7 Super Showcased Apps - NOVEMBER, 2012

Showcased Apps represent a fine selection of informative, entertaining and useful apps that put excitement and sizzle on your iDevice! Here's our choice selection for last month!

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Showcased Apps: NOVEMBER, 2012

--- Little Things, InstaWeather Pro, Virtual Human Body, Pocket Trucks, Butterball Cookbook Plus-Recipes for Thanksgiving & Every Day Occasions, CogniFit Brain Fitness for iPad, Listo
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Developer Quote: "Search colorful collages built from thousands of little things. Randomized searches ensure a different game each time you play Little Things."

- COST:     Free     - APP STORE STARS:     4-1/2
- Categories: Entertainment, Games, iPad, Native, Puzzle

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Little Things

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Developer Quote: "Escaping for the weekend and your friends are staying home? Make them suffer with a beach photo and weather conditions from Hawaii or Malibu using InstaWeather Pro."

- COST:     99 cents     - APP STORE STARS:     5 ★★★★★
- Categories: Instagram, Lifestyle, Native, Photos, Photography, Weather

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Developer Quote: "Discover what’s hiding within your body: locate the various organs in their context, and learn more about their functions with Virtual Human Body."

- COST:     $4.99     - APP STORE STARS:     3
- Categories: Education, Health and Fitness, Medical, Native, Universal

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Virtual Human Body

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Developer Quote: "Pocket Trucks is the next step in side-scrolling physics based platform racers!"

- COST:     Free     - APP STORE STARS:     4-1/2
- Categories: Action, Cars, Entertainment, Games, Native, Universal

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Pocket Trucks

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Developer Quote: "Butterball Cookbook Plus—your source for great-tasting recipes and ideas to make your family mealtime even more special. "

- COST:     $4.99     - APP STORE STARS:     4
- Categories: Food, Holidays, Lifestyle, Native, Recipes

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Developer Quote: "CogniFit is the ultimate brain training app. Play different brain games to challenge your mind and train your cognitive skills like you never did before!"

- COST:     Free     - APP STORE STARS:     N/A
- Categories: Education, Entertainment, Health and Fitness, iPad, Lifestyle, Medical, Native, Puzzle, Science

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CogniFit Brain Fitness for iPad

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Developer Quote: "Listo helps you keep grocery lists, todo lists or shopping lists that are there whenever and wherever you need them."

- COST:     Free     - APP STORE STARS:     4
- Categories: Lifestyle, Lists, Native, Utilities, Productivity

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Listo


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CogniFit Brain Fitness for iPad

Developer Quote: "CogniFit is the ultimate brain training app. Play different brain games to challenge your mind and train your cognitive skills like you never did before!"

- COST:     Free     - APP STORE STARS:     N/A
- Categories: Education, Entertainment, Health and Fitness, iPad, Lifestyle, Medical, Native, Puzzle, Science

We spend a great deal of time focusing on maintaining physical health, flexibility, stamina and endurance. These are all major areas of continuous self-improvement. However, it is equally important not to forget the crucial areas of our brain and mental fitness in keeping ourselves in tip-top shape from head to toe. Doctors have stated the importance of keeping your mind alert by completing puzzles and activities of all kinds on a daily basis. This is no old wive's tale and is purely scientific. So what can you do to maintain the agility and flexibility of the mind of yourself, family and friends?

Look no further than CogniFit Brain Fitness for iPad. This very noteworthy and scientific app uses specific technology to keep your mind alert, fit and working to its peak ability. CogniFit is available on the App Store for both iPhone and iPad; however, this review is about the iPad version. Using the beautiful retina display with large, clear and sharp graphics is the perfect way to experience this app. Let's take a look at some of the intelligent features of this health and fitness, brain power training iPad app:

- Train your brain on the go
: Assess yourself and discover your cognitive and mental health

- Get personalized results for key cognitive abilities such as your memory, focus and attention

- Train with the CogniFit patented personalized training or decide to play single games

- Compare your scores with others if you wish
- Challenge and play with your friends and other from around the world
- Get new neurons each time you train and unlock additional features
- Cognitive skills and abilities you will train include:
        Auditory Short-Term Memory, Contextual Memory, Distance Estimation, Divided Attention, Focus, Eye-Hand Coordination, Response Time, Spatial Perception and many other crucial abilities

Start Training to learn how to use this app. There are simple but helpful instructions along with a graphic explaining the required skills for each task. For instance when I trained on Word Quest, skills included: Working Memory, Divided Attention, Spatial Perception and Planning. I was presented with a word box puzzle in which I had to find the hidden words based on the corresponding graphics. The Aztec style images are authentic looking stone and symbols and wording is easy to read. The next training item was Mouse Challenge in which you must tap quickly on items in a specific order. Hit the big red button at the correct time to eliminate the cows. If you tilt your device, the cross-hair will move over each animal. Other games included are: Crossroads, Fuel a Car, Jigsaw, Mahjong, Whack-A-Mole and Words Birds. Once I had completed Training, a summary was displayed on the status of my abilities. Let me say I definitely intend to improve my mental acuity!

