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Doodle Jump Android Game, Bounce Higher!

Posted on Dec 17, 2011 in Games, Top Rated Games | comment

The Doodle Jump Android game is an instant classic where you must bounce your way skyward from one platform to the next without falling or hitting various enemies/obstacles.Version: 1.6.6 Size: 1.71MB (apps2SD enabled) Category: Games Price: $0.99Doodle Jump appropriately comes with a formidable warning of “insanely addictive!” thanks to its continuous gameplay requiring little to no learning curve. The mission is to “jump, jump, jump to the top, top, top” bouncing from one platform the next using a variety of boosters like springs, jet packs, and propeller...

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Apparatus Android Game, Build Simple Structure Solutions

Posted on Dec 14, 2011 in Games, Top Rated Games | comment

The Apparatus Android game tests your ability to build simple, mechanical structures to transfer one (or more) marbles from their starting position to the finishing bin.Version: 1.1 Size: 9.58MB (apps2SD enabled) Category: Games Price: $2.45Apparatus features 44 main levels as well as a Christmas Level Pack containing 10 bonus levels. The first few levels are specifically designed to teach you the basic gameplay, which is welcomed considering the complexity of later solutions. Additionally, the initial levels also help familiarize new players with how to select/deselect, rotate, and...

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How to Market an Android App, Tips for Developers: Part 1

Posted on Dec 11, 2011 in App Development Tips, Featured Content | comment

Our new series titled How to Market an Android App, Tips for Developers, is intended for Android developers who currently have an app in the Android Market or are actively developing one. Having personally downloaded and tested thousands of Android apps and games over the past two years, I have identified many characteristics (some obvious, others not so much) which many of the most successful apps possess. While some of these tips will pertain to marketing an Android app, as in increasing the number of downloads, ratings, and popularity your app receives, other tips will focus on general...

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Google Currents Android App, Personalized Magazine-Style Web Content

Posted on Dec 8, 2011 in News and Weather, Top Rated Apps | comment

The Google Currents Android app is a simple, elegant way to view your favorite web content all in one place.Version: 1.0 Size: 5.61MB (apps2SD enabled) Category: News & Weather Price: FreeGoogle Currents is Google’s response to popular apps like Flipboard (iOS) and Pulse Reader which provide a simple interface for perusing your favorite RSS feeds, web content, and social content. The app’s homepage (and overall layout) is extremely clean with sharp icons for your content as well as large, scrolling pictures from the latest content. To sync content you’d like to...

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Shoot the Apple Android Game, Fruit & Aliens?

Posted on Dec 7, 2011 in Games, Top Rated Games | comment

The Shoot the Apple Android game is a familiar projectile-firing game with some unique twists to keep it all interesting.Version: 1.0.1 Size: 8.61MB (apps2SD enabled) Category: Games Price: FreeShoot the Apple has many gameplay similarities to the extremely popular game Angry Birds and even Shoot the Birds. In this rendition, you must fire aliens at a single, red apple that they have grown to love (not sure how this otherworldly addiction began in the first place, but we’ll go with it). Unlike the aforementioned games, instead of pull-back-and-release shooting, here you simply...

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Dabble Android Game, Fast Thinking Word Game

Posted on Dec 4, 2011 in Games, Top Rated Games | comment

The Dabble Android game is a challenging word game where you must rearrange given letters to complete the game board as quickly as possible.Version: 1.0 Size: 18.33MB (apps2SD enabled) Category: Games Price: $1.00Each Dabble game consists of 20 letters spread out over five different tiers which represent five different words. And so, its your mission to create five words of each exact length; two, three, four, five, and six letters. When a valid word has been made, the letters will turn from black to blue. You have five minutes to turn all letter tiles blue and solve the wordy...

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AirDroid Android App, Manage & Control Your Device Over-the-Air

Posted on Dec 2, 2011 in Tools, Top Rated Apps | 3 comments

The AirDroid Android app allows you to fully manage and control your Android device from a web browser, over-the-air.Version: 1.0.2 beta Size: 2.61MB (no apps2SD) Category: Tools Price: FreeAirDroid is an incredibly powerful, free tool for managing your Android device from a computer (and is much more sophisticated than apps/services you might have come across). To get started, make sure you’re connected to WiFi and click Start. Next, AirDroid will instruct you to visit a specific web address (related to your IP so you can bookmark it) from the computer you’d like to...

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Shopkick Android App, Deals & Rewards Abound

Posted on Nov 29, 2011 in Shopping, Top Rated Apps | comment

The Shopkick Android app is the perfect shopping companion, offering location-based deals and rewards from many popular, large retailers.Version: 2.3.2 Size: 5.74MB (apps2SD enabled) Category: Shopping Price: FreeShopkick works by letting you earn reward points (“kicks”) that you can redeem for free gift cards, products, etc. In addition to these rewards, the app also presents you with new deals from some of the largest retailers. For example, based on my location (near San Francisco), walk-in kicks and deals were displayed for 24+ stores like Macy’s, Old Navy,...

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Fuzzy Logic Android Game, Mix & Match Fuzzies

Posted on Nov 27, 2011 in Games, Top Rated Games | comment

The Fuzzy Logic Android game is a puzzle player’s paradise, requiring strategic moving, mixing, and matching of “Fuzzies” to clear them off the game board.Version: 1.11 Size: 5.97MB (apps2SD enabled) Category: Games Price: Free The ultimate goal of each level in the Fuzzy Logic Android game is to clear each and every “Fuzzy” from the board. To make them disappear you must send two Fuzzies of the same color colliding into one another. The trick here is that only one Fuzzy can be moved at a time (move by flicking the Fuzzy either up, down, left, or...

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Gem Spinner 2 Android Game, Match 3 Evolved

Posted on Nov 21, 2011 in Games, Top Rated Games | comment

The Gem Spinner 2 Android game is a fresh take on the match 3 style games you’re likely to have played in the past, with a new and challenging “twist”.Version: 1.0.7 Size: 18.93MB (apps2SD enabled) Category: Games Price: $1.99Gem Spinner 2 features 50 unique levels which span 5 different destinations across the map. The basic gameplay is similar to other match 3 type games like Bejeweled where you must align three different colored shapes in a row to eliminate them from the game board. However, this Android game adds a couple extra levels of difficulty by 1)...

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