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The best-selling fitness app for the iPhone has been re-made for Android with most of its functions intact (iPhone users do get an extra calorie-counter, although there have been complaints about its accuracy).

What Android users do get are the details of more than 200 different exercises, all with photographs and some offering video too. You will, however, need a reasonable internet-connection to view these.
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ICE is a great concept, first dreamed up by a British paramedic five years ago. The initial idea was to encourage individuals to put details of any allergies, medical conditions, doctors’ details and emergency numbers under a contact called ICE in their phone’s address book, where medics could then access it even if you were unconscious.

The rise of the smartphone soon scuppered that noble intention, because so many people started to lock their screens for security reasons, cutting off a paramedic’s access to the address book. Sounds like a fine job for an app if ever there was one. read more

From benevolent Uncle Google himself comes My Tracks, an all-purpose tracking app suitable for walkers, runners, cyclists and any other stats-obsessed exercisers. It uses the handset’s GPS-feature to monitor your movements as you work up a sweat and then spits all this data back at you when you want to see exactly where you’ve been or how long it took.
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Keep the kids quiet this Christmas with a festive-themed version of one of our favourite Android apps for toddlers.

Kids genuinely love join-the-dots puzzles and this app cunningly taps into that appetite by presenting a series of puzzles that each consist of the challenge of connecting between 10 and 30 numbers. Tap on each number sequentially and the software will start to join these up, finally filling in the picture once you’ve hit every dot. read more

The Story Kids genuinely love join-the-dots puzzles and this app cunningly taps into that appetite by presenting a series of puzzles that each consist of the challenge of connecting between 10 and 30 numbers. Tap on each number sequentially and the software will start to join these up, finally filling in the picture once you’ve hit every dot. The Experience The illustrations are terrific. They are bright and bold – and it’s surprisingly hard to guess what each one is until the puzzle is complete, even though there are clues in the background. Young children are, of course, learning to […] read more