"If there is an app for that"

Free Apps to Download TODAY ONLY 03/23/2016

March 23, 2016 by macjeff

Persistence - Goal and Habit Tracker and Motivator , Magic Sorter - Sea Tales - 10 in 1 - to develop important cognitive and fine motor skills , Playroom - Lessons with Max - educational games for preschoolers and more

iPhone:

When creating a new goal, you’re able to title it and enter the number of times you want to work on it or the amount of time you want to spend on it each and everyday. After completing a goal for the day, simply enter your progress and attach notes. If you start to get behind on a goal, don’t fret, you can make up for it by doing more the next day. The idea is to keep those vertical blue and red bars from appearing on the side of your goal. The app also includes the ability to edit goals, set reminders, view statistical progress, and share your daily logs.

Help detectives Turino and Lamonte discover clues at crime scenes, interrogate suspects, and solve puzzles to find the serial murderer known only as the Engagement Killer. The game includes 44 locations to examine, 22 mini-games, and achievements via Game Center.

Universal:

The 10 included games and activities will teach your child about colors, shapes, sizes, counting, and matching. The vibrant animations and upbeat music will keep them engaged for hours, and the uncluttered interface makes it easy for them to enjoy the app entirely on their own.

Your child is able to join an adorable kitty named Max on a playroom date. They're able to participate in games of seek and find, matching, memory, puzzles, and colors and numbers. Each can be played separately or all at once using the Game Mix mode. You're also able to create custom voice-overs for all of the game's responses.

Fraction Calculator’s custom keyboard makes it easy to enter and calculate fractions. It’s able to display both the equation and the result at the same time. Equations can be edited just like text can in iOS with the tap or drag of a finger. Fraction Calculator also allows you to convert decimals to fractions and back again. Calculations can be made from the Today view as well.

Help detectives Turino and Lamonte discover clues at crime scenes, interrogate suspects, and solve puzzles to find the serial murderer known only as the Engagement Killer. The game includes 44 locations to examine, 22 mini-games, and achievements via Game Center.

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

March 23, 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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@mos

March 22, 2016 by macjeff

In the recently released @mos ($1.99) by Synaptic Gaps, you’ll be greeted with a unique, 360-degree radial version of Space Invaders. If you’re the type of person who just loves to sit back at arcades and shoot down those pesky alien invaders and want a new twist on classic gameplay, then @mos could be worth a look.

Since I was born in the ‘80s, I grew up with the classics in the arcade, such as Space Invaders and Galaga. I remember frequenting arcades on a regular basis while I was a kid, and I even had the opportunity to play video games on the various consoles that my parents bought for my older siblings, though I didn’t get to choose, of course. Still, I remember plenty of classics laying around and I always thoroughly enjoyed my time with them whenever the opportunity arose. Everyone has played Space Invaders, and it’s a definite favorite pastime for me as a kid. But now we are in modern times, where classics have plenty of chances for evolved gameplay. With @mos, we get just that with the Space Invaders formula.

Visually speaking, though, @mos is not the most impressive looking game out on the market. While the style is trying to emulate the retro classic, it falls a bit short and feels bland to me, personally. It also looks incredibly simple, like it was whipped up in a few hours with basic drawing skills. The color palette is also fairly barebones, as it features black with white stars for space, various hues of red for the alien spaceships, and a bright, vivid Earth that is full of blue, green, and yellow, kind of like a radar map. Despite the lackluster graphics, the animations in the game are pretty smooth and fluid, and the music and sound effects are decent enough for what it is. The old-school serif typeface used for your score tops off the vintage feel, as well as the spinning dials when you select your initials for high scores.

There’s only one game mode in @mos, with the goal of getting as high of a score as you possibly can. The game only has the two types of enemies: regular peons that appear in clusters and waves, and bigger ships that deploy the peons and have laser beam attacks. You earn a different amount of points for each killed enemy, depending on how far away it was when you destroyed it. The dropped bombs from the peons can be destroyed as well, earning you some additional points (the farther away you destroy it, the more points you earn). Once you run out of lives, then the game ends and you can enter your initials for high scores if you ranked high enough.

