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Dragon Fly Free

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Dragon Fly Free is an addictive arcade & action game. It has very simple control and enjoyable gameplay.

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  • Version: 4.06
  • Requires: Android 1.6 and upou.
  • Category: Arcade & Action
  • Size: 4.6 M
  • Price: Free

 

 

Gameplay of the Dragon Fly Freedragon-fly-free-screenshot

Our hero in this game is a little dragon. He is still too young to fly. But he can use hills to accelerate and gain momentum. So he can fly only after sliding on hills.

In order to gain momentum, all you dhould do is pressing anywhere on the screen on right the right time. Right time means, you should press only when going down. If you press when climbing hills this action cause to slow down you.

Your goal is to go further as much as possible without be caught by mother dragon. There are also diferent kinds of potions on the way that you can collect them while progressing in the game.

Although it seems that Dragon Fly Free is an easy game because of the single control, this can be tricky. Timing is very important here. As you press at the correct times, you will go faster and further. So it requires some strategy and timing skill. But this feature makes the game very addictive.

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Adobe Photoshop Express

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Adobe Photoshop Express is a lite version of Adobe Photoshop Touch tools for tablets and phones. You can use it to edit and share photos from your Android device. It offers many good and quick functionalities that you can apply to images in your device easily.

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  • Version: 1.3.3
  • Requires: Android 1.5 and up
  • Category: Photography
  • Size: 1.3 M
  • Price: Free

 

 

Simple Photo Edit App: Adobe Photoshop Expressadobe-photoshop-express-screenshot

Adobe Photoshop Express is a photo editing app that has core useful functions to its users. It is a lite version of Adobe Photoshop Touch which is more complex and rich tool than this version. However you can find most basic operations as well as interesting effects in this app.

May be the main feature of Adobe Photoshop Express is its simplicity. Although it looks weaker than other good photo editing applications on the market, still it offers the core editing features to the users. That’s why size of the app is very small and so it can be useful for people who does not expect so many different operations but most important ones.

What functionalities it offers are can be listed below:

  • Crop, Straighten, rotate and Flip (mirror image) photos.
  • Exposure, Saturation, Tint, Black & White, Contrast and Brightness adjustments.
  • Soft focus: Make blur effect on the image.
  • Effects: Vintage, Vintage Blur, Pop, Rainbow, Soft Black & White.
  • Various border options.
  • Upload photos to Facebook and TwitPic.

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Parking Mania

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Do you love car parking games? If your answer is yes, then Parking Mania is a great game for you. It has wide variaty vehicles including cars, motocycles, trucks, taxis, trucks, transporters, fire engines and much more… Driving in the city simulation and AI controlled traffic, it offers very realistic game play.

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  • Version: 1.9.1
  • Requires: Android 2.2 and up
  • Category: Racing
  • Size: 30M
  • Price: Free

 

 

Game Play of the Parking Maniaparking-mania-screenshot

In Parking Mania, you are given different kinds of objectives at each level in order do complete them. It is not just always parking a car from somewhere to other place, but thare are also task such as grabbing the trailer, delivering stuffs etc. So this game is much more then a simple parking game.

Real city streets and traffic is simulated well in the game. While completing the tasks, you should also take into account the other vehicles and also traffic lights.

At each level you are given a certain number of lives that when you hit somewhere except moving vehicles, one of them will be losed. However, be careful that when you hit a car which is active in the traffic, no matter how many lives you have, that level will be failed.

Parking Mania has 220 different levels. 150 of them is divided into 3 packages and can be unlocked later.

Controls of the Game

There is a gas pedal right side of the screen. You can use it by dragging forward or bacward in order to move direct or reverse.

Parking Mania offers you 3 different steering wheel options. One of them is accelerometer control which is also default one. If you use this control, then you should rotate right and left your phone to control the direction of vehicle you drive.

Second one is dragging wheel control. You drag your finger left or right to give a direction to vehicles.

Last one is steering wheel which is used by rotating right/left.

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Smart Measure

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Smart Measure is another great tool from the Smart Tools collection. By using this app, you are able to measure distance, height or width of any object. It uses the camera of your Android device and do trigonometry calculations. All you should do is open this app and point the ground.

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  • Version: 1.5.2
  • Requires: Android 2.0 and up
  • Category: Tools
  • Size: 1.2 M
  • Price: Free or Pro version (0.89 $)

 

 

Get the Height and Distance Information with Smart Measuresmart-measure-screenshot

Smart measure is very handy tool that calculates measurement info such as distance, height or width about any object. You can learn the height of the buildings, objects or people. Or you can learn how far away they are from you. Smart measure only needs some calibration and help of you to find the correct position of the object of interest.

At this point you can ask that how this can be possible? How can it measure the distance or height just using the camera? Well, actually  the answer is simple. It just uses the rotation angle info of your device and do trigonometric calculation. So, here, you should carefully set the height of your device (You can set it relative to your height as explained in the app).

Second important point here to obtain accurate results is pointing the ground. You should point the camera towards the ground, not directly towards the object.

