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Kids Will Love the Ultra Cute Characters in Adorables – iPad Game Review

By | December 11, 2012 | No comment yet
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Adorables is appropriately named, because the app stars an array of creatures with pudgy bodies and cute little expressions. As the story goes the Adorables are in charge of creating the aurora borealis, but they lost their ability to fly and need your help to control the night skies.

This is a game that uses Pachinko style gameplay, so players will tap and hold on the screen to send the balled up Adorables up into the air, and then tilt the iPad to control where they drop.

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ToonCamera Turns Your Real Life Into A Cartoon – iPad App Review

By | December 11, 2012 | No comment yet
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There are plenty of apps out there that you can use to turn pictures into comics or sketches, but there aren’t that many around that let you use these artistic filters on your videos in real time. Camera Boost was one of the first to offer real-time video filters, and now ToonCamera will let you turn real life into a Richard Linklater film.

The set up is simple. Just open the app and start shooting. You can either use the front-facing camera or the backside camera. To switch between the two, tap the icon that looks like Jeffy from Family Circus.

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Autodesk FormIt – iPad App Review

By | December 10, 2012 | 1 comment
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For those of us who spend our days drawing in the 2d- and 3d- world, its been a long wait for an app which allowed us to model without a mouse, commands, or short keys. And now that wait is over. Autodesk, the industry leader in design and engineering software, has released its latest design tool – FormIt. Made to help you model up building concept ideas, you can generate from anywhere and anytime ideas strike – with nothing but your fingertips.

Included in the feature of this app, a map extension helps you bring in location and context via satellite imagery, while built-in calculators give you real-time floor area, volume, and height information. A shadow-study tool also projects the sun’s angles for any time of day and any day of the year.

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Travel to China to Solve an Exotic Mystery in Judge Dee – iPad App Review

By | December 10, 2012 | No comment yet
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The entire population of the small town of Wu Ling is hit by the curse of the God of the City, punctuated by the death of mayor’s son, Chen, on his birthday. Your job is to take on the role of Judge Dee who is commissioned to try and solve the mystery and put an end to the city’s current fate.

Written by the scriptwriter responsible for the Nancy Drew™ series, Judge Dee is rich with story-telling content.

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Spread the Holiday Cheer With These Christmas Caroling Apps

By | December 10, 2012 | No comment yet
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Whether you’re headed out to entertain the neighbors or just want to have a festive singalong at home, check out these great apps for honing your Christmas caroling skills!

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Rescue Your Friends From Being Trapped in Crystals with Gem Smashers – iPad App Review

By | December 8, 2012 | 1 comment
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Breakout was created in 1976 as a cabinet arcade game. Since then, we have seen a plethora of clones, rip offs and homages. There are so many games like it that it has its own genre. Gem Smasher is a breakout type game with an adventurous plot that will give you a reason to keep going.

Players choose from a crab, chicken, or hedgehog to play the game with. The crab, named Bau, is free, but the others, Bam and Bom, cost $0.99 to unlock.

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Solve a Kingdom of Puzzles in Kings Can Fly – iPad App Review

By | December 7, 2012 | No comment yet
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Solving puzzles is an addictive iPad activity that you will never grow tired of. In Kings Can Fly there are over 60 levels set in his kingdom up in the sky in which you must guide the King’s airships through mazes and out of harm’s way (like keeping them free from dangerous spikes) using… wind; strategically place fans to guide those airships safely to their destination.

Filled with absolutely cute, whimsical graphics and punctuated by a fun soundtrack, Kings Can Fly is the perfect puzzle game for kids (and groups) of all ages.

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Light My Fire: A Hanukkah App Recreates a Age-Old Tradition — iPad App Review

By | December 7, 2012 | No comment yet
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The Jewish Museum has released a new universal iOS app just in time for Hanukkah. Focusing on the Hanukkah lamp, or menorah, this stylish and informative application includes history and instruction on lamp lighting.

Light My Fire: A Hanukkah App will be of interest to celebrants of Hanukkah who want to learn more about Hanukkah lamps or wish to light a virtual menorah this holiday season, or to anyone who is curious to learn more about the Jewish festival of lights.

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Use These Top Apps to Find Great Deals for the Holidays

By | December 7, 2012 | No comment yet
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Don’t spend more than you have to on gifts this holiday season. Instead, be a savvy shopper with the help of your iPad and these useful shopping apps. You’ll be saving so much you might just even be able to buy yourself an iPad mini before the year is over.

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Boulder Dash -XL Rolls Into The App Store – iPad App Review

By | December 7, 2012 | No comment yet
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There is nothing sweeter than being able to go back to your childhood for a few wondrous moments. Not the bad part of childhood, where you dad takes away your skateboard for a week because you were out past sundown. The good part, the times when you spend long, lazy summer days playing video games on your Atari. Well, you can relive those sweet bygone days again with Boulder Dash-XL.

Not only do you get a port of the original, but you’ll also get an updated version that is mastered perfectly for the iPad. You won’t be disappointed in either rendition. They are both pleasing to all generations of gamers.

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