Here is an interesting app, to coax your child to refrain from lying to you. Child Lie Detector App for Android is nothing of the revolutionary sort whatsoever. But it tricks children into believing that it knows when he/she lies or not, thereby scaring them to tell the truth when the app is running. Child Lie Detector may be downloaded free from Google Play Store. An ad-free version is also available, but for $0.99.

How Child Lie Detector works?

Child Lie Detector App for Android helps to teach your child that lying does not work, and it is not right to be opportunistic. And it drives home the point through a bit of drama. First, open the app, and place your phone on your child’s forehead. Ask questions for which you know answers to, and choose the answer you know is correct (there are green and red buttons indicating ‘True’ and ‘False’ respectively). Now show the answer to your child. This will give them the wrong impression that the application knows the answers to your questions. Once the scene is set, it is time for the real questionnaire. Now, ask your child the questions to which you don’t know the answer. Choose the answer you think is correct, and show the same to the child. Watch as your child learns that they can’t get away with lying!

If everything goes as planned, slowly but steadily, your child will learn not to hide behind lying. But if he/she is intelligent enough to see through your trick, and eventually figures out the bluff, the app is virtually useless. It ultimately depends upon how clever (or lack thereof) your child is. Child Lie Detector app for Android has a very basic graphical design, with prominent red and green indicators and few menu options. The app is designed to work with Android versions 2.2 (Froyo) and up.

Final Thoughts

Android Child Lie Detector App’s for effectiveness lies in how well you manage to convince your child that it indeed catches any lying red-handed. The procedure for questioning your child is very simple. But it is rendered useless once your child figures out the bluff. So, if to scare you child out of the habit of lying, better do it in the first few attempts before your trick is eventually exposed. Verdict: If your child’s lying is an unsolved problem, Child Lie Detector is something you can consider.

Thanks to iPhone’s multi platform and app integration, most of us might end up with multiple versions of the same contacts in our phones. In such a situation, you are left with no other choice, but to patiently remove the duplicate contacts manually, which can be a lot annoying. Cleaner – Remove Multiple Contacts app attempts to make the job easier for you by cleaning up your address book in the event of multiple entries alongside as alerting you of other things. Cleaner – Remove Multiple Contacts can be downloaded from iTunes App Store for a nominal $0.99.

How Cleaner – Remove Multiple Contacts App works?

Cleaner – Remove Multiple Contacts iPhone app let you remove multiple contacts in a much simple and easier way. Using the app, you can find out the entries with multiple names, email, and phone numbers, and remove them quickly by checking (or highlighting) the ones you want to wish off from the contacts list. The iPhone application also identifies entries with no name, phone number or email address. It is also possible to remove group contacts with just one click. Cleaner – Remove Multiple Contacts also let you search out entries with just a common field such as a name, job title, birthday date or even an email domain.

Cleaner – Remove Multiple Contacts app integrates seamlessly with your iPhone’s address book, messages app, and mail app, one single reason why it is able to search out duplicate contacts in no time. In terms of performance, Cleaner – Remove Multiple Contacts iPhone app is quick, responsive and robust. For example, even if you got a contact in a different name, but with the same contents, the app will search that out as well and show as a duplicate entry. The user interface is well laid out and easy to use. Cleaner – Remove Multiple Contacts works with iOS versions 4.0 and upwards.

Conclusion

Cleaner – Remove Multiple Contacts app for iPhone does what we all have been doing manually for years. It helps you to remove duplicate contacts easily and quickly. It searches out duplicate entries based on multiple attributes means that you’ll be able to find multiple entries, even if they are saved in different names. Verdict: A must have iPhone productivity app if you’re annoyingly plagued by duplicate contacts in your address book.

Meme fanatics out there is going to love this app. ModFace app for Android is a fun application that lets you create photomontages easier and faster. It also has lots of customization options. ModFace Android app can be downloaded from Google Play Store for a nominal $1.99. A stripped down, ad-supported free version is also available.

How ModFace App works?

ModFace App for Android basically lets you add cartoon faces to photos. More specifically, you select a photo of a person from your Android device, and the app automatically recognizes the face and replaces it with a meme. You can pick the meme you want on the photo. You also have the option to change it on will. In order to do that, just select one photo again, and move it to any position of the picture.Further, you can remove the meme anytime. It is also possible to vary the size of the meme, or rotate them as desired. ModFace Android Photography application works commendably when it comes to managing the photos/images. If you don’t have the photos in your phone, use your phone’s camera to click few.

