"If there is an app for that"

Best app deals of the day! 8 paid iPhone apps for free for a limited time

April 25, 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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Download these five awesome new apps for iOS and Android

April 24, 2016 by macjeff

Another week has gone by, but it brought us a handful of new apps to try. This week's list has an app that will reward you for donating to charity, as well as a calendar app that tells you the ongoings of our planetary system.

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Free Apps to Download TODAY ONLY 04/24/2016

April 24, 2016 by macjeff

Focalware , Animal Puzzles for Kids with Skills: The Best Activity Preschool Shape Games for Toddlers, Boys and Girls , Data Widget and more

iPhone:

Focalware helps photographers and filmmakers capture compelling outdoor shots. After determining your location, it provides you with sun and moon rise and set times, azimuth and elevation, and magnetic declination. You’re also able to see the moon’s current phase and illumination, and the sun’s shadow. Focalware is not only able to calculate the sun and moon position for today, but also any other future date. Rotate your iDevice into landscape orientation to view all of the data in list form instead of graphically.

Universal:

After choosing a scene, cork board cutouts will begin to appear. Your child must drag and drop the pieces into place to fill each cutout. Once complete, the scene will become animated and they can tap on different items and characters to see what happens. The game includes 11 scenes to enjoy, and a new baby play time mode.

Data Widget is so simple yet so effective. Launch the app, set your data cap, set your start and end date, and record any usage you may already have. Then swipe down to bring up Notification Center and add the widget by tapping the “Edit” button found all the way at the bottom. After that, any time you want to check your current data usage in real-time, just swipe down. You can also now check your usage via Apple Watch.

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Tasks Time Tracking, Visual Beat, Jottit and other apps to check out this weekend

April 23, 2016 by macjeff

Looking for new apps or games to play around with this weekend? As usual, iDB has you covered. In this week’s App of the Week roundup, we have some great titles that are perfect for killing a lazy Saturday or Sunday afternoon. There’s a unique, visual music-making app, two great-looking productivity apps, and two new games.

Visual Beat

Visual Beat is an impressive app for iPad that allows you to create music with a visual, artistic twist. This isn’t your normal beat-maker. Upon launching the app, you’re presented with a soundboard of sorts—a 4×4 grid of small thumbnails. Tapping an image initiates both a sound loop and a short stop-motion video, and you’re free to activate as many as you want, for as long as you want. It’s hard to explain really. This isn’t so much music production software as it is an interactive art project. Either way it’s really fun to play around with. This app is available for free.

Tasks Time Tracking

Looking for a new way to manage your time, or perhaps form positive habits? Check out Tasks Time Tracking. The app offers a beautiful, minimal design, and it allows you to track things like daily routines, personal projects, and other activities. Other features include timers and location-based alerts, note-taking, and Notification Center widget. This app is available for free.

Jottit

Jottit describes itself as an entirely new type of productivity app for creating checklists and jotting down notes. Where most productivity apps typically come in two forms, to-do lists and notes app, Jottit is more of a combination of both. So within the app you can create a notebook that accepts both notes and check lists, with swipe gestures to mark items as in progress or complete. Other features include reminders, due dates, iCloud sync, and support for 3D Touch, iPad multitasking, Apple Watch and Spotlight. This app is available for $1.99.

Loop Mania

Loop Mania is an exciting single-tap, twitch game that requires quick reflexes and fast decision-making skills. Players are tasked with racing around a circle and collecting as many coins as possible, while leaping from side to side to avoid attacks from enemies, and launching their own attacks. This is one of those games that’s easy to learn, hard to master, and virtually impossible to put down. This game is available for free.

Tropical Wars

Tropical Wars is an action-packed strategy game where you must lead your pirate fleet to victory. It’s been soft-launched for a while, now it’s available worldwide, and the early reviews are very strong. Players are tasked with building their own pirate island, assembling battleships and taking on other players to become the top pirate in the world. There’s a wide range of game modes including singe-player campaign, head-to-head and multiplayer. Tropical Wars may seem like another free-to-play title, but it may be worth checking out. This game is available for free.

More apps you should check out

• Put Product Hunt right in your Mac’s menu bar
• Readdle’s Calendars 5 slashed to $0 as Apple’s new Free App of the Week
• Check out this endless runner game you can play from Notification Center

These apps have been updated

• Snapchat’s Face Swap now works with your own photos, paid Replays no longer available
• Apple Store app gains 3D Touch support, now available in more countries
• Facebook launching group audio calling on Messenger with support for up to 50 participants
• Revisit the places you’ve been with Foursquare’s new history feature (bonus: Photos extension)
• Privacy-enhanced Viber for iPhone lands with end-to-end encryption, hidden chats and more
• iDB app version 1.1 comes with new bookmarking feature, San Francisco font, and more

5 annoying Apple Watch problems, and how to fix them

April 22, 2016 by macjeff

Have you been struggling with Apple Watch problems? We’ve compiled a list of the most commonly reported issues people are having and found workarounds or possible fixes to deal with them.

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