GoSanta is simple and easy to pick up for the young and old. The evil Grinch has stolen all of Santa’s Christmas presents and all of the kids will be sad if Santa does not get them back. The goal therefore is to collect as many presents in as little time possible.

The player can move Santa through using the accelerometer, which lets him go forward as well as backward and increases his speed depending on the tilt level of the iPhone. While collecting gifts the player needs to avoid obstacles like Christmas trees, snowmen, and gingerbread men. But other objects like hearts and clocks will give bonus points and allow more time for the task.

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Word Flow is easy to pick up, and challenging once you get into it. The player has to slide the different rows of letters either vertically or horizontally in order to form as many words in as little time possible. The longer the word, the higher the score, which releases gold letters, which release bonus points when used within a new word. Like Scrabble the point system for different letters varies and the less frequent the letter, the more points you get.

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Like other color matching marble games, Bonsai Blast is highly addictive and a great game if you have some time to kill. The game’s objective is simple —shoot marbles to match three or more marbles of the same color in order to make them disappear. Creating different color combinations will cause a chain reaction of marbles popping and the goal is to get all the marbles to pop before the chain reaches the end of the path.

While the game is simple enough for young kids to enjoy, Bonsai Blast gets creative in the 90 levels the game offers.

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Ever stared up into the sky on a clear night and wondered what exactly you were looking at? With the Star Walk app on your iPhone you can now find out immediately and use this stargazing guide to learn more about the stars and constellations.

Virginia-based mobile software developer Vito Technology Inc., makers of the business app Task2Gather, has come up with a useful and fun star map that uses your iPhone’s current location in order to provide a picture of the sky located right above you.

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Bounce Trap’s objective is to fill and remove all the round holes on the screen without running out of balls.

The balls are released from the top of the screen and are dropped through a tap. Once a ball hits a hole it is filled and if another ball of the same color hits it, the hole will disappear. If balls of different colors hit the filled hole three times it will also vanish.

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All comic book fans and collectors can now get their fix on their iPhone with the new comiXology app, that was released this week. Based on the comiXology website, the app offers tons of information on new releases in the comic world.

ComiXology allows users to browse through comic book covers, read about the stories, and find information on creators. Unlike the website, the comiXology app is based on a three week schedule – this week, next week, and last week. The three featured comics as well as the shipping items are categorized accordingly.

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The game has enjoyable graphics of reindeers that will cry if you make a mistake. The task is pretty easy — listen for the tones that will light up the corresponding reindeer’s nose and repeat the tone patterns by tapping the noses. Three difficulty levels make this app enjoyable for young kids (it’s rated 4+) as well as older kids and adults who have some time to kill. In all three levels the patterns get increasingly longer, making the task to repeat them increasingly difficult.

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With sixteen iPhone apps under their belt, developer E.E. Flobes offers another addition to their widely varied App Store selection. Brain Benders offers a new logic puzzle or trick question every day. This can be an added plus to users who look for a new question every day to test their cerebral capacities.

Trying to figure out the answer can make the daily commute more enjoyable or it can be a welcome distraction from daily routines. But for those looking to use this app as a game to play with friends on a road trip or by yourself with some time to spare, the fact that there will only ever be one riddle every 24 hours will defeat the game’s usefulness.

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The idea is simple — you buy the A Real Tree app and a tree will be planted in one of 12 countries fighting deforestation and poverty. Developer Mokugift‘s focus was not to make a state of the art interface design or a new fancy app, but rather to create something with meaning and the possibility of having a positive impact.

Upon opening A Real Tree an animated tree will grow to the sound of birds singing and an “Explore the Forest” button will take you to the A Real Tree website, which offers more information. The developer further states that there are surprises to be found in the app (like making the bird fly) and more surprises will be available when you update. There is not much more to the app but as stated above the developer was mainly concerned with the impact and meaning rather than a multitude of gimmicks.

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Developed by 3PM Studios, a company of three brothers that based the game’s characters on their own kids and their playmates, Henry & Hailey’s Preschool Pals is enjoyable and easy enough to pick up for three to four year old kids.

The game’s objective is to match the heads, bodies, and feet of ten different characters. Before starting Henry & Hailey’s Preschool Pals, the players can familiarize themselves with the ten pals by looking at them and listening to them introducing themselves. The group includes a quarterback, a firefighter, a Spanish-speaking dancer, a robot, a dog and numerous other pals that tell you their name and who they are.  

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