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Sat, October 22, 2011: Word Game Pro

Today's free Amazon android app of the day for Sat, October 22, 2011 is Word Game Pro!



Application Description:

As you assemble words from the available letters, watch the Next Up row for potentially higher-scoring combinations.

Word Game Pro adds some strategic spice to the familiar word game puzzle. The game centers on a mad scramble to construct words from a row of seven random letters, which change each round. Word Game Pro adds to the challenge by also letting you see letters that are about to come into play, offering you the chance to plan ahead--to develop a strategy.

Strategic Word Play

With Word Game Pro on your Android device, you will be treated to a unique word-finding experience that combines the creative thinking required for most word games with a strategic twist that involves looking ahead at the next eight available letters. As those letters are revealed, you have to balance careful observation with strategic thinking to build up combos and fill in words as fast as you can. Watch the bar at the top of the screen fill up a little each time that you successfully submit a word. Rack your brain to find the longest word possible for the most points before time runs out.

Track your game statistics, check out online high scores, run practice sessions, get help, and more.

Find Words, Find Fun

Once the game starts up, you will notice that you are presented with the standard mix of seven letters. The points range from one to ten and you'll start to gain additional points as you earn combos. Each successful word you create gives you another bonus combo point. The points keep piling up until you submit an incorrect word. Then, unfortunately, your combo bonus vanishes. With each fresh set of letters, you have new word prospects and the game automatically calculates how many words you can find with the maximum letters.

US and UK Spellings

Ensure that your observation skills are rewarded with points and not hindered by a limited dictionary with Word Game Pro. This game utilizes US and UK spellings using the SOWPODS Scrabble word list commonly used around the world for over 100,000 recognizable words ranging from three to seven letters. Check out your word history to see how many words you made (categorized by length) and what word gave you your best score. Upload your high score to see where you stand in the Word Game Pro world or keep track locally.


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Sun, October 23, 2011: Townsmen 6

Today's free Amazon android app of the day for Sun, October 23, 2011 is Townsmen 6!



Application Description:

Townsmen 6 is a challenging building and strategy game that takes you to eighteenth-century France where you can play your part in the French Revolution. Aristocratic oppression, massive class inequalities, and beheadings by the thousands frame the scene?but before you can conquer the crown, you have a few things to do back in town.

Reign of Work

You'll need soldiers to defeat government corruption, and soldiers need a place to live. Sound simple? It means constructing buildings, catching fish, harvesting fields, fetching water, gathering various natural resources to establish a solid economic cycle and expand your influence, and a few other things. How will you get it all done? Wake up those sleeping Townies, of course, and put them to work.

Mobilize Your Townies

For Townies and Townettes, the division of labor is traditional; it is the eighteenth century, after all. Townies work hard to provide an economic structure and gather power to fight the king while Townettes devote their attention to the general welfare by getting water from the well and gathering food.

While the Townies and Townettes are on hand for employment, they also need a constant supply of food and water, which means more work. To make matters worse, as your town becomes more stable, the Townies get more picky and demanding about their eats. Townies do work for a healthy economy and the more satisfied they are, the faster they can gather and produce. So it's a good idea to keep them employed, well fed, and happy since you need them to be strong for your campaign against the king.

To see how many Townies and Townettes live in your town, click the Town Info screen. Townies will also help you out by displaying various icons above their heads: snoring zzz's if unemployed, fish or other resources they have gained, and a smiley if they're happy.

Build Your Town

After your Townies have collected and produced the necessary materials, you can start building. Whiz-kid Townies can perform university research to help with upgrading buildings and improving functionality. As you complete phases and sub-phases of research, you unlock new building opportunities.

Meanwhile, keep a lookout for surprise events. At any moment you might face a lack of housing, extreme weather conditions, or a merchant visiting the town for some friendly trading. Merchants stay only for a few days, so you'll want well-stocked supplies when they visit. If you don't, you can always put up a marketplace to trade without a merchant.

Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, Life-and-Death Battles, and Other Stuff

Think you're prepared to take on the crown? Start by finding the best way to knock at the gates of Paris and call for the king's head. If your mission succeeds, you'll win action points that can be spent after each level for troop movements, bonus resource changes, and more.

Train your soldiers at military buildings and gather propagandists at coffee houses. Assign soldiers and propagandists to besiege and conquer neutral or royal buildings. But beware the king's wrath: Royal troops will defend their buildings and even attack your institutions, leading to life-and-death battles.

Leave it to Fate

In the Overview Map Mode, you'll toss the coin of fate to see which advantages and disadvantages await you. Depending on how the coin lands, you'll either gain some bonus gold or your opponent gains an additional soldier in an occupied or neutral zone. After the coin toss, you can explore all the different map levels including royal, occupied with hostile soldiers, your own zones, and territories that can be conquered. When you solve a mission, you earn action points that you can spend on distributing soldiers throughout the map, a new fate coin toss, or changing a selected bonus resource.

