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Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Blackberry Games : ONLINE War Games

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Get it now to find out what all the buzz is about! One of the smoothest running, most advanced games ever to hit the BlackBerry!

Embark on an epic journey to save the Earth from the wrath of invading aliens! When aliens begin their attack, you must use your skills to fend them off with 17 unique and brilliantly animated humans ranging from flamethrowers to attack helicopters! Immerse yourself in 5 beautifully rendered locations as you unlock characters and fight off 9 different types of encroaching aliens. Fight your way through day and night against aliens that do everything from cloak themselves, walk slowly like zombies, and fly above your defenders.

Try your skills at Unlimited Mode and see how long you can last against an unlimited flow of aliens. Meteors rain from the sky destroying both humans and aliens, making you stay on your toes!

*I installed it on 9780, so it should work on 9700 OS6 and 9650 OS6. But I think it should work on other blackberry phones*




There's a new UFO crash video making the rounds titled, "Dead Alien Found in UFO Hotspot in Russia," and it shows two Russian men finding what appears to be a dead extraterrestrial alien near a tree stump in a snowy field in Irkutsk, Siberia.

In the video, the alien looks to be about two or three feet tall, with a large head and long, thin limbs. It's gotten over 1 million hits so far, with many commenters asking if it could be the real thing. A message on the YouTube video, which was uploaded about a week ago, states that "Your government is lying to you about UFO & alien visitation."

It's clear that the filmmakers knew the alien was there, and didn't just "discover" it on cue. Furthermore, the actors, who speak in Russian, can be heard laughing, and their tones do not suggest that they just stumbled upon a genuine alien body.

Besides that, the scene doesn't even match up. The camera follows a snow trench leading to the alien (suggesting a spacecraft crash ), yet no space vessel is seen. Instead, it's just the alien, seemingly posed for dramatic effect — indeed, one of its legs appears to have been torn off in the crash — as if it had been flying under its own power when it suddenly dropped from the sky.

It's also suspicious that the alien just happens to look almost exactly like the popular depictions of "little green (or gray) men." These are the typical big-headed, small-limbed aliens that appear on T-shirts, movies, books, and elsewhere. The alien dummy's skin is translucent, which is a nice creepy effect seen in many Hollywood films, but could have easily been made using clear gelatin and animal parts from a butcher shop.
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ComicBook! Review

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ComicBook! Review

By
Rob Rich on July 27th, 2011
Our Rating: ★★★★½ :: NEAR MINT
Universal App - Designed for iPhone and iPad

Create a personalized comic book with pictures of friends and family. What’s not to love?

 

Developer: 3DTopo
Price: $1.99
Version: 1.0.1
App Reviewed on: iPhone 3GS
iPhone Integration Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
User Interface Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Re-use / Replay Value Rating: 4.25 out of 5 stars
Overall Rating: 4.25 out of 5 stars

As if there weren’t enough apps around to get people to use their device’s camera more often (much to the chagrin of dinner plates, street signs and shoes everywhere), now there’s ComicBook!: An app designed specifically so that users can create their own personal comic books using photos from their camera roll. It’s certainly flashy, and the end result is bound to interest those whose likenesses have been assimilated, but the execution is a little rough in places.

The app itself is fairly straightforward: A tray at the bottom of the screen (accessible by tapping on a tab) can be used to select a panel format, add various text bubbles/boxes and kitschy comic-style stickers. Adding an image to a panel is as simple as pressing one of two buttons (one for taking and one for choosing from storage). From there the image can be resized, repositioned and rotated by way of the usual pinching methods, and effects can be added and adjusted. Once the page is complete, with all the imagery and text in place, it’s ready to be saved to the camera roll where it can be shown off at parties and moments at work when the boss is out of the room.

ComicBook! is a surprisingly slick app. The interface is easy to figure out, tossing a layout together is a snap and everything can be undone and readjusted at any time. At least until the current page is cleared to make way for another one. It’s easy to see how a lot of people can get caught up in making their own personal graphic novels during their morning commute.

