SnapPower Charger adds USB to your wall outlet

Anyone that has an office at work or home knows that outlets are at a premium. Sometimes plugging in your smartphone to charge means unplugging something else that is using the outlet already. A new outlet cover has turned up that adds a USB port without taking up any of the outlets you need for other items.

The coolest part about the SnapPower charger is that it needs no wiring to work. Once installed the USB charger produces one amp of power. It will charge any USB device that can be charged from 1 Amp devices. That means some tablets needing two amps won't charge.

The key to the easy installation of the device is power prong technology tabs on the back of the face plate. Those prongs touch the points where the power wire inside your walls screws to your outlet.

All you need to do for install is to remove the old outlet cover and screw the SnapPower on. SnapPower is on Kickstarter seeking $35,000 and has raised over $330,000 so far with 44 days to go. A pledge of $14 or more will get you a SnapPower with shipping estimated for August 2015.

SOURCE: Kickstarter

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Hungry Mouth HD teaches you to eat healthy food items

The Hungry Mouth HD is a special game that requires the player, a cute little monster with a hungry mouth, to eat only healthy food items. While choosing and eating healthy items are not as challenging, the monster is situated inside a trash can. You're stuck somewhere dark and smelly. Are there any clean food inside? The main goal is to avoid unhealthy ones. Just make sure you eat so you'll grow strong and someday, be able to escape to a better place--anywhere but inside the trash can.

Don't get caught by that annoying, unfriendly boy. His idea of fun is to annoy and catch the hungry mouth monster. You can play this game for hours as long as you're okay with how you control the monster: no tapping on the screen, just tilt the phone left to right. Play the game and you'll get used to the tilting motion after some time. Game has many different challenging levels with different targets and stories so that makes Hungry Mouth HD more interesting.

Eat well and be healthy. You can learn from this game because you'll know how to identify which food item is healthy or not. You're inside a trash can and screws, old sneakers, and flies must not be eaten. Do not eat those non-food items, they're garbage.

Download Hungry Mouth HD from the Google Play Store

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• While your time away with Bing Bong arcade game


• Revamped Major Magnet game now back on Android, arcade-style


• Pivot allows one touch arcade gaming, challenges you to get high scores

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Slayin for Android is an endless RPG to test your gaming skills

For a game to be successful these days, you would think that it would take some kick-ass graphics and complicated gameplay. But really, sometimes it just takes a simple gaming proposition – you play as a hero, you go defeat the baddies. Over and over again. Well, that last point is an addition to a simple formula by a game called “Slayin” – once only for iOS but now on Android. It’s an endless RPG.

With Slayin, users can play as either a Knight, a Wizard, or a Thief – and the point is just to keep on slashing monsters. Really nothing complicated to it. Plus, the seemingly 8-bit graphics adds to the nostalgia of the proposition. The three character types point to three different playing styles. The Knight jumps and jousts monsters to death with a sword – without protection to his backside, compensating with armor and power. The Wizard can’t jump and has virtually zero defense, but he amazingly turns into an invincible tornado in half-second spurts – a very fast-paced character. The Knave/Thief is quite similar to the Knight, but has weapons to the front and back – having some defense to his rear at the cost of armor.

Essentially, it’s a side-scrolling game. Each enemy you slay will get you XP – your character levels up in increments of 10. They you fight a boss, and when you beat him, the area and enemies change. Simple enough. Occasionally, you meet a merchant will appear for you to buy weapons and armor. If you die, you start back from the beginning, but the game lets you keep your “fame” which is currency in the game.

The game is free to play, with IAPs that unlock content. The IAPs are not at all intrusive and annoying as in other games. Check out the download link below to get the game.

DOWNLOAD: Google Play Store

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• Kemco offers popular RPG games for less than a dollar each


• Joe Dever's Lone Wolf RPG gamebook gets a complete edition


• Taichi Panda is a new action RPG for Android

Springening comes to Plants vs Zombies 2 (and brought discounts!)

Spring may be the favorite season for a lot of people because of all the flowers blooming and the sun shining not so brightly. But over on Plants vs Zombies land, it is a time for decaying flesh (but well, there's always that when zombies are around) and flowers forcibly torn from their roots. It's time once again for Springening to come to Plants vs Zombies 2, and they even brought discounts with them.

From March 24 until April 9, you will be able to play the Springening special edition in PvZ 2 and you'll be able to experience 17 fun days of spring-costumed zombies that are out to get you via the bunny trail. There is also a special-edition Dandelion plant with floating explosive bombs that will only be available for a limited time. And because we're also celebrating Easter, you get an Eggbreaker mode to the Piñata Party and if you break it, you will get special prizes, including a special costume with special abilities to mark this special occasion.

The update also brings 5 new collectible costumes as well as new level packs (non-Spring related so it will last beyond April 9) New Wild West and Pirate Seas for the Vasebreaker mode. But most importantly, players get 30% off the Gem Packs, one of the most popular in-app purchases, on April 1. And the developers promised that it's not an April Fools' joke.

You can manually update your Plants vs Zombies 2 through its page on Google Play Store. Or if you haven't yet started playing it, now is a good time to download it.

First Gen Moto X, E and G LTE to Skip 5.0 and Jump to 5.1

Most of Motorola’s 2013 devices are yet to receive the Android 5.0 Lollipop update and Motorola’s Senior Director of Software has taken to Google+ to announce that due to the improvements in Android 5.1, the first generation Moto X, Moto E and Moto G LTE will be updated directly from KitKat to Lollipop 5.1.

The post First Gen Moto X, E and G LTE to Skip 5.0 and Jump to 5.1 appeared first on xda-developers.

Bridge Constructor goes Easter-themed in latest update

Since Easter is just a few days away, expect some of the apps and games to have a touch of the eggs or bunnies or any other resurrection-themed elements to be part of their updates. One of the games that are doing this is Bridge Constructor, and if you're already playing the Android game, then you'll experience the Easter Island and the Easter Bunny when the update rolls out to you.

But if you're not yet familiar with this game, it will still be fun discovering it for the first time. If you've always been fascinated or even mildly curious with the construction of bridges, then obviously this game is worth checking out. The gameplay is simple enough. You need to construct various bridges and experiment with different materials (wood, steel, cables, concrete, etc), test out if the bridge will actually work by letting cars pass over it, and stay within the budget given to you. You can use your imagination in building these bridges, as long as you have enough money to do so.

The latest update to the game brings Easter, both the island and the bunny to the game. Your bridges have to be sturdy enough for the Easter Bunny to roll his carts of Easter Eggs across. If the bridge you made cannot take it, the bunny and the egg will fall to their deaths (with no resurrection bonuses here). All of these things will of course be happening on Easter Island.

If you already have the game installed on your Android device, the update is already available for download. If you don't have it yet, you can download Bridge Constructor from the Google Play Store for $1.99.

Our Favorite Android, iOS, and Windows Phone Apps of the Week

This week had no dearth of great apps to download, which are the best kind of weeks. We got a new one from Facebook of arguable usefulness (as is tradition), job hunting gets app-ified, and the live streaming craze comes to Windows Phone. There’s lots to get through. Let’s get to it.

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