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22 Jan 2012

App Store Weekend Blowout: Saturday January 21, 2012

Author: Joash | Filed under: Announcements

App Store Weekend Blowout: Saturday January 21, 2012

With the Chinese new year in full swing, tonight we’re bringing you the second episode of Weekend Blowout for 2012, and what an episode it is! – Our App Store monkeys have been hard at work over the past 48 hours collating a list of the most-notable iOS app price drops just for you.

Hit the break for the continually-updating list of sale action! — Plus, be sure to check out this week’s episode of New, Notable and Dropped for a list of the hottest must-have apps to have become available over the past 7-days.

iPhone / iPod touch

HECTOR: Ep2 – Senseless Acts Of Justice – (Was $4.99, Now $0.99)
HECTOR: Ep3 – Beyond Reasonable Doom – (Was $4.99, Now $0.99)
Robber Rabbits! – (Was $0.99, Now FREE)
Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six – (Was $6.99, Now $0.99)
Silent Ops – (Was $6.99, Now $0.99)
Voicemod – (Was $1.99, Now FREE)
Skyline Blade – (Was $4.99, Now FREE)
Cybernarium – (Was $0.99, Now FREE)
Daily Agenda – (Was $1.99, Now FREE)
SqueezeBastard – (Was $0.99, Now FREE)
iThunderStrike – (Was $0.99, Now FREE)
Cartoon Defense – (Was $0.99, Now FREE)
N.O.V.A. 2 – (Was $6.99, Now $0.99)
Flick Soccer! – (Was $0.99, Now FREE)
The Bard’s Tale – (Was $5.99, Now $2.99)
Piano Notes Fun – (Was $1.99, Now FREE)
BackStab – (Was $6.99, Now $0.99)
THE KING OF FIGHTERS – (Was $6.99, Now $2.99)
Gamebook Adventures – (Was $4.99, Now $0.99)
NEW ORBIT – (Was $2.99, Now $0.99)
Business Card Reader – (Was $5.99, Now $0.99)
Rejoin – (Was $0.99, Now FREE)
Bacteria Killer – (Was $0.99, Now FREE)
Mole Kart – (Was $2.99, Now FREE)
Fainting Goats – (Was $0.99, Now FREE)
Trenches II – (Was $1.99, Now $0.99)
Need for Speed™ Hot Pursuit – (Was $4.99, Now $0.99)
FIFA SOCCER 12 by EA SPORTS – (Was $4.99, Now $0.99)
Shopping List 365 – (Was $1.99, Now $0.99)
Eagle Eye Full – (Was $2.99, Now FREE)
Starbase Command – (Was $0.99, Now FREE)
Real Racing 2 – (Was $4.99, Now $0.99)
Pocket Warriors – (Was $2.99, Now $0.99)

iPad / Universal

Robber Rabbits! HD – (Was $0.99, Now FREE)
Sam & Max Episode 1 – (Was $6.99, Now $0.99)
Inspire Pro – (Was $7.99, Now $0.99)
Assassin’s Creed: Altair’s Chronicles – (Was $6.99, Now $0.99)
Flick Soccer! HD – (Was $0.99, Now FREE)
Avadon: The Black Fortress HD – (Was $9.99, Now $4.99)
Battles of 1944 – (Was $0.99, Now FREE)
Race Gear-Feel 3d Car – (Was $1.99, Now FREE)
Pudding Pop – (Was $0.99, Now FREE)

Continually Updating: The above post will be updated as sales for this weekend are revealed. Developer with an app on sale this weekend? – tips[at]razorianfly.com.

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iPad has potential as programming teaching tool, if Apple would let it

The iPad today is used in a lot of places that would surprise most people who regarded the thing as “just a big iPod touch” back when it debuted in early 2010: in corporate offices, in hospitals, in church pulpits, airline cockpits, and more. As sales continue to skyrocket, it’s becoming even more clear that another knock on the iPad, that it’s mainly a “consumption device” and not really for creation of content, is also becoming, well, inaccurate.

My favorite example of this came to me by way of Phillip Alvelda. Tech folks know him as the founder and former CEO of MobiTV. But his latest passion is his foundation, the Westminster Institute for Science Education. Through it, one of the courses he teaches is basic programming for middle schoolers. And what is he using for his course ? The iPad.

After his time at MIT, CalTech, NASA and in the tech startup world, Alvelda is now tackling the decline of science in schools’ elementary, middle- and high-school curriculum. What kids are currently taught does not “have much to do with what science is actually like,” Alvelda tells me. “It’s more about history of science and other people’s ideas.”

