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Fun Stuff => CHATTER => Topic started by: Allybee on 30 Oct 2009, 11:14
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(excuse me if this thread has come and gone)
I just got an iphone (siiigh) and I want some apps. what are your favorites, if you have an iphone? preferably free unless they're really great.
when our flight got delayed in chicago I bought an ocarina on my mom's iphone. it's fun to play, you blow into it.
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What a coincidence, I was literally just 15 minutes ago showing someone an app I've started developing. Shouldn't this go in the computer forum?
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The Beer app is pretty good. Also the iFart app.
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We apparently have entirely different definitions of the term 'good'.
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I like the Lightsaber app
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Iron Oxide I was joking.
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new Photoshop app is pretty sweet (and free?!). you can crop&rotate, change hue/saturation et al
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Fuck the iphone. The Android is where its at.
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Emaline - this isn't the thread to be bashing the iPhone. If you want to do that, go somewhere else. Your post is not constructive.
Everything Tommy mentioned is really great - the facebook app especially. It recently got a huge update making it incredibly easy to use and actually enjoyable to use. The Skype and AIM apps are also pretty great. Shazam is really handy and I've used it a bunch of times to figure out what song is playing on the radio or whatever and every time it has been super accurate.
If you're into puzzle games or whatever TanZen Lite is free - it's one of those puzzle deals where you have to fit the tiles into a weird shape until it's all filled. Bejeweled 2 is also pretty fun, but I think you have to pay for that one.
If you're after some kind of notes app - I wouldn't go past Evernote. You can grab Evernote for mac and PC and anything you put into Evernote on the web, your mac/pc or your iPhone, will sync up. It's really useful for keeping your school notes or grocery list or whatever with you at all times.
For twitter, if you are a twitter person, I use Twitterifc.
For IRC - I use Rooms - also not free but it's the best one I found.
That's really it, to be honest, I don't have a lot of apps on my iPhone at all.
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Uhm, I am pretty sure Emaline's post was a joke?
Also, I want an iphone, because I have a phone, and an ipod, and combining the two into one would be pretty handy. But I also just like shiny new things, so who knows what I will get when my contract runs out. I have heard bad things about iphones not getting calls or dropping out on the Optus network (which is what I use), so I am unsure.
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Combining the two is nifty and all but it really depends on how much music you have. If it's over 32G than forget it unless you can pare it down enough.
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Remote is an app made by Apple which allows you to control the iTunes on your computer via your home Wi-Fi network. You can also set it up so friends can make "requests" with their iPhones. Pretty neat for parties.
Convert is the best conversion app I have found so far. It does Angle, Area, Data (Kilobytes->Megabytes and etc.), Density, Energy, Length, Mass, Power, Pressure, Speed, Temperature, Torque, Typography (Points->Picas etc.), Volume and Currency with almost ridiculous amounts of units for each category. Nice interface, too.
Urbanspoon is super neat. You may have already heard of it as it was featured in the iPhone ads a little while back. Urbanspoon finds restaurants in your city. It has a slot machine-like interface which allows you to "hold" categories of Price Level, Location and Food style (Italian, Kosher, Fast Food etc.). You then shake your phone and the little slots whirr around and then it finds you a restaurant. You can also view restaurant locations with Google maps, and read reviews on the web. Urbanspoon also has a kind of cool social networking component which means you can share recommendations and read and write reviews for places you've been.
AroundMe is very much like a much-expanded version of UrbanSpoon in that you can view not just restaurants but also Apple Stores, Banks/ATMs, Bars, Coffee Shops, Gas Stations, Hospitals, Hotels, Movie Theaters, Parking, Pharmacies, Supermarkets, Taxis and Theaters. It has full utilisation of Google Maps so you can see locations as pins and get directions within the app, save locations, email coordinates, view contact details for businesses and even post to Twitter or Facebook.
BubbleWrap is another one of those incredibly simple yet crazily addictive apps. It's exactly what it sounds like. Poke at your iPhone to pop bubble wrap, do it as fast as possible, set high scores.
Rope'n Fly is basically Spiderman for the iPhone. You've got a dude who shoots ropes to swing between buildings. Your objective is to keep him off the ground for as long as possible. This app is paid but there is a "lite" version for free.
