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If you have kids, you’re familiar with Fisher-Price. Now, one of the largest makers of toys is bringing children’s entertainment to the iPhone with BIGFOOT the Monster for iPhone.

Fisher-Price has a new remote-controlled toy based on the legendary Bigfoot. To help promote their new toy, they have created an iPhone app based on the BIGFOOT toy. While Bigfoot has been pursued and feared by adventure hunters and rednecks for years, this is not your crazy uncle’s monster. Fisher-Price’s take on the elusive “missing link” is a happy, fun and playful monster that loves to play with your child. Check out some of the great features of the free app:

• Play: Shake, touch and tilt to interact and make Bigfoot do somersaults, headstands and more!
• Maze: Help Bigfoot find his ball. It’s a-MAZE-ing fun!
• Watch: Meet the Mighty Monster in the very first Bigfoot adventure!
• Bigfoot Sightings: Where in the World is Bigfoot? Search the globe for the legendary Bigfoot.

Perfect for your young child or mature toddler, this app’s multiple modes of gameplay should keep them entertained for hours. Best of all it’s free and not ad-supported.

BIGFOOT the Monster by Fisher-Price is available now, for free, in the App Store.

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Chances are, if you’ve ever cared to take a stroll through any museum without a tour guide, you probably lost your way at some point. My recent visit to the Louvre in Paris was one of mixed success: my girlfriend and I found the Mona Lisa, The Virgin of the Rocks, and Liberty Leading the People. However, Venus de Milo remained hidden from us – and I thought at that moment how helpful a location-based museum app would be.

Well, the American Museum of Natural History has finally done it. Their recently released Explorer app makes exploring the 500,000 square-foot museum as easy as getting to 1000 on Doodle Jump. And, what’s more, it does it using some rather clever technology.

The application is location-aware, yet you can run the app and interact with it perfectly on an iPod touch. This is made possible through the fact that the museum’s Explorer application uses the institution’s 300+ Wi-Fi hotspots to triangulate the user’s position – meaning there’s no need for a cellular data network.

And, what’s more, if you don’t own an iPhone or iPod touch, the museum will let you borrow one of its 350 devices for free!

The application itself allows users to do a whole host of things. Users can embark upon independent tours using the application, or they can use it to direct them towards a particular exhibition (or facility). Additionally, the app provides detailed information about the museum’s contents and also includes a dinosaur treasure hunt for children to enjoy. All in all, the app seems to be pretty much perfect.

So, the next time you head over to the American Museum of Natural History be sure to take your iDevice with you, and test out the museum’s Explorer application! Hopefully, we’ll be seeing a few other museums adopt this great concept in the near future – so keep your eyes peeled! For more information, check out the museum’s official page regarding the app.

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Tilt To Live was a great game with one gameplay mode when it was first released. Now after the fourth major update that was released last night there are four game modes in total with the newest being Frostbite. The mode gives you a constant stream of frozen red dots falling from the top to the bottom.

Your goal is to shatter them before the reach the hot spring at the bottom which warms them up to come after you. The mode begins by giving you a bubble shield, but there will only be one weapon at your disposal in this mode. It’s a brand new weapon called the Burnicade which you earn by filling the progress meter for each dot destroyed.

Burnicade lights your arrow on fire, and launches it in the direction you point leaving a trail of fire in your wake. This fire line lasts for a little, and burns melted red dots, and new incoming frozen dots. This is your only weapon though, and it only comes as often as you can destroy a certain number of dots meaning this is more of a survival mode.

Also included are seven new awards, and when you get to a certain score level in Frostbite mode you unlock Burnicade to be used in the other modes. It’s great to see Tilt To Live to continue being updated, and it provides a brand new reason to jump back in the game, and spend quite a lot of time with it. If you still haven’t picked it up, now is the time to do so, but check out our full review to help you decide.

Like the rich getting richer, it’s one of the best getting better. Next One Man Left is working on bringing Tilt To Live to the iPad.

Watch the trailer below of the Frostbite mode in action.

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According to a recent report by Apple Insider, Stanford University’s School of Medicine is handing out iPads to med students.

First year medical students and Master of Medicine students are the privileged bunch who’ll be receiving Apple iPads in a move the university is confident in supporting. Four main reasons for the introduction of the iPad have been outlined, and they are as follows:

• The iPad “creates opportunities for efficient, mobile, and innovative learning.”
• The technology is flexible; allows for annotations, sharing, etc.
• High quality information able to be accessed at any time.
• Replaces printed notes with PDFs.