Join the Revolution

Play Townsmen 6 and enjoy stunning graphics, upbeat music, entertaining sound effects, a map generator that offers infinite replay value, and the option to save your progress and resume play at any time. You can also set various factors such as use of rivers and coasts and the aggressiveness of your war enemy. An extensive tutorial and help functions are also included and Poopsy the pig provides helpful hints along the way. You know your revolutionary spirit wants to join the fray so why wait. The Revolution needs you.


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Mon, October 24, 2011: Halloween Pumpkins Live Wallpaper

Today's free Amazon android app of the day for Mon, October 24, 2011 is Halloween Pumpkins Live Wallpaper!



Application Description:

Creeping darkness, low-hanging fog, crooked gravestones, and a field of pumpkins are bathed in the eerie light of a blood-red moon. Something brushes past your shoulder, but you see nothing when you turn around. Do you have what it takes to complete this pumpkin-smashing mission?

Smash the pumpkins and watch them explode

Exploding Pumpkins

Once you face your fears, all it takes is a single tap to destroy a pumpkin. These pumpkins are wearing their bright Halloween faces: some jolly, some grumpy, and some downright menacing. Smash them all and cackle as the smash counter skyrockets in the wake of the messy explosions.

You Have Visitors

Remember that?something that brushed past your shoulder? This graveyard is probably full of ghosts, but there are a few bats flying around too. Are they vampire bats? Why wait to find out when you can send them tumbling to their demise with a single tap. Double your fun by nabbing a bat as it flies in front of a pumpkin.

Your Pumpkins Wallpaper

Halloween Pumpkins Live Wallpaper has many customizable features to increase your fun. You can choose how many pumpkins you'd like to smash; to show or hide the smash counter; how much fog appears on the screen, the color, and how fast it moves; and whether you'd like to invite the bats to join your pumpkin smashing party.

Gargoyles, Monstrous Castles, and Spooks

You can also select one of several different spooky backgrounds that include a variety of chilling images like the skeleton arms of a tree set against a starry sky, a moon-silouhetted scarecrow, gravestones, gargoyles, a monstrous castle, and more. Halloween Pumpkins Live Wallpaper is the perfect way to get into the ghoulish spirit for Halloween or any day of the year.


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Tue, October 25, 2011: Gem Spinner II

Today's free Amazon android app of the day for Tue, October 25, 2011 is Gem Spinner II!



Application Description:

Make matches to earn stars

Spin Your Way Around the World

Ready to go on a treasure hunt? Gem Spinner II: Water Quest is the sequel to the hit puzzle game, offering a twist on the traditional "match three" game play. You're a globe-trotting archaeologist trying to restore gems taken from priceless artifacts. How do you do this? Puzzle boards, of course!

Each board contains colored gems encased in pieces of different shapes and sizes. Switch adjacent gems within a piece to line up three or more in a row. They'll vanish and be replaced by more gems. Make as many gem matches as you can to reach a high score on each level.

Piece de Resistance

The twist to Gem Spinner II's game play lies in those pieces. You can move the pieces around and rotate them to make for matches that aren't otherwise possible. That new flexibility is what makes this game special.

But they'll also add complexity to your strategy. Each time you make a gem match, that part of a piece goes dark. If the entire piece is dark, it vanishes completely. Clear away the smaller pieces too early, and you'll be stuck for matches to get rid of the big ones. You'll have to plan your matches carefully to get ahead.

Those pesky suns limit your ability to move pieces

Here Comes the Sun... Unfortunately

But that planning had better be quick, because you're working under a time limit. Take too long, and nasty suns appear to block piece movement and mess up your carefully laid plans.

Fortunately, you can also earn sparkling gems that add ultra-flexible one-cell pieces to the board. You can also use Casual Mode, which turns off the time limit for a more relaxing experience.

Playing Tourist

There are puzzle boards waiting for you all around the world, from the jungles of Central America to the shores of the Caribbean. Complete all levels at one destination to unlock the next. Fifty levels across five locations, all accompanied by beautiful background graphics, will keep up interest for a long time to come.

Earn as many stars as you can on each level, and shoot for that elusive and difficult Perfect award. There are even challenging puzzle levels with set gems and goals that'll really test your mettle!

So what are you waiting for? Those gems aren't going to be matching themselves!


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Wed, October 26, 2011: OfficeSuite Pro 5

Today's free Amazon android app of the day for Wed, October 26, 2011 is OfficeSuite Pro 5!



Application Description:

Create, view, and edit Microsoft Word and Excel files

Integration with Google Docs allows you to access your remotely stored documents

Just in case you need to bring the office home with you, OfficeSuite Pro is a complete feature-rich mobile office. When you can't get it done between nine to five, OfficeSuite Pro makes your job as efficient and painless as possible.

Full-Featured Office

This office productivity suite has everything you need from mobile office software. With OfficeSuite Pro, access tools for word processing, developing spreadsheets, delivering presentations, and browsing PowerPoint and PDF files. Create, view, and edit Microsoft Word and Excel files.

Google Docs Integration

The software features the most commonly used desktop document formats and includes a File Browse. The integration with Google Docs allows you to access your remotely stored documents.