His foundation’s philosophy is to teach young people the power of creative exploration using 21st century tools. The class he teaches uses the iPad (a 21st century digital tool that’s far cheaper than anything most schools can afford of similar capability, he says) and an app called Codea. The app enables the creation of games and projects right on the device using the Lua programming language. (See video below for example.) Alvelda (who has no affiliation with Codea) calls it “a completely powerful and self-contained programming environment” that he says is great for teaching simple programming, something he considers essential for them when they eventually become working adults.

Codea, which first hit Apple’s App Store in October for $7.99, was created by Simeon Nasilowski, a programmer living in Adelaide, Australia who says he started designing the app never imagining it would be used in an educational setting, much less anyone else even seeing it.

He’s a mobile app developer by trade, but built Codea for himself because, he says, he wanted to write a bit of code but didn’t have his laptop on him. Most of the time, if he was away from his desk and inspiration stuck, all he’d have on him was his iPad.

But it wasn’t just about convenience for Nasilowski either. He also believes in touch as a fantastic interaction mode for programming for its ability to simplify the sometimes needlessly complicated. An example, cited by Nasilowski:

When you write code you could try to define a color as three values, red, green and blue with values between 0 and 255. You might type “120? and that’s some sort of gray. In Codea, if you have a function or part of your code that requires a color, it highlights that part of the code and it pops up a color picker you choose from there.

That simplicity and ease of interaction is what makes this app and a tool like the iPad so appealing to Alvelda and other forward-thinking educators. The iPad is a cheap, simple way to teach programming, the potential lingua franca of the future. Plus, you don’t need a developer license or a lot of money. But despite all the possibility and promise of that, Apple’s stance on certain kinds of coding apps is working against this goal.

Codea did make it through the App Store verification process — Apple somewhat relaxed rules last year that stated apps cannot contain any non-Apple executable code. Now the rule limits only downloadable executable code. Other coding apps have been approved too, like Textastic, For: i and Koder.

Codea has seen 25,000 downloads since October, but just last week Apple contacted Nasilowski and had him take out the code-sharing feature of his app. A disappointment for sure. It’s not just Codea though. A more high-profile kerfuffle happened in 2010 when Apple rejected Scratch, a well-liked programming app for kids created by MIT’s Media Lab. The reason it was rejected was under the former rules — that have since been relaxed — that banned any executable code that wasn’t Apple’s.

Like Codea, Apple also took issue with Scratch’s community-oriented nature, which included the ability to share projects. For Mitchel Resnick, professor of learning research at the MIT Media Lab and creator of Scratch, the sharing is the key element in the learning process:

Obstacles came across because we think that when you design and create it’s great to do it as part of a community. With the iPad you weren’t able to share things as part of a community. We could do a special version of Scratch for the iPad, but the restrictions make it so you couldn’t download projects from the online Scratch community. The social dimension of learning is very important.

Scratch still flourishes without an iPad app. And, of course, it’s not Apple’s job to make education tools. The company makes consumer products. But Apple has deep roots in equipping schools with the latest technology and is possibly getting ready to take on the textbook industry.

There are plenty of ways Apple devices like the iPad can be tools for creativity, learning and productivity without apps like the ones Resnick and Alvelda would love to see. But considering Steve Jobs’ passion for the intersection of liberal arts and technology, it could do so much more.

“There are so may examples of the iPad being a creative tool in other disciplines — Sketchbook, Garage Band,” said Alvelda. “Doesn’t it seem odd you can’t use it to make tremendous works of technology?”

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How To Make Your iPhone’s Home Button More Responsive [iOS Tips]

One of the unfortunate byproducts of owning an iOS device is that your Home button can become a little sluggish over time. When you get your new iPhone or iPad and use it initially, the Home button works smoothly, but it can eventually become less responsive.

Fortunately, there’s a subtle trick in iOS for recalibrating your Home button. After performing this tip on your personal iOS device, you should notice that your Home button is considerably more responsive when you’re navigating throughout iOS.

iDownloadBlog passes on an incredibly helpful tip that many probably don’t know about. It’s actually a very simple process to recalibrate your Home button; simply open a stock iOS app (Weather, Stocks, Clock, etc.). Once the app is open, press your iPhone’s power button until the ‘slide to power off’ screen appears. From that screen, press and hold your Home button until iOS force quits the stock app you have open. You’re done! No rocket science required.