How to Use

Before using Smart Measure, you should be sure that your device is at the same height as set in the settings section. There are two heights that you should set. First one is the device’s height from the ground. Second is the building’s height if you are not directly on the ground. These settings should carefully be entered before the measurement.

If you adjust the heights, then you can start to get distance of any object by matching the pointer of the camera with the base point of the object. You can anhor that point by pressing the shutter. After that, if you want to know about the height of that object, press the height icon and point the head of the object and press the shutter again.

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Bubble Blast 2

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Bubble Blast 2 is an enjoyable puzzle game. It is very simple game that you only start a chain reaction.  When you pop one bubble, it explodes and cause explosion to bubbles which are located left/right or above/below of it. Your goal is to clear all bubbles from the board in a given limited number of touches.

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  • Version: 1.0.34
  • Requires: Android 1.5 and up
  • Category: Brain & Puzzle
  • Size: 5.5 M
  • Price: Free

 

 

Game Play of the Bubble Blast 2bubble-blast-2-screenshot

Bubble Blast 2 is a simple but highly addictive game. There are many bubbles which are waiting to be exploded. One bubble will explode only if one little bullet hits it or you explode it by touching directly. The goal is to clear all the bubbles from the board. When you succeed it, that level will be passed, too.

Game play of the Bubble Blast 2 looks simple but it does not mean that it not enjoyable. May be the most funny part of the game is chain reactions. It occurs when one bubble exploded, after that it throws four little bubbles to four sides at the same time. When one of the little buble hit another bubble it explodes, too. Then it throws four bullets and so on… So it is important to decide the starting point. Because it determines the way of chain explosion.

There are 4 types of bubbles in Bubble Blast 2. They differ from each other by durabilities. Red bubbles will explode with one hit. But green requires 2 hit to explode. Yellow and blue bubbles requires 3 and 4 hits to explode, respectively. So when a green bubble is hit, it turns into red bubble and when a yellow bubble is hit it turns into a green and so on…

You are given a limited number of touches for each level, so you should use them efficiently. Deciding from which bubble to start is important. Because it determines the route of chain explosion.

There are thousands of different levels in Bubble Blast 2 puzzle mode. Also there is chain mode which will be unlocked after completing 20 levels from puzzle mode.

Controls of the Game

Only control in the Bubble Blast 2 is touching to bubbles which you want to pop.

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Smart Compass

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Smart Compass is a simple but useful application. You can use it when you need to know directions any where. It uses your device’s magnetic field sensor to calculate correct directions. Smart Compass is one of the useful component in Smart Tools Application.

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  • Version: 1.5
  • Requires: Android 2.2 and up
  • Category: Tools
  • Size: 1.1 M
  • Price: Free or paid pro version (0.89 $)

 

 

Closer Look to Smart Compasssmart-compass-screenshot

Smart Compass behaves like real compass by using your device’s built-in magnetic field sensor (magnetometer). Many mobile device has this useful feature and thanks to it they can be able to measure the strength and direction of magnetic field.

Smart Compass has a simple but handy design. When you launch the app, you will directly see the compass without need to select or open anything. By default it is in lanscape mode. But if you want, you can change it to portrait from menu tab quickly.

It also uses the camera while showing the compass, so you are able to see the way even you are walking.

Main Features of Smart Compass Android Application

It shows heading fixed independent from the lanscape or portrait mode. It will instantly adapt the changing of the direction of your device.

You can enable or disable camera from settings menu. In camera mode, if you select telescope mode, it makes the outside dark and the inside clear.

It lets you to select one of the azimuth types (360 degree, 6400 mil, 6000 mil, quadrants, back azimuth).

In pro version there are additional useful features like full metal detector and sending GPS info. There are also no ads exist in paid version.

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Cut the Rope Time Travel

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Om Nom’s adventure continues. Now he travels back in time. Its time to see the ancestors and help them to eat candies. Cut the Rope Time Travel is a new adventure of well known Cut the Rope game. If you like former, you will probably enjoy this one, too.

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  • Version: Varies with device
  • Requires: Varies with device
  • Category: Brain & Puzzle
  • Size: Varies with device (36 M on Samsung Galaxy W I8150)
  • Price: Free

 

Story of the Cut the Rope Time Travelcut-the-rope-time-travel-screenshot

This time, our hero Om Nom travels back to the past and begin a new adventure. At the past, he see his ancestors so there are two hungry cute monsters to be fed at each age. His visit starts with The middle ages. But this is not only destination for him. There are also The Renaissance, Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece, The Stone Age to be travelled.

Game Play of the Cut the Rope Time Travel

Cut the Rope Time Travel is physics based 2D brain & puzzle game. Your goal is to feed two little cute monsters with the candies. So you should find a correct way to reach theese candies to mouthes of the those monsters.

These candies can be tied with different kinds of ropes or be in a bubbles. As the name of the game suggests you will cut these ropes and lead to take candies to Om Noms mouthes. Bubbles have different effect on candies. They lift the candies up until you pop them.