Now on to more fun and brain teasing! I picked the activity named Crossroads to further stimulate my mind. At this point, you can Create a Challenge with a friend, or Play without Neurons. Cognitive skills involved were: Updating, Visual Scanning and Focus. I chose to Play without Neurons. In this activity, prevent rolling balls from colliding by tapping them when two approach an intersection in a head-on collision course. Glossy colored balls on turf with a board comprised of grid stones roll at their own momentum. Be quick to tap and avoid a collision! This is an exciting physics puzzler game reminding me that everyone in the family can fully enjoy these mind and flexibility games. Eye catching graphics and smooth operations make each activity a joy!

How can CogniFit Brain Fitness for iPad benefit you? Use it to possibly aid in the prevention of Alzheimer's Disease, Dementia, Parkinsons, ADHD, Multiple Sclerosis and other neurological diseases. In fact, Cognifit has been reviewed in many scientific publications which recognize the huge benefits of these health activities. One example of published acclaim is in the following paragraph on their site: "Shatil E, Korczyn AD, Peretzc C, et al. - Improving cognitive performance in elderly subjects using computerized cognitive training - Alzheimer's & Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2008; 4(4):T492". There are many more testimonials from well recognized associations.

Use this app to continue the training and learning benefits provided on the Cognifit site. Combing through the scientific information on the site will have you totally convinced in no time of the huge health and mental benefits of CogniFit. After all, "Active brain cells receive more blood and stimulate the migration of beneficial brain-stem cells". Being able to play smartly on your iPad and benefiting from each task is only one more medical claim to fame for this device. Once you have used CogniFit to coax your mind to higher intelligence, you will soon have a daily routine which includes all the well-created and highly functional included activities.

COOL CONCLUSION: Physical and mental fitness is easily achieved and sustained for the young and old when using CogniFit Brain Fitness to challenge and focus cognitive abilities on performing each task.

--Date/Version: Released 11/19/12 - Version 1.0
--iOS/Age Rating:  This app requires iOS 5.0 or later. Rated 13+.
--Device: iPad
--Developer: CogniFit
--Twitter: @CogniFit
--Facebook: CogniFit

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CogniFit Brain Fitness for iPad

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Virtual Human Body

Developer Quote: "Discover what’s hiding within your body: locate the various organs in their context, and learn more about their functions with Virtual Human Body."

- COST:     $4.99     - APP STORE STARS:     3
- Categories: Education, Health and Fitness, Medical, Native, Universal

Being in the medical field, I'm often eager to pick up on as much information as possible about the human body, illnesses and other medical issues. There are a few medical apps on my phone. However, Virtual Human Body, is quite diverse in its own way as it affords a complete view of the human body. And not just the skeleton either! Explore the skin, muscles, organs and bones of this realistic virtual body. Let's take a look at the many useful and unique features of this iPhone and iPad medical and educational app of the human body:

• 11 systems of the human body depicted through our lifelike model
• Over 1000 anatomical structures named and defined
• Anatomical dictionary including a textual search engine
• Possibility to overlap two systems so as to better visualize the interrelations between bones, muscles and organs
• Three display modes:
        * model only
        * model with red markers
       (gives access to the name of each structure)
        * model with overlapping window
       (allows you to display two systems simultaneously)
• Various points of view on the human body using:
        * Zoom tool
       (allows you to enlarge a system up to 16 times its original size)
        * Layer tool
       (gives access to cross-sections)
        * Multiple view angles
       (anterior, posterior, lateral, superior and inferior)
• Easy navigation: tap a red marker to access all the information related to an anatomical structure.
• A search engine to quickly locate a structure and situate it in its context
• A rich anatomical dictionary

On launching Virtual Human Body, you can select to Start Here, or get Help on how to navigate the app. The Help button contains a short series of scroll through screens with descriptions on each icon which will appear with the body in your lower display. The instructions are simple to understand and concise.

Start Here brings up the model of the human body. Tap to open the Systems list and select from 11 choices including: Morphology, Skeleton, Muscles, Nervous System and more. Choose which Layer to view. The first pertains to the main view, while each other Layer corresponds to a cross section. Also, you may choose which view you'd like to examine first: from Anterior, Posterior or Lateral. Tap the Pins button and you'll see a series of red pins appear. Now, when you tap each of these, the name of that body part appears with a brief description about it. When you tap Dual View, a helpful overlay will display the normal exterior of the human body over the skeletal visual. This serves to pinpoint where each body part is located exactly.

I was quite impressed with the details contained in the app which at the same time were all clearly explained. Virtual Human Body could well be a first-class helper to students in anatomy, biology or science classes. Conversely, a teacher could use this app to show all the details of the human body for it serves as a sort of road map to outline each and every tiny feature. Let me not forget to add the Search bar which when tapped provides an alphabetical terminology listing of every item included in the human body. Not only that - but when the terminology is tapped, you will then zoom in on the corresponding body part!

We definitely recommend this thorough educational tool to anyone of an age to learn about anatomy for any reason whatsoever. The display on iPad, as this is a Universal app, is wonderfully large and clear, thus perfect for the classroom. Push your mind a little further as you explore and discover all the wonders of the human body!

COOL CONCLUSION: Harness the intelligence included in Virtual Human Body to fill your mind with as many details as possible about the body, done in an easy-to-understand format with clear visuals and excellent accompanying descriptions.

--Date/Version: Updated 10/22/12 - Version 1.4
--iOS/Age Rating:  This app requires iOS 4.3 or later. Rated 12+.
--Device: iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad
--Developer: QA International

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Virtual Human Body

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