Your iPhone’s Home button (this also works wonderfully on the iPad and iPod touch) should now be just as responsive as ever. Let us know if this tip worked for you in the comments below!

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26 Dec 2011

Use Emoji On Your Mac [OS X Tips]

Author: Joash | Filed under: Announcements

Use Emoji On Your Mac [OS X Tips]

The world of iOS was set alight when it was realized anybody can utilize Emoji–full colour emoticons, popular mostly in Japan. Suddenly SMS got a lot more interesting! However, with OS X Lion you can also utilize them on your Mac, making for everything from better emails to more colorful documents.

This tip is extracted from Mac Kung Fu, a new book containing over 300 tips, tricks, hints and hacks for Mac OS X Lion. 

Emoji are similar to emoticons you might already use: things like :-) for a smiley face, for example. The difference is that they’re full-color high-quality images, and they’re usually distributed as a special font. They’re popular in Japan and are rapidly spreading to the West.

OS X Lion includes default support for Emoji, as do versions 4 and above of iOS, the operating system that runs the iPad and iPhone. Therefore you can add them to email messages, for example, and text documents created with apps like TextEdit, although apps like Microsoft Word don’t currently support Emoji.

To insert an Emoji, you’ll need to use the hidden Characters tool, so some setup is necessary. Open a Finder window and hit Shift+Command+G . In the dialog box that appears, type /System/Library/Input Methods. Then look for the file called CharacterPalette. This is the tool we’ll regularly use to insert Emoji, so click and drag it to the Dock to create a shortcut for future use. Alternatively you can drag it to the desktop, but before releasing the mouse button, hold Option+Command to create an alias.

Start the CharacterPalette app and, in the left of the program window, select Emoji. Then select a category of Emoji icon from the column next to this—People, Nature, Objects, Places, or Symbols. Finally, select the icon you want from the list of icons and then click and drag it to where you want to insert it into your email, document, and so forth.

Click the dropdown list at the top left of the CharacterPalette window to alter the size of the icon display—selecting Large will show more detail, although this won’t affect the icons’ size when inserted into documents. To alter the size of an Emoji once it’s been inserted into a document, select it and use the standard font point size adjustment tool, usually available on the formatting toolbar.

Remember that any Emoji you insert into emails and documents will appear when opened by other OS X Lion computers and on iPads and iPhones, but they won’t appear on Windows or Linux systems or on Macs running pre-Lion releases of OS X. Instead, users will see a missing character symbol instead (usually a question mark symbol within a box).

Emoji can also be used in file and folder names. The best technique for inserting them is to open a TextEdit document, insert the Emoji you’d like to use (as described previously), and then copy and paste this when you come to save a file or if you rename a file.

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25 Dec 2011

App Store Weekend Blowout: Saturday December 24, 2011

Author: Joash | Filed under: Announcements

App Store Weekend Blowout: Saturday December 24, 2011

While we officially closed down for the Christmas break on Wednesday here at RazorianFly – as promised – (and because we love you guys), here is the only list you’ll need for finding the very best apps which are on sale for iOS throughout the holiday period.

The entire, continually-updating list of the action is available right after this break!