I Am T-Pain: AutoTune. on your iPhone. Surprisingly high quality, it's actually a strip backed version of the Antares plugin which is probably in the top two for professional autotune plugins. Download tunes and sing along, save recordings, choose the key you tune to. This is a paid app.
Tap Tap Revenge: Guitar Hero or Dance Dance Revolution for your iPhone. Little notes fly down your screen and you tap the phone in time. Plenty of free tracks to download, surprisingly good artist selection. There's a few verisons of this. TTR 2 is free, the others are a dollar or so.
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Who cares about carrying all their music around with them anymore? I mean, I have about 100gb of music and am perfectly happy with about 4gb of it on my 8gb walkman phone. I really only ever listen to a few albums at once.
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Get a SNES emulator and spend your days playing Mario Kart and A Link to the Past
[EDIT - and rock n roll racing ]
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hey est , you know there's an app 'simplify media' that streams your entire itunes library :wink:
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Which would be great while I am on the train to work.
Also, I don't have an iPhone, I have an 8gb walkman phone. Around Christmas I'll probably be getting a htc hd2 :D
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I can't remember the name but I like the app where the louder you scream at your iPhone in public the greater the distance between you and other people becomes. I haven't gotten that loud yet but apparently at a certain point you can make people start crying. Pretty sure it's free.
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the one where there is a ball in a maze and you tilt the iphone to get it in the hole.
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Tommy is but a concubine in the church of the jesus phone.
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Steve Jobs stopped replying to Tommy's letters.
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I have an ipod touch, and I am a big fan of the Bookworm game!
That's my doing. You can thank me any time, Jens. ;)
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The Last.fm app is really handy since I don't have any music on my iphone yet.
Camerabag is a very cheap set of camera effects that make photos a little nicer or a lot cooler, ready to upload or just enjoy on your phone.
I don't know what your equivalent would be, but an app to monitor your phone bills is very handy.
iDaft is infinitely amusing.
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Emaline - this isn't the thread to be bashing the iPhone. If you want to do that, go somewhere else. Your post is not constructive.
Uhm, I am pretty sure Emaline's post was a joke?
Uh. Yeah. I was joking, guys. Gosh. No need to get undies in bunches.
Also, to repeat Joseph Hocking, shouldn't this be in the computer area?
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Steve Jobs stopped replying to Tommy's love letters.
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Emaline - this isn't the thread to be bashing the iPhone. If you want to do that, go somewhere else. Your post is not constructive.
Uhm, I am pretty sure Emaline's post was a joke?
Uh. Yeah. I was joking, guys. Gosh. No need to get undies in bunches.
Also, to repeat Joseph Hocking, shouldn't this be in the computer area?
How dare you use humor in this thread.
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I think you might've given up too soon
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look how much replies dropped off now that this has been moved. also, it's a phone, not a computer.
thanks for the responses though, guys, I'm gonna check some of those out. obviously facebook was the first thing i downloaded.
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it's a computer phone. This is the future.
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nerdy smack talk of the day:
My phone is a better computer than your computer.
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My computer is a better phone than your phone!
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Anyway, speaking of phones, fuck tmobile and the sidekick. Did anyboyd else here suffer them completely fucking up your contacts and everything? How can you not have a backup server for something as important as your clients contacts???
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can somebody please just move this back so I can get more real answers and also start a new thread to complain about your phone, please
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You know, you are kinda grouchy for no reason at all.
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This one. (http://robot6.comicbookresources.com/2009/10/marvel-comics-now-available-via-comixology-panelfly-iphone-applications/)
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Moved again 'cause blah blah blah. Don't make a big deal out of it.
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My friends and workmates are completely and totally addicted to a game called Doodle Jump. It looks pretty fun!
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I downloaded Galcon a few days ago, Galcon is the shit. It's a casual space strategy game.
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RJDJ
Mindblowing! just download it and play around with it, if you like music, and experimental music, you'll love this.
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also, bebot.
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I'm not sure why, but iSpy is just fascinating in concept and execution, although the results are fairly mundane. You can look through, and control, CCTV cameras from around the world! Yesterday I saw some japanese people disembark from a small boat, and other japanese people fishing off a breakwater. Strangely relaxing.