ModFace app for Android lets you add up to ten faces per photo (the free version allows only three). Also, the paid version comes with an expanded gallery of more than 50 memes. Once done with the edit, the meme-face can be saved in the phone memory, or shared with your friends via email, message or any other format, including SNS such as Facebook and Twitter, that accepts image inputs. The user interface is easy to use; you have all the options laid out on the screen all the time for easy access. ModFace for Android requires Android versions 2.1 or higher. Its download size of 2.4MB means that app is quite light on system resources.

Final Thoughts

Those who are itching to play some prank on your friends might find ModFace Android app quite handy. It lets you change your friend into a meme-face within few clicks/taps. You have enough options available in the app to fiddle with the photo, and make it a proper meme-face. Overall, a fun app to have in your Android phone! PS: If you don’t want to pay upfront, try out the free version of ModFace first. Go for the paid one when you need more variety.

Those who haven’t had enough of fun word puzzlers may try out Befuddled app for iPhone. It is an addictive and challenging word game whose game play is a mix of Bookworm, Bejeweled, and more. Befuddled iPhone app comes for a nominal price of $1.99 in iTunes App Store.

How Befuddled iPhone App is played?

Befuddled app for iPhone is an interesting word game sans any timer that gets more difficult as you play it. The game has four difficulty levels, and is backed by a dictionary of over 450,000 words. In the early levels, you’ll have plain wood tiles to spell your words that can be created with three letters or more. You form the words by touching on adjacent tiles in the grid. You can select tiles to the right, left, up, down, and diagonally. Once you submit words, the used up letters in the grid vanish, and tiles fall down from above to take their place.

As you move up the levels, more tile types such as jade, marble, glass and ruby will begin to fall along with the wood style. The twist here is that you can only spell words using one type of tiles. From this point onwards, it’ll take some real brain scratching to get your words right. You can use your special abilities when you get stuck somewhere. These abilities include small and big bombs, change materials, buy tiles, move x2 multiplier, swap tiles, scramble tiles, and kill tiles by texture.

If you’re finding it difficult to learn Befuddled iPhone game application rules, help yourself with the tutorial and a help menu system included in the game. The graphics part is good, so are the sound effects. Befuddled is compatible with iOS versions 3.1.3 and up.

Final Thoughts

Befuddled app for iPhone is addictive; you just can’t play one round of it and stop. Those who are only excited by brainy games will certainly feel at home with Befuddled. It does not have a timer means you can take your own time for strategic thinking, until you get the word right. The graphics looks nice on the retina display. Overall, iPhone Befuddled app a fun word game to kill time, like when you are waiting endlessly in an airport lounge.

Those who find pleasure in playing with photos might like to take a look at Fotoffiti app for iPhone. The app lets you turn your photos into a Banksy-like stencil graffiti painting in no time. Fotoffiti iPhone app comes free for a limited time, beyond which it’ll cost you $0.99 at the iTunes App Store.

How Fotoffiti iPhone App works?

To use in the Fotoffiti App, you can either snap new photos, or use one saved in the photo library of your iPhone. Once chosen your picture, you can crop/zoom and scale the images before applying one of eleven carefully selected graffiti colors on them. You can also go full color if you want so. Now shake to spray paint, and see how the magic unfolds. What you’ll get in the end is an image that looks like it came straight off the streets. The graphics part of Fotoffiti stands out as the pictures looks realistic; as if it were real graffiti. When you shake to spray, realistic graffiti sound effects add to the fun. You can have the graffiti on eight different walls.

Further, there is an option to add an ageing effect to your graffiti, not to mention the feature that lets you can control the graffiti shadow color and contrast to give an optimal look to the pictures. Also, you can edit your images with your own doodles using a brush and eraser. Once done with the graffiti, you can save it to album, and/or email it to your friends. You can also upload your creation to Facebook and Twitter directly from iPhone Fotoffiti application. It is also possible to print it to your WiFi printer. The download size of 49.4MB warrants a decent RAM. Fotoffiti works with iOS versions 4.0 and up.

Final Thoughts

Fotoffiti App for iPhone is easy to use, and the graffiti it creates look reasonably original. There is also enough variety in terms of colors and walls to create graffiti with variety. SNS integration comes handy as it gives you an option to easily share your creations with your friends. Overall, Fotoffiti iPhone App is a decent application that lets you turn your photos into eye-catching graffiti.

Feed Me Oil app for iPhone is a fun puzzler wherein your job is to get the oil spewing from broken pipes to the mouth of strange creatures on screen. You must be careful not to lose it in the ‘mouth’ area of the receiving subject. One is forewarned that Feed Me Oil is not an easy game as it’ll take all sorts of fun tools available at your disposal, and your brains, to get the job done. Feed Me Oil costs $0.99.

How Feed Me Oil is played?

