December 1, 2010

ANDROID APPS FOR HANUKKAH

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Happy Hanukkah everyone! To help celebrate the holiday, I've put together a selection of free apps to keep you in a festive mood.
Menorah - Chanukah - חנוכה  (free)
This app shows you how many candles to light for each day, in which order to light them, and includes Hebrew, English and Transliterated prayers for the Jewish Holiday of Chanukah. Prayers are sung by the vocalist Mo Kiss. A widget function keeps the Menorah on your homescreen. 

QR Code for Menorah - Chanukah

Droidel (free)
Droidel is an Android version of the game of Dreidel. Dreidel is a game of chance played on the Jewish holiday of Chanukah. In this version, each player begins with $10.00. At the beginning of each round, every participant puts $1.00 into the "pot". Each player spins the dreidel once during their turn. Depending on which side is facing up when it stops spinning, they give or take money from the pot:
  • If נ (nun) is facing up, the player does nothing.
  • If ג (gimel) is facing up, the player gets everything in the pot.
  • If ה (hei) is facing up, the player gets half of the pieces in the pot. (If there is an odd number, they round up)
  • If ש (shin) or פ (pei) is facing up, the player adds a game piece to the pot.
Instructions are provided in the settings along with spin statistics and a link to the Wikipedia entry. Chanukah music plays while the Dreidel spins.

QR Code for Droidel

Hanukkah Sunrise Sunset Free (free)
This is a live wallpaper that uses phone location to change background with time of sunrise and sunset and stars at night. Graphics include: snow falling with light decorations, stars twinkle, and lights on the house. A paid version for $0.99 is available that adds Menorah lights on nights of Hanukkah.


QR Code for Hanukkah Sunrise Sunset Free

Holidays: Hanukkah (free)
This app is a four level memory game with a Hanukkah theme.


QR Code for Holidays: Hanukkah

Ma'oz Tzur (free)
This app for Chanukah plays the piano music to Ma'oz Tzur while displaying the transliteration of the hebrew to english so you can sing along on Hanukkah.  This app requires Adobe Air.
QR Code For Ma'oz Tzur

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