And, as you may already know, Stanford isn’t the only institution implementing the iPad within a college syllabus this fall. Indeed, it seems as if Apple’s “magical and revolutionary” device has had quite an impact on the world of academia.

Sadly, my UK college isn’t going to be handing out iPads to any of its students this year – though I will be using mine to cut down on printing costs. If you want to find out more about how you can make your iPad “college-ready,” be sure to take a look at our great AppList!

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Feel like learning how to handle a fire mission? Worry not, there’s a device for that – and it’s called the iPad.

That’s right, as the BBC reports, UK soldiers are using a special iPad app to learn the “jargon and procedures” of Afghan operations. And, according to Major Rich Gill (an Army training officer), this new interactive form of learning is expected to greatly cut down training time:

“If we can use this sort of technology, we can probably shorten the amount of training and that is pretty key nowadays when people are so committed to operations in Afghanistan.”

And, what’s more, the soldiers love it too. The application makes learning more interactive and enjoyable. As Lance Bombardier Jason Markham from 1st Regiment Royal Horse Artillery states:

“It makes it more fun instead of being sat in a classroom looking at a presentation being given information.”

“If you’re on a course you can take this back to the block and practise with it, even have little competitions with it.”

So there you go. Yet another purpose for what many have labeled “just a big iPod touch.” It seems as though Apple’s iPad is finding a place in a great many institutions – remember the article we published about the iPad heading off to college?

Currently, an iPad app designed to teach army pilots how to recognize different vehicles from the air is in development – so perhaps this “revolutionary” method of training will catch on. We’ll be reporting if we hear anything more.

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Today’s list is a bit slim, but we have a little something for everyone, including an app to help you keep your podcast position, an iPad puzzle game, and a racing title that will help you relieve your stress.

Road Raging ($.99 -> Free): A distance game where you gain points by hitting oncoming traffic.  You are able to control your car via tilt, and you must collect gas cans to keep moving while also gathering power-ups.  You must avoid pot holes, however, because they will decrease your fuel level.

Road Raging is available for free for a limited time.  It has a four-and-a-half-star rating, and a total of six ratings.

SayAgain Audio Bookmarks ($1.99 -> Free): An audio bookmarking tool that allows you to quickly return to a specific spot in a podcast.  At this time, you can have about eight bookmarks at once.  Allows you to add your own notes to your bookmarks as well.

SayAgain Audio Bookmarks is available for free for the next week. It has a three-and-a-half-star rating, and a total of 19 ratings.

World Series of Poker Hold ‘em Legend ($.99 -> Free): A hold ‘em players’ dream.  Compete in career mode, play a cash game, take your skills online, or go head-to-head against a friend locally in a game of Texas hold ‘em.  You can play for fun or play for virtual cash, but if you run out of chips and want to play again immediately, you will have to fork over real money.  The game features a bunch of achievements to earn, leaderboards, and the ability to replay your favorite hands.

World Series of Poker is available for free for the foreseeable future. It has a three-and-a-half-star rating, and a total of 190 ratings.

iPad only:

Monster Age ($1.99 -> Free): Contains nine different puzzle themes, each with their own set of puzzles.  Each puzzle can be modified to include a set number of pieces to make it easier or more difficult.  Pieces are moved by simply tapping on the two you want to swap out.

Monster Age is available for free for an undisclosed amount of time. It has a four-and-a-half-star rating, and a total of 49 ratings.

Developers:

If you are a developer who would like to get your app included in our “Apps Gone Free” daily lists, here’s our basic set of rules:

• The app must be free for at least one whole day.
• It must have at least a three-star rating at the time it goes free.
• The app must not have been free numerous times (3+) over the last six months.

To submit an app, simply send a request to tyler@appadvice.com with the subject “Apps Gone Free.”  Please include the name of the app, a link to it in the App Store, when you intend to offer the app for free and anything else you would like to share.  We will take it from there.

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Remember iSkysoft’s iPhone 4 Video Converter giveaway, which we wrote about not so long ago? Well, the same company is now offering another one of its great products, entirely for free!

The software is called DVD to iPhone Converter, and it does exactly what it says on the box. Usually setting iPhone-owners back a pricey $29, fanboys across the world now have just over a week to download the software for free.

