but tough to master. Players must embrace their inner bone collector and gather all the bones they can! Avoid the devastating spikes with power-ups and look cool doing it with a variety of different skulls. This is one of those games that you can pick up and play quickly, but be careful, because it could get very addicting! Bonecrusher is available for free.

More apps you should check out

• Apple’s free app of the week: TextGrabber
• CloudClip: Universal Clipboard for your Mac right now
• Swift Playgrounds: Apple’s new iPad app to teach you how to code

These apps have been updated

• Netflix app now supports Picture in Picture on compatible iPads
• Microsoft Office apps updated with support for exporting files in OpenDocument format

Free Apps to Download TODAY ONLY 06/17/2016

June 17, 2016 by macjeff

Yoga Studio , Word² , National Gallery of Art HD and more

iPhone:

Ananda provides you with a new and unique ambience every time. Start off by spinning the wheel to determine your session’s duration. Tap on the wave icon at the bottom of the screen to select a binaural theme. Ananda includes a total of 13 themes to choose from, each with dynamically generated sounds. Each theme also includes a brief description and duration recommendation. You can then choose from a variety of sounds to accompany your binaural tones. The sounds will be chosen randomly, but you can narrow them down to your favorites. When everything is to your liking, hit play and enjoy.

Universal:

You're able to participate in 65 ready-made yoga classes, all presented in beautiful HD. The classes come in 10, 30, and 60 minute blocks and are suitable for beginner and advanced abilities, so there will be something for everyone here. The app also includes detailed instructions and information for each of the 280 poses, the ability to create your own classes, a built-in calendar to help you schedule and track your workouts, and AirPlay support.

Word² will test your vocabulary and your patience. Each level features a square with scrambled letters. Your objective is to put the square back together by rearranging the letters so that each row and column pair have the same word reading both vertically and horizontally. The game starts you off easy with squares that are three-by-three, but eventually you’ll work your way up to seven-by-seven squares. Hopefully, at least. You can get some help along the way by utilizing hints and clues. Word² includes 90 levels in all.

This is the ultimate art gallery app. The collection of 920 paintings can be broken down by genre or by name. You can also search for specific paintings by artist or name. You’ll find only the best paintings from prominent artists like Van Gogh, Leonardo da Vinci, Rembrandt, El Greco, Goya, Botticelli, and more. Paintings can be saved as favorites for quick access later on, and you can even save them to your library.

We love how easy Living Planet makes it to take your photos and videos from boring to extraordinary. You’re able to import content from your library or capture a new photo or video from within the app. Living Planet will then automatically transform your chosen content into a tiny, circular planet. An inverted wormhole options is also available.

You’re able to choose from nine farm-themed puzzles. Each puzzle can be broken up into as few as four pieces and as many as 24. Puzzles can include a background, and you’re able to overlay outlines in order to make fitting in the pieces a little easier. Completed puzzles can be interacted with, creating a fun environment to play in. An option is available to completely skip putting together the puzzles and jump straight to the interactive scenes.

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

June 17, 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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Apple’s free app of the week: TextGrabber

June 16, 2016 by macjeff

Apple on Thursday updated its App of the Week promotion with the productivity app TextGrabber. This means that for the next 7 days, you’ll be able to download the popular OCR translation app for free on both iPhone and iPad—a solid savings of $5.

For those of you who are unfamiliar with TextGrabber, it easily and quickly scans, translates and saves your chosen text or QR-codes from virtually any printed material. All you have to do is take a picture, and TG handles the rest.

From the App Store Editors’ Notes:

Capturing printed words and magically morphing them into easy-to-edit digital text is TextGrabber’s bread and butter. But we love it nearly as much for the sci-fi cool factor of being able to instantly translate Italian restaurant menus, French Salon magazines, and Japanese graphic novels into our native language.

And here is a video of the app in action:

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TextGrabber is available in the App Store for free.

Free Apps to Download TODAY ONLY 06/16/2016

June 16, 2016 by macjeff

TextGrabber + Translator: OCR recognize, translate and save editable text from any printed material , Reminders Widget , Where is that? HD - Geography Quiz and more

Universal:

Point your iDevice’s camera at a book, receipt, travel document, manual, or any other printed material and TextGrabber will do the rest for you. It’s able to extract, read, and save the text with fantastic results. The process doesn’t require an internet connection either, so TextGrabber is a great tool to use abroad. All of your extracted text is automatically saved locally in a folder for later use.

Reminders Widget enhances the way you use reminders. It taps into the native Reminders app in order to pull any entries you’ve already created. You can then access all due or overdue reminders from a convenient Today widget. The widget also allows you to create new reminders, sort reminders, scroll through groups, and complete reminders.

Where is that? HD will test your knowledge of geography. The objective is to get the lowest distance and the highest score by correctly guessing countries, cities, and landmarks. You’re able to compete with up to eight players on the same device, or you can just enjoy the challenge on your own. The app includes thousands of locations in 33 categories, a Wikipedia link for every location, and three zoomable world maps.

Cloning apps can be difficult to use, but not Ghost Lens Pro. Just select one of the frame layouts, record your first video or photo, and keep your iDevice in the same position and record another video or photo. You can add alpha labels within your timeline to add fade in and fade out effects as well. Then let Ghost Lens Pro generate your final ghostly video. The app includes more than 40 frame designs, 120 filters and effects, and the ability to add music to your videos.

Jon Arbuckle is sick and tired of trying to bath Odie and Garfield, so he purchased a new cleaning robot from a TV commercial that will hopefully change his luck. With the robot on the loose, you must help Odie and Garfield escape by jumping over and sliding under objects. The game includes 15 levels that take part in four different parts of the house along with an endless mode. After each completed level you’ll receive a special edition wallpaper.

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