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Merry Christmas! – This Year, Enjoy An Advent Calendar On Your iPad

It’s December 1st, where has the year gone? There are some really great iPad and iPhone advent calendars in the app store for your magical device. Take a look at this selection, each app and each window contains a surprise. Fantastic…

Christmas Advent Calendar 2010 – The Best 25 Free Apps

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Among an ocean of over 300,000 apps on the App Store, MagicSolver has picked the best 25 free apps – their personal favorites!

– Discover a new present every day, a free app from very talented developers across the globe.
– Enjoy a selection of great Christmas melodies to get in a holiday mood. Just shake your iPhone to change the tune!

Free/Download

Advent Calendar 2010

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You are looking for the perfect Christmas entertainment? Stop looking! You’ve found it.

There is no chocolate inside but you will find something new every day:
The best
– Christmas stories
– Christmas poems
– recipes
– fun facts about Christmas
– Christmas jokes
and much more.

$1.99/Download

Advent Calendar For iPad

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This app allows you to open up a window of your Advent Calendar for each day leading up to the 25th of December.

Once you open a window on your Calendar a Christmas song will play in the background and a fact to read about Christmas will also appear.

When you reach the 25th of December there will be a little more than a song, but we don’t want to tell you and ruin the surprise.

You can also reset your Advent Calendar and use it year after year.

$0.99/Download

Holiday Advent Calendar HD

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Holiday Advent Calendar HD is a professionally hand drawn scene that starts on December 1st. Each day different holiday music plays and an ornament appears somewhere on the scene. When the ornament is tapped it fades away to reveal a new element of the pictorial story culminating in a warm, classic holiday scene on Christmas day.

Holiday Advent Calendar HD is a great way to bring the family together and start a new annual holiday tradition. Gather together to see what new aspects of the story will be told each day.

$1.99/Download

Christmas Preps – Advent Calendar 2010

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Christmas Preps is a traditional Advent Calendar that prepares a casual living room for Christmas time by each door you open, and fills you with rising excitement for upcoming holidays!

Features:

*Beautiful hand-drawn graphics
*A new door to open every day
*Countdown calculator
*Animated effects and cheerful seasonal music
*Reset feature
*Ability to save and share the final image with your friends

$1.99/Download

Original Advent Calendar

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Get this nice and beautiful Advent Calendar for your iPad! Everyday you will get a beautiful Christmas Poem and some other special surprises!

A unique way to use your iPad at the most exciting time of the year! Everyday you will learn a new poem to share with your family and friends!

$1.99/Download

Hand Drawn Advent Calendar Free

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The beautiful graphics in this advent calendar were hand drawn using water colors on paper. Each opened door in the calendar reveals another interesting detail in the painting.

– Beautiful hand painted graphics
– The calendar can be used again every year, no need to throw it away
– Doors can be opened whenever you like, even out of order, but don’t peak!
– A warning message is displayed when trying to open a door ahead of time
– When a door is opened a sound is played and a new detail is added to the painting

Free/Download

Christmas Advent Games

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Christmas Advent Games is an Advent Calendar, a Picture Puzzle game, a Holiday Match game, and a Snowflake Catch game – all in one holiday app for one low price! Kids (and adults, too!) can enjoy the holiday season every day during December with this fun, playful app that works on your iPhone, iPod Touch, and now even your iPad!

$0.99/Download

Countdown to Christmas – Holiday Puzzles

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Santa and his crew need your help as they prepare for a joyful holiday. Help them countdown the days to Christmas and have a few laughs along the way, with 24 rib-tickling picture puzzles that will spark your holiday spirit.

Complete each puzzle to move through Santa’s Village. Each puzzle contains a funny and interactive scene that will surely make you smile.

– 24 jolly picture puzzles illustrated by Kersten Brothers Studio.
– Set puzzle difficulty to easy, medium, hard, or expert–whatever your preference.
– Increased jollification with interactions and animations in every scene.
– Catch the Christmas spirit with beautiful holiday music that plays while you puzzle.
– Enjoy music, or turn it off.
– Do a puzzle a day, or do them all in one night, it’s up to you.

$1.99/Download

Christmas Advent Calendar

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You can open up a window of your Advent Calendar for each day leading up to the 25th of December.

Once you open a window on your Calendar a Christmas song will play each day.

When you reach the 25th of December there will be a little more than a song.

You can also reset your Advent Calendar and use it year after year.

Advent Calendar 2010: Christmas Quotations for iPad

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Get in the mood for Christmas with the exclusively designed Advent Calendar 2010: Christmas Quotations for iPad.

This advent calendar features a wide range of quotations from funny to insightful.

$1.99/Download

Advent Countdown

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Make the countdown to Christmas even more magical with this colourful and fun advent calendar.

There’s a different traditional Christmas picture behind every door and you can open one new door every day from December 1st right up to Christmas Eve.

You’ll reveal pictures of Santa, reindeer, decorations, and … well we’re not going to give it all away – you’ll have to see for yourself!

The really cool part – if you’re signed in to Game Center, you’ll get an achievement for each door you open. Your friends will be able to see your calendar and share the countdown with you.

$0.99/Download

Children’s Christmas

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From the creators of Children’s Bible, the world’s most downloaded children’s e-book… here’s Children’s Christmas. Sweeter than the finest chocolate!
If you like Advent calendars, this is the app for you: an Advent calendar for children of all ages. Starting on the 1st December, kids will be able to open the corresponding window every day until Christmas day.

In every window you will find an illustration about a moment in the gospels on the Annunciation and the Birth of Jesus, together with a text and a quotation from the Bible.

Free/Download

Alphabet Advent Calendar

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Count down to Christmas with a word a day! There’s a fun and colourful Christmas picture for each letter of the alphabet.

For example, "A" is for "Angel".

You can open "A" and "B" right away, then start with "C" on December 1st, right up to "Z" on Christmas Eve.

The really cool part – if you’re signed in to Game Center, you’ll get an achievement for each window you open. All your friends will be able to see your calendar and share the countdown with you.

$0.99/Download

Christmas Story – Reason For the Season

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Reconnect with the reason for the Christmas season. In this biblically based app you can read about the real Christmas story and the celebration of Christ’s life. In this Advent like app you can share with your children the story of Jesus’ birth and the true story of Jesus’ early life as it comes to life in pictures and fun.

$0.99/Download

Jon Culshaw Advent Calendar HD

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Enjoy the count down to Christmas day, with the official Jon Culshaw Christmas Advent Calendar. Each day reveals a witty festive tale, from Jon’s hilarious & diverse impressionist repertoire of characters that you all know and love, from Lord Alan Sugar to Boris Johnson, Gok Wan to Fabio Capello.

This festive investment will bring a smile & cheer to entertain you & friends everyday, with yule tide nuggets of comedy all exclusively written by Jon Culshaw for his App.

$2.99/Download

The Advent Calendar

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Packed with codes, secrets, biblical parallels, and reminding us of the real meaning of Christmas, this enthralling and touching tale can be read on many levels, and will be loved by adults and children alike.
When Alice’s Uncle Sam brings home a mysterious calendar that’s short on chocolate but big on surprises, she is thrown into an Advent she never dreamed of. Codes arrive by text message and open the doors in the calendar, drawing Alice and Sam into fantastical new worlds. Accompanied by famous figures from the Bible, they explore the great themes of Advent and Christianity and find themselves maturing, changing and questioning.
Life in their own world will never be quite the same again.

This special enhanced iPad version contains the following features:
• Choice of text size
• Chapter selection
• Remembers last viewed chapter
• Optimised for iPad

$12.99/Download

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