Kids animal jigsaw, a brain puzzle for Android

Overview
One of the (many) challenges parents have today when raising kids is technology. Not in a way that parents don’t understand it, but in how to limit the amount of time your kids spend playing with or looking at technology devices. Since we have smartphones and tablets it’s not very dif...

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Perfect Ear 2, an ideal Android app for musicians

Overview
About 15 years ago I watched one of the best movies surrounding the story of a pianist. “Legend of 1900” was the movie, a recommendation for anyone that values piano music. I was so impressed that I decide I’m going to learn something about piano music, though I got discouraged that ther...

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Adumu, world's first jumping based fundraising app

Jumping for a Cause with Adumu
Adumu, is a new app developed by the mobile fundraising pioneer, Mobi-Changa Ltd., that literally has people jumping up and down for important causes. Adumu is the world’s first jumping based fundraising app that turns physical enthusiasm into real monetary c...

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Crazy Chicken Casino, a slot game for Android

The game
“Crazy Chicken” was a shoot-the-bird game released in 2000 that created a buzz, in fact it became so popular that even after 13 years it’s still a recognizable brand and users are still looking for similar games. Even though technically they never left, the “Crazy Chi...

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Inkifi, print beautiful Instagram photos from your smartphone

Overview
Instagram is an app/service that allows its users to share photos and short videos via a variety of social networks (Facebook, Tumblr, Twitter, Flickr). Nothing new so far, however Instagram became a leader in its category due to a single idea: applying digital filters to photos. That’s ...

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Lone Tank, the last stand between enemies and your family

Overview
Atari released in 1974 a two-player arcade game called Tank and in the game each player controlled a tank and had to destroy the other player’s unit. It was a successful game and later when Atari released the Combat series, Tank fighting was included as well. If these games...

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Pic2Press, order personalized gifts right from your smartphone

Overview
Gifts have their roots in ancient times, when they were used either as a form of deity worship (i.e. sacrifice rituals) or social cohesion (i.e. from one ruler to another) with the purpose of making the recipient happier. The purpose of gifts hasn’t changed much, just that now we’re exc...

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KeyZag, an intelligent zigzag layout keyboard for smartphones

The app
Eight years ago Microth, Inc. was founded, a software company focused on creating advanced innovative solutions for mobile devices. Since then the company developed four successful projects based on patented technologies that were licensed to OEM partners: InPad (handwriting input...

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Black Cherry Casino Slots game for Android

Overview
Everyone knows the slot machine, if not experienced in person than for sure seen in movies. It’s that gambling device with three or more reels that spin when you pull a lever or in modern times whenever you push a button. What you don’t know is that they’re also known as “one-armed bandi...

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Platform game for Android: "Having a Ball" … or two

The game
“Having a Ball” is an Android game released by Fiddly Bits Software, a company that published two games previously for iOS (“1943: Carrier Pilot” and “Torpedo Away!”). It is a platform game that has some elements from other games such as PapiJump or Doodle Jump. In it you control a ball ...

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Woow Rescue, your SOS emergency lifeguard app

Overview
You might have heard of the “golden hour” from the TV series with the same name that focuses on medical emergencies. That expression refers to a particular time lasting from a few minutes to several hours after a victim has been involved in a serious injury. Their chances of survival inc...

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AutoPIX, create visual timeline maps on Earth or in space

In 2009 a group of MIT students managed to take space photos with a budget of no more than $150 (source). Basically they used a camera attached to a helium balloon and to track the location of the camera they also attached a GPS smartphone. Their experiment resulted in some beautiful photos of...

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Zombie Combat, the mobile game that gets you in your Halloween mood

Overview
The Halloween is right around the corner and one of the main themes for costumes will be zombie decorations. Every year billions of dollars (effectively billions) are spent on costumes, with the goal of being the most spooky looking character at the party (for adults) or in the...

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BetOnDroid, Android app for Betfair sports exchange

Overview
Gambling has a long history dating back to as early as the 15th century and most games that you can play now in casinos have their roots in China. As early as gambling started, only after 1994 online gambling first became a viable option and online casinos started up. Partly due to...

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Hill Bill, the story of a Hillbilly daredevil who jumped over the Grand Canyon

Overview
Evel Knievel was the most notable American daredevil as throughout his life he did over 75 ramp-to-ramp motorcycle jumps, most of them successful. His audience was ecstatic each time he organized a show and he was risking his life as Roman gladiator to please the crowds. Judging by the...

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‘Fox Tales: The Skeleton King’, when Diablo meets cuteness overload

Overview
Released in 1996, ‘Diablo’ is one of the first true popular action role-playing video games. It was a hit when he was released and caused distress among my college friends (and me) as we were playing instead of learning. ‘Diablo’ was set in a fictional kingdom of Khanduras and you contro...

