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its a setting in amazon app that wont let you DL anything over 20mb without wifi connection... no way to change it unless you complain to Amazon
I can see why they would do that, but it would be nice to be able to have the option to download it. Maybe a switch in your personal settings with a big fat warning label on it.
This morning I had checked Amazon's website and the free app they had was Airport Mania 2: Wild Flights. I was planning to download it later on during the day but to my surprise now it's What's Different?
Why did Amazon change the free app of the day? Have they done this before?
Hey Scur you think you might wanna contact Chrlwltrs and see about maybe starting to update the OP of this thread again? Perhaps make it a sticky? If so then feel free to contact him/me (and cc frisco). If not cool! Thought I'd ask
This morning I had checked Amazon's website and the free app they had was Airport Mania 2: Wild Flights. I was planning to download it later on during the day but to my surprise now it's What's Different?
Why did Amazon change the free app of the day? Have they done this before?
They've done it a few times before. I'm not sure if some of the app devs wish to only give away a certain amount of paid apps or what, but I think I've seen it happen maybe 5 other times.
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Today's free app is Cookies And Milk. Think I would rather have a virtual beer.
Now there's an app idea. Purchase "virtual drink tickets" and get yourself virtually blotto. The app would use the phone's camera to display an augmented-reality beer-goggles version of the world, where you drive like Mario Andretti, tell jokes like Jay Leno, and all the ladies look like [insert starlet name here, for my generation it's Farrah Fawcett].
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For everyone familiar with WOOT, there is a Woot-Off today.
Yeah, it figures... they always come the week *before* I get paid.
It was very well authored and easy to understand. You have brought up a very excellent points. I had never heard of such options before. Thanks for explaining it so deeply for apps. we need the apps for htc sensation xe phone...
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Today's app is the game Reversi, something nice and basic. No flying birds or felonious pigs, just an old-fashioned board game ported to Android. Probably could have done it in a tenth of the 1.8MB, but I won't begrudge them some pretty graphics beyond the traditional white/black tokens.
And if their Reversi is good, I just might spring for the Backgammon game by this company (AI Factory Limited) based on my experience. Good loss leader!
PS: No permissions requested. Sweet.
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Today's app is the game Reversi, something nice and basic. No flying birds or felonious pigs, just an old-fashioned board game ported to Android. Probably could have done it in a tenth of the 1.8MB, but I won't begrudge them some pretty graphics beyond the traditional white/black tokens.
And if their Reversi is good, I just might spring for the Backgammon game by this company (AI Factory Limited) based on my experience. Good loss leader!
PS: No permissions requested. Sweet.
Yes, the AI Factory Limit games are all quite good.
I have their Chess and Checkers games, and both are quite good, and have a very nice look/feel to them.
I also grabbed the Reversi game too.
Amazon apps are very annoying.
Why "just" USA ???
I'd like a taste of a few freebies too. Ive tried all the "fixes" and none work
Isn't it about time Amazon apps invited a few more countries, starting with the ones where they have succesful Amazon stores, England, France, Germany, Japan ?
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Today's app is free Money. It's iBear Money, which looks like a handy way to track spending and balance a checkbook, etc.
I'm tempted, but I've got all my info in clearcheckbook.com -- which lets me do large-scale data entry and balancing in my browser, while entering receipts on the go in its associated Android app. It's free, but it does have some annoyances.
Biggest problem with clearcheckbook is that it doesn't handle cloud-device interaction by a sync function -- the Android app is just a front-end for the data on the clearcheckbook.com server. That means you can't enter a transaction unless you have data access, because the app doesn't even know what accounts you have unless it can connect to the server.
I track my accounts compulsively... a simple app with a web interface and sync would be worth paying for. Suggestions welcome!
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Today's is a kids app called "Learning to Draw is Fun" (apparently Crafting a Name is Hard). It requests no permissions and is movable to SD, so I grabbed it for the next time the grandbaby comes over.
Warning: it starts whistling a cute little ditty when you run it. Great for kids... not so great at work. :/
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Today's is a kids app called "Learning to Draw is Fun" (apparently Crafting a Name is Hard). It requests no permissions and is movable to SD, so I grabbed it for the next time the grandbaby comes over.
Warning: it starts whistling a cute little ditty when you run it. Great for kids... not so great at work. :/
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I did not check the ratings. Interested in what they said about AI.
If it doesn't conclude, "The only winning move is not to play," then I'm not going to download it. The last thing I need on my phone is an AI that doesn't go through ALL the scenarios before calling in a first strike.
Using your phone, do a Google search for Amazon Appstore. One of the top links should be what you're looking for. You'll need to be sure to have turned on the toggle for allowing non-market apps in order to install it. Once installed, you'll use your Amazon log in, and be all set.
Using your phone, do a Google search for Amazon Appstore. One of the top links should be what you're looking for. You'll need to be sure to have turned on the toggle for allowing non-market apps in order to install it. Once installed, you'll use your Amazon log in, and be all set.
Thanks, downloaded it.
Is this app safe ? all these warnings have me 2nd guessing
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I'm not sure that I follow you. Is that your device, or the name of an app?
Must be my device, but its warning me if i want to give permission to the app. And that if i do then the app can access my debit card info and all that other stuff. Just dont want any identity theft goin on
Can you post screenshot of the app? Maybe of its splash screen or something? It's just that I don't remember any such warning when I loaded the Amazon appstore on my device.
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Today: "Draw(er) Pro". I don't know what the parenthes(es) are about, but it's a very small app (moveable to SD) that does simple drawing. The thing I like is that you can turn anti-aliasing on or off, which makes the app much more friendly to my low-end Android.
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Today's app is, oddly enough, not Valentine-themed at all... except maybe for the cutesy hearts in its icon. It's called "Bag It!" (because all apps must now! include! exclamation! points!), and it sounds pretty much like Tetris in a shopping bag. It says it "works best on higher end devices", so I skipped it.
Back in 1984, when was bagging groceries after school, I was thinking up games like this. Fill the grocery sack just right, not too heavy, not too light. And when I was a busboy, I fantasized about a game where you had to put the dishes in the bus tub just so, to minimize trips to the scalding hell of the dishwasher room. (I did write a shooting gallery game for my TRS-80, at least.) But I don't think it's fair to say I was born 30 years too early... 'cuz there's no telling what the 40-somethings of 2042 will look at and wish they'd had back in 2012!
Given that Amazon keeps track of the free apps they give away to users (like the Market does for paid apps), I'd recommend you get it, even if you don't use it until toy upgrade your device. The app is yours forever.
Every day I get the free apps, though I usually don't download and install them. I've found out the hard way to do this on my computer only, because many times grabbing the free app of the day on the Amazon Appstore app results in multiple attempts by the app to download and install. Gets very irritating.
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Only works when WIFI is on
It's iBear Money, which looks like a handy way to track spending and balance a checkbook, etc.
