Cosmo Battles for Android, turn-based space strategy game

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Sometime in the 9th century Russia was ‘hit’ by a game that would become one of the most popular games in the modern world. It was a game of wit where 2 players moved pieces on a board in a turn-based scenario. That game was called chess and it is to date the ultimate turn-based...

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Create fabulous photo collages from your Android device

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Back when I was a teenager we didn’t have much online socializing to do, ‘mainly’ because there was no Internet on a broad scale. So we socialized outside playing, in school, in camps and all sort of enjoyable activities. It was popular back then to have your own personal...

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Let your kids bake their own virtual cookies with Cookie Maker

Cookies, those flour-based sweet little cakes you can hold in your hands and enjoy at any event, weren’t meant to be what they are today. It’s supposed that they were first discovered by Persians in the 7th century, one of the first nations to cultivate sugar. But they were created as tiny...

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Ultimate Car Dock, a lifesaver app for Android

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A deadly virus is killing annually tens of thousands worldwide, teens especially. Cohen Children’s Medical Center in New Hyde Park estimates that this virus is responsible for more than 3,000 teen deaths and 300,000 serious injuries in US alone.
A billboard ad in Alabama,...

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If Super Mario was a Fat Pig on your Android...

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In 1985 Nintendo released Super Mario Bros, a game that would become world’s second most popular game of all times (to date, on the first place being Wii Sports). It was a sequel where 2 brothers, Mario and Luigi, traveled through the Mushroom Kingdom to rescue Princess Toadstool from...

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Learn to use boxing as a fitness technique with DevFit Boxing

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When I was 11 I became friends with one of the colleagues in the new class I was transferred. Andrei (that was his name), was 3 years older and struggling to advance in school, but learning just wasn’t his thing. So that’s one of the reasons we became friends, I helped him with his...

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Solve Hashiwokakero puzzles on Android with 'Build Bridges'

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In May 1980 at the popular horse race ‘Irish 2,000 Guineas’ a jockey by the name of Christy Roche won with the help of his horse Nikoli. Three months later Maki Kaji, a Japanese entrepreneur fond of horse-racing, started Nikoli (nikori) Co., Ltd., a company that would start...

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Vampire Run - help Dracula get more blood

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I believe I was in my 4th grade when I first read Bram Stoker’s classic Dracula. To my surprise Dracula was from Romania, my own country, and I had a mixed feeling between fear and proud. It was soon after that I learned in history lessons about Vlad Tepes, one of the Romanian rulers...

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Cupcake video recipes on your Android device

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The title of this post has an intentional rhyme in it, but that’s not a hint that I’ll start rapping app reviews from now on. I bought a giraffe-toy about a year ago for my toddler and whenever you squeezed its leg (the toys’ leg that is) it started singing:

“Patty...

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Store your thoughts in a hierarchical view with Tree Note for Android

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Americans alone use more than 90 million tons of paper per year (according to TAPPI, a professional organization dedicated to the paper industry). That’s an average of over 315 kg (or 700 pounds) for each individual that’s consumed every year. Roughly you could say that 1 kg of...

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Discover great music with Taste Filter for Android

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Ever had that feeling when listening to a newly discovered song that you like it because it’s different, something that you’ve never heard until then? Well that feeling is wrong, the new melody you discovered does actually contain sounds your brain is already familiar with...

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Get UK news delivered right to your Android device with 'The News'

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More than 90.000 apps in Google Play offer in one way or another solutions to users searching for news. This just shows how important this category is and how much the demand for these apps is. It’s no wonder that most popular newspapers have released their own apps (some free, others...

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Help falling monsters teleport back to Monstranus

Parents all over the world find it easier to teach their children through fear when they don’t listen, commonly scaring the Bejesus out of them with monsters. There are those that hide in the dark, under the bed, in the woods, those that eat disobeying kids, giants, flying monsters and any...

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Learn how to make cakes right from your Android device

“The cake is a lie”. That’s the phrase coming through my mind everytime I hear or see the word cake. If this meme doesn’t ring a bell for you it’s because you haven’t played Portal, a game where your goal was to escape the deadly-puzzle environment “guided” by a...

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Make free calls with VPHO for Android

VoIP is an abbreviation of voice over Internet Protocol and it practically refers to the communication techniques involved in transmitting data (voice, multimedia) via the Internet. A VoIP program basically takes an analog audio signal, such as the one you transmit when talking on a regular...

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