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just read the name of the link
http://www.appleharmony.com/iphone-vibrator-app-available-for-free-on-the-apple-store#more-754
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I'm not sure why, but iSpy is just fascinating in concept and execution, although the results are fairly mundane. You can look through, and control, CCTV cameras from around the world! Yesterday I saw some japanese people disembark from a small boat, and other japanese people fishing off a breakwater. Strangely relaxing.
doesn't CC stand for Closed-Circuit? Meaning...not connected to the outside circuits? What is the alternative? OCTV? I don't know much about the subject, honestly.
At any rate, that is pretty cool and kind of makes me wish I had an iPhone...until I remember the fees.
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whoah necro but I totally just discovered the best free app I've found yet. It's MyPaint, an app for drawing with your finger. There are a whole bunch of apps like this, but this is my favorite free one (a friend recommended Paintbook, a paid app, and then I started looking around for free apps that do the same thing.) I was initially just after the drawing functionality and it's great for that, but an unexpected bonus is that you can load photos as the background to paint on top of. sweet!
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I know a few people who have made apps for the iPhone. My old housemate made an app for some site that advertises 'good deals' in Ottawa. It was a pretty bad site that just had things labeled as good deals that actually weren't, but he got 10 cents per download of the free app so he got everyone to download it. It was called something like 'good deals ottawa' but Apple has subsequently removed it from the app store due to 'limited functionality' or something.
Another friend made "The best calorie-counting app" according to Men's Health UK. It is called serious nutrition tracker and is pretty well designed and a great app, if you happen to be a person who likes to keep track of what you're eating. I neither have an iPhone nor care enough about my nutrition intake to document it, but it is pretty much exactly what it should be.
The third friend made a webcomic reading app that saw Scott Kurtz sick a mob of rabid webcomics fans on him. He didn't implement his business model in, shall we say, the best of fashions, though he did have the best of intentions.
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Oh hey if anyone has any newspaper apps they dig, let me know. I'm doing a review of news apps for work.
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Ok guys, I am onboard the iPhone train. Hannah updated her plan today and got herself an iPhone, which means that the one I got a couple months ago has now come back to me. We did this because the HD2 fell flat for a number of reasons, not the least of which the fact that occasionally smses will just not send. Pretty great!
I've gone through this thread and have already found a bunch of cool apps, thanks! Here's a couple I like:
TripView/TripViewLite: If you live in Sydney and take public transport then this is a great app. It gives you easy to read, up-to-date timetables for Sydney trains, buses and ferries. I am probably going to buy the paid version soon because you can't save trips/routes on the free version, and because the dude deserves the money.
Defender Chronicles: Basically this is a tower defense game, but side-view instead of top-down. It makes good use of pinch to zoom, the graphics are good, and there is a free version with a decent amount of playtime to see if you like it or not (I'm still playing the free version, can't say much about the paid version)
Pocket Tanks: This is just an artillery game, but I've always been a sucker for these games and at the moment even the free version has enough different kinds of weapons to keep it interesting.
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Guys! Everyone who has an iPhone!
Get words with friends!
Lets fuck up some scrabble ish!
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Yeah that is one of my favourite games on the iPhone. Stone-cold awesome.
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Holy shit Joe, I started playing GalCon earlier this afternoon. It's like they've taken the hours-long Space Civ type game and condensed it into a deliciously simple 30 sec - couple minute game while retaining much of the core strategic elements, just chucking out all the minutiae. They could make an alternate game-type where you could upgrade the planets somehow for when you had more time to play with, but other than that it's already really really cool.
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fuck yeah
Did you ever play the original Master of Orion? Not the overcomplicated sequels, but the awesome original? GalCon with MoO-style upgrades and races would be fucking amazing.
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Kieff, I'll play words with friends with you.
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I'm spotlight kid, lets fucc shit upp.
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i miss my iphone :(
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fuck yeah
Did you ever play the original Master of Orion? Not the overcomplicated sequels, but the awesome original? GalCon with MoO-style upgrades and races would be fucking amazing.
No, unfortunately I didn't. I started out on the Amiga version of Reach for the Stars and played the shit out of it, but after being disappointed with the PC version I kind of forgot I liked the genre for a while, maybe even until I found Stardock's Galactic Civilizations? I think there's something else in the middle there, and I definitely loved playing Civ games, but I didn't really put two and two together until I saw GalCiv. I think that if GalCon made certain upgrades like you say, and scored not only on a time but also on your population at the end (ie: some function of both) then it would probably have more depth and replayability.
