It also helps you make new gains as well if you are stuck at a plateau. This although not the best bodybodybuiliding app, it is designed in a way that motivates you to do cardio. On top of that, you also lose a decent amount of calories which over time leads to greater and greater fat loss as you increase your mileage.
The best thing about Couch To 5k is the fact that it can be used by both beginners and advanced runners. All you need to do is insert the level at which you are at the moment, and the app will balance out your running schedule accordingly. For a couch potato that might mean running for minutes 3 times a week, followed by 25 minute workouts the next week.
There is also an interval training option, as well as half-marathon and everything in between. You can actually use the full features of this app for free in the first 2 weeks after you download it.
After that you can still use some features for free, but if you want the full options to remain you need to pay a small amount of shekels. Overall, I consider it pretty inexpensive, and you can judge the quality for yourself in the first 2 weeks anways by not paying a single nickel. That can include cardio, weightlifting, calisthenics or pretty much anything else.
As far as the social stuff is concerned, you can share photos of your training logs and various progress metrics on all the major social media platforms, and you can send and receive real-time audio prep talks from your friends. The official website, endomondo. There is also a free and a premium version, but the difference is not significant. As the name suggests, FitNotes is a simple way to note your fitness progress.
The main option is logging in your workouts, your progress and all the rest. There is a pretty useful feature that allows you to choose an exercise and check out the various sets and reps you did in the past.
When it comes to flashy features, the only real one that comes to mind is the rest timer with sound and vibration options. I mean seriously, will we soon be bowing down to Google The Emperor? Well, I for one accept our new Google Overlords, if they keep pumping out free apps like this one. You can also connect it with your MyFitnessPal to share any previous info you might have.
But Google Fit is still not as comprehensive as Endomondo, nor does it have the friendly design of Couch To 5k. However it stil beats them on my top 10 best bodybuilding app list. This app has the standard fitness tracking stuff, but more importantly, it can be your own personal trainer!! In fact, there are even some wonderful apps built to help us limit our time on our devices.
Here are some of my favorites:. Set goals and track your daily progress to manage your habits. Forest is a beautifully designed app that brings gamification to productivity and results in real trees being planted based on your personal phone use habits. Through short, daily exercises, Moment helps you use your phone in a healthy way. Set daily usage limits on your phone or specific apps. Want to know the best way to keep your kids off their phones too much?
Want to know a great way to keep yourself off your phone? Many of the negative effects of overuse poor sleep, hindered communication and intimacy can be eliminated by keeping your cell phone out of your bedroom.
Christopher Mims writes a weekly technology column for The Wall Street Journal —a job that certainly requires the use of tech on a consistent basis. His simple and proven way to keep life in healthy balance with his cell phone is to put it in a kitchen cabinet at the end of the workday.
When you finish your day of work, put your phone in a drawer or cabinet. This is a helpful practice for all people, but I think it is especially important if you have kids or a spouse at home in need of our undivided attention. Among the most often suggested ideas for reducing cell phone usage, you find tips and tricks by simply changing the settings on your phone.
In my opinion, turning off notifications is something everyone should do regardless of how habitual their cell phone use is. My cell phone screen is not currently set to grayscale, but I have found that setting helpful in the past. When placed in the middle of the phone, the hairband allows users to answer phone calls easily, but makes other uses of the phone more difficult including simple texting. The hairband trick is not about making your phone impossible to use.
The practice is about bringing greater mindfulness to each specific use of it… as opposed to mindlessly unlocking your phone every 3 minutes. When used as a collection of tools to improve my work, health, parenting, and life, cell phones are wonderful and bring countless benefits. But when used mindlessly and unintentionally, they become a distraction from the things in life that matter most—in addition to the negative effects listed above.
Learning how to use our smartphones effectively may be one of the most important life skills any of us can learn. His new book, Things That Matter , will be published in April. Follow on Twitter Like on Facebook. I have a home phone and desktop computer. People are shocked and ask me how I function. I have a flip phone in my car for an emergency. I use my phone alarm to wake up in the morning.