The controls in @mos are simple and easy to understand, though there is no tutorial. In the bottom left is a button for activating your defending ship’s shield. This will protect you from attacks and hits from enemy aliens, but it also needs to recharge after each use, though it is pretty fast to do that. In the bottom right, you have the button to fire your laser. When the gauge is full, you will be able to rapid fire, but if it’s depleted, you’ll have to wait a moment for it to recharge, or just continue firing at the non-rapid rate.

Since @mos is a 360-degree radial take on Space Invaders, your ship is capable of moving all around the planet Earth. However, the game does not have a joystick for moving clockwise or counter-clockwise, so how do you control your ship’s movement? Easy — just tilt your device. With the tilt controls, players are able to freely move around the planet while shooting and activating the shield when necessary to protect themselves. However, it did take me a moment to realize how to move, since the game doesn’t tell you anything.

Shockingly, @mos doesn’t come with Game Center support or any kind of leaderboards, aside from the local ones stored on your device. I’m a bit surprised at this since arcade games like this are perfect for global leaderboards. Perhaps the developer can consider adding that in the future.

I had been looking forward to @mos, but the game falls a bit short for me. The graphics have a vintage aesthetic, but I thought they were not great compared to what else is out there that has the same classic look and feel going on. The sound effects are nice, though, and the controls are intuitive though it would have been nice if the game pointed you in the right direction, since I lost the first game quickly since I didn’t know how to move. The game is also a bit repetitive since the enemies are the same each time you play, there is only one game mode and difficulty level, and there isn’t too much to look forward to after you play a few rounds. I think having online leaderboards would also improve the high-score-chaser experience that the game is going for.

In its current state, I can’t recommend @mos. Perhaps if the developer were to improve the game more with improvements, variety, and online leaderboards, then it would be something worth looking into if you’re a Space Invader fan. But at the moment, it’s a pass.

You can find @mos on the App Store as a universal app for your iPhone and iPad for $1.99. At least there are no in-app purchases.

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Free Apps to Download TODAY ONLY 03/22/2016

March 22, 2016 by macjeff

MailTime - Email Messenger Pro for Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo, and IMAP Mail , MathJoy – The Friendly Calculator , Supermarket Management 2 HD (Full) 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.

Keep your customers happy by stocking shelves, bringing around shopping carts, fulfilling orders, and checking customers out. Eventually you’ll be able to hire some coworkers to take some of the burden off and make your supermarket run even more efficiently. The game includes five different shops, 49 levels, eight mini-games, and nine characters.

Universal:

MathJoy’s clutter-free interface helps you avoid making mistakes. The colorful buttons are arranged in such a way that no matter the screen size or orientation of your iDevice, they’ll be easy to reach and recall. The app automatically formats numbers as you type, and allows you to copy operations and results. MathJoy can be used on your Apple Watch as well.

Analog Weather Station is not just informative, it’s also fun to use. It provides you with the current temperatures outside, relative humidity, and atmospheric pressure. You’re not just presented with values, either. Analog Weather Station features digital needles and mercury to give it that vintage feel. The needles can even be swiped at and played with. The app also includes the ability to change units with a tap, and landscape support.

Keep your customers happy by stocking shelves, bringing around shopping carts, fulfilling orders, and checking customers out. Eventually you’ll be able to hire some coworkers to take some of the burden off and make your supermarket run even more efficiently. The game includes five different shops, 49 levels, eight mini-games, and nine characters.

Source link: http://appadvice.com/apps-gone-free

Best app deals of the day! 10 paid iPhone apps on sale for a limited time

March 22, 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.

The post Best app deals of the day! 10 paid iPhone apps on sale for a limited time appeared first on Digital Trends.