Compatibility

The program supports Microsoft Office 97 to 2010 text documents - DOC and DOCX (open , edit, and save), Microsoft Office 97 to 2010 spreadsheets - XLS and XLSX (open , edit, and save), opening PPT, PPTX, PPS, and PPSX presentations, PDF files viewing, and integration with Google Docs.

OfficeSuite Pro is an essential productivity application offering greater office efficiency than ever anywhere, anytime.


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Thu, October 27, 2011: Ghost Radar

Today's free Amazon android app of the day for Thu, October 27, 2011 is Ghost Radar!



Application Description:

Sensing movement

Hearing voices

Ghost Radar attempts to detect paranormal activity. Working on the same principle as traditional paranormal detection equipment, the app employs your mobile device's sensors to measure electromagnetic fields, sounds, and vibrations. But while traditional tools are easily fooled by bursts of normal electromagnetic energy, stray vibrations, and background sounds, Ghost Radar sets itself apart by analyzing its readings and indicating hits only for interesting patterns.

Detecting and Recording Activity

To improve your chances of finding paranormal signatures, the app enables you to easily adjust its sensitivity to control for noise. Collected information can be displayed either numerically or graphically, appearing similar to a radar display. Any interesting words it detects are repeated by a recorded voice and logged for future reference. Directions and an FAQ can be found in the Menu.

Please note that there is no guarantee of Ghost Radar's accuracy since results cannot be verified scientifically. The app should be used for entertainment purposes only.


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Fri, October 28, 2011: Seven Stars 3D

Today's free Amazon android app of the day for Fri, October 28, 2011 is Seven Stars 3D!



Application Description:

Once upon an ancient time, an evil monster stole the Big Dipper and human beings could no longer rely on these stars to guide them through the darkness of night.

Bamboo passageways

Rope swings

Your Mission

Your task is to find and restore the Big Dipper to its rightful place in the sky by liberating seven stars from the monster's seven mazes. Tap through the gate to begin your journey toward the galaxies, twinkling and shooting stars, deep space, and mazes that wait beyond.

Space Mazes

Precarious platforms

Spiral loops

Maneuver the ball through the monster's complex stone mazes using tilt control. You'll need fine motor control and laser-like focus to master this real-time physics game. Watch for bamboo passages, precarious platforms, wooden blocks, rounded bridges, and other amazing features that could either help or hinder your progress. If you gain too much speed or miss a turn, you'll find yourself spinning off into space.

Gather Your Forces

You start with three lives. Pass through the galaxy icons that lie in your path to earn additional lives and time. Tap the yin-yang symbol to get a better view angle of your path. Although the way is long and difficult, original Chinese music, sound effects, and gorgeous 3D graphics provide soothing antidotes to the stress of your mission.

You can also aim for OpenFeint global leaderboards and achievements while pursuing the glory of defeating evil monsters and restoring stars to the sky. Accept the mission, venture into deep space, and retrieve the seven stars.

Features include:

OpenGL ES 3D graphics Chinese art styleAPP to SDSupport for various resolutions, from QVGA to WXGAG-Sensor tilt controlSupport for HD devices and tablets, such as Xoom and Galaxy TabSupport for English and Simple Chinese


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Sat, October 29, 2011: CandySwipe

Today's free Amazon android app of the day for Sat, October 29, 2011 is CandySwipe!



Application Description:

CandySwipe indulges your sweet tooth with cute gingerbread men, colorful candy corn, "Love You" Valentine hearts, Hershey's kisses, shiny candied apples, and entertaining gameplay that is as addictive as sugar itself.

Swipe candy and earn points

Sweet Surrender

There's simply no resisting CandySwipe's grid of sugary temptation, so why not dive in and have some fun. Swipe your finger left, right, up, down, or diagonally across matching pieces of candy without touching non-matching pieces. Swipe five or more pieces in Normal mode and you'll gain more time and points. Keep swiping multiple pieces so your time doesn't run out. You can also track back to collect missed pieces as long as your finger doesn't touch a non-matching candy piece along the way.

Sugar High

The more matching candy you collect in a single swipe, the higher your score. Your score is calculated by the number of candy pieces swiped multiplied by that number. For example, if you swipe 2 pieces you receive 4 points, if you swipe 4 pieces, you receive 16 points, and so on. Ice cream cones are wild, and each time you swipe one your current swipe score doubles.

Climbing and Timing

Match your way through 20 levels of CandySwipe fun. With every 2,500 points you reach a new level. The clock starts at 100 and counts down more quickly with each successive level. You receive 20-30 seconds of additional time when you reach each new level. Choose your difficulty level, which dictates how much time is added when you swipe:

Normal - Adds 1 second for every 25 points acquired in a single swipe (swiping 5 adds 1 second)Too Easy - Adds 1 second for every 9 points acquired in a single swipe (swiping 3 adds 1 second)Hard - Adds 1 second for every 64 points acquired in a single swipe (swiping 8 adds 1 second)Under Pressure - The same as normal but you start with 20 additional seconds

Savor and Share

You can also record your high scores and play against your friends. CandySwipe is a sweet little game that's perfect for the holidays or any time of the year.