The basic premise of Feed Me Oil iPhone app is simple; direct oil to the mouth of gigantic creatures. You are provided with a set of tools that you can move around, and using those you will be able to direct oil to flow into the mouth. The game has over 30 levels that get progressively tough as you’ll be challenged to move the oil in elaborate manners to the mouth that boggles the mind. For example, while the first few levels require you to make ramps and canals for the oil to flow down, while the latter levels – the more difficult ones – introduce tools to twist oils into a vortex or blow oil using a fan-powered jet stream.

The fun part of iPhone Feed Me Oil game application is that there is no middle ground; either your designs work or you’ll have your oil firing off in a totally wrong direction. Also, each puzzle can be solved in multiple ways, thus giving you endless re-playability options. In terms of game play, clearing each level takes some serious brain scratching, especially as you go up the levels. Tweaking the tools to get the job done is like solving a math problem. You’ll be awarded stars on how few of the tools you managed to use in order to clear a level. So, there is always enough room for improvement.

However, the Feed Me Oil app for iPhone does not put all the challenges upon you entirely; for tips, you just tap on a question mark button in the top left that in turn places ghosts on the map directing you just where to place each object, step by step. While you can manage the first few levels without any hints/tips, you might want to tap in for assistance as the levels get progressively tougher. The graphics is simple yet good. The sound effects breathe life to the game.

Conclusion

Feed Me Oil iPhone game app is fun, and at the same time challenging. Those who love brainy games would certainly feel at home with it. The game play is slick and fast, and the graphics just good. Multiple ways to solve a puzzle means you’ll have endless options of re-playability. Overall, a must have app for your iPhone.

If you tend to carry work in your iPhone, perhaps Smart-Office app could be of more than handy assistance. As its title suggests, Smart-Office app lets you edit Microsoft Office documents right from within your iPhone. Smart-Office may be downloaded from iTunes App Store for $4.99.

How Smart-Office App works?

In one sentence, Smart-Office App for iPhone lets you create, edit, and share MS Office documents in your iPhone. The easy to use interface and drag and drop editing makes working with Smart-Office one of the simplest jobs you could imagine. In terms of features, you can edit text directly in your document, change font, background, color, and alignment through suitable options, format the document, create and delete files in storage, insert photos in DOCX etc, to name few of them. The app is compatible with MS Office versions since 1997. You can view (no editing possible) JPEG, PNG, GIF, BMP images as well as Vector WMF and EMF diagrams. Further, you can search for text and follow hypertext links with ease, zoom in/out for better view ability, Dropbox and Google Docs sharing, or create new documents from a free set of preloaded templates.

Smart-Office App for iPhone is also localized for Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Japanese, French, German, Italian, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Turkish. Further, you can view documents in more languages including Ukrainian, Danish, and Indonesian. The UI of Smart-Office application is easy to use for most parts. You won’t take long to find the menus and options you might need to work on your MS Office documents. Still, if you think you need some sort of tutoring to get going, tap on the ‘help’ option at the top. It should solve most of your doubts about Smart-Office. Smart-Office iPhone app is compatible with iOS versions 3.0 and upwards.

Final Thoughts

Smart-Office App for iPhone has done a smart job in successfully porting the functionalities of MS Office to iPhone. It works like breeze, and if you are proficient enough with MS Office, you’ll feel at home straightaway with Smart-Office. It is feature rich, while support for multiple languages is a big plus. Overall, a must have editing program for iPhone using business executives and managers out there.

Those who love quick, over-the-top action type of games that you can enjoy even when you’ve got few minutes to kill will certainly side with iStunt 2 game app for Android. This sequel to iStunt from Miniclip has the right combinations of slick graphics, enjoyable game play, and lower price tag. You can get Android iStunt 2 game app with all levels unlocked for a nominal $2.99 from the Google Play Store.

How iStunt 2 App is played?

iStunt 2 app for Android is a high intensity snowboarding game wherein you hit the slopes and snowboard you way down to the finishing point, all the while keeping off from deadly buzz saws, and balancing through gravity shifts and speed boosts that could topple you any time. The game has 88 levels, playable in two modes: stunt mode and time trial mode. In the former, you are supposed to score points by performing tricks by tilting your Android phone, while in ‘time trial mode’ your goal should be to finish as soon as possible.

While the game play is impressive, it is not easy at any point though. Controlling the rider involves many facets for one; for example, when your rider is airborne, you need to tilt the phone so that the snowboard will be flushed with snow when he lands. You see how the courses are designed, and soon you’ll realize its difficulty. The rider will be going in all directions before you know it, and your role is to prevent him from crashing, which requires quick reaction times and close focus.