iPhone / iPod touch

VANGUARD STORM – (Was $3.99, Now $1.99)
FIFA SOCCER 12 by EA SPORTS – (Was $4.99, Now $0.99)
Trenches II – (Was $1.99, Now $0.99)
Spider-Man: Total Mayhem – (Was $6.99, Now $0.99)
Dead Space™ – (Was $6.99, Now $0.99)
The Sims 3 – (Was $6.99, Now $0.99)
The Settlers – (Was $4.99, Now $0.99)
MADDEN NFL 12 by EA SPORTS – (Was $4.99, Now $0.99)
Need For Speed™ Undercover – (Was $2.99, Now $0.99)
Puzzle Quest 2 – (Was $4.99, Now $2.99)
The Sims 3 Ambitions – (Was $4.99, Now $0.99)
Sky Gamblers: Rise Of Glory – (Was $4.99, Now $0.99)
BATTLEFIELD: BAD COMPANY™ – (Was $2.99, Now $0.99)
The Sims™ Medieval – (Was $4.99, Now $0.99)
BackStab – (Was $1.99, Now $0.99)
Iron Man 2 – (Was $4.99, Now $0.99)
Super Monkey Ball 2: Sakura Edition – (Was $2.99, Now $0.99)
King of Dragon Pass – (Was $9.99, Now $7.99)
Rayman 2: The Great Escape – (Was $4.99, Now $0.99)
Pod Odyssey – (Was $0.99, Now FREE)
Need for Speed™ Hot Pursuit – (Was $4.99, Now $0.99)
RISK – (Was $2.99, Now $0.99)
SHIFT 2 Unleashed – (Was $2.99, Now $0.99)
Silent Ops – (Was $6.99, Now $0.99)
Espresso HTML – (Was $0.99, Now FREE)
Hills and Rivers Remain – (Was $4.99, Now $2.99)
Words With Friends – (Was $2.99, Now $0.99)
doFORM – (Was $2.99, Now $0.99)
12Cal – Financial Calculator – (Was $4.99, Now FREE)
Pocket Chef™ – (Was $4.99, Now FREE)
Prizma – (Was $0.99, Now FREE)
Happy Hills – (Was $0.99, Now FREE)
Guns’n’Glory – (Was $0.99, Now FREE)
The Creeps! – (Was $0.99, Now FREE)
iStriker: Rescue & Combat – (Was $2.99, Now FREE)
Gravonaut – (Was $0.99, Now FREE)
Coin Dozer – Seasons Pro – (Was $1.99, Now FREE)
Flare – (Was $1.99, Now FREE)
Camera360 Ultimate – (Was $0.99, Now FREE)
RC Heli 2 – (Was $0.99, Now FREE)
Assassin’s Creed™ – Altaïr’s Chronicles – (Was $4.99, Now $0.99)
Real Racing – (Was $2.99, Now $0.99)
Frogbert – (Was $0.99, Now FREE)
Galactic Phantasy – (Was $4.99, Now $0.99)
Call of Mini: Zombies – (Was $0.99, Now FREE)
Discovr Apps – (Was $2.99, Now $1.99)
Cosmic Cab – (Was $0.99, Now FREE)
The Sims 3 World Adventures – (Was $2.99, Now $0.99)
Solar Walk – 3D Solar System Model – (Was $2.99, Now $1.99)
EPOCH – (Was $4.99, Now $2.99)
Bean’s Quest – (Was $2.99, Now $0.99)
TextGrabber + Translator – (Was $9.99, Now $0.99)
topPlayer – (Was $2.99, Now FREE)
Civilization Revolution – (Was $6.99, Now $0.99)
Guitar Pro – (Was $7.99, Now $0.99)
Quarrel Deluxe – (Was $2.99, Now $0.99)
Aurum Blade – (Was $0.99, Now FREE)
Air Sharing – (Was $9.99, Now $4.99)
Tap Forms Database – (Was $6.99, Now $0.99)
Japan Goggles – (Was $4.99, Now FREE)
Etolis: Arena – (Was $1.99, Now FREE)
Crayon Physics Deluxe – (Was $6.99, Now $0.99)
eNotes – (Was $0.99, Now FREE)
Fight Night Champion by EA Sports™ – (Was $4.99, Now $0.99)
Mushihimesama BUG PANIC – (Was $6.99, Now $0.99)
PopOut! The Night Before Christmas – (Was $4.99, Now $0.99)
Exitium: Saviors of Vardonia – (Was $2.99, Now $0.99)
ESPGALUDA II – (Was $7.99, Now $5.99)
Fantastic Knight – (Was $2.99, Now $0.99)
Stand O’Food® 3 Full – (Was $4.99, Now $0.99)
The Incredible Machine – (Was $4.99, Now $0.99)
Shantae: Risky’s Revenge Full – (Was $4.99, Now $1.99)
MONSTER HUNTER Dynamic Hunting – (Was $4.99, Now $0.99)
WhatsApp Messenger – (Was $0.99, Now FREE)
Flick Tennis: College Wars – (Was $1.99, Now FREE)
Bomberman Touch – The Legend of Mystic Bomb – (Was $4.99, Now $0.99)
ZENONIA® 2 – (Was $0.99, Now FREE)
Bomberman Dojo – (Was $3.99, Now $0.99)
F-SIM Space Shuttle – (Was $3.99, Now $0.99)
Mahjong Artifacts® Full – (Was $2.99, Now FREE)
iReading – The Nutcracker – (Was $1.99, Now FREE)
Pocket Informant – (Was $12.99, Now $7.99)
Neuroshima Hex – (Was $4.99, Now $2.99)
Ambiance – (Was $2.99, Now $0.99)
NBA 2K12 – (Was $4.99, Now $2.99)
Evolution of Gaming – (Was $0.99, Now FREE)
Quickoffice® Pro – (Was $9.99, Now $4.99)
Grand Theft Auto 3 – (Was $4.99, Now $2.99)
Chess With Friends – (Was $1.99, Now $0.99)
Happy Vikings – (Was $4.99, Now FREE)
The Escapee – (Was $0.99, Now FREE)
4Towers Onslaught: Combo TD – (Was $1.99, Now FREE)
Anomaly Warzone Earth – (Was $1.99, Now $0.99)
Devil May Cry 4 refrain – (Was $4.99, Now $0.99)
Pizza Boy – (Was $1.99, Now $0.99)
Plunderland – (Was $2.99, Now $1.99)
Ravensword: The Fallen King – (Was $2.99, Now $0.99)
Photo Power – (Was $1.99, Now $0.99)
A Knights Dawn – (Was $0.99, Now FREE)
AutoStitch Panorama – (Was $1.99, Now $0.99)
ZENONIA® – (Was $0.99, Now FREE)
Toy Shot™ – (Was $0.99, Now FREE)
Evolution of Gaming – (Was $0.99, Now FREE)
Quickoffice® Pro – (Was $9.99, Now $4.99)
Car Crusher – (Was $0.99, Now FREE)
DOOM Classic – (Was $4.99, Now $0.99)
Tower Bloxx Deluxe 3D – (Was $1.99, Now $0.99)
Ben the Bodyguard – (Was $4.99, Now $0.99)
Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars – (Was $9.99, Now $5.99)
Subject 7 – (Was $2.99, Now $0.99)
AmpKit+ – (Was $19.99, Now $9.99)
Real Steel – (Was $2.99, Now $0.99)
DOOM II RPG – (Was $2.99, Now $0.99)
Wolfenstein 3D Classic Platinum – (Was $1.99, Now $0.99)
Space Miner™ – (Was $2.99, Now $0.99)
Grand Prix Story – (Was $3.99, Now $1.99)
Tank Riders – (Was $1.99, Now $0.99)
DOOM Resurrection – (Was $4.99, Now $0.99)
The Nightworld – (Was $4.99, Now $0.99)
Papers – (Was $14.99, Now $9.99)
Articles – (Was $2.99, Now $0.99)
Pocket Academy – (Was $3.99, Now $1.99)
F1 2011 GAME™ – (Was $4.99, Now $2.99)
Sonics Rabbit HD – (Was $0.99, Now FREE)
Curtis Heavy – Granular Synthesizer – (Was $4.99, Now FREE)
Sound Scope Space – (Was $1.99, Now FREE)
Awesome Shopping List – (Was $1.99, Now FREE)
Defen-G Astro – (Was $2.99, Now FREE)
Wikibot – (Was $1.99, Now $0.99)
Mega Man® II – (Was $2.99, Now $0.99)
Magic Hour – (Was $1.99, Now $0.99)
Doodle Jink Reloaded – (Was $0.99, Now FREE)
The Sheep Won’t Sleep – (Was $0.99, Now FREE)
Happy Archer – (Was $0.99, Now FREE)
Peak Gold – (Was $0.99, Now FREE)
Elf Rescue – (Was $0.99, Now FREE)