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Sun, October 30, 2011: Hungry MonstR

Today's free Amazon android app of the day for Sun, October 30, 2011 is Hungry MonstR!



Application Description:

The poor ice cream! Save it at all costs!

MonstRs Are on the Loose!

Welcome to MonstR Land, a lovely place full of cute little monstRs (yes, that's a capital "R" there!). These critters love what every self-respecting monstR loves: ice cream! This wouldn't be a problem if you weren't the ice cream man.

Yes, there are Hungry MonstRs everywhere in this entertaining Android game, converging on your poor ice cream cart. It's up to you to defend your frozen goodies.

We All Scream For Ice Cream!

Four different colors of monstRs approach your ice cream cart from the edges of the screen. Flick them (using full multi-touch controls) towards one of four tubes at the corners, depending on their color. Be careful not to send a monstR into the wrong tube; he'll plug it up temporarily and keep you from using it.

If three monstRs get away with ice cream, it's game over. That is a definite challenge with the sheer numbers that will eventually start converging on your cart.

Don''t let this happen to you...

Rainbow Connection

Fortunately, you have an awesome weapon in your fight against monstRs: the rainbow. Flick at least two monstRs of the same color into their tube, then two more of another color into one of the tubes next to it without interruption. Circle the screen that way, and you'll get a special rainbow item.

The rainbow turns all tubes into rainbow tubes that accept any color of monstR. Take advantage of this limited time power and flick away as many as you can with wild abandon! You can also get a double, triple, or quadruple rainbow, or even more.

A La Mode

There are two ways to play Hungry MonstRs. MonstR Frenzy gives you a trio of minute-long frenzies of monstR onslaughts that you must defend against. Endless Rainbow offers an infinite number of increasingly harder assaults--as long as your ice cream survives. Whether you have a lot of time to kill, or just a few minutes, Hungry MonstRs have you covered.

While you play, take a look at the in-game statistics and local leaderboards--if you get good enough, you might see your best scores there. With three difficulty levels, the whole family can enjoy the game. So don't be afraid to face those Hungry MonstRs--just make sure you have your desserts in a safe place...


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Mon, October 31, 2011: The Legend of Spookley the Square Pumpkin

Today's free Amazon android app of the day for Mon, October 31, 2011 is The Legend of Spookley the Square Pumpkin!



Application Description:

Little readers can follow along with text highlighting

"One day in the pumpkin patch the strangest little pumpkin hatched. Spookley wasn't like his friends?where they had curves, he had ends."

So begins The Legend of Spookley the Square Pumpkin. This delightful and inspiring book for your Android device combines the original text of author Joe Troiano and artwork of Susan Banta with features that entertain and promote reading.

Enjoy realistic page turning, colorful graphics, professional audio, and more

Square in a Round World

Spookley the square pumpkin was different. In a world where "the only good pumpkins are round pumpkins," Spookley is shunned. Until one day during a terrible storm he gets the chance to make a difference. In The Legend of Spookley the Square Pumpkin, a unique pumpkin delivers a special message of tolerance and self-acceptance that's just right for Halloween or any day of the year.

Find out how Spookley's difference makes a difference

Enjoy Interactive Reading Fun

This Oceanhouse Media omBook features professional narration, background sounds, and enlarged artwork for each scene. Children can choose the Read to Me option if they would like the audio narration but want to go at their own pace (turning the pages themselves); beginning readers can opt for the Read it Myself mode. Auto Play reads the entire story without any prompting or page-turning, which is especially useful for very young children.

Support for Little Readers

To help kids learn to read in a fun way, individual words are highlighted as the story progresses and words zoom up when pictures are touched. Kids can slide a finger from right to left on the screen, and the "page" actually turns just like a real book. The overall effect is to make a classic story come alive, providing hours of entertainment for all ages.


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Tue, November 1, 2011: Pig Blaster - Ad Free

Today's free Amazon android app of the day for Tue, November 1, 2011 is Pig Blaster - Ad Free!



Application Description:

Escape from the Pig Pen

Dagnabbit! There's trouble on Old McDonald's farm, tonight. The swine have broken out of their pen and are making a run for the property line. You're the farm hand on duty and your job is to round up the escaped porkers. Your only hope of capturing them all is your trusty Pig Blaster.

Tap to fire matching-colored pigs into the herd to form groups of three.

When Pigs Fly ... from a Cannon

Y'see, in Pig Blaster, nothing makes hogs run the other way like the sight of their relatives hurtling through the air. So the surest way to turn all of the squealers back toward Old MacDonald's is to launch some carefully-targeted porcine cannonballs into their midst.

But careful aim is key: Your goal is to line up your color-coded cannon fodder with matching runaways. Every time you put together three little pigs of the same color, you send that trio waddling back to the farm. On the other hand, every mismatched pig you add just blindly joins the herd's confused stampede. And the more mismatched pigs there are onscreen, the harder it gets to round 'em all up before they wriggle out of cannon range.

