Archive for January, 2010
Slider puzzle slides you back in time
Do you remember those hot summer road trips in the back of the car to visit the beach? On the way home the family would stop for dinner at a diner. The diner would have a glass case under the register full of trinkets and games. Among the games would be a 14-15 slider puzzle.
The 14-15 puzzle was one of the first puzzle crazes to hit America. It was released in the 1800s and everyone was doing it.
Sort the numbers into sequence by sliding.
But the 14-15 puzzle isn’t just one puzzle, you can also:
- Form a Magic Square totaling 30 in each direction.
- Put together an ocean scene.
- Put together a frigate bird.
- Need a hand? There’s a ‘Solve’ button to show you the picture and a ‘Jumble’ button to mix it back up for you
It’s well established that solving puzzles keeps your mind sharp. The 14-15 puzzle can be as simple as putting the numbers in order or as complex as forming magic squares. You pick your level. You keep your mind sharp.
Download the slider puzzle now and retreat to your childhood for just a few minutes.
Cut your fuel consumption by 10%, 20%, even 30%
If the mileage you get in your car isn’t beating the manufacturer’s estimated fuel efficiency, you’re spending too much on gas.
You don’t have to buy a newer, smaller car to get better gas mileage, using just a few hypermiling tips you can cut your gas consumption by 10%, 20% or even 30%
Track your mileage, use some of the tips and watch as find yourself filling your gas tank less frequently.
If you only save one gallon of gas, you’ve made back the money you spent on this app. Everything else is cash in your pocket.
FEATURES:
- Calculate miles per gallon and gallons per mile
- Calculate kilometers per liter and liters per kilometer
- You can view your data in a list
- View your data in a graph
- Check the info page for random hyper-miling tips.
- Email data to yourself in CSV for importing into spreadsheets or just as an extra backup.
- English and Metric settings.
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How lucky do you feel?
You use birthdays and other special dates to pick your lottery numbers. They just feel lucky.
But most lotteries go well past 31 numbers.
If you never pick numbers above 31 you take yourself out of winning as much as 27% of the time.
Instead of using parts of a date as the numbers, use your special date to seed the lottery number machine. Get a better distribution of numbers to increase your chance of winning.
FEATURES
- You have two ways to generate your lucky numbers
- You can choose to get a new set of lucky numbers every time you open it by not using a special date.
- You can set the lucky numbers machine to use a favorite date to cast your numbers for today.
- Lucky Numbers also autosaves your last 7 sets of numbers.
Download the Lucky Number generator now and increase your odds of winning the lottery
Your house plants are cleaning your air, what are you doing for them?
Never murder a house plant again.
Do you know the number one killer of house plants? Starvation. There’s just not enough sunlight coming through the windows in the winter to feed your plants.
Do you know the number two killer of house plants? Lack of humidity. The average home is 67% drier than the Sahara Desert in the winter and most house plants come from humid tropical climates.
It can be frustrating trying to grow beautiful house plants. Let the doctor help you.
15 years of training and growing houseplants are combined with an intelligent expert system to instantly give you simple scientifically proven solutions.
- Simply scroll through a list of the 32 most common symptoms of plant distress and select the symptoms your plant is showing. The Doctor will do the rest.
- You will have healthier plants by using the proven plant doctor to accurately diagnose plant troubles.
FEATURES
- In-depth detailed analysis along with a detailed solution
- A simple solution list is provided telling you to provide more or less: light, water, fertilizer, heat, and humidity
Rated by Consumer Reports to be one of the best home improvement Apps
Treadmill Tracker tracks your tracks
How much would you pay for a pill that would:- Lower your blood pressure- Lower your cholesterol- Create new brain cells- Burn fat after 30 minutes- Lower your stress- Extend your life- Lower your heart attack risk by 75%- Lower your cancer risk by 33%There is no pill, there may never be such a pill. But you can get the same effect by dusting off that treadmill and hoping on it a short while each day.
FEATURES
- Track your distance, speed, time, incline and date for each run.
- Easy to use data entry screen, often all you need do is click the save button.
