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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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!

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“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?

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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

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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

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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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