Is there a good alarm clock you recomend, so I can leave my phone outside my bedroom? I have an old clock-radio next to my bed, when I need the alarm, and always leave my smartphone for recharging in our living room when I go to bed.
Many people use it for executive functioning and going through their day, and also may use it as a source of dopamine which some brains may lack, especially with ADHD. No sarcasm at all. And drug addict should just stop taking drugs. We know this, but easier said than done for others. Thank you for this article. I remember being intrigued and excited with the iphone when Steve Jobs first announced it. And here we are with powerful computers that we just hand over to our children without a thought.
I recognize my dependence on my iphone and I try very hard not to let it control my life. Two weeks ago I had carpal tunnel release surgery — most definitely due in part to phone overuse. I also experience neck pain due to looking down so much. Your tips will help me towards my goal of living with a simple flip phone once more baby steps. I am saddened and deeply disappointed when I see my coworkers staring at their phones, rather than engaging with others.
I miss the days of the boistrous staff room. Turning the phone display into grayscale has been very effective for me. My phone has a bunch of incredible useful apps. Fabulous fir habits, Meditation, podcasts, library books and others.
Even with YouTube I follow channels for educational purposes. How to reconcile being able to access those items but not get sucked into YouTube vortex.
Reread and implement the tips on the article. Place time limits in any one particular topic at Youtube University. A cell phone is not the only way to watch television or movies. If you choose to put your device away and live life without using it for every task then you can choose to do that also. Popcorn, it is unfortunately not that simple for everyone. I have ADHD, which makes executive, daily functioning a nightmare. I have great difficulty completing daily tasks, such as laundry, cleaning, and even remembering to eat and sleep.
However, I do need to cut down on my phone use. I know I use it because I am seeking a dopamine source. Malware remains a possibility, though not to the same degree as it has in the past.
But it remains something to stay on top of via a complete and up-to-date anti-malware scan. Load up a longish mp3 playlist or streaming audio station and let it play. If the monitor goes black but the music continues to play, you know that the computer is still running, and the problem is more likely the video card, video drivers, monitor, or the cables connecting the monitor to the computer. Unfortunately, diagnosing the video card itself can be difficult, and once again is something best left to hardware technicians.
You can adjust screen-saver behavior in the Settings app. Some steps, like trying another monitor or cable, are pretty easy to take yourself. Subscribe to Confident Computing! Less frustration and more confidence, solutions, answers, and tips in your inbox every week. Download right-click, Save-As Duration: — 5.
I had this same issue with my old computer that was running Win 98 SE. I went through and systematically started to replace everything in there. By the time I was done, I only had the CRW drive, motherboard and ram that was original over the computer.
I hope that this helps anyone else. After hitting a key on the keyboard, the screensaver went away and I was able to continue using the system. I remedied this by disabling the screen saver and disable any hibernation or stand-by. Can it be my Mobo or bad drivers?.. After about 15 days spending in excess of 15 hours on the phone with MSN technical support in Nova Scotia and after spending 35 bucks for technical support , a very smart person discovered that my Norton anti-virus software that had been installed at the retail store where I purchased the computer had basically attacked my computer, placing a firewall between me and the internet, preventing me from accessing the internet.
After that problem was corrected, and after downloading Semantic phonetic software as well, I began noticing the black screen syndrome. I basically removed the programs from my hard drive and the problem has corrected itself. The power light on the PC would remain solidly lit, but everything else would become unresponsive as if the machine was off. I opened up the case after completely reinstalling the operating system all all apps and saw the problem.
On both machines, several of the capacitors had blown out; in one of the machines they had visibly leaked. An initial visual inspection of all installed hardware add on devices, like video cards, frequently have capacitors as well would have saved me a lot of time, and is another point to add onto your troubleshooting list. One example… I have this beautiful Dell Inspiron that a client returned to me. It wont turn on. Ther are two series of three beeps follow by 7 beeps.
