FREE KINDLE FIRE APP PACK #1 – {01-03-2013}
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Plunk!
Genre(s): Games
Rating: 4.8 – {8 Reviews}
Price may change without notice! Due to international copyrights, not all titles will be free outside the United States.
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nspired by handcrafted puzzles, each Plunk! level challenges you to navigate gorgeous marbles through a wooden labyrinth. Tilt your phone or tablet in all directions and use gravity to roll the marbles past holes and into their targets. The first levels will test your hand-eye coordination as you maneuver one marble around, between and sometimes over fiendishly placed holes. Afterward, the difficulty escalates as two, three, four, or more simultaneous marbles force you to come up with increasingly complex plans.
Built to sound and feel real, this game will remind you of time spent playing the classic wooden marble labyrinth in your childhood, but will take you further by offering level after level of intricate challenges. Feel free to either play at your own pace and unlock the levels one-by-one or race the clock and earn silver or gold awards by finishing quickly.
The individual levels in Plunk! vary from straightforward to truly brutal in difficulty. It is surprising how clever they can be – sometimes seeming impossible until you discover the trick. The game can be frustrating at times, but this level of challenge is always rewarded by the satisfaction it gives in completing each puzzle. No one likes being completely stumped though, so if you get stuck on a level that seems unsolvable, use a key to unlock the next one and move on. Players start with two keys and more can be earned in the game by winning enough gold awards or by purchasing them through Google Play. Once you have had more practice, don’t forget to return to the skipped levels and try them again!
Plunk! is a game that requires constant spatial thinking in order to guide the marbles safely to their targets. Numerous studies have shown that playing this type of game can provide lasting improvements in spatial reasoning, a skill which is important in everything from assembling furniture to solving complex problems through the use of graphs and diagrams. In education, for example, it has been shown that students with higher spatial reasoning skills are more likely to succeed in science, technology, engineering, or mathematics.
“A recent meta-analysis showed substantial improvements in spatial skill from a wide variety of interventions, including academic coursework, task-specific practice and playing computer games that require spatial thinking.” – Nora S. Newcombe, Professor of Psychology at Temple University
Whether you are playing for fun, to relax or to stretch your brain, Plunk! will keep you rolling for hours.
PLEASE NOTE: This app lets you purchase digital content using actual money. You can configure parental controls for in-app purchases, which will require your Amazon account password or a 4-digit PIN, by going to the Settings menu from within the Amazon Appstore.
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Chord! Free
Genre(s): Reference
Rating: 5.0 – {1 Review}
Price may change without notice! Due to international copyrights, not all titles will be free outside the United States.
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ll fingerings, any tuning, Chord is the ultimate chord charts book you’ll need!
Chord! is a guitar chord finder. Unlike most of the other apps, it generates itself chords diagrams, so it supports any chord (even slash ones like D/F#) in any tuning, with any number of strings (guitar, banjo, ukulele, bass, mandolin, etc.).
This is the free version with fully functional chord search, but only four scales instead of four hundred and five tunings, no reverse chord and scale search, no colors, no custom tunings database.
You can hear how each diagram sounds by sweeping your finger across the strings.
In the full version, you can also reverse search chords: Entering on a neck the fingering will give you instantaneously the possible names of the chord and you will then be able to explore possible variations.
The full version embeds a database with a hundred of tunings for various instruments and you can add you own ones. In this free version, there is 5 tunings, for standard guitar, bass, banjo (4 str.) and ukulele. The full version of this database contains also four hundred scales that can be displayed or reverse searched in any tuning. In this free version, there are only four scales.
The app fully supports left handed instruments.
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Calorie Counter and Diet Tracker by MyFitnessPal
Genre(s): Health & Fitness
Rating: 4.8 – {2,286 Reviews}
Price may change without notice! Due to international copyrights, not all titles will be free outside the United States.
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osing weight isn’t always easy, but with Calorie Counter by MyFitnessPal you’ll have the tools to get in shape, take the weight off, and keep it off. This fast and easy-to-use calorie counter lets you keep track of your diet even while you’re on the move. Make use of the comprehensive database that includes over 590,000 foods and a speedy search function for exercises and take off those extra pounds in a hurry. Lose weight the healthy way and do it all for free with Calorie Counter by MyFitnessPal.
Dieting: it’s personal
Simply create an account and signup with MyFitnessPal and you’ll be presented with a quick survey about yourself to create your personal profile. Decide what works best for your lifestyle so you can set realistic goals for yourself. Choose how much weight you’re looking to lose per week, set your weekly exercise goals, and even input your activity level based on your current employment. If you’re a white collar worker and you have a desk job, you’ll want to choose the sedentary option, while a blue collar worker will want to pick a more active selection. Your information automatically adjusts your Net Calorie Goal for the week, so you can fully customize your tracker and make sure you’re on the right track.
Join the supportive community
MyFitnessPal also offers a robust website to accompany your Calorie Counter app. Get support and motivation from a community of over one million dieters just like you. Choose to log your activity on your phone or while you’re online at home. Entries synchronize automatically, so you can update your tracker at your own convenience. Encourage your friends to join in and get healthy together. Diet with your friends and family and keep track of each other’s progress. You might even choose to automatically post your progress to Twitter and Facebook, though this feature is entirely optional.
Food
Database of over 590,000 foods, updated daily
All major nutrients: calories, fat, protein, carbohydrates, sugar, fiber, cholesterol, and more
Store foods automatically for easy access
Add multiple items at once or create an unlimited number of custom foods
Log your calories with just a few taps
Exercise
Over 350 exercises
Track both cardio and strength training
Create an unlimited number of custom exercises
Enter your own calorie amounts — great for exercise equipment with calorie reports
Goals
View your personalized goals based on your specific diet profile — age, gender, activity level, and more
Enter your own goals if you’ve received specific recommendations from a doctor or nutritionist
Reports
Track your weight, measurements, and more
View charts of your progress over time for motivation
Check out your daily nutritional summary with all major nutrients
Make use of the MyFitnessPal website for more detailed reports