- List of runs showing each run’s: distance, time, incline, distance up, speed and date.
- Calculate how many calories you’ve burned
- Calculate your target heart rate
- Convert miles per hour to minutes a mile.
- Graph your monthly distance and time totals.
- Email your data to yourself for import into a spreadsheet or as an added backup of your data.
- Random motivational quotes help get you moving again
- Use US or metric units
Download the Treadmill Tracker and Track your Tracks
It’s the calories, stupid.
Why do you weigh what you weigh?
One day I went to bed skinny, the next I woke up fat. Well maybe not quite that fast, I’d had to go out and purchase larger jeans every six months. But not once did it occur to me that I was gaining weight. It was like I had checked out of my body or something.
It took months to lose the weight and I made a vow never to repeat that experience.
I created the BMI/BodyFat/Calorie calculator to keep my weight in line. Every morning I step on the scale. If I’m over my threshold weight I use the calculator to tell me how to take those couple of pounds back off, before they multiply.
FEATURES:
- Get your BMI
- Get your Body Fat
- Get the recommended calories for your height, age, activity level and desired weight
- Find out how a few extra calories or less calories daily will change your weight
- Find out how walking, jogging or running daily can change your weight
- Find out how many days it will take to reach your goal weight
- Use US or metric settings
- Use the phone in portrait mode to enter in exact numbers with the keyboard
- Use the phone in landscape mode to enter the data with sliders and get an intuitive feel for how small changes will effect your weight
Download the Weight Calculator and see your future.
Weight Calculator for iPhones Screen View
Weight Calculator for iPhones Screen View
Weight Calculator for iPhones Screen View
Weight Calculator for iPhones Screen View
Weight Calculator for iPhones Screen View
Need help purchasing a diamond? There’s an App for that!
Would you be surprised to know that jewelers price diamond engagement rings at about twice what they are willing to sell you the ring for?
The diamond buying tips in this app take you beyond the basics of diamond buying and help you choose the perfect diamond.
Flip through the screens to grasp the basics of color, cut, clarity and carats, then turn to the diamond buying tips to help you buy the perfect ring.
FEATURES
- Place a diamond on the Color screen to check the color.
- Place a diamond on the Carats screen to check the size.
- Use the Cut screen to help you evaluate that cut.
- Use rules of thumb and examples on the Clarity screen to check the clarity.
- Use the tips from diamond buying experts to be sure you get the best ring for her.
Take the diamond helper with you when you shop for the perfect engagement ring.
Diamond Buying App Screen Shot
Diamond Buying App Screen Shot
Diamond Buying App Screen Shot
Diamond Buying App Screen Shot
Diamond Buying App Screen Shot
Radiating yourself with cellphone reverses Alzheimer’s
Take this with a grain of salt, and consider getting Grandma a high radiation cell phone.
Mice were exposed to cell phone signals from a centrally-located antenna. Credit: © Photo courtesy of University of South Florida
The millions of people who spend hours every day on a cell phone may have a new excuse for yakking. A surprising new study in mice provides the first evidence that long-term exposure to electromagnetic waves associated with cell phone use may actually protect against, and even reverse, Alzheimer’s disease. The study, led by University of South Florida researchers at the Florida Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center (ADRC), was published today in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease.
“It surprised us to find that cell phone exposure, begun in early adulthood, protects the memory of mice otherwise destined to develop Alzheimer’s symptoms,” said lead author Gary Arendash, PhD, USF Research Professor at the Florida ADRC. “It was even more astonishing that the electromagnetic waves generated by cell phones actually reversed memory impairment in old Alzheimer’s mice.”
The researchers showed that exposing old Alzheimer’s mice to electromagnetic waves generated by cell phones erased brain deposits of the harmful protein beta-amyloid, in addition to preventing the protein’s build-up in younger Alzheimer’s mice. The sticky brain plaques formed by the abnormal accumulation of beta amyloid are a hallmark of Alzheimer’s disease. Most treatments against Alzheimer’s try to target beta-amyloid.
Read more, Cell phone exposure may protect against and reverse Alzheimer’s
More information:
JAD
USF Health
