Free Android App of The Day

Click to Download: FREE

More calls when you want them. No calls when you don’t. Mr. Number.
* Let your friends know when you’re free for a call and when you’re busy
* Block calls from people you don’t want to hear from again
* Find out who is calling when you don’t recognize the number (US only)

Status for Calling and Texting
Mr. Number brings the concept of status from instant messaging to mobile voice and text. Let your friends know when you’re free for a call, when you prefer text, and when you’re tied up. You can tell Mr. Number to send all your calls to voicemail and let your friends know when you’re free again. Mr. Number can automatically silence your ringer, put the phone in airplane mode and even knows when you are on a call, so your friends see that you’re busy and know to call later. NEW: you can text your status to anyone who calls when you choose busy or do not disturb!

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Block Unwanted Calls and Texts
Block all calls and texts from a person, a business, a prefix, or the world. Block calls and texts from any phone number, any area code or prefix, all private and restricted calls, or block everyone except your contacts. Block call with ‘pick up and hang up’ or ‘send to voicemail’. You can also make exceptions. Hate your hometown but love your Mom? Block everyone from that area code except her.

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Blocked Numbers

People who use our apps and visitors to our website send us more than 2,000 reports each day about telemarketers, debt collectors, and other harassing callers. Add ‘Suspected Spam’ to your blocklist and Mr. Number blocks them all.

Caller ID and Reverse Lookup (7-day free trial, US only)
When you get a call or text from a number that you don’t know, Mr. Number turns it into a name. How? Mr. Number is crowd-sourced. Some users share contacts so that you can identify mystery numbers. After your 7 day trial, subscribe for $1.99 per month. (Status and blocking features are always free.)

Features:
- Tell friends when you’re free for a call and send everyone to voicemail when you’re busy
- Block calls and texts from one person or the world
- Automatic reverse lookup for every number that is not in your contacts
- Manual reverse lookup for mystery calls on your home or work phone
- Add new contacts to your address book with one click
- Catch telemarketers, debt collectors, and other spammers before they waste your time
- Report spam calls and texts to warn other users
- Control what name other Mr. Number users see when you call them

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Interview: Paul O’Connor from Appy Entertaiment

Paul O’Connor, Brand Director at Appy Entertaiment, took some time to speak with us about their upcoming Updates for Trucks and Skulls, FaceFighter, the upcoming RPG game and games for the Android Market.

Hello Paul how are you today?

Groovy!

can you tell us who you are and which developer you work for?

I’m Paul O’Connor, one of the founding partners of Appy Entertainment. My title is “Brand Director” which means I get to answer the mail and maintain our Twitter and Facebook presence, but Appy is a small shop and we all wear a lot of hats. Prior to Appy my expertise was in game design and I still get to do a little bit of that for Appy.

How many games have appy developed for iPhone?

Our original titles for iOS are Trucks & Skulls, FaceFighter, Zombie Pizza, Tune Runner, Candy Rush, All-In-1 Zombiebox, and Appy Newz. Between free and paid versions, and separate iPad versions of some games, we actually have fourteen different apps on the iOS App Store right now.

we also have a Mac OS version of Trucks & Skulls.

Are there any games coming to Android platform?

At present now we have both free and paid versions of FaceFighter on Android (and the paid version will be on sale for .99 over the Memorial Day weekend, thanks to promotion from our friends at the new SmartApps Deal of the Day website). We’ve had some compatibility challenges with FaceFighter on Android, but earlier this month released a big update that appears to have solved many of them. We do still recommend players first download the free version of FaceFighter on Android to check for compatibility with their device.

No additional Android apps are in development but we are in discussions with partners about how we can better support Android in the future. We remain excited about the potential of this market.

What’s been the biggest challenge for Appy?

Discoverability in a crowded market. Appy has been fortunate in that all of our original titles have been featured by Apple at some point (and Trucks & Skulls was both iPad and iPhone Game of the Week for Apple in November), but it is still a challenge reaching players to let them know about our games. We’ve had better success than many — we’re over 8 million downloads right now — but the market is still crowded with hundreds of terrific and inexpensive games all vying for player attention.

What’s next for Appy Entertaiment? Do you have other games lined up?

Our next releases are major updates for Trucks & Skulls and FaceFighter on iOS. The Trucks update should go into submission with Apple in the next week or so, and we’ll be ready to talk about it more at that time. FaceFighter shouldn’t be too far behind Trucks. Both updates feature substantial new content, and the Trucks update will flip that version number over to “2.0″ thanks to the new options it will afford players.

The Trucks update, especially, is game-changing — like moving from the deadball era of baseball to the steroid era overnight. Expect a shake-up on our GameCenter leaderboards.