Some people had a temporary solution to wrap the laptop in a blanket true and apply heat as with a hairdryer. Actually, this worked for a short time…. At any rate, seems this happened to a very large percentage of these laptops and Dell has refused responsibility. I would NEVER purchase a Dell for this reason, and I go out of my way to keep any of my clients from purchasing one, no matter how good the deal seems.
All would go to black screen. It was very frustrating troubleshooting each one until Dell admitted to a capacitor problem on mainboards manufactered before a certain date. Laptop is not like a desktop where one can simply use a secondary monitor or whatever else to bring up and fix issues-confused? Actually, most laptops can connect to an external monitor.
You might try borrowing one and seeing it that works. On my XP Packardbell,I am getting the oppoite of the above problem. Instead of getting a Black screen after 5to15 mins afgter boot,mine starts as soon as ithas fully booted. I have put up with it for around 2months but it seems to be getting very gradually worse.
It goes Black on all but a small handful of movements and clickings of the mouse. Their is also a horizontal flickering associated with this problem.
After a while,however, itsometimes improves but is generally unpredictable. I did once notice an improvement after using checkdisk and recovery of bad cluster utility and defragmenting.
However it advised me to defrag ontwo occasions only a month apart so I have been ignoring this having been told that over defragging can seriously harm the hard drive. Hope this comment might interest you. Yours, Art. The video card…. I have a Toshiba Tecra A6. When my computer crashes, the backlight to the LCD screen shuts off and a buzzing sound comes out of the speakers. Strangely this only occurs when viewing videos through Windows Media Player or when viewing youtube videos.
I updated my flash player and WMP, but I still get this problem. By Meagan. Despite my best efforts using resource management some of the game is still based on luck. I do like that this game has previous life retention; everytime you explore you learn something new about the universe. Overall it's a very fun game for someone looking for something less mind numbing than the average mobile game, but does require some thought to progress.
Sep 20, By Aman Isaev. I downloaded this game and enjoyed it but after several runs of being stuck in the beginning of the game I got sick of it. It is too difficult.
By Jacob Phoenix. Interesting in theory If it were not for the constant over use of fuel he lium this would be a much more fun game. Played on normal but felt like I was on hard constantly wasting time trying to get fuel and just losing oxygen because there was hardly any habitable planets.
Fun but RNG kills it half the time Jan 30, By ABW By Stepbasin. This is a fascinating concept, beautifully executed, with great controls and a wonderful story. You play, you die, new game world generated, repeat until you get lucky enough to unlock better ships. It is such a chore to do anything with the starting ship that it just feels like a painful grind getting anything else unlocked.
At which point I wondered why in the hell I was even playing this. Just move on. Jul 25, By Nickolay Olchanski. I want to like it so bad, but no matter how often I return to play, it is so frustrating. You'll always end up burning more fuel than you can harvest.
Like, 20 to the nearest star, 10 more to land on surface, 7 more to probe for fuel. Fuel spent: 37, fuel gained And that's it's no more planets in this system to probe. Have to move on and spend more fuel. Basically you'll just keep running out of fuel.
No reviews available See All Community Reviews. No reviews available See All Expert Reviews. Jan 28, By Andrew Cain. This is a beautiful game that is very challenging. It is hard to win. You need to be careful, plan thoughtfully, and yes get lucky.
If you cant tolerate needing some luck to win a difficult game I wouldnt recommend. Every play through is different. Worth the buy. Aug 23, By Boomer R. I'm super impressed. I haven't been this impressed with a mobile game Don't get me wrong, this game is not easy at all.
But it's just challenging enough to keep you playing. That is the mark of a good game. Aug 10, By Cam Nielsen. Great game! Was very difficult at first, but once you play it enough, it becomes much easier, especially when you figure out some tricks. See a ship that you don't really want? Use it as a storage unit for resources and fuel. Find an amazing gas planet that give tons of fuel? Mine it, leave the system, then come back and mine it again. I had an alien ask for calcium, which isn't in the game, it liked my carbon gift though.
