Amazon Free App of the Day

[jbenham]

Three of the five permissions have to do with full wi-fi access. There is no exit button, so you have to force close it to keep it from running in the background. No thanks.

 

[Spider]

Toca Lab is the 3/21 app.

Welcome to Toca Lab! Explore the colorful and electrifying world of science and meet all 118 of the elements from the periodic table. Each element has it's own personality. In Toca Lab, what does Neon sound like? Is Gold heavy or light? Is Nitrogen squishy or hard? Explore, inspect, and study each one and let us know! Can you find all 118?

 

[jbenham]

This app gets really good ratings. It is mostly for older kids. But again, 3 of the permissions deal with giving the developer access to your kid's information.

 

[jbenham]

Also of note, Amazon is giving away $50 worth of paid apps today and tomorrow to celebrate their birthday. Check them out!

 

[Spider]

Nice find JB. Here's the link Amazon Appstore for Android Deals

 

[Spider]

Bardbarian - Golden Lute Edition is the 3/22 app.

You play as Brad the barbarian, who is awoken to the sounds of his town under siege. Today is different though. Brad has grown tired of fighting all the time. The usual grind for XP has grown dull, and he has decided to pursue his dreams of making music instead of shedding blood. Fashioning a lute out of an old axe, he steps out to save his town through musical inspiration.

Use your magical Axe-Lute to summon followers to fight for you. Navigate your party through the hordes of enemies, dodging and attacking, preventing them from destroying your town's prized decorative crystal. Survive waves to progress, collect loot, and unlock new units. Upon death you are able to visit the town shop in order to upgrade Brad, the town and your followers, in hopes to make it further next time.

 

[jbenham]

I have no idea how to review this app. The screen shots are worthless and it has too many permissions for me to download it, just to check it out.

 

[Spider]

Riptide GP2 is the 3/23 app.

Riptide GP2 kicks everything into overdrive, with intense water racing action, upgradeable hydro jets and riders, improved graphics, an all-new career mode, and a whole new stunt system with dozens of new tricks!

Featuring rocket-powered hydro jets racing around futuristic tracks across a dynamic and interactive water surface, Riptide GP2 delivers a fast, fun, and visually stunning racing experience.

 

[jbenham]

If you like race games, this one is highly rated.

 

[Spider]

OfficeSuite Professional 7 is the 3/24 app.

Regular price $14.99 free today!

This office productivity suite has everything you need from mobile office software. With OfficeSuite Pro, access tools for word processing, developing spreadsheets, delivering presentations, and browsing PowerPoint and PDF files. Create, view, and edit Microsoft Word and Excel files.

 

[jbenham]

I have had this for a couple years (as have many off you, no doubt) and it works well. I don't remember all these permissions being required, though!

• Application Permissions: (Help me understand what permissions mean)
  • Request authtokens from the AccountManager
  • Get information about the currently or recently running tasks: a thumbnail representation of the tasks, what activities are running in it, etc
  • Write to external storage
  • Access information about Wi-Fi networks
  • Access the list of accounts in the Accounts Service
  • Read only access to device state
  • Change the Z-order of tasks
  • Allows an application to read from Gmail
  • Get notified that the operating system has finished booting
  • Open network sockets
  • Change Wi-Fi connectivity state
  • Manage the list of accounts in the AccountManager
  • Write to the user dictionary
  • Change network connectivity state
  • Access information about networks
  • PowerManager WakeLocks to keep processor from sleeping or screen from dimming
• Minimum Operating System: Android 3.0

 

[Spider]

I have had this for a couple years (as have many off you, no doubt) and it works well.

It was the FAOTD 10/26/2011. That's probably where we all got it from.

 

[Spider]

Naught 2 is the 3/25 app.

Play with gravity to guide Naught through a mysterious underground world where darkness is a relentless enemy that takes many forms.

Naught 2 is an adventure and platform game that challenges your skills giving you full control of Naught and his environment. Not only has Naught's world been completely redesigned to create more interactive and detailed environments, it includes new features that enhance the gameplay and reinvent platform game style. Naught is now characterized by procedural animations that allow him to adapt his movements to the surroundings by holding on to walls, modifying his way of walking depending on gravity and the ground surface, and pushing objects in a unique and dynamic fashion.

 

[jbenham]

Not even sure what a gravity platform game is, but it got good ratings and has minimal permissions. Low ratings are from Kindle Fire users who say it won't install and it apparently does not work well on 10" tablets.

 

[Spider]

NeoCal Advanced Calculator is the 3/26 app.

NeoCal is an advanced, award-winning calculator designed to work just like a real calculator, only better. The intuitive keyboard design provides efficient access to over 230 financial, statistical, scientific, programmer, conversion, and date and time functions without having to access menus or lists of functions. The large 12-digit display includes thousands separators and shows labels for calculated and stored results. Backspace, Undo, and Redo make correcting mistakes simple.