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Hair Trimmer Clipper simulator for Android

Overview
My kid (a bit over 3 now) is always fascinated when I shave my beard off. I have an electric shaver and he likes the noise it makes and how the hair just vanishes. I always have to place it though where he cannot reach as he’s always on the look to get his hands on it and try that, no m...

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Mathician, think fast and type faster

Overview
I still remember that most of my school colleagues that had trouble with Math and other exact sciences were saying that Math won’t help them at all, ‘what good does it do to know complex equations?’. My belief was, and still is, that Math (and other exact sciences) sharpen your mind. You...

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CheckTheCrowd - it’s the people, not the place

Overview
There’s a saying in my country that basically says the most important thing in feeling better is being surrounded by nice people, not by living in a nice place. It’s the people, not the place that make a good impression on you when you visit something, be it a local pub or a select res...

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‘Learn to run’ - training app for Android

Overview
From the first college years me and my friends kept telling each other we have to start jogging to keep in shape. Yet every time going out for a beer and a pizza or a movie sounded better and the jogging part got voted out. Then another motivational speech the next week, ending with the...

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Taser people with your smartphone using ‘Taser stun gun’ (simulation)

Overview
Tasers are electroshock devices used to immobilize those individuals that pose a threat (supposedly) to a law enforcement or military personnel. A taser uses electrical current (pulsating) to interfere between signals sent from the brain to the muscles, thus immobilizing the culprit. If...

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Help aliens get home with ‘Flip the Aliens’ for Android

Overview
Everyone has an appetite for alien stories, games and movies as it is the only thing that tickle our brains with the question ‘Are we alone in the Universe?’. A question I hope to get an answer before I meet my end. I’m pretty sure that given the billions of planets in the habitable zone...

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StoryPod, your own mobile cinema

Overview
I like short movies because the ideas are concentrated and you don’t have to watch some fill-up content that a Hollywood director decided to add to get the movie up to 2 hours. For some ‘blockbusters’ is enough to watch the trailer to know everything about. The ‘IMDB Top 250’ list of the...

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Dude, ‘Who took my phone”?

Overview
You work a full year up to the point where vacation time comes. Then you go to Ibiza and decide to go for a swim in the water with your friends leaving most of your belongings on the shore. You come back 15 minutes later and see that everything is gone, all your clothes, money, wallets,...

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Wobbly Bubbles, a 3D live wallpaper for Android smartphones

Overview
James Blinn is a computer scientist that worked for NASA and created some amazing computer graphics animations for the Voyager project back in 1977. Those animations depicted the encounter of Voyager with various planets, for instance the Saturn fly-by. He did similar animations for...

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Prez Games, presidential election board game for Android

Overview
Board games are one of the oldest methods of recreation ever invented. ‘Senet’ was the name of a surprisingly complex board game invented by the Egyptians and archaeologists place it around 3500 BC. That’s well over 5000 years ago and board games are here to stay, even with the...

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Escape from 3D labyrinths with Fruit Ball for Android

Overview
For those of a certain age the sound of a pinball machine brings up good memories, from simpler times when you had to visit a game room to play Arcade games. The pinball machines were some of the most popular forms of entertainment in those rooms (when the Pacman one was occupied) and...

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Algebra can be fun with Hands-on Equations

Overview
From the first year in school (7 years old) we all heard stories about the math teacher, the most feared one in the entire school. To put it into perspective, kids would rather be taught by a hybrid between Lord Voldemort and Sauron rather than take his class. Everyone would feel...

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Airport Freaky Lite, air traffic management simulator for Android

Overview
Air traffic controllers are those trained professionals keeping air traffic safe by managing the flow of airplanes in such a manner that they’re never too close to each other and always sent fast to their destination. They have one of the most stressful jobs in the world and in order...

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Dragon & Shoemaker for Android - play the legend of the Wawel Dragon

Overview
Once upon a time, during the reign of King Krakus, a fire-breathing dragon lived in a cave near the Vistula River in Krakow (capital of modern day Poland). The Wawel Dragon was an evil creature, every day it was ravaging the countryside killing its inhabitants, destroying their houses...

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Identify unknown caller IDs with Contactive, your social address book

Overview
Caller ID, also named calling number identification, is a phone service that transmits the number of the caller to the device of the person receiving it before the call is answered. Invented almost 45 years ago, it is the main method through which your phone can recognize who is calling...

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AntSaver, an Android expense tracking app for the whole family

Overview
Financial responsibility, two words that unfortunately mean nothing to a lot of people. It is my strong belief that if the majority of people would’ve been financially responsible the current recession would’ve been averted. Being financially responsible means basically to spend...

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Voxle, the new local social networking app

Overview
In 2008 an Australian teenager called Corey Worthington was left home by his parents with a specific instruction: no party. Not only that Corey organized a party, it was one of the first socially organized mass parties. Because he mentioned the party on a social network it went viral...

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Grammaropolis for Android - Grammar super omnia!

