Whether it’s a game of memory, a puzzle, some basic spelling activities or early math, these free apps will help your child come out at the top of their class. Although many of these are offered in English, there are a number of titles designed for our international friends!

• Kids Preschool Puzzle & Words
• Kids Memory and Math Trainer
• Smart Speller English (Kids)
• Puzzle MasterPics

I’d love to hear what app(s) you have used to get your child ready for preschool or to stay sharp during the summer.  Please leave a comment below and share with the rest of the class!

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• Fans can feel the rush of the escape in Need for Speed Hot Pursuit and outrun the law as a Racer in supercars like the Pagani Zonda Cinque.
• Experience the sci- fi horror and bloodcurdling events in Dead Space featuring hardcore gameplay and a rich audio experience. 
• The sporty dad can watch matches come to life in FIFA 12 by EA SPORTS or defend their home from zombie invasion with Plants Vs. Zombies.

We’ve been impressed with everything that EA has given Android users and these discounts make it harder to resist going for the purse.

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I love being able to open this up and hand it to toddlers and youngsters.  There’s no risk of an accidental ad click, no temptation to open another app, and no distractions.  ”Here, color me a picture!” Now I am free to drive a few more, distraction-free miles.

There are a pair of coloring modes and illustration options to choose from and Samo comes with 3 free sets of illustrations.  There are additional sets available to purchase however the developer (Martin Adamek) promises more free stuff on regular basis. The graphics are clean and simple and look great on phones or tablets.

Other features of Samo Coloring for Kids:

• DRAW mode lets tiny fingers paint *only* within the lines for fine motor development and beautiful final illustrations.
• Swipe left or right to move between illustration sets. There are drawings with and without borders for varying artistic styles.
• Colors are divided into palettes of 5 complementary colors to keep it simple and focus on the drawing at hand. Swipe left/right to change palettes (30 different colors in all).
• Choose from full pages to color or fill in black and white drawings on a lush, painted background.
• Undo/Redo mistakes.
• Save to gallery to keep a record of your child’s art.

Learn more about Samo Coloring for Kids on the internet and download the app from Google Play!

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It’s worth pointing out that you do not have to be a Verizon subscriber nor do you need a Sony handset to take advantage of the Sony SmartWatch.  All you really need is an Android device!  Grab one for yourself today for about $150 from Verizon and/or Amazon.

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Should you take a bunch of pictures from a new place that everyone has to try, you can share the details across social networks and email.  The location awareness can pull in exact coordinates or addresses and even point your buddies to the new hotspot.  There are actually a ton of ways one might use Evernote Food, including documenting home cooking, saving receipts, and storing copies of recipes.

If you’re relatively new to Android and want to check out other great food-related apps, you’re in luck.  Here’s a couple of our favorites from Google Play to get you moving in the right direction!

• Foodspotting (FREE)
• DishPal (FREE)
• OpenTable (FREE)
• Yelp (FREE)
• ZAGAT (FREE, trial)

What apps are you using for keeping track of food, restaurants, or recipes?

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Available in either free or paid ($.99) versions, Rainbow Team is a 2D platformer with cute characters, sharp colors, and an increasingly challenging game play.  Your goal is to get each member of your team to the end of the level and into the color blocks.  As you progress through the game, the obstacles get harder to navigate and your team gets bigger.  Whereas your guys all start in the same spot in the early levels, the harder levels see them beginning all in various places around the map.

Like Angry Birds, Cut the Rope, and other games in the casual genre, you can get anywhere from zero to three flowers.  Should you make it through all the levels, there are achievements and high scores to keep you coming back for more.

Start out with the free, ad-supported version and you’ll get 50 levels of game play.  For a dollar, you can remove the ads and pick up another 50 levels, getting 100 in total.

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To save a bit of time and hassle, CouponCabin refreshes throughout the day and  lets users browse by stores, mark coupons or stores as favorites.  Should you find a great deal worth sharing, the app lets you do just that, even offering to email them to you for use later.  On top of everything else, CouponCabin pulls in printable coupons for in-store usage and even collects deals on freebies.

