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Today's Best Apps: Beats Music And Little Dots

Today's Best Apps: Beats Music And Little Dots

January 22, 2014
The App Store takes delivery of hundreds of new apps per day. The overwhelming scene makes it possible to easily overlook an exciting game, valuable productivity suite, etc. However, we have a solution. Today’s Best Apps tackles this problem by providing you with a handpicked and tested list of apps that are truly worth your consideration each and everyday. Remember: Even though in-app purchases typically require your iTunes Store password for processing, you can further prevent them and other unauthorized actions by enabling local restrictions using the passcode locked iOS parental controls

iPhone:

Beats Music by Beats Music, LLC. (Free, 12.5 MB): The Dr. Dre co-constructed cloud-based music service streams into the App Store with what's hoped to be a captivating fresh look and sound. Indeed, the appearance is elegantly striking with the user interface sporting a vibrant but not flashy black background and red accent color combo. As for features, listeners may discover new tunes through professional suggestions, i.e., highlights, or taste-based playlists. The traditional method, something that certainly exists here, would be to select or search for a genre, artist, album, or song and let the list compile around it, having the experience optimized over time by your acceptance, like or dislike, of each suggestion. Alternatively though, there's a more intelligent option, which creates the list based upon your mood, environment, activity, and company cleverly inputted through "The Sentence" setup. For example, I'm at a party and feel like BBQing with my BFF to dance-pop. Access requires sign-in via Facebook, Twitter, or Beats Music account and a $9.99 per month subscription. Initial sign-up provides a 7-day full access trial period. AT&T Wireless customers, click or tap here to determine whether you quality for further discounts.

Universal:

Little Dots by ThinkCube Inc. (Free, 4.7 MB): It certainly isn't a new concept, nevertheless, this color matching puzzler has a good amount of challenging content to entertainingly progress that downtime. Like the typical match-3 game, Quick Play has you striving to get as many points as possible within 60 seconds or 30 moves on a totally random board. In contrast, the campaign more closely resembles an obstacle course because of its variably demanding objectives, such as achieving 30 dots in each color through no more than 75 moves or achieving 9,000 points before 45 seconds passes, spanning numerous semi-preconfigured stages. The game features minimalistic 2-D graphics, simple and charming sound effects, two play modes and two goal types, over 10,000 increasingly difficult campaign stages, 40 board shapes, single finger operation, and Game Center leaderboards. Banner ads are removed via a $1.99 in-app purchase.

Mentioned apps

Free
Beats Music
Beats Music
Beats Music, LLC.
Free
Little Dots
Little Dots
ThinkCube Inc.

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