Some bugs make this game unplayable Jun 24, By fermiquestions. I had a really enjoyable time playing this game despite its difficulty but I had to quit when, after a few hours of playing it, the game started lagging and bugged out. When I restarted the game the frame rate had dropped so much that the game was unplayable as it no longer ran smoothly. I restarted my phone, restarted the game, made a new game entirely Pretty amazing Aug 1, By Pfleg.
It's really obvious that a lot of blood sweat and tears went into this game. It's not just some resource management thing for people who find comfort in numbers, nor is it just some kind of masturbatory sci-fi story with a little bit of interaction thrown in.
It's quite staggeringly in-depth. The music is awesome. The art is great. The only thing I don't like is that after dying about twenty times you're going to die A LOT , I feel like too much of it is dumb luck. I understand that's actually more realistic, but it takes away from the joy of discovery and exploration a little bit which is my favorite part of the game.
Really cool though. Worth it. Nice game but buggy Oct 3, By heyyou Very nice game: adventurous, solemn, eerie, challenging. Wonderful sound track: I mixed it into my work music.
Bugs: sometimes the game goes crazy when you lock the phone and resume. Also all sound has stopped working, even though the music, effects sound settings are on, as well as the phone volume. Even the opening scene now plays on mute. Way too randomized Apr 14, By art I enjoyed the game because of the management, challenging decisions, and breadth of content. Sep 10, By Colin Witt. Not great.
You can't look around the map, so pathing your way to objectives on the outer parts of the galaxy, where stars are spread out, is impossible. By Sankeyes. Truly fun game until you run into impossible-to-win scenarios. The alien races erase your technology to travel and make it impossible to go anywhere!
It's horribly annoying to have to give up when you've been on a certain game for over an hour. Also, after finding abandoned ships, you can't even learn the technology onboard or when you switch ships, you can't even learn the technology of the new ship you're using!! That is counterintuitive to me. Lastly, you can't even play your own music to this app.
Please make some improvements. This game has potential, and c'mon, I paid a whole dollar for this. Discouragingly difficult for no reason Aug 27, By Echo Finding a lot of fuel?
Well, time for a random encounter where half of it disappears and destroys your telescope. Alas, I cannot. Top apps for Strategy Games. A fun point-and-click puzzle adventure game, find clues and solve puzzles!
Family game night Sep 8, By Grdst7. This has been a great addition to our family game night. We love trying to solve the various puzzles and there are challenges for each of us.
We love all the Syntaxity games. Keep them coming. I love Syntaxity games! Jul 3, By LeMahm. They are so relaxing at the end of a miserable day. I have played them more than once and never get tired of them. Brilliant May 20, By Grandma Beannie. Beautiful and realistic graphics, very relaxing flow while introducing challenging puzzles. No fairies, red eyed monsters, wasted story line Second time through Jan 3, By Aitch And i loved it as much as the first.
A couple of times i thought a clue left room for trial and error, which is not my favorite way of solving these. But overall very enjoyable.
Worth waiting for Dec 25, By Daver I always liked The Lost Ship, played it a number of times, but as others have commented it was already finished just as I was getting into it. Too short. This newest version adds another island, reachable by canoe, and a fort just down a short path from the ship which no longer factors in this second half of the extended game.
I have to say that the new locations are beautifully rendered and fun to traverse. The new puzzles are more challenging and unique than the existing ones. There are a few that I solved only by accident and would not have been able to solve on my own because of a new to me arrangement of the clue icons across a horizontal surface. Aside from that, this puzzle adventure app runs smoothly and without a hitch.
A mature child could play and enjoy this game, perhaps with the aid of a savvy grownup, or a modicum of luck. To everything. Nov 11, By Generic. Syntaxity is my favorite adventure puzzle maker. Bug free, logical, relaxing, fun and challenging. So many new and wonderful puzzles here. Really fun. Thoroughly enjoyable Sep 28, By mariecandy Syntaxity I applaud you.