Champion Swine Wrangler

Shoot your way through six fun game stages. Unlock new levels as you corral tougher and tougher swine herding challenges. Chase the bacon through different seasons and terrains, all year 'round, until you're a champion pig wrangler.

Pig Blaster supports multiple languages, including English, French, German, Portuguese, Spanish, and more.


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Wed, November 2, 2011: Drift Mania Championship

Today's free Amazon android app of the day for Wed, November 2, 2011 is Drift Mania Championship!



Application Description:

Hot wheels, man

If you've ever experienced that moment when your tires lose their grip and you begin to spin out, you know just how terrifying that can be. In Drift Mania Championship, that's actually the object of the game. Your head and your tires will both be spinning when you take on this exciting game for Android.

Drift Away

The key to Drift Mania Championship is a combination of pushing the limits while maintaining control. Drifting is the act of maneuvering a vehicle around corners at speeds and angles that exceed the vehicle's grip--a kind of controlled slide. But go too fast and your slide becomes Wipeout City.

Stay on Track

Five twisting and turning tracks included

Drive one of seven different stylin' cars and select from five challenging tracks. Start out in Practice mode until you get the hang of it, then switch to Drift mode for the serious action.

Points are awarded based on four main criteria: Line, Angle, Speed, and Impact. Line involves drifting within pre-designated zones. The line is marked by several clipping zones, where the closer you get, the more points you score. With Angle, the goal is to get your car as sideways as possible without crashing.

Of course, you will always have a need for Speed. Try to drift as fast as possible, but be careful--hit a wall or fly off the track and you'll lose your current combo score. If you complete the race within a set amount of time, the game awards extra points. You'll also get bonuses based on your overall Impact: entertaining the crowd and delivering an exciting performance. Make the fans cheer and treat them to the sweet smell of burning rubber.

Race in 3D

Drift Mania Championship features stunning 3D graphics for a realistic racing experience. The app takes advantage of the multi-touch capabilities of your Android device, which means you'll have to rack up the miles while getting a feel for the controls and interface. You can adjust your steering sensitivity, use three different camera configurations, and even replay your best combos.

Challenge friends to match your performance by submitting your best scores to the global leaderboards for each track. The top 100 positions are displayed on the official Drift Mania website.

Note: This game is not compatible with Samsung devices using Android 2.1. Upgrade to 2.2 or try the Lite version of the app.


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Thu, November 3, 2011: InfeCCt

Today's free Amazon android app of the day for Thu, November 3, 2011 is InfeCCt!



Application Description:

You know how in the movies, the crumbling, ancient city in the middle of the jungle is always overgrown with vines? That's the scene in InfeCCt, a contagiously entertaining puzzle game for Android.

These creepers slowly but surely cover the tiles

Creepy

The vines are growing like wildfire, but you alone control their path. The challenge is to guide them in connecting each and every tile on the grid without crossing any square twice (except the special tiles that require it). Sounds easy, right?

The vines go in, the vines go out...

Not so fast, intrepid explorer. To solve the puzzles you'll have to deal with blocking tiles, vexing intersections, and color-coded tunnels. It all adds up to a puzzling challenge.

Oops, Wrong Way

If you miss a tile or get stuck somewhere, you can always backtrack--but it will cost you points. You're also on the clock, and if you take too long to find the solution you can just forget about a bonus, pal. There's a Solve button you can use if you're really stumped, but you get no points at all if you use it.

InfeCCt features top-notch graphics, clever animations, and a haunting soundtrack. With more than 300 levels to unlock, you'll spend a lot of time wrapped up in this infeCCtious game.


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Fri, November 4, 2011: Ultimate Guitar Tabs and Tools

Today's free Amazon android app of the day for Fri, November 4, 2011 is Ultimate Guitar Tabs and Tools!



Application Description:

Keep your favorite tabs in one place

Whether you're a full-time gigging musician or a late-night bedroom shredder, Ultimate Guitar Tabs and Tools is an incredible on-the-go resource. This app for your Android device gives you access to the world's largest guitar tablature database, as well as several valuable tools--a tuner, metronome, and huge chord library. Browse more than 300,000 listings for guitar, bass, and drum tabs, learn new songs faster than ever, and use the tools to master your instrument.

A World of Music at Your Fingertips

Ultimate Guitar Tabs and Tools offers a mind-blowingly thorough catalog of guitar tablature in a package that's surprisingly easy to navigate. The home screen makes simple searches easy; additional tabs at the top of the screen reveal advanced search options, a place to keep your favorite tabs, and a useful Tab Packs section that organizes frequently-played songs into categories (such as Blues, Chart Busters, Rock and Metal, and Worship Music).

Find the Song You've Been Searching For

The quickest way to get started is by simply typing a keyword into the box on the app's home screen. If you're looking for a song by the singer-songwriter John Vanderslice, for example, just enter his name and touch the "Search" button. The app will immediately access every Vanderslice tab in the Ultimate Guitar Tabs database, and from there you can scroll through the song titles until you find the one you want.