But iStunt 2 game application is not about controlling the snowboarder alone. You’ll find stars scattered all over the stages, and you got to have your rider collect them to secure high scores. Collecting the stars requires jumping, which is done by swiping the screen when the rider approaches the ramp. You might also require ducking often, and this is done by swiping down and holding. To grab more points, flip as many times as possible when airborne (of course without crashing) and attempt throwing in few grabs. Further, you got to navigate through spinning blades, accelerators and anti-gravity zones on the way.

The HD graphics is stunning so are the sound effects. Open Feint integration and leaderboards lets you share your achievements with friends over the internet. The game works with Android versions 2.1 & up.

Conclusion

iStunt 2 app for Android is an entertaining fast paced physics game with moderate difficulty levels, and great replay value. The fun lies in attempting to collect all stars, and compete for the highest number of points, even if it requires you replaying some of the levels. Overall, iStunt 2 is an excellent over-the-top action game that you don’t want to miss.

Browser 2Go app for iPhone is a universal full screen tabbed browser with loads of features for iOS. Apart from tabbed browsing, you can download web pages for offline viewing, or transfer files via FTP protocol. Browser 2Go can be downloaded for a nominal fee of $0.99 from iTunes App Store.

How Browser 2Go App works?

Firefox introduced tabbed browsing sometime back. Now Browser 2Go app for iPhone has brought it to the iOS platform. The advantage of tabbed browsing is that you can browse multiple pages without having to leave the current page. Also, with Browser 2Go application without leaving your current web page, you can search, translate or lookup your selected text in another tab. In order to transfer files via FTP, you must have a Mac. Browser 2Go can also open other downloaded files like Word, PowerPoint, Excel, PDF, Keynote, and other commonly used documents. In fact, the browser is also fully capable of downloading videos, pictures, and music files for offline use. Further, you can add websites as quick links to the start page. This is very convenient option when you have several frequently visited websites; from the start page, swipe up or down to select you required quick link.

Another notable feature of Browser 2Go iPhone app is the full screen mode, which is a lot relevant on the big iPhone screen. The fast scroll button can reduce the swipe to browse a lengthy page. Another advantageous feature of Browser 2Go is that you can configure filters (like Google Ads, Facebook, DoubleClick, Twitter) to filter out embedded content in web pages, when running on cellular data network to save data usage and speed up loading.

Finally, if you want to examine the source of a web page, use the Javascript Console with jQuery that comes preloaded with the browser. This will come handy to all the developers out there.

Final Thoughts

Browser 2Go app for iPhone has enough firepower to give Safari a run for its money. The tabbed browsing feature is certainly handy, so are the options to add quick links, full screen mode, filter options, and compatibility with other programs. Those who want to look beyond Safari may give Browser 2Go a try. It is worth it.

Pedometer PRO Step Counter app for iPhone is a pedometer application that works anywhere on your body. It keeps track of how long and how far you’ve been walking along with an assortment of other features such as calorie counter, speed calculator, graphic analysis and statistics, to name some of them. Pedometer PRO Step Counter app for iPhone may be downloaded from iTunes App Store for $3.99.

How Pedometer PRO Step Counter App works?

iPhone Pedometer PRO Step Counter app takes the concept of pedometer to a new level altogether. The biggest plus of this app is that it works anywhere on your body (pocket, hand, arm, bag, purse… you name it!). Once downloaded, you can use the app straightaway; simply press the button and start walking. So, if your doctor had advised you to walk 10,000 steps a day, now you can count it precisely to the last digit. It automatically records your steps until the count reaches the set number. Also, the iPhone application can calculate your speed of walk, total distance covered, and step frequency.

Apart from counting steps, Pedometer PRO Step Counter is also a built-in calorie counter. It could tell you how much calorie you’ve burnt by the time you finish your daily walking routine.
Further, the app could provide you with detailed analysis of all your activities. This includes graphical analysis and statistics about your activity patterns, including an analysis of your overall activity. These details would come handy if you are a fitness freak who wants to keep track of your progress over a period of time. Pedometer PRO Step Counter app works with iPod means you can listen to the music while you walk.

Pedometer PRO Step Counter is integrated with Facebook and Twitter so that you can share you fitness details with others if you wish so. Pedometer PRO Step Counter app works with iOS 4 and above. Now, if you wish to create a log online, create an account with Runtastic, which you may sign up with Facebook or your email address.

Conclusion

If you’ve taken your latest fitness resolution rather seriously, perhaps Pedometer PRO Step Counter app for iPhone could be of great assistance. It counts your steps, measure your calorie, tell you the walking speed and distance, alongside providing you with a detailed graphical analysis and statistics about your activity patterns. And the best part is that the app works anywhere on your body. Verdict: A must have application if daily walk is part of your minimal fitness routine.