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Today's Apps Gone Free: Wonderful Days, Frame Artist, SCOtutor For Mac, And More

April 29, 2012

Keep track of the wonderful moments you enjoy everyday with HandyPadSoft's beautifully simple journaling app, Wonderful Days. We also have an app that allows you to create framed collections of photos, and an app that will teach you how to get your new Mac up and running.

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iPhone:

Blade Dash ($0.99 → Free, 16.0 MB): A retro-inspired endless running game. Play as Sho, a sword wielding warrior, and run, jump, and slice your way through as many levels as possible to reach the top of the leaderboards. Tap and double-tap the left side of the screen to jump, and tap the right side of the screen to perform regular and aerial attacks. The game includes a wide variety of outrageous enemies and obstacles, retro graphics, and achievements and leaderboards via Game Center.

Blade Dash is available for free today only (04/29). It has a 4-star rating with a total of 1 ratings.

ThermoBox ($0.99 → Free, 26.9 MB): This physics-based puzzle game requires you to get boxes to fly by melting the ice they are trapped within. Break stones, activate dynamite, and interact with other objects to get the heat ball to touch the beams the boxes are on to melt their ice and allow them to drift away. The game includes 150 puzzling levels.

ThermoBox is available for free for a limited time. It has a 5-star rating with a total of 5 ratings.

Wonderful Days - Diary with Style ($2.99 → Free, 33.0 MB): A stunning and intuitive journaling app. When creating an entry for your journal, you're able to choose from a variety of themes, text fonts and sizes, mood icons, and photo frames. Entries can also be geo-tagged and rated. Journal entries can be organized in list, preview, photo, or calendar form, or you can search for specific entries. The app also includes passcode protection, Evernote integration, the ability to share your entries via email, and AirPrint support.

Wonderful Days - Diary with Style is available for free today only (04/29). It has a 4.5-star rating with a total of 169 ratings.

SkySafari 3 ($1.99 → Free, 47.9 MB): An intro version of SkySafari 3 that is able to display 46,000 stars along with 220 of the best-known star clusters, nebulae, and galaxies. It also includes encyclopedic descriptions of constellations, stars, and planets written by professional astronomers, and features hundreds of images from NASA space missions, the Hubble Space Telescope, and the world’s foremost astro-photographers.

SkySafari 3 is available for free today only (04/29). It has a 5-star rating with a total of 1508 ratings.

Snap & Sync ($1.99 → Free, 2.5 MB): This photography app allows you to instantly sync your photos to an album shared with friends and family. Upon creating an album, you're given the opportunity to decide who can contribute and view it. Then just start snapping photos and they will automatically be uploaded for everyone to see. Please be aware that the app requires you to log in with your Facebook account.

Snap & Sync is available for free for a limited time. It has a 5-star rating with a total of 1 ratings. Universal:

Frame Artist with Templates Pro ($1.99 → Free, 22.7 MB): A highly customizable photo framing app. It includes 10 pre-made templates for you to choose from, allowing you to quickly throw together everything from invitations to recipe cards. You can also create your very own custom frames with up to 48 cells, different background and border colors, and custom text. The app also includes the ability to apply filters to photos, four output resolutions, and the ability to share your works of art via Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Picasa, Tumblr, or Flickr.

Frame Artist with Templates Pro is available for free for a limited time. It has a -star rating with a total of ratings.

UFO Blitz ($0.99 → Free, 13.3 MB): UFOs are invading the planet and it's up to you to stop them in this arcade game. UFOs enter from each side of the screen, and you have to wait until just the right moment to blast them. Every shot you miss takes away from your weapon's power supply, and once you run out, it's game over. The game includes 35 missions, all kinds of ship and weapon upgrades, and achievements and leaderboards via Game Center.

UFO Blitz is available for free for a limited time. It has a 5-star rating with a total of 3 ratings.

SCOtutor for Mac ($3.99 → Free, 734.1 MB): Learn everything you need to know to get your new Mac up and running with this educational app. No previous experience with a Mac is required, as this video tutorial takes you through all of the key features of using your new computer. It features about 157 minutes of HD video and covers 12 major subjects, which are organized into over 75 topics. The app also includes AirPlay support, advanced playback controls, the ability to quickly resume where you left off, and multi-speed playback.

SCOtutor for Mac is available for free today only (04/29). It has a 5-star rating with a total of 2 ratings.

Ultimate Word Search (Wordsearch) ($0.99 → Free, 35.0 MB): The Ultimate Word Search game. Just tap the first letter in the word you want to circle and drag your finger across the entire thing to highlight it. The word will then be automatically crossed off the list. The game includes six themes to choose from 63 word categories, dictionary lookup, and achievements and leaderboards via Game Center.

Ultimate Word Search (Wordsearch) is available for free for a limited time. It has a 3-star rating with a total of 431 ratings.

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Mentioned apps

Free
Blade Dash
ADM GAMES
Free
ThermoBox
Zana Games
Free
Wonderful Days - Diary with Style
HandyPadSoft
Free
SkySafari 3
Southern Stars
Free
Snap & Sync
Snap & Sync
Free
Frame Artist with Templates Pro
Darinsoft
Free
UFO Blitz
POPPIA, Inc.
Free
SCOtutor for Mac
ScreenCastsOnline
Free
Ultimate Word Search (Wordsearch)
EnsenaSoft

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