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In that case I highly recommend finding Master of Orion (not when you have anything important to do though.) It'll be tricky, since that game came out over a decade ago, but you can probably find it on Home of the Underdogs (http://www.homeoftheunderdogs.net/) or something.
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I like the Lightsaber app
Agreed. Also my friend went to a party as The Guy In The Red Jumper, from Star Trek & he got great scanner apps, you can program it to say different stuff after it scans & the sound effects are great, also a knightrider app. It actually works in the car. I don't have an iphone, but I play with his a lot so I only know games ones.
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Well, Kieffer managed to kick my ass.
If anyone else wants to play words with friends my username is Captain Cock
(yes, I really am that immature)
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I have been compulsively playing galcon on my laptop and my eyes keep twitching over the screen, looking for red triangles poised to attack. It is uncomfortable reading things because I am afraid that I need to reinforce my outward colonies or maybe I left my homeworld undefended. I can not look at what I'm typing and instead stare accusatively at those damn smileys that keep twitching.
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If you haven't got Angry Birds already, you're blowing it.
Holy fuck, this game is the new Peggle in terms of I Cannot And Will Not Put Down My Fucking iPhone Stop Asking Me.
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Fuckin' pigs.
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I play scrabble with Words too!
My username thinger is jmrz.
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Winterboard is awesome!
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Stardock's Galactic Civilizations
Trivia: this was originally written for OS/2 - it was viewed as a potential killer app when trying to promote OS/2 over Windows. OS/2 was by far the better platform for game programming.
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Defender Chronicles: Basically this is a tower defense game, but side-view instead of top-down. It makes good use of pinch to zoom, the graphics are good, and there is a free version with a decent amount of playtime to see if you like it or not (I'm still playing the free version, can't say much about the paid version)
oh hey I didn't notice this post before, I found that game too while looking through Chillingo's catalog (a UK iPhone game publisher) and played the shit out of it. I don't know if I still have it on my iPhone, haven't played it in a while, but for a few weeks there I was pretty obsessed with it.
also, um, *cough* (http://forums.questionablecontent.net/index.php/topic,24792.0.html)
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Right so my dad got an iPad for some reason and so he's punted his iPod Touch over to me. This will be my fourth mp3 player so it's primarily going to be an app device (still lots of music, but 128 kbps for space considerations). These are all good suggestions! Here are a few more that I've found and liked.
100 Rogues - A Roguelike for the iPhone/Touch, with all the trappings of the genre - lots of challenge, swarms of enemies, and procedurally generated levels. There are two classes, the Crusader and the "Glass Cannon" mage (looks like there may be two more classes coming in updates). The two things that set it apart are its polished visuals (ASCII this ain't) and the tongue-in-cheek humor, which fits with the genre because it too is often punishing. There are reportedly some particularly rare "pranks" the game will play on you, such as the controls becoming unresponsive when surrounded by powerful enemies, or the game just up and quitting on you at inopportune times. Your ultimate objective is to kill Satan. Your character needs to eat to live but food is pretty scarce, etc. I'm pretty sure the developers have come out and said that you're not supposed to be able to beat the game, but beating the game isn't the point.
Simpsons Arcade - Remember the Streets of Rage-style Simpsons arcade game? It's back for the iPhone/Touch! Somewhat unfortunately the only playable character is Homer, but the game is still just as fun as you remembered it being. The controls are surprisingly responsive for a touchscreen.
Also Joe when is the ETA on your game?
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Thanks for reminding me, I just posted a new update. I was working on it a bit more literally right now.
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Also there is a game called "Sword & Poker" which is a Puzzle Quest-style RPG fighter twist on poker. Pretty interesting.
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Simpsons Arcade - Remember the Streets of Rage-style Simpsons arcade game? It's back for the iPhone/Touch! Somewhat unfortunately the only playable character is Homer, but the game is still just as fun as you remembered it being. The controls are surprisingly responsive for a touchscreen.
yes
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Just letting you know that the powers that be have heard your cries and yes, they are making Angry Birds into a movie.
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Hipstamatic, makes fancy photos
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Problem with Hipstamatic is you can't load existing photos onto it and add the filters, you have to use the app to take the photos. This is annoying! Much better to take the photos using the regular camera (loads the fastest) or Gorillacam (has stability and anti-blur mechanisms etc), then use the free Photoshop Mobile (or RetroCamera or PhotoFilters) app to add filters.