Share great tabs with friends

If you know a song's title--even just part of it--type that into the search box instead. A moment later, you'll see every title that includes the keywords you entered, and it'll be easy to narrow down your search from there.

If you want to conduct a more detailed search, touch the "Advanced" tab at the top of the screen. Enter any keywords in the main search box, and narrow your results more by opening dropdown menus that sort by Type (guitar, bass, drums, or chords), Part (an intro, for example, or a mid-song solo), Rating (based on a one- to five-star system), Difficulty, and Tuning (featuring a huge variety of possible guitar tunings).

See It, Play It, Share It

Once you find the song you want, just touch the title and its tab will appear onscreen. You can scroll throughout the page to whatever part you want to scrutinize and zoom in or out if the print is too large or small. The "Auto Scroll" function is a useful feature, as well; if you choose to enable it, the screen will automatically scroll down the page slowly, making it much easier for you to follow the tab as you play the song from beginning to end.

Of course, keeping a new song to yourself is only fun for so long. Show off the latest riff you've learned (or suggest a hot lick to a fellow musician) by sending a tab via e-mail. Just remember to give credit where credit is due; even if you learn to play a song perfectly, you didn't write it! Use this tremendous educational resource to stand on the shoulders of the masters as you learn to play your instrument even better.

Listen to metronome beats in several different sounds

You've Met the Tabs, Now Meet the Tools

Along with its voluminous tablature selection, Ultimate Guitar Tabs and Tools includes a quality guitar tuner, metronome, and chords library. These give you a useful set of quality guitar tools right on your Android device--just touch the Tools tab at the top right of the screen and you'll see these three options waiting to be selected.

Tune Up

Get your guitar in tune and keep it that way with the app's guitar tuner feature. Using your device's built in microphone, play any string on your instrument; the app will hear the tone and tell you whether it's in tune, flat, or sharp.

You can also use the Brain Tuner, an accurate tone generator that plays any of the six notes in the standard open guitar tuning (E, A, D, G, B, E). Use your brain (and your ears) to compare the note of a guitar string with the tone the tuner has generated, then tune your guitar to match the tone.

What's the saddest key? Browse the chords library and decide

Keep Time

Once your guitar's in tune, you'll still need to play in rhythm. Train yourself to keep better time with the app's metronome function. It's full of useful, high-end features: fine tune any tempo, set a tempo by tapping a rhythm on the screen, adjust the time signature and beat subdivision, and much more.

It even includes five sound packs, which allow you to hear the beats as if they're being made by such items as a classic metronome, a wood block, or (of course) the classic cowbell.

Extend Your Chords

Once you've gotten the basics taken care of, you may find that you need a resource to look up chords. No problem--you'll find a huge variety, along with a sound sample of each, in the beautifully designed and powerful chords library.

A scrollable database of hundreds of guitar chords--including variations on each chord--is right there at your fingertips, and it's truly a useful reference material for any guitarist intent on learning new ways to approach the instrument.


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Sat, November 5, 2011: The Burbs

Today's free Amazon android app of the day for Sat, November 5, 2011 is The Burbs!



Application Description:

Dancing sunflowers, cute kids, white picket fences, and colorful houses populate The Burbs. With this fun live wallpaper, you can view an adorable suburban neighborhood from the steps of your house.

Welcome to The Burbs

Watch the neighborhood, set car speed, plant your garden, and more

The Burbs allows you to live the dream of that neat little house in a neat little neighborhood. Watch your neighbors as they walk by and wave to the kids working on the lawn. Enjoy the sky darkening as the neighborhood settles down for the night. And, thanks to Parallax backgrounds, the app conveys a realistic feeling of depth.

Your Burbs

Customize a range of features in this live wallpaper:

Weather and Seasons

You control the weather in The Burbs, so if you've ever wanted to play rainmaker or enjoy an endless summer, this app is for you. Select weather effects by season or month and set a season interval by year, month, day, or hour.

Garden

If you like gardening, you'll love The Burbs. You can opt to plant a basic garden of marigolds, pansies, sunflowers, hydrangeas, or roses. If you have a particularly green thumb, you can customize your garden in many and varied ways. Add up to ten different plants, selecting for each the variety, growth rate (in seconds or fractions of seconds), growth stages, steady or random growth, and the time period before a dead plant starts to regrow. You can also choose to animate your plants so they sway back and forth. It's everything a gardener could want?without the weeds.

People and Cars

Just as in real life, people and cars in The Burbs move at random speeds, but you can set their max speed (slow, medium, or fast), depending on whether you'd like a Monday-morning or Sunday-afternoon kind of feel.

Holidays

Life in The Burbs wouldn't be the same without festive holiday decorations. Luckily, the app will keep track of the holidays for you, enabling the appropriate features on the correct dates.

Live the Dream

What's not to love? Live the dream on your Android with The Burbs.