There are also stars which are placed on the game board, when a candy touches a star you get it. So you should think carefully while solving the puzzle and find the best way to collect all of the 3 stars.

Controls of the Game

To move the candies to right directions you should cut the ropes or pop the bubbles. In order to cut the rope just slide your fingers over the rope. In order to pop the bubbles just touch them.

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Shazam

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Shazam is a great music tool that recognizes songs in a few seconds. When you hear a song which you don’t know its name, just have Shazam listen to it and it will tell you what it is.

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  • Version: Varies with device
  • Requires: Varies with device
  • Category: Music & Audio
  • Size: Varies with device (16 M on Samsung Galaxy W I8150)
  • Price: Free or Premium Version (Shazam Encore 5.15 $)

 

 

 

Find Songs with Shazamshazam-screenshot

Sometimes we hear a song and have no idea what it is. At that time all we can do is asking somebody if he/she knows or search on the web. However, searching on the may not be possible if there are no lyrics or it is in a foreign language that we can’t understand. Fortunately, Shazam will help us in those situations to find songs easily.

When you launch Shazam, you will see the tagging screen first. Just tap the screen to run its song recognition function. Then it will listen to the music and finds its name very quickly. It also brings other information about that song. For example it lets you to watch it on Youtube, buy from Amazon, comment and share.

Main Features
  •  Tagging: Use this when you want Shazam to recognize a song for you. Just tap the screen and wait a short time. Then you will see the name of the song with other useful information. This screen is accessible via the tab located on the top left of the screen Alternatively you can access it from “Tag Now” option from the menu.
  • My Tags: Here you can see your previous tags in a list.
  • Chart: Here you can discover other musics.
  • Friends: You can sign in with your Facebook account and add comments to your tags and share opinions with friends on your music and TV discoveries.
  • Reccommendations: This feature is available on Shazam Encore version. It recommends you other song related to tagged song and enhance your music knowledge.
  • Album Review, Disccography: Here you can find album reviews and discography info about tagged song.

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Aces of the Luftwaffe

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Aces of the Luftwaffe is an flight war game in which you control one combat plane and fight against numerous enemies as a brave pilot. It has challenging missions and so many achievements.

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  • Version: 1.0.8
  • Requires: Android 2.1 and up
  • Category: Arcade & Action
  • Size: 43 M
  • Price: Free

 

 

 

Story of the Aces of the Luftwaffe

Aces of the Luftwaffe brings you back to the World War II, more specifically to the Battle of Britain. England is under attact by the Luftwaffe and Axis sends their best to battle against them. There are so many enemy planes and your mission is to stop and destroy all of them.

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In the Aces of the Luftwaffe game, you control one combat plane. When you start, there will be so many enemy planes coming to destroy you. You should be careful to avoid from their bullets as much as possible and destroy them with right shoots.

In order to be successful in the game you should upgrade your plane and increase the power. One of the upgrade is plane speed. As you increase plane speed, your plane will be faster and more maneuverable.  Also you can increase the bullet speed , it upgrades projectilespeed and the rate of fire. Additionally, you can upgrade the super power and make your super attacts stronger.

These power-ups reqires game some game coins. As you can earn coins within the game, you can buy more from the online store.

Controls of the Game

Just keep your finger on the screen and swipe any direction in order to direct your plane. It continuously fires while your finger is on the screen. You can also set  right handed or left handed options from the settings menu. In addition, you can choose between relative control and direct control options.

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Dictionary.com

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Dictionary.com is a good dictionary application which includes over 2 million definitions and synonyms. This is the mobile app version of the dictionary.reference.com web site.

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  • Version: 4.1
  • Requires: Android 2.2 and up
  • Category: Books & Reference
  • Size: 3.2 M
  • Price: Free or Premium (2.99 $)

 

 

Closer Look to Dictionary.comdictionary-com-screenshot

Dictionary.com offers many useful features as an online dictionary. First of all, it fulfils the basic expectation from any dictionary that has over 2 million words and thesaurus. So, when you need to search one word, you will most probably find that.

Another useful feature of Dictionary.com is its daily content. When you open the app, you see the word of the day. It can be useful that evety day you open the app you will see new words and improve your vocabulary skill.

It also has slideshows whichhas special subjects like “take a tour of imaginary lands in literature or “uncover the mysteries of the marks we use every day”. These slideshows may cover very interesting topics and attract your attention.

In the “hot word” section, you can find detailed analysis of some words. For example you can find” lexical investigations” about Karma or articles like “what if a password didn’t contain words”.

Other features of Dictionary.com can be summarized as below:

  • Popular & Nearby: You can find out what people are searching .
  • Favorites: To add any word as a favorite, you shouldselect the star icon from the word definition screen.
  • Recent Searches: Keeps your recent searches and let you find them again quickly.
Final Notes

Dictionary.com has also widget which has word of the day on it and quick search bar. So you can see the word of the day without need to open the app every day and quickly search both by text or voice very quickly.

Lastly, it has a premium version. This version is ad-free and includes additional example sentences.

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