Download CouponCabin for free in the Google Play Store!

• Browse or search your favorite stores & brands for savings
• Mark stores & coupons as Favorites for quick access later
• Share amazing deals with your friends or email them to yourself to use later
• Set calendar reminders so you never miss a deal
• Find the best deals & cheapest gas prices nearby
• Access to thousands of high quality coupons, refreshed several times a day
• Exclusive coupons you won’t find anywhere else

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We’ve embedded a video below to give you a better understanding as to how the newly updated app works!  We’d love to hear what you’re using in the kitchen to help prepare meals.  What’s your preferred app for cooking and recipes?

Download AllRecipes Dinner Spinner (PRO)  from the Google Play Store!

World’s Most Downloaded Recipe App — Allrecipes.com Dinner Spinner — Gets Major Upgrade With New Grocery Scanner

Dinner Spinner’s New Scanner Keeps Track of Groceries, Adds Items Quickly to Shopping Lists and Finds Recipes Based on What’s Been Scanned

SEATTLE, April 9, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — Allrecipes.com, the world’s #1 digital food brand, today announced the most downloaded food app, Allrecipes.com Dinner Spinner for iOS and Android, received a major upgrade with a new Grocery Scanner. The feature, available for both Dinner Spinner and Dinner Spinner Pro, enables home cooks to scan grocery barcodes directly from a smartphone to find recipes, add items to shopping lists or save items in a scan history, creating a “virtual pantry” to keep track of items at home. Pairing the Grocery Scanner feature with the #1 recipe app, offering thousands of recipes rated and reviewed by millions of home cooks, is a match made in kitchen heaven.

According to the comScore MobiLens report, 58 percent of smartphone owners use a phone while in brick and mortar stores to shop, and 1 in 5 use it to scan barcodes. “We are thrilled to launch this update to our Dinner Spinner app as a barcode scanner that connects to our recipe database is a convenient feature we know our time strapped community will love,” said Lisa Sharples, president of Allrecipes.com. “With more than 11 million global downloads of Allrecipes’ Dinner Spinner, developing innovative new features that meet our community’s needs and complement our apps is a top priority for Allrecipes.”

Top 5 Ways to Use the Grocery Scanner

• Quickly scan a grocery item’s barcode to search for recipes with related ingredients.
• Manage shopping lists with the touch of a finger. Out of milk? Scan the carton’s barcode before it hits the recycle bin to add milk to the list.
• Scan groceries to easily keep track of what’s in the kitchen. Home cooks can check their scan history at the grocery store so they don’t buy something they already have — creating a virtual pantry on their phone.
• Save money by scanning sale items to find related recipes. For example, if Greek Yogurt is on sale, but a home cook isn’t sure what to do with it, a quick scan reveals nearly 100 matching recipes ranging from an easy Tzatziki Sauce to a delicious Garlic Feta Dip!
• Search the fun and easy way! Home cooks can now add a custom panel to the Dinner Spinner’s slot-machine-style search feature. Quickly scan or manually add favorite ingredients such as quinoa or sour cream to find recipes with ingredients that match. Undecided? Let the spinner choose!

In addition to the new Grocery Scanner features, Shopping List, previously only available for Allrecipes.com Dinner Spinner Pro, is now available on the free version of the app. With the new and improved Dinner Spinner Apps, home cooks will have everything they need at their fingertips to keep a well-stocked pantry and a full happy family.

For more information about Allrecipes.com Dinner Spinner’s new Grocery Scanner check out the video on YouTube and to download the new apps, visit the Apple App Store, Amazon Appstore or the Android Marketplace Google Play.

About Allrecipes

Allrecipes, the world’s largest digital food brand, receives 750 million annual visits from family focused women who connect and inspire one another through photos, reviews, videos and blog posts. Since its launch in 1997, the Seattle-based social site has served as a dynamic, indispensable resource for cooks of all skill levels seeking trusted recipes, entertaining ideas, everyday and holiday meal solutions and practical cooking tips. Allrecipes is a global, multiplatform brand providing insights into the lives of women everywhere based on activity from 17 websites, 16 mobile sites, 9 mobile apps, and 13 eBooks serving 22 countries in 11 languages. Allrecipes is part of Meredith Corporation, the leading media and marketing company serving American women. For additional information regarding Meredith, please visit www.meredith.com. For additional information regarding Allrecipes, please visit www.allrecipes.com.

