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Expand Your Vocabulary With These Free Apps for Apple Devices

September 18, 2014 by

Building an expansive vocabulary is beneficial to people in just about any profession. An expansive vocabulary helps you to better communicate thoughts and feelings, and it prevents embarrassment from using a word incorrectly. These helpful apps for your Apple device offer fun, convenient ways to learn new words, even when you’re on the go.

Dictionary.com
The popular online dictionary website offers an app that features a comprehensive dictionary and thesaurus for looking up unknown words. In addition to its most basic features, the app has a Word of the Day section that displays a new word and its definition every time you log on. Check the app each morning and you’ll improve your vocabulary in no time.

VocabDailyFree
This free app is dedicated to helping users improve their vocabularies through definitions, usage examples and even a recording of the pronunciation for various words every day. If you’re a history buff, you’ll also love the opportunities to learn about the history of each word. Vocab Daily’s simple black and white interface is so easy to use that you can even learn new words while multitasking and doing other things.

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Love Tennis? Download These 2 Apps!

July 24, 2014 by

Avid tennis fans have tennis on their minds all the time, even when there isn’t a game to watch. If you’re one of those types of people who constantly thinks about tennis, these exciting apps will provide you with hours of fun and enjoyment.

Tennis Channel Everywhere
Watch tennis all day, every day with the Tennis Channel Everywhere app for your smartphone. Unlike sports television channels that only offer tennis occasionally, the Tennis Channel app plays matches from all over the world 24 hours a day. With the app, you can even watch your favorite players while on your commute to work, at the gym, or anywhere else on the go.

Tennis 3D
Instead of waiting for the next big game, play your own game of tennis virtually on the Tennis 3D app. This game offers impressively realistic scenes of different tennis courts within the Grand Slam tournament, and you can even choose the professional tennis player you'd like as your character. Swipe your finger across the screen to move your tennis racket and hit the ball, and the innovative 3D physics system will make it feel just like you’re playing a real game of tennis.

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Three Fashionable Style Apps

December 18, 2013 by

Do you spend at least an hour getting dressed every morning? Are you constantly taking outfit photos to share your fabulous ensembles with your friends on social media? If you’ve got a passion for fashion, you’re sure to love these stylish apps.

Cloth
Share your outfits with likeminded fashion mavens with this social app. Cloth allows users to upload outfit photos, like other users’ outfits, share your looks to your favorite social media sites, and organize your wardrobe based on events, locations and even the weather outside.

Stylebook
If you want to create a versatile wardrobe and make the most out of the pieces you already own, Stylebook is the perfect tool. This helpful app allows you to mix and match pieces in a collage for future outfits, remember great outfits that you’ve already worn, and even find the perfect pair of shoes or handbag by browsing items you’ll love from shops online.

Design Library
Design Library is the perfect app for any aspiring fashion designer or textile lover who wants to learn more about where popular fabrics came from. Created by the physical Design Libraries New York City and London, this app features video tours of the museums, high-quality images of textile collections and inspirational designs from countries all over the world.

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Learn to Cook Right from Your Phone with These 3 Apps

November 20, 2013 by

When you’re making something in the kitchen you need your recipe to be easily accessible, and there’s nothing more convenient than your smartphone. These helpful cooking apps will give you recipes, cooking techniques, and other necessary information right from your mobile device:

How to Cook Everything: Cooking Basics
This app, developed by New York Times cooking columnist Mark Bittman, includes an assortment of recipes and high-quality photos, video and audio to make your time in the kitchen easier and more hands-on. The recipes are simple and straightforward, and if you come across a technique that you don’t understand it even includes links to video tutorials to help you learn as you go.

Epicurious
The popular cooking website now has a helpful app for iPhone, iPad, Android, Nook, Windows and Kindle. The Epicurious app provides users with numerous recipes, and it has a printing feature that allows you to print your favorite recipes from anywhere. The shopping list feature even creates lists of ingredients that you can easily access at the grocery store.

Mastering the Art of French Cooking: Selected Recipes
The famous Julia Child book "Mastering the Art of French Cooking" is now available from your mobile device with this innovative app.  With real photos straight from the book, Child’s most beloved quotes, and even video tutorials for mastering some of her more complex dishes, this app is ideal for anyone who wants to learn the art of French cooking.
 

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