iPad / Universal

Evolution of Gaming – (Was $0.99, Now FREE)
DisplayPad – (Was $2.99, Now $0.99)
Codea – (Was $7.99, Now $0.99)
Quickoffice Pro HD – (Was $19.99, Now $14.99)
Grand Theft Auto 3 – (Was $4.99, Now $2.99)
Loopy HD – (Was $7.99, Now $3.99)
Trade Mania HD Full – (Was $2.99, Now $0.99)
StarFront: Collision HD – (Was $6.99, Now $0.99)
Splinter Cell Conviction™ HD – (Was $6.99, Now $0.99)
Inspire Pro – (Was $7.99, Now $0.99)
Shadow Guardian HD – (Was $6.99, Now $0.99)
Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars HD – (Was $9.99, Now $5.99)
Nightstand Central for iPad – (Was $2.99, Now $0.99)
Wispin HD – (Was $2.99, Now $0.99)
Articles for iPad – (Was $4.99, Now $0.99)
RAGE HD – (Was $1.99, Now $0.99)
Masque – (Was $3.99, Now FREE)
SketchBook Pro for iPad – (Was $4.99, Now $1.99)
Farm Frenzy 2 HD – (Was $4.99, Now $0.99)
Starry HD – (Was $3.99, Now FREE)
Album App – (Was $1.99, Now FREE)
Cradle of Rome – (Was $4.99, Now $0.99)
Aquamarine HD – (Was $0.99, Now FREE)

See you December 28! – That’s all from us until after the Christmas break. From all the team here at RazorianFly, we’d like to thank you for reading and making the past year one to remember – (we really appreciate it). We hope you have a super-awesome holiday break and an even better new year.