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Features include the ability to track your distance, duration, avg. speed, avg. pace, and calories.  And, when done, what better way to share your successful workouts than with your Facebook friends!  I love this nifty option as I can share with a click of the button or have it automatically done each time.  
Personally, I don’t do the auto share because I stop and restart sometimes or take a few moments to get going.

Although available as a free app, I love the Pro option of challenging myself to beat the last time or distance.  Along those lines, the free version lets you challenge friends on Endomondo and/or give real-time pep talks!  If you tie to Facebook, your workouts will go to your news feed provided by Endomondo.  As a side note, going to their website and setting up an optional profile is very easy.  What’s more, Endomondo also makes it a breeze to do so through the app itself.

Currently, the Pro version is now $3.99 in the market, the free version of Endomondo lets you use a bunch of the same features without spending any cash. As a friendly recap, here’s a look at the details for both editions of Endomondo.

Pro features

• Graphs: Play around with speed & altitude curves, lap times and playlists that interact with the map (NEW)
• Beat yourself: Set a previous workout as your target and the audio coach will help you perform better this time
• Low Power Mode: Increases battery standby time
• Time goal: Set a time goal and let the audio coach help you reach it
• Calorie goal: Set a calorie goal and get live audio feedback during your workout

Free features

• Real time GPS tracking of time, distance, speed & calories
• Audio feedback for every mile or km
• Real time peptalks from friends following you live
• Workout route on a map
• History with lap times
• Sharing of workouts on Facebook
• Beat a friend: Go against a friend’s personal best
• Compete on a route: Download a route and beat the Champion
• News feed with your friend’s latest activities (NEW)
• Social widget showing the friends recently active (NEW)
• Summary page for each workout (NEW)
• Heart rate support: Polar Wearlink® + transmitter with Bluetooth® and Zephyr heart rate monitor
• Support for ANT+ Bike Speed & Cadence and heart rate monitor sensors
• Headset control: Use the headset media button to get audio feedback and pause/resume a workout (wired headset & Android 2.2+)
• Manual entry of workouts
• Auto pause
• Customizable workout screen (long press to change)

Optional profile at Endomondo.com for further analysis, statistics, social challenges and sharing.

What apps are you using to get into shape or to stay more active?  I’d love to hear about them in the comments below.

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Looking to play the role of a building manager? Then you’ll want to check out  Tiny Tower by Mobage.  I was unsure if I would like it due to its “bit” look but it definitely works. These “bitizens” or bit citizens live and work in the tiny tower.

The first floor of the tower is the lobby where your bitizens wait to be taken to their designated floors. The second floor is typically a residential floor so that bitizens can move into the tower. The residents pay rent and also work in the tower. They will remain unemployed until you hire them to stock a department such as my third level is a “sushi bar.”

I guess it’s the manager in me that wants to make sure that these bitizens are placed in the job that meet their qualifications so that they are “happy”. Each bitizen has stats or number series that indicates their desire to work in each department such as 9 in the creative department indicates they would prefer a job at a photo studio. The bitizens also have a dream job that if employed in you will receive a tower bux.  These tower buxs help you expedite time sensitive tasks or they can be sold in exchange for coin to purchase more tower floors. When purchasing a floor you’re asked to assign the floor to a department. Department levels consist of residential, food, service, recreation, retail, and creative.

From time to time you may have VIP visitors that knock “time” off your stock or increase business for a short period of time. Also if you help visiting bitizens find other residents then they often tip you tower bux for your time.

The game runs while your existed out but you must come back to restock your stores or you wont make any money while your gone. This is my latest find so I hope you guys will find it as fun as I do… till I’m on to the next one.

sviluppo software professionale android

Tiny Tower
Mobage
Free
1,000,000 - 5,000,000
Link Android Market

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