Can you tell us more about the upcoming RPG game? What kind of missions and challenges await players?

It’s not yet officially announced. Contracts were signed earlier this month, and yesterday was actually the official “kick off” date, but as our engineer is out of the country on vacation right now, we haven’t quite got the wheels moving just yet.

We do have a title, and a design document, and the beginnings of the visual design. Not much more to say at this point, aside from noting the game will be free-to-play with microtransactions, and will have the characteristic Appy take on the subject.

We’re excited to tackle an RPG as we think it plays to our strengths in creating original characters and worlds. Several of us are RPG geeks here at Appy, too — we play D&D a couple times a month, and I’ve been involved in the paper & pencil side of the business, off-and-on, since writing and editing Grimtooth’s Traps for Flying Buffalo over thirty years ago (!).

What’s your favourite game – or the game you’ve enjoyed playing the most?

That’s kind of like picking between your kids É I probably logged the most “seat time” testing Tune Runner, and still have affection for that game. Zombie Pizza and Candy Rush both caught me up pretty good, too. I like to slap my partners around with FaceFighter every now and then. But if I had to pick one game it would be Trucks & Skulls, thanks to the depth of content (over 200 levels now, and more coming every week).

To finalize our interview we like to Thank you for taking the time with us, we are also excited and can’t wait to play an RPG game by Appy Entertaiment.

Thank you for your interest and support of Appy! We regard the affection and dedication of our fans as our most important resource. We welcome feedback from all Appy players on our Twitter feed, at our Faceback page, or via direct email: info(at)appyentertainment.com.

Contact Paul O’Connor at:

email: paul(at)appyentertainment.com

blog: http://goldenboat.wordpress.com/

profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/paulryanoconnor

web: http://www.appyentertainment.com/

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Free Android Game of The Day

The best space rabbit sim you’ll play this year!

Click to Download: FREE

Rocket Bunnies is an action-puzzle game of slingshotting from planet to planet. Time your exits in order to boost past enemy spiders, mines, electric portals and more! The best space rabbit sim you’ll play this year!

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Check out the comments on the market, they didn’t even have to bribe them!!!

Special note for Honeycomb devices : Honeycomb 3.0.1 fixes the crashes, please update.

Special note for Samsung devices : Requires Android 2.2 for Samsung devices to run. Visit Google to find out how to update – it’s worth it!

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For more info visit the FAQ available at : http://defiantdev.com/?page_id=77

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Review: Trucks and Skulls for iPhone

Winner Most Valuable Indie App Gold Award — Best iPhone Action Game!

Click to Download: Price $.99c

MVIA Gold Award

Demolish skull fortifications on Hell’s Highway, The Haunted Wastelands, Industrial Armageddon, Demon Town, and the airless wastes of the Moon! Rev up your engines and launch your trucks from the Screamstrip Ramp, then click to make them pull stunts and EXPLODE as they crash into buildings and scaffolds to destroy lurking, leering skulls. 

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Introductory sale price — get your copy of Trucks & Skulls now, before the price goes up!

Regular free large level updates are scheduled and users with an email address can join our free Level of the Week Club — see inside app for details.

Trucks & Skulls is easy to play and loaded with explosions, collapsing buildings, wicked cool art, and the most epic collection of Monster Trucks ever!

DOOMSTONE — Use this armored semi truck to smash down concrete and steel defenses!

DIVEOSAURUS — This one man rocket needles through the narrowest gaps, and twists and turns to bring down death from above!

INSANERATOR — Bloated, loaded with fuel, and explodes on a hair trigger!

THRUST MONSTER — Fast, furious, and won’t take “no” for an answer!

BOMBZILLA — Your buzz-bombing bunker-buster, arcing high above the fray and dropping hellbombs on target!

TRICLOPS — The truck that flies into the air, and then bursts into a hail of deadly missiles!

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Command BRUTE FORCE and EXPLODING TRUCKS to solve the most diabolical physics-based puzzles ever! Smash into obstacles that shatter, explode, and cartwheel through the air. Bank your trucks on bumpers to reach new heights of destruction! Blow up those mocking skulls to clear the level, but watch out for BUBBLING LAVA PITS! That’s right, Trucks & Skulls is LOADED with lava… because EVERYTHING is BETTER with LAVA!

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Get TRUCKS & SKULLS — the crazy, explosive physics-based puzzler from the evil geniuses at Appy Entertainment, creators of FaceFighter and the All-In-1 ZombieBox. Rev up your trucks and blow those skulls sky-high today!