DVD to iPhone Convertor allows users to convert their DVDs to videos optimized for iPhone 3G, 3GS, and 4. In addition to this, it also supports a series of other file formats, such as MP4, AVI, MKV, and FLV.

The downside to this giveaway is that potential owners of the application do have to Facebook ‘like’ iSkysoft to receive the key-code. However, this can be done here with ease. If it doesn’t work immediately, reload the page and enter your details to receive a free DVD to iPhone key-code.

So be sure to check out the giveaway! DVD to iPhone Converter makes converting and transferring movies to your iPhone handset an easy (but still pretty boring) task.

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Synoptical Studios Ltd today is pleased to announce the release and immediate availability of Aerox 1.0.1, their highly-anticipated debut game for iOS. Taking full advantage of the iPhone’s powerful gaming capabilities, Aerox takes players through a stunning 3d world, brought to life by a wide array of physics-based puzzles and interactions. Aerox is an innovative ball-rolling adventure for the iPhone, packed with plenty of platforming action and physics-based puzzles! Dynamic and varied gameplay mechanics are complemented by stunning visuals for a blissful and engaging mobile experience.

Feature Highlights:
* 30 original levels
* Wide variety of puzzles, traps and obstacles
* Simple yet precise tilt controls
* Global leaderboards support
* Advanced engine technology (normal-mapped lighting, detailed shadowing, reflections, complex physics, etc.)
* Enhanced effects for 3GS and iPhone4 devices (realtime reflections, improved shadows, 60fps gameplay)

Full HD graphics support for Retina and iPad displays will also be available shortly in the next update, for no extra cost! This is not just rendered at the larger resolution/screen size, but also uses much higher resolution artwork for an unparalleled HD game experience unlike anything currently available on the App Store.

CAZE today is pleased to announce the Zero 5 case for iPhone 4. The Zero 5 (0.5mm) iPhone 4 case is sleek, slim and form-fitting, you will not even know that it is on. It features a 0.5mm thinness and is made of lightweight, ultra strong and durable GRILAMID(R) TR-90 material. It protects the sides of the iPhone by protruding slightly above the front screen and can address the antenna concern. The back of the case has a precise cutout for the iPhone’s camera and flash. To ensure your iPhone receives 360 degree protection, a front and back films are provided.

Searching for a case that would protect your iPhone 4 and would retain its slim form and sleek appearance? That’s what CAZE Zero 5 (0.5mm) iPhone 4 Case does. As the name implies, Zero 5 (0.5mm) is very slim and only has 0.5mm wall thickness. As it’s so thin, you would barely notice its presence. It is made of GRILAMID(R) TR-90 which is a plastic polymer commonly used in the creation of sport and other impact-resistant eyewear frames. TR-90-made products are lightweight, remarkably tough, highly flexible, shatterproof and highly resistant to UV damage. Besides its super slim body that measures only 0.5mm in thickness, Zero 5 is durable and offers comprehensive protection to your iPhone. It has complete access to all the main ports and buttons of your device. Charging has also never been easy since you do not have to remove the case.

Zero 5 (0.5mm) is a bit raised to protect your screen from further scratches when laid on a flat surface. To ensure all-around protection, the package comes with a free screen protection kit (front & back films) for added shield.

DoubleIP S.A., the developers of DoubleSMS, has launched a remarkable new product for iPhone. The application enables users to check the current mobile operator of their contacts and provides a simple one step mechanism to mark this info on their address book. Mobile Number Portability allows anyone to change mobile operator by keeping his existing number. Users having free calls/text towards mobile numbers of the same operator, feel uncertain about their costs when placing a call or sending a text. DoubleCheck removes this uncertainty by providing the mobile operator of the person called on the iPhone screen. DoubleCheck, helps users reduce their communication costs while at the same time exploit the usage of their free call/text plans.

With support for all mobile operators in more than 200 countries, virtually anyone can benefit from this application, regardless of where they are located.

Using DoubleCheck, iPhone users are no longer in doubt about where they place a call or send a message. They check the mobile operator of their contacts, they mark it on their address book and then with just a glance on their iPhone screen they know if the number they are calling belongs to their free plan or not.

The application will additionally help users cleanup their address book from numbers that are no longer valid. The application has been designed for extra ease of use. With one click the mobile network operator information is marked on the iPhone’s address book.