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Sun, November 6, 2011: Awesome Triple-Play Video Poker

Today's free Amazon android app of the day for Sun, November 6, 2011 is Awesome Triple-Play Video Poker!



Application Description:

Wild cards, wild results

With Triple Play Video Poker, you can test your play strategies and polish your technique without dropping a bundle at the casino or risking security online.

Eight Ways to Play

Choose your game:

Jacks or BetterTens or BetterBonusDouble BonusJokerDouble JokerDeuces WildDeuces and Jokers Wild

By the Numbers

Track your results with statistics charts for each game variation, updated with every game you play. Simple tables detail payouts for each hand in each game.

Pick the Risk

Set win frequency at one of four levels, from "Normal Wins, Like Vegas" to "Fluff Those Wins!" Start with 1,000 credits. Bet one credit on one hand, one credit each on two hands, one credit each on all three, or five credits on all three. Run out of credits? Reset your balance and start over.


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Mon, November 7, 2011: SUPER WHY!

Today's free Amazon android app of the day for Mon, November 7, 2011 is SUPER WHY!!



Application Description:

Mistakes are still fun in SUPER WHY!

Choose the letter that Princess Presto pronounces

Cool! You just won another sticker from Wonder Red.

Now it's time to play with those stickers

Reading For Heroes

SUPER WHY! from PBS KIDS makes learning to read and write so fun that kids won't realize they're absorbing essential literacy skills. This app features an intuitive, kid-friendly interface, and best of all, kids learn not to be afraid of learning from mistakes. Based on the hit PBS KIDS show, this colorful, action-packed app features the show's four characters in four different games. Journey to Storybook Village and learn the wonders of reading and writing with Super Why, Princess Presto, Wonder Red, and Alpha Pig. And why yes, Alpha Pig does fly!

Four Games, Four Worlds

When you launch SUPER WHY!, you're presented with a menu of four games: Super Why's Story Saver, Princess Presto's Wands Up Writing, Wonder Red's Rhyming Time, and Alpha Pig's Lickety Letter Hunt. It's easy to exit from each game and start another one at any time. Clearly written rules are available from the main screen. For an added challenge, combine all four games in "Play All" mode by selecting the SUPER WHY! book.

SUPER WHY! to the Rescue

Super Why's Story Saver challenges players to choose the correct word in a sentence. You see a scene from a story accompanied by a sentence with a missing word. For example, you'll see an elves' workshop with some elves busy making shoes. The sentence reads, "The elves made ___ at night." You must choose the missing word from "milkshakes", "shoes", and "sandwiches". If you choose "milkshakes", a milkshake will appear in the workshop. That can't be right! But you'll still get a good laugh as you learn from your mistake. Super Why encourages you to keep trying to choose the right word.

Spelling Magic

Princess Presto's Wands Up Writing teaches your kids letter sounds and how to write them. You're trying to spell out a word. Princess Presto shows you a series of letters, and asks you which letter makes the sound she pronounces. When you choose the right letter, the letter appears in one of the word blanks. Then the good princess will help you trace the letter with her magic wand.

Rhyming and Flying

Wonder Red's Rhyming Time also helps you practice proper pronunciation and reading through fun rhymes. Help Wonder Red choose the word that correctly rhymes with another word she shows you. In Alpha Pigs' Lickety Letter Hunt, you're helping Alpha Pig find his way home by identifying letters he needs at each intersection. When you choose the right letter, Alpha Pig flies closer to home.

Stickers, Stickers, Who's Got the Stickers?

All these games are part of a great reward system. Every time you successfully complete a game, you win a cool sticker. As you play the games, you'll quickly amass a lot of stickers. Use these stickers in My Super Stickers section, which contains different pictures to paste your sticker collection on. Nice!

Gentle Guidance

What makes SUPER WHY! such an effective educational app is its seamless combination of fun, helpful characters and constructive criticism. Your child learns that he or she can learn from making mistakes; the games are never graded nor does the child ever "lose" a game. SUPER WHY! helps children build scholastic self-confidence while instilling in them the notion that reading and writing is way too much fun. This app is also a neat supplement to the SUPER WHY! television program and website.


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[JUOT News Bot]

Tue, November 8, 2011: 3D Bio Ball HD

Today's free Amazon android app of the day for Tue, November 8, 2011 is 3D Bio Ball HD!



Application Description:

Brilliant 3D graphics

Everyone at one time or another has probably played a real or virtual version of the game Labyrinth, in which you guide your ball through a maze full of obstacles and holes to reach safety. 3D Bio Ball HD for Android is Labyrinth--on steroids. This game will bowl you over with its stunning graphics and addictive gameplay.

Bolt from the Blue

When our story begins, you are just another Bio Ball coming off the assembly line. But your world changes when a robot named Bolt pulls you from your crate and gives you a mission: roll through the different levels and worlds to ultimately challenge and defeat the Mad Cucumber crew. If you accomplish this task, you'll save the world! But remember: The other 42 Bio Balls that Bolt gave the same mission to never came back, so let's be careful out there.