We’ll see you back here, December 28.

Thanks,
The RazorianFly Team

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App Store holiday sales on now: GTA 3, id software, Dungeon Raid, lots more

The App Store freeze goes down today, so this is the last chance for many developers to put their apps on sale. And of course, many have taken advantage of that chance.

And that’s only the ones we’ve heard of — there are probably lots more sales out there. In other words, if there’s an app that you’ve been wanting to buy, you should probably check up on it today, because if it’s not on sale now, it probably won’t be this year. Good luck, enjoy all of your new apps!

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24 Dec 2011

J.J. Abrams Movie FX App Is Ridiculously Fun

Author: Joash | Filed under: Announcements

J.J. Abrams Movie FX App Is Ridiculously Fun

Bad Robot - Action Movie FX App

 

The gang at Bad Robot Interactive have unleashed an amazing little iPhone app called Action Movie FX that lets you add epic Hollywood FX to your home movies using your iPhone’s video camera. No skills are required to inflict the proper amount of Jean-Claude Van Damage into your own videos.

I was blown away with the quality of the overlays and how simple it is to line up a realistic missile attack or car dropping out the sky with spot-on timing. The app comes equipped with 2 effects on board and offers additional madness in an FX 2-Pack for $.99 as part of the in-app purchase model. Chopper Down is flat out spectacular to watch.

Action Movie FX is the kind of must-have app that shows off the true power of Apple’s iPhone one major disaster at a time. The new app is FREE for a limited time so grab it fast and get busy blowing things up all night long. It’s another huge hit for J.J. Abrams. I’m already hooked!

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24 Dec 2011

Massive iOS Christmas Sales Roundup

Author: Joash | Filed under: Announcements

Massive iOS Christmas Sales Roundup

SEGA digging $0.99 deals

Christmas is just 2 days away and the App Store’s once again littered with awesome deals. Numerous big name publishers have dropped most, if not all, their titles to just $0.99, including EA, Big Fish Games and SEGA. If not a dollar, then expect anywhere from 40-75% off regular prices. This is certainly one of the biggest iOS sales of the year (next to Thanksgiving). The majority of these offers are good until even after Christmas, so you should have plenty of time to decide which ones to add to your app collection. The complete roundup after the break.

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17 Dec 2011

Free Word Based Gaming With BetterLetter

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Free Word Based Gaming With BetterLetter

Who can resist a word game? I know I can’t which is exactly why I immediately checked out BetterLetter.

BetterLetter is a very simple word game but that’s often all that’s needed for a potent and enjoyable title. Available for free, it’s a game all about adding letters and forming increasingly more complex words from the line up. Pitting the player against another human player or with the AI, each player takes turns in adding letters in their efforts to create the longest word possible and gain the most points.

It’s a simple idea and one that I’m sure I’ve played before as a pen and paper game, but a great way to pass the time. The dictionary included with the game is pretty comprehensive coming up with all manners of words that I didn’t even know existed. Curse my average vocabulary.

BetterLetter also provides themes soon, in order to inspire creativity. These will include a Christmas theme as well as a Breakfast theme amongst others.

BetterLetter is available now for the grand price of nothing. Players can also pay out $0.99 to remove the ads that support the free version, and they can buy a Science Fiction theme for the same price.


BetterLetter


iPhone App – Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad
Buy Now: FREE
Released: 2011-12-14 :: Category: Education

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Apps Gone Free Roundup: MONOPOLY Here &Now, Asphalt 6: Adrenaline and more

EA’s Daily Deals is cranking up the heat with more awesome daily freebies, with MONOPOLY Here & Now: The World Edition for the iPhone and iPad going FREE for a limited time. This classic board game is especially fun on the iPad with friends and family thanks to its 10? screen. Not to mention that the regular price for the HD version is $9.99. Also free today Pro Zombie Soccer from Chillingo, a superb castle defense type game that involves a deadly soccer ball and zombies!

Be sure to also check out our Apps Gone Free roundup from yesterday for more freebies.

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