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Today’s Apps
- Maven Web Browser+ (Multi-function mobile web browser)
- Vegetable Planting Calendar (Gardening planner for vegetables)
- Retro Pinball (Pinball game with a retro feel)
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Apps for April 30, 2012
Maven Web Browser+ With Innovative Jogdial, Trackpad and Download Manager
Maven Web Browser+ With Innovative Jogdial, Trackpad and Download Manager is a mobile web browser that is unlike any other. This app has an Innovative Bookmark Jog-Dial which is a spinner that you can select the page you want quickly without accessing your bookmarks as you would normally do. By default this app will have you use a magical track-pad to scroll up and down on the web page, but if you don’t want to use this you can easily turn it off with a touch of the icon. You can save passwords just like you do in Firefox, and you also can select an unlimited number of tabs to open. The tabs also have a preview screen in the tab so you know what it looks like without guessing what it there. There is another jog-dial that can adjust your screen brightness in the event you want the app look brighter or dimmer.
You can even make this a private browser with a single touch so that your download history won’t be saved and clutter up your device’s precious space. There is a download manager that can download files and images and even preview the downloaded files which can be transferred over to a PC or a Mac. This also supports gestures to have you switch between two tabs using two fingers, and gestures are completely customizable. The iPhone can handle two or three finger gestures, and the iPad can handle up to four fingers. If you have this app on your iPad, you can use the dual screen support to maximize your mobile web surfing. You can even lock this app or a tab when it has private information. This app also supports Facebook, Twitter and Instapaper, and it also has Reader capabilities. You can even import your bookmarks from either Firefox or Safari only.
There is an in-app purchase of $1.99 which will allow the browser to block ads if you have a need for something like that.
Price: Free (Limited time; Normally: $0.99)
Version discovered: 4.50
Requires: iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad; iOS 4.1 and up
Download size: 3.9 MB
Maven Web Browser+ With Innovative Jogdial, Trackpad and Download Manager on iTunes
Vegetable Planting Calendar
Vegetable Planting Calendar is an app that helps you plan ahead for your vegetable planting needs. This app covers over 90 different vegetables, and it will help you handle things like a hard frost, a light frost, moderate summer heat and high summer heat. This app will take all the worry out of what to plant and when to plant it that way you don’t plant something too early or to late.
Price: Free (Limited time; Normally: $0.99)
Version discovered: 1
Requires: iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad; iOS 4.0 and up
Download size: 25.1 MB
Vegetable Planting Calendar on iTunes
Retro Pinball
Retro Pinball is a pinball game that gives you that same feeling as if you were playing a real pinball game. You can choose from three different pinball tables (Super Android, Crash & Burn, and Pangea) to add more of a variety to your pinball pleasure. The graphics have the same look and style as the old pinball games, and the app can keep track of your high score in each pinball table.
Price: Free (Limited time; Normally: $0.99)
Version discovered: 1.4
Requires: iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad; iOS 3.2 and up
Download size: 29.7 MB
dotTechies: We have tested all the apps listed above. However, iOS Apps of the Day articles are not intended as “reviews” but rather as “heads-up” to help you discover new apps. Always use your best judgement when downloading apps, such as trying trial/free versions before purchasing paid apps, if applicable.