There are very,exceedingly small number of games that 1. Thank you Syntaxity for the update also. I await with childlike glee any new updates or adventures. A fan of your work and player of all the games: Candy more.
Unexpected great update! By kn2. I liked it enough to buy all of their games. They are truly beautiful and got more complex with each successive release.
Much to my surprise the new owners really expanded the game. The graphics are as beautiful as ever and it was so much more challenging than the original. These are the best - graphics are amazing, game play is challenging but not daunting.
It is a first for me to get a fun surprise like this. Keep making these beautiful, entertaining games. Challenging but fun Aug 3, By Dawg fan I didn't realize more was added to this fun game. I enjoyed Lost Ship before, but the addition of more puzzles and places to explore is excellent. Simply a must-have Jun 29, By James Irion. Syntaxity, Since finally trying Blackthorn Castle last year, I was thoroughly impressed by the lack of glitches, smoothe gameplay with a functional and easy to use User Interface, explorative setting locations, challenging yet not too difficult to beat, quality graphics, realistic style, sound effects and music as well as the adventurous nature of these games.
One after the other, I tried each game and delightfully found the same satisfaction in all current six. Then, you released your bountiful update for the Lost Ship, which was originally much too short.
Now seeing the pattern of adding similar updates and extra content, in order of original release, I eagerly await more to be released. If I had to describe these games, in as few words, I would say they are honestly must-haves and instant buys for this genre.
If a new game were to be released, I would buy it as soon as I found out about it. Having them all up to now is not enough because they are so satisfying. But there's more. I discovered an interesting alternative to their replay value. Sure once you play them you might get tired. I liked Blackthorn so much I kept replaying it, but with an unexpected challenge I put to myself. Thank you. Apr 8, By Robert Yule. I expect to be able to play a game after having paid for it - not get requests more money.
Then there is interminable running back and forth from one place to another and back. Not entertaining for me. Refund please. Should be a lot longer. May 27, By CM Too short Apr 9, By agilityk9mom. Graphics and puzzles are great. Serious waste of time. Apr 9, By crashbtd. Game was pretty easy, fun, but only got me once in the puzzles.
I expected a new harder level to be unlocked but no. I hope you release some bigger harder levels soon. Glad this app was free. Extremely short sample sized game Jan 27, By ifyoupark. I have all the Syntaxity games. This is the worst one. It is extremely short like a sample and extremely simple. Nothing is challenging, unlike their other games.
Not many scenes. Buy the other ones but not this one!! Satisfied Jul 3, By Jilac1. Challenging game and a great way to kill some time. Just keep track where certain puzzles are - sometimes I lose track! Quick and easy Aug 27, By Revmat. Some of these puzzle apps can go on for hours. Slight mental gymnastics, but good for a wind down puzzle before bed or after a meeting. Island and fort additions are much appreciated for gameplay! As promised, 4 stars goes up to 5 more.
All games Sep 15, By Netty4c. I love these games!!! Please make more Anxious for more! Keep up the good work! Lost Ship Nov 22, By HoserKayDee. Another great game from Syntaxity.
Love it Nov 25, By Thaklaar. Kudos on the expansion. Never expected to see that much content added to a relatively old game. Great puzzles too. No reviews available See all 4 reviews. Forced into buying hints Mar 2, By lcawesomeness. I completed a puzzle that should have allowed us to move on, but instead found I had to buy the hints at a certain point or else the puzzle we already had correct, wouldn't work and moves on in the game.
Sep 15, By Vironika Duran. That would piss me off if you want to charge for each hint I'm the type that I would pay a dollar or two for a game that I can continuously play - not interested in paying over and over So, haven't decided yet. But I'm a bit stumped for the moment so deciding if I'm going to continue Similar to The Lost Ship. Top apps for Adventure Games. Strategy Games.
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