Overview
“What we wanted was flying cars, what we got was 140 characters”. It is a quote by Peter Thiel (founder of PayPal) and one of my favorite ones. I like it because it sums up very well the contrast between our past expectations regarding the future and the reality of present....

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Currency quiz for Android - how much do you know about world currencies?

Overview
When most of us hear about currency we think money, because we wrongfully associate currency with money. However, these 2 notions are quite different. Currencies are elements used in an exchange system to obtain something else. They are a system to transfer value from one place to...

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HighCrypt, a strong password generator and manager for Android smartphones

Overview
The first written evidence on the use of watchwords dates more than 2200 years ago. They were used by the Roman military for important commands. If watchword doesn’t seem familiar, you’ll recognize it for sure by its modern name, password. It’s what you might have used as a child...

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Memozzle, play Concentration with your Facebook or Twitter friends

In technical terms memory is a process through which your mind transforms external stimuli into storable information that can be later retrieved. The sound of ‘Honey, don’t forget the milk’ is encoded by your ears and stored up to the point where you remember it in the supermarket. Or you...

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Blipp, sharing precious moments one GPS location at a time

Overview
When an important event occurs our mind translates the external stimuli associated with it and stores that information to be later retrieved as memories. We nostalgically remember good memories (while trying to forget bad ones) in terms of location, time and ‘mental shots’ (our...

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Avanos - emulate a guest user account on Android smartphones

Overview
‘Give me your phone to call your father, mine died’. Since that request came from my mother I had to comply but had shivers down my spine thinking what if she accidentally starts browsing through my photos, through my browser history, social accounts and so on. Not that I had...

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Claim phone charge expenses with 'Business Call Claim'

Overview
IRS. If you’re an American the name crawls in your mind and then onto your spine making you shiver. It’s the Internal Revenue Service, the agency responsible of collecting taxes and enforcing the tax laws. Most countries have a revenue agency, a governmental institution that...

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Turkey Smash, play Whac-A-Mole with turkeys

Overview
You might not recognize Aaron Fechter by his name but for sure you recognize some of his creations. First of all, one of his companies was part of the merger that created Chuck E. Cheese’s, a chain of pizza entertaining restaurants worth close to one billion dollars. Then, he...

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Make your phone last longer with DU Battery Saver

Overview
In 1817 Berzelius, the father of the modern chemistry, named a newly discovered element ‘lithium’, after the Greek word equivalent to ‘stone’ (because of the stone-metal look this element has). If your chemistry is as bad as mine maybe these details don’t interest you much,...

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HiCarPlate, the social network for cars … and owners

Overview
‘Back to the Future’ was one of those movies that you know you’ll never forget. I’ve watched the trilogy countless times and there is one scene that helped me on becoming a calmer driver. In part 3 there’s a scene where Marty gets a new truck and at an intersection he meets...

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Turn your smartphone into an advanced HD surveillance camera with 20:20

Overview
I spent most of my childhood summers in the country at my grandparent’s house because the air was fresher, the food was natural and most likely because my parents were tired of raising a kid. No problem at all, I actually enjoyed those summers and now, when I spend most of my time in...

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Android review sites, the ultimate list to help market your app

As an Android developer you know by now that when you finish working on your app and get it published on Google Play the other half of work just starts, the work you like less: marketing. However this is an important part that influences the popularity of your app. If you rely solely on...

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‘Hit me, hit me, hit me’ and BlackJack!

Overview
Sometime ago in our history someone thought of inventing a card game revolving around the number 21. Don’t know why 21 and always thought it had something to do with Americans and their ‘you cannot buy drinks under 21’ policy. However it seems that the first written reference of...

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‘Invaders from Antarctica’, shoot flying men à la ‘Crazy Chicken’

Overview
You never forget a game that made history. I remember when I first discovered an Arcade machine for SpaceInvaders, the first shoot ‘em up game I played. It was a game room close to my school and for months to come a machine like the one below was where all my lunch money went...

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Automatically change your phone’s background with Advanced Wallpaper Switcher

Overview
Unless you’re Dexter (i.e. the sociopath serial killer) you feel emotion when watching images. I’m sure that you experienced at hundreds of times strong emotions when watching maybe family photos, scenery, war photos and so on. For me, the image below gets me everytime:
The...

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Play Tetris in 3D on your Android device with Magic Blocks 3D

Overview
I was around ten years old when I received one of my first portable game devices. It was rectangular, had a small screen, a few buttons and on its back the shape was curved a bit just to allow your fingers to fit in there and hold the device better. There was a single type of game in...

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Kill zombies to stay alive in Zalive for Android

Overview
‘Ophiocordyceps unilateralis’ feels like the name of a dinosaur species. Yet it’s the name of a parasitic fungus that in short transforms ants into zombie ants. You heard it right, this is one of the first recognized cases of zombie-like behavior in animals. An unknowingly ant...

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