Most Valuable Indie App Winner

Trucks and Skulls is a true winner, it comes packed with one of the most addictive gameplay and most explosive gameplay. if you haven’t played trucks and Skulls, now is the time cos it’s only $.99c and don’t forget to try the HD version of Trucks and Skulls for iPad.

Overall Score: 5/5

Pros:

Free Levels Every Week 

Most Addictive Gameplay

Amazing Graphics and Physics

Cons: 

Sound Hiccups in some levels but this wont hurt Gameplay

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Free Android App of The Day

Clever social news feed reader. Get the latest on your interests in one place.

Click to Download: FREE

Taptu is a clever social news feed reader. You can discover Topics and sources from our StreamStore or add any RSS feed from the web.

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Features:

* Support for Android Tablets (Honeycomb)

* Discover streams on your favorite topics from a mix of sources in the StreamStore

* Add as many Facebook or Twitter accounts as you want, add your LinkedIn account as well.

* Bookmark articles to read later or save to Instapaper

* Widget for your home screen (support for multiple widgets)

* Search Bing for RSS feeds

* Import your favorite RSS feeds from Google Reader (up to 100) and convert them to Streams

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* Fast, even on slow 2G (GPRS) networks
Current featured streams include:
* Music, Lifestyle and Fashion
* Sports, Gaming and Travel
* News and Politics

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Viewing and interacting with streams:

* Share with friends: Share stories with your friends on Twitter and Facebook

* See full articles that friends share via Twitter and Facebook: Taptu will convert links your friends share into a full article view

* Update your status, Like and Comment from your Facebook stream: See something a friend has sent that you want to Like or Comment on? Do it right inside the app.

* Tweet, RT, Quote a Tweet from your Twitter stream: Someone you follow on Twitter has tweeted an interesting tweet, Quote it and add your comments or RT directly from Taptu.

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Review: Viddy for iPhone

Viddy for iPhone has received the MVIA Gold Award by iTito Themes Blog

Click to Download: FREE

MVIA Gold Award

Viddy is a simple way for anyone to capture, beautify, and share amazing videos with the world. Capture key moments of your life, instantly produce it into a beautiful video, and share it with those who matter most. We’ve imagined a better way to experience mobile videos:

+ Instantly create visually stunning clips using our cinematic production packs.
+ One-click sharing to the social web, including Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.
+ Meaningful feedback from those who matter most — friends, family and more.
+ Realtime video discovery and exploration from a vibrant community.
+ An endless source of creativity, inspiration and personal expression.

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Viddy is a life-streaming movie studio – on the go. Stay tuned as we roll out new features, premium production packs, additional apps and services. Enjoy!

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Please to send your questions, suggestions and ideas to info@viddy.co.

Note: Videos are currently limited to :15 seconds. Vimeo and YouTube are great places to share longer videos. Video capture is not supported for iPhone 3G and older.

Most Valuable Indie App Award Winner

This is one of the best Video Sharing apps for iPhone. Record, share and edit your videos all in a single app, what else can we ask for?

Overall Score: 4.5/5

Pros:

User friendly UI

it’s free and it’s awesome

Best Video Sharing App

Awesome Features

Cons:

You can only share and edit 15 secs on your stream

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Free Android App of The Day

XDA Mobile Application! Free! OMG!

Click to Download: FREE

*XDA Special announcement: many that are leaving reviews are remarking that we have removed features from the free app. This is not the case, in fact, we’ve recently added two features (Legacy support and the ability to choose landing behavior in a thread). Another complaint is about the automatic start-up. The application has started on boot-up for many versions now. That is a required part of the Notification system, and without it, it would not function. Lastly, the Search can be found under the “More” tab on the right. Thank you for your interest.*

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The world famous XDA forums formatted for your Android phone! With this app you can browse the forums, read, post, send private messages, and more.

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Note: Some screenshots were taken from the XDA Premium app.

They now have a Premium app that removes the ads, plus offers new features.

Click Banner to Support XDA by downloading this Premium App: Price $.99c

This is the official XDA-Developers Premium Android App!

By popular request, we present to you the Premium version of the official XDA-Developers Android app! This app lets you access the world-famous XDA forums, plus reply to threads, add new ones, manage your PMs, and more!

What’s makes the Premium app different than the original XDA app?

+ No annoying ads!
+ Ability to collapse top bar to maximize screen real estate
+ Access to Legacy forums
+ Ability to add forum shortcuts to your Android homescreen for super quick access to your favorites
+ Custom XDA color scheme (changeable to default through Settings)
+ Choose whether to land on first post, last post, or first unread post within a given thread
+ Bug fixes

Please note: XDA Premium works best over WiFi or high speed cellular data. It will be very slow over EDGE. The first load might take the longest even if you’re on WiFi.

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