Rock and Roll

Be sure not to skip the Tutorial, because this game has more twists and turns than a Formula 1 race. Tilt your device to control the speed and direction your Bio Ball rolls. Pick up the coins and bolts in your path while steering clear of bombs, floating mines, moving blocks, holes, and other threats. When you've gathered up all the good stuff, you can take an express tunnel or be shot out of a cannon (!) to reach the next level.

Defeat the Mad Cucumber!

If you roll over a light switch you'll be plunged into pitch darkness, which is very disorienting. You might even experience an earthquake and get bounced over the side, or roll over a button that will flip the whole board 90, 180, or 360 degrees. With six worlds and more than 100 different levels, there's never a dull moment in this game!

A Long Way Down

3D Bio Ball HD takes place in the cold of interstellar space. If you fall through a hole or off the board, it's a doozy of a drop. Don't worry: You'll get another chance, but you will lose valuable time and power. A clock in the top-left corner shows you how much time you have to clear the level. If you finish your task but don't beat the "par" time, you lose all the coins and other goodies you collected on that level.

Purchase power-ups if you have enough cash

If you see a crate like the ones at the factory, be sure to stop. It may contain a special power or other upgrade, such as an Invulnerable Ball, that will help you out. You'll have to buy these with the coins you've collected (check the top of the screen to see how many you currently possess). At any point, you can also visit Bolt's Parts Shop to purchase the various boosters.

Graphically Rich

This entertaining game is a joy to play for the amazing graphics alone. The objects are rendered in fine detail and the 3D digital effects--such as when you plunge through a tunnel to the next level--are thrilling. Throw in the stark backdrop of outerspace, with stars and planets gleaming, and you've got one of the coolest-looking games available for Android.


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[JUOT News Bot]

Wed, November 9, 2011: WordWrench Full

Today's free Amazon android app of the day for Wed, November 9, 2011 is WordWrench Full!



Application Description:

Create as many words as possible

Win the round with a six-letter word

WordWrench Full for Android, the game of anagrams, gives you six jumbled letters to puzzle out. Find as many three, four, five, and six-letter words as possible; in fact, if you find a six-letter word, you win the round. Numerous menu options let you tweak this addictive app's behavior, while its simple interface keeps your eyes on the letters and words.

Shake Up Your Word Play

With over 8,000 word puzzles including more than 6,000 six-letter words, the replay value wrenches you from one puzzle to the next, quietly building your need to continue playing. Tap the letters or type them in; the choice is yours, but find the words quickly, because the timer winds down in just two minutes. Press the Wrench button or shake the phone to reorder the letters, and pause for breaks to stop the countdown timer.

More Than One Way to Wrench

If typing your text feels more natural to you, try WordWrench with these keyboard commands:

? A-Z = Enter the chosen letter

? Space = Wrench the letters

? Del = Erase the last letter

? Enter = Submit your current word

? Left Shift = Empty word

? Right Shift = Last word

Product Reviews

"WordWrench is a pretty simple anagram game, but enough effort's been put into its presentation and capability to keep crossword and letter puzzle gamers more than happy." - Pocket Gamer

"The challenge of trying to create as many word combinations as possible and thriving to beat your own high score can get addictive." - Android Tapp


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Thu, November 10, 2011: Pigs in Trees

Today's free Amazon android app of the day for Thu, November 10, 2011 is Pigs in Trees!



Application Description:

Pigs in Trees is an entertaining game that involves defending your pig family from an invading force of woodpeckers. Get ready to defeat the lame-o birds that are attacking your home.

Defend your tree home from those pesky woodpeckers

When Pigs Fly

One fine morning, you awake to find an army of woodpeckers attacking the tree where you and your pig family are peacefully sleeping. Your task is to protect your tree nest by defeating those woodpeckers with your pig air force. Hop in your plane and buckle up for a riotous ride through the skies.

Fight Hoof and Snout

The woodpeckers are dive-bombing your tree, so there's no time to waste. Draw a line from your plane to control where it flies. Draw another line to an offending woodpecker to lock-on your target and engage in combat. When you get a hit, watch as the feathers fly and your score climbs. But don't gloat for too long or you'll give your opponents the advantage. Your tree can only sustain three attacks, so shoot those woodpeckers before they reach it or the game is over. Make it through the final wave of attackers to clear the level and get a good night's sleep.

Score high, collect Powerups, and have fun

Power Up Your Oink

While battling the birds, you can collect Powerups to use when the going gets tough. The Frenzy Powerup triples your firepower for a short period of time. If you come under attack and your plane is smoking, use a Repair Powerup to fix it as good as new. Tap on a Powerup to place it into one of your slots and then tap the slot to use it.

Squealin' Fun

Each of the 75 unlockable levels offers intense gameplay and new challenges. At some point, for example, you'll meet the screamers, a particularly noxious type of woodpecker. Try not to take the screamers head-on; instead, you'll want to attack from the sides or back. To find out what other challenges you'll face, give Pigs in Trees a try. You'll enjoy entertaining music and sound effects as you fly and shoot your way through four campaigns of squealin' fun.


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