An app I use a lot is Zarf, it is a free scrabble dictionary.
Also Puzzlings is a fun sort of tetris/bejewelled puzzle game, it is free and I have had it for 6 months and have not finished it yet (although I am a very casual gamer).
I also use QuotaLite to keep track of my calls and data.
And BaconFarts because it is a good free fart app with lots of awesome sounds and descriptions.
Also a free Vuvuzela app is useful for having when your workmates insist on playing FIFA all day in the break room.
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Just letting you know that the powers that be have heard your cries and yes, they are making Angry Birds into a movie.
I could actually see it working really well as a Saturday morning cartoon, but a movie is perhaps beyond the pale
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And BaconFarts because it is a good free fart app with lots of awesome sounds and descriptions.
What just happened here.
Notice the lack of question mark to denote the rhetoric nature of my enquiry.
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If you can't appreciate a good fart noise Tommy I do not know what is wrong with you.
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Traumatic childhood farting incident?
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oh so it was far more traumatic than I thought
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it must be painful
farting without a bottom
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you poor thing (tee hee, "bottom")
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Oh, the NaturalMotions game "Backbreaker Football" is free to download for today only. It's a game in which you run a football downfield to the end zone, with all the hazards that entails. Different levels have different portions of the field cordoned off. It's pretty fun.
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So I have found the best app for 'Vintage' photo editing, it is called RetroCamera and previously I had the free version which puts a url/watermark on your image at the bottom. Kind of annoying! Then today I found out there was a paid version. Yay!
It has like a million different film settings, textures, frames, etc. AND you can load images from your camera roll. USEFUL.
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I found out that there is a Couch to 5K app, which I so far (only done two workouts, though) love. It's so much better to just forget everything called time and just put on some music and then do what the dude in your earbud tells you to do, than having to check the time constantly to find out when you're supposed to run and walk. The app isn't free, but if I manage to continue walking/jogging, I'd say it was worth it. It doesn't really have a lot of information about distance or calories burned or anything like that, but if I'd had a newer iPod touch or iPhone I could've done Nike + at the same time, which would've registered that stuff. Couch to 5K basically takes away the hassle of keeping track of the time intervals (with a beep and a man or woman saying "walk/run now"), and it tells me when I am halfway through the workout (meaning that's where I turn around), all with the iPod in my pocket.
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Yeah, I did find a few alternatives where you could set up your own intervals, but could never really get past the feeling that it was all a hassle, because the previous times I've tried the program I have felt dead halfway through the first day and really didn't have much motivation at all. But this app is kinda awesome in that you chose which week/workout you want do (and can re-do workouts without any problems, or skip forward, but I don't see that happening for me), and then it has all of the stuff preset. I don't know if I'll actually continue this time, but I have been able to complete the first week workouts with more ease than earlier, at least. I guess my cycling this summer probably helped a bit.
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Game D Story!
It's the game where you run your own little game development studio, from hiring staff through to doing contract work and coming up with concepts to development and bugfixing. If you've ever played Theme Hospital or Dinopark Tycoon, it's a lot like that. It has been annihilating my free time.
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Ugggh where did the last 4 hours of my life go
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Game development is not a game.
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It's sort of like a game. And there are rules and you have to follow them because it's not a game.
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article about Angry Birds developers:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/video-games/8303173/Angry-Birds-the-story-behind-iPhones-gaming-phenomenon.html
my favorite bit in the article:
Like many of the best video games, Angry Birds hides a keen intelligence underneath its wacky exterior. In contrast, the people who work at Rovio couldn’t be less wacky if they tried. The office, in Espoo, just outside Helsinki, is thoroughly bland; a large open-plan room with regulation desks, white boards and pot plants.
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Angry Birds deserves mentions from everyone ever, and Doodle Jump should be brought up again, especially since the multiplayer update hit last month.
Also, the Plants vs. Zombies port works really well on this platform.
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Just submitted my iPhone game for approval, now I wait. Here's the trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ik1pBypdNTA
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Tap Tap Revenge: Guitar Hero or Dance Dance Revolution for your iPhone. Little notes fly down your screen and you tap the phone in time. Plenty of free tracks to download, surprisingly good artist selection. There's a few verisons of this. TTR 2 is free, the others are a dollar or so.
i'm not an iphone person but this game rules so much! miss being able to play it (via borrowing the iphone of a person who has it)