The downside to all this is that the interface could still use a little tweaking. Everything is responsive, sure, but there are a couple of issues that can make fine-tuning a creation somewhat frustrating. For starters, the panels are all “active” at the same time, so a slip of the finger can result in moving the wrong image. This is especially problematic in layouts with small panels, as it’s very difficult to pinch correctly in such a tiny area. Being able to zoom in on a given panel would be a real boon in situations like this. I also wish it were possible to save a project as opposed to saving the single page as a photo and then wiping the slate clean. Revisiting a page and making adjustments, rather than having to remake it from scratch if it’s not quite right, is something that should really be considered in a future update.

I suppose it’s unfair for me to think of ComicBook! as a design app, because it’s not. It’s a photo app, created to allow people to mess with the images on their iOS devices in humorous ways. As the former, it’s a bit lacking but still quite functional and very well made. As the latter, it’s a lot of fun to play around with.


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Released: 2011-07-05 :: Category: Photography

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Google Maps 5.8 for Android adds photo uploads, My Places, and more

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Today, Google Maps 5.8 for Android improves Places and Latitude with:
  • Upload photos for a Place
  • My Places as a simple way to manage the Places you've starred and recently viewed
  • Descriptive terms for Places in search results
  • Add a new Place on-the-go when checking in
Photo upload for a Place

When deciding on a place to go, people often want to know what a place looks like in addition to seeing ratings and reviews. You can now contribute photos to help others get a sense of places. You can now attach your photos to Places, and yours may even become the profile picture for that page. If you want to view or delete any photos you've contributed to Places, you can manage uploaded photos in the "Photos for Google Maps" album on your Picasa account.

Left: Uploading pictures to a place. Right: Photos in Android Gallery

My Places and descriptive terms for mobile

In June we announced descriptive terms and 'My Places' for the desktop. Both these features are now in Google Maps for mobile. Descriptive terms appear in search results for Places to inform you what businesses are 'known for,' such as their 'eggs benedict' or being 'worth the wait.'

Also, My Places for mobile provides quick access to starred and recent Place pages you've looked at. You can access My Places by pressing your phone's menu button while in Google Maps.

Descriptive terms and My Places in Google Maps for mobile

Add a new Place 'on-the-go' for check-ins

If you're out and about and want to check in, we want to make sure you can quickly add a new Place to check into if one isn't available. This might happen for new businesses or those that haven't set up a Place page yet. For example, let's say you're at Xoogle Xtreme Sports, a new sports shop in your neighborhood. You go to check in but don't see Xoogle in the list of places to check into and when you do a search still nothing comes up.

Add a Place when checking in, if needed

To solve this, you'll now see an "Add place" option at the bottom of suggested places. Select that option, and you'll be prompted to confirm the name and location of the new place. Then a brand new place is added (and you're checked in). This place will be available for you and others to check into from Latitude, but will not appear as a search result in Google Maps or Google Places.

We've also added 'Bigger text' to our experimental Labs features and 'Download map area' has been renamed 'Pre-cache map area.'

To start using Google Maps 5.8 for Android, download the update here. This update requires an Android OS 2.1+ device and can be used anywhere Google Maps is currently available. Learn more in our help center.

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PlayItYourself 4 HD Teaches With a Game

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Got game? The folks at AlphaWeb Plus do, with their new music app, PlayItYourself 4 HD. This is a game that helps users learn to play the piano. Using the on-screen keyboard, learners simply follow the scrolling musical notes and press the highlighted keys on the piano. Simple as that. Budding piano men and women can even choose parts of a score they wish to practice and allow the app to play the rest of the score for them – useful for mastering that tricky phrase in a particular piece of music. Or, choose one hand to practice, and allow the app to play the other hand. Nifty!

PlayItYourself can even add, edit and export scores via the MuseScore desktop app, a free, cross platform music notation program. Scores can then be synced through iTunes. Other features include high quality sound samples, automatic tempo matching (for when one of your hands plays slower or faster than the hand the app may be playing), and authentically scored sheet music, formatted for the iPad.

The sheet music that comes with the app includes Fur Elise and Moonlight Sonata by Beethoven, Air on the G string by Bach, The Entertainer by Joplin, and about 15 more. The screenshots below show Game Center and OpenFeint integration, so players can show off their serious skills to all their jealous friends.

While the app may or may not actually help all users learