• 0 Black History People Game Keyboarding App

    Voted by The Great Apps and their game players as a solid 9+ on a scale of 1 to 10. The secret sauce in this game is the keyboard.  Below are the keyboards in Black History People Game for iOS on the left, and Android on the right. Get your eyes ready for the action. The letters of the names of our cherished historic notables float down the screen one after another. You touch your keyboard to enter the name before the letters reaches the white horizontal line in the middle of the screen. Hundreds of names, 30 different levels and just enough lives in each round to make things interesting. Put your fingers or thumbs in play to score quickly. We tell you all about each person in a separate scrollable section of this game for iPhone, iPad, or Android so you can zero in on what each person has done. Get into Black History People Game and give your hands a workout!

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    0 Snakes and Ladders Mobile Board Game App

    • Games
    • by Kingsley H. Smith
    • 08/11/2021

    According to the Times of India, "The board game, today called Snakes and Ladders, originated in ancient India, where it was known as Mokshapat or Moksha Patamu." Ancient is an understatement! The Times of India adds "According to some historians, the game was invented by Saint Gyandev in the 13th century A.D." "Originally, the game was used as a part of moral instruction to children." "The square in which ladders start were each supposed to stand for a virtue, and those housing the head of a snake were supposed to stand for an evil." You can learn more about the game backstory elsewhere. Luckily, we aren't interested in teaching you morals here! As board games go, Snakes and Ladders is a classic. One of our summer of 2021 projects was to create our first mobile board game. This is it. Here's a sneak peak at the finished mobile game in the video below. Some more tweaking is in store including increasing the size of each square. Game play is person vs. person, or person vs. device (artificial intelligence). In the slightly sped up 45 second example video below all four players roll the dice themselves by touching the 'Roll Dice' button in their color (bottom of screen). Our Snakes and Ladders game is currently in Portrait view. We may experiment in making it landscape instead so the game board can be bigger and wider. Take a look and expect a fall 2021 release for iPhone, iPad, and Android. An enjoyable game is coming for all ages.  

  • 0 Black Inventors In Session

    He invented and patented the first electric light bulb with a carbon filament. He also published the first electric lighting system textbook. In New York City, there's a house owned by the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation where this mystery inventor lived for over 20 years. The house is now a museum open to the public bearing his name. In 1886, the Thomas Edison Company welcomed him as a gifted African American electrical innovator and inventor. Have you guessed his name yet?   Lewis H. Latimer is just one of over 50 Black History Inventors profiled in our iPhone, iPad and Android mobile app. You can listen to or read quick summaries about the Black men and women who are the unsung heroes of genius innovation. Find out more about Black History Inventors app. 

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    0 Always Quikthinking Swag Boosts Your Style

    • Shop
    • by Kingsley H. Smith
    • 07/29/2021

    We thank you for the nearly half a million downloads for all of our mobile apps! For an additional connection to Quikthinking, sample the stylish gear you can wear to help support us! Choose from hoodies, t-shirts, sweatshirts, mugs and more. Get it all from the Quikthinking Shop (you will go to the SpreadShirt website). Thank you!

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    0 Word Game Runners Digital Marathon Video

    • Games
    • by Kingsley H. Smith
    • 07/21/2021

    Word games have always captured the attention of a universal audience. They are popular for entertainment while building language skills. Expanding the mind is not necessarily the focus of runners. There's the athletic challenge along with the drama of competition in a race. We have elements of both words and running in the action based mobile game app Spelling Runners for iPhone, iPad, and Android. Can you be the first to complete all 400+ levels? In the 60 second video below, we show you levels 30 - 34. The action sequences are sped up to keep the video short. Spelling Runners is designed for fun. The game words are common everyday English words. This is a excellent app for English learners. Spelling Bee skill builder? Not here! Spelling Runners is a fun mobile game app to put some speedy action back into word play. The plot. It's green runner (the hero) vs. red runner the challenger. Slide your finger on the screen to move green runner to the correct letter in each word. Red runner uses artificial intelligence to pursue the letters. Let your fingers do the walking, or running in the Spelling Runners stadium. Good luck! Have fun. Watch the video, then Learn more about Spelling Runners Game.  

  • 0 RnB and Hip Hop Quiz for iPhone Video

    • Quiz
    • by Kingsley H. Smith
    • 07/14/2021

    Trivia can get boring when all of the questions are multiple choice with just one answer to each question. To make things more interesting and fun, it took much longer than we planned to develop the RnB and Hip Hop Quiz game app for iPhone and iPad even though we based it on our preexisting Android version. Watch the quick 20 second video below. We wrote nearly 600 questions, about 70% are brand new (single answer, multiple answer, and true or false) for the iPhone - iPad version. Finally, all elements of this game are done. The plan is to release RnB and Hip Hop Quiz for iPhone and iPad early in September, 2021. Update September 6, 2021: Now released. Here's another sneak peak at the iPhone - iPad version. Don't miss the original Android version to! RnB and Hip Hop Quiz. See these updates: May, 2021: RnB and Hip Hop Quiz for iOS February, 2021: RnB and Hip Hop Quiz Just for Mobile Fun 

  • 0 Zodiac Signs Jigsaw Puzzle People Game App

    • Games
    • by Kingsley H. Smith
    • 07/07/2021

    You are unique. You are lucky, unlucky, cautious, productive, successful, stressed, demanding, fortunate, and enjoyable. Predictions about you using the 12 signs of the Zodiac. We don't dive into forecasts, but we focus on jigsaw puzzle fun. We use caricature game puzzle people to represent Aquarius, Pisces, Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, and Capricorn in Zodiac Signs Jigsaw Puzzle mobile app. Sky based zodiac signs represented by animals are also used as additional puzzle pieces to give you lots of variety in this jigsaw puzzle game. Forget about hundreds of pieces per sign. The easy, medium, and hard levels have just enough puzzle pieces to keep the game short, sweet, and to the point. This means your iPhone, iPad, or Android sessions can be finished quickly when you may have limited time. 150 levels keep things rolling along. We are at the center of our personal universe, so learn more about this unique game centered around you: Zodiac Signs Jigsaw Puzzle app for iPhone, iPad, and Android.  

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    0 Black History Quotes Express Favorite: Bookmarking Love Quotes

    • Quotes
    • by Kingsley H. Smith
    • 07/01/2021

    "Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend." Do you know what famous person delivered this quote? Mobile app users love creating their own favorites list by bookmarking the thousands of quotes in our Black History Quotes Express. Suppose you wanted to easily find all of your top love quotes? How about faith quotes, or humor quotes, or friendship quotes, or family quotes? Here's how to create your own unique list in the app. The Martin Luther King Jr. quote above is in the favorites list below containing 5 love quotes. For iPhone, iPad, and Android the process is the same if you are not searching by author name. Use the magnifying glass Search for a quote by keyword Type in your keyword We used "love" in this example View the full quote Locate the heart icon and touch it In the 3 stacked horizontal lines menu... Locate "favorites" and touch All of your favorites are now bookmarked!   Discover why Black History Quotes Express is one of our most popular mobile apps.

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    0 Backpack Bounce Match 3 Game Bonanza

    • Games
    • by Kingsley H. Smith
    • 06/24/2021

    Year round our five match 3 games are very popular. We continue to update them based on your feedback. Backpack Bounce Match 3 is getting a nice makeover. Here's the original Backpack Bounce game: Here's the new expanded Backpack Bounce game: Bonus bombs are now in the game, along with another special backpack that can't be matched. Don't worry. This extra backpack does a super-score powerup if it is close to one of the bombs in a match round. There are now multiple levels in the game to keep things lively, interesting and fun. Update September 5, 2021: Both iOS and Android versions are now updated in the App Store, Google Play, and Amazon App Store. Version 1 for iPhone, version 3.1 for Android. Learn more about Backpack Bounce Match 3 game app.

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    0 Blowing Cigarette Smoke During A Pandemic

    During the COVID-19 pandemic, some smokers have increased their use of cigarettes while others have quit. New research published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine and conducted by investigators at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), Vanderbilt University Medical Center and the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine reveal this: Those who believed that smoking increases the risk of getting COVID-19 or having a more severe case were more likely to quit, while those who perceived more stress tended to increase their smoking. During the pandemic, 32% of respondents in this research study increased their smoking, 37% decreased their smoking, and 31% made no change. While 63% of the people followed in this survey puffed away harder, or made no change, 37% may be leaning toward quitting. Our Quit Smoking Audiobook supports you and the 37% who trend toward cutting cigarette consumption. We all need strong lungs for optimal breathing. Nothing to impede a breath of fresh air makes sense. Learn more about the Quit Smoking Audiobook: https://quikthinking.com/quit-smoking-audio-book.html

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    0 Brain Health Fitness Audiobook App

    Brain enhancement is the process of developing abilities that allow you to retain memory. When you retain memory, you function better. In our featured Brain Health Fitness Audio Book App you'll hear multiple dimensions of this topic reviewed including but not limited to: Musical Brain Enhancement Regenerative Brain Abilities Machine Enhancement Musical Software In Brain Enhancement Brain Enhancement Recordings Brain Enhancement Relaxation Tools Brain Enhancement Benefits Brain Enhancement Support Tools Super Learning for Brain Enhancement Student Attitudes and Brain Enhancement Brain Health Fitness Audiobook app is a three hour audio presentation broken into multiple chapters that reviews brain workout enhancement strategies. This information is not presented by a medical practitioner and is for educational and informational purposes only. You'll discover multiple strategies that are discussed for optimizing brain health and brain fitness. Topics include How to reduce stress, finding brain health fitness solutions, the role of music in promoting relaxation, public reaction to brain health strategies, and discoveries made by scientists in the fields of brain growth, aging, and regeneration. Discover More https://quikthinking.com/brain-health-fitness.html

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    0 Best Museums and Historical Sites Apps of 2021 (Android)

    An honor for our Black History Museums app to be selected as Best Museums and Historical Sites Apps of 2021 (Android). Check out the story at LeapDroid by Ken Pillar. Touch the image above to read the LeapDroid story. Discover more here on our website about Black History Museums.

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    0 RnB and Hip Hop Quiz for iOS

    • Games
    • by Kingsley H. Smith
    • 05/27/2021

    Here's a quick 14 second teaser video featuring RnB and Hip Hop Quiz Game app for iOS which will replace R&B Music Quiz Soul for iPhone and iPad. You're getting an exclusive, insider's look sneak peak right here! Finally, iOS gets the Hip Hop Quiz too. Discover why we combined the R&B Quiz and the Hip Hop Quiz into two separate sections of the same app. For more see Hip Hop and R&B Plant Flags in One Mobile Quiz App. We continued to tweak the new iOS version of the game which is essentially finished. Once the iPhone version is released, we'll update the Android version next. What's new? lots: Questions with images True or False questions Questions with multiple answers Turn time limits on or off Reset your progress in the game Select from multiple avatars New game music you can turn off Sound effects you can turn off Fun trophies The Android timeline for developing this game: RnB Music Quiz Soul was released in 2015 Hip Hop Quiz was released in 2016 RnB Music Quiz Soul for iPhone was released in 2019     RnB and Hip Hop Quiz for Android was released in 2020.   Learn more about RnB and Hip Hop Quiz and look for the iPhone - iPad version very soon. Update September 6, 2021 - Released on the App Store.

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    0 Android vs iOS Joy And Pain

    During a recent virtual summit I attended, all of the presenters were asked for their favorite: iOS or Android? I did not present. Like lemmings jumping into the ocean waters off a cliff, one by one each presenter answered iOS. Our first computer experience was with an early Mac. We then moved on to Windows PC's. Today, we have four iPhones: 4, 6, 7, and X, plus an iPad along with a Motorola phone and a Samsung phone representing for Android. Let's not forget a MacBook Pro, iMac, and multiple Windows desktop and laptops machines around various workspaces at Quikthinking headquarters. We are not tech crazy, but the mobile devices are used to test our apps before submitting them to the app stores. We don't want to disappoint you! Frankly, I'm always surprised in a world where approximately 85 percent of mobile phone users have Android, in the USA few seem to admit that they actually prefer Android. Score one for the iOS cool kids. Here's my advice to you if I was starting over today to develop software apps. I started with Android ten years ago. See our Timeline. Learning to program with the Android tools available in 2011 was financially more accessible for those with limited budgets. iOS required not only a bigger bankroll, but a longer learning curve to tackle their Objective-C programming language for apps. Today Swift leaves Objective-C behind as the programming language of choice for Apple apps. Swift offers an enhanced ease of use and improved features. Submitting apps to Google and Amazon was much more straight forward in 2011. At that time acceptance in the App store (iOS) had lots of challenges although they have improved their review systems. By 2018 our first app submission to Apple was accepted on the very first try. What did we learn in the 7 years between 2011 - 2018? Creating reliable software isn't easy, but with a good attitude to learn along with a system to improve and grow anything is possible. Personally, I'm always slowed down by the endless requests made by the iOS devices badgering you to supply permission to do little things on the devices. Yes, it's a security thing, but I like the rugged individualism of Android gear that leaves much more freedom of choice in your own hands. If you start with Android and then migrate to iOS, you won't be disappointed. You should definitely learn both. Today we have solid in-house knowledge of both operating systems. So, when it come to a question of Android or iOS, I proudly say Android. My very first Android phone cost only $25 dollars and it worked great! We hope you enjoyed the image of robots with apples on their antennas! It's one big beautiful world!

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    0 People Powered African American Jigsaw Puzzles

    • Games
    • by Kingsley H. Smith
    • 05/13/2021

    What is an African American jigsaw puzzle? Many interpretations are possible. The game could be about a person, place, or social movement. In our case, the mobile puzzles are a reflection of the everyday working person of color that expands beyond just African American to anyone globally. Here are four of the puzzles you'll find in the game. Trust us, the jigsaw cuts are all there in People Power Jigsaw Puzzle for iOS and Android. Take a look at these scenes. See even more that will grab your attention in the People Power Jigsaw Puzzle app full description.