Two app reviews: Handle, Blendoku

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Published Mar 10, 2015

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HANDLE

Combine calendar, e-mail inbox and to-do list

This application links three productivity apps into one - the e-mail inbox, calendar and to-do list - to help you get a grip on your life. Handle makes it easy to create to-dos and calendar events from e-mails in your inbox, and can show you everything on one screen.

When dealing with e-mails, users simply have to swipe left or right on the message to create a reminder or event, choose to read a certain e-mail later or delete it. To take advantage of the features, you will have to give the app access to your calendars and inboxes.

One big caveat? The app works with Gmail addresses only, so if your company or personal e-mail is on another service, you're out of luck. (Unless you want to forward everything to a Gmail address.) There's also no super-quick way to find e-mails you've archived, which means you may not want to ditch your current e-mail app if you're always looking through that folder.

Free, for iOS devices.

BLENDOKU

Colour me calm and cool with this puzzle

Fans of simplicity should like Blendoku, a puzzle game that challenges players to set a group of coloured tiles into the right sequence, according to the colour wheel. It sounds about as fun as staring at a wall of paint samples.

But there's something oddly soothing about clicking the swatches of colour in place so that they flow into one another.

And while the game is simple to pick up and to play during the first handful of levels, the puzzles grow more difficult down the line. You can play against the clock, earning kudos if you beat the world average time for solving a level or if you put the tiles in the right order without a mistake. It has a modification for users who are colourblind.

It has 525 free levels, from "simple" to "master." This isn't a game for those who love fast action.

But if you want a calm, surprisingly difficult game, give it a shot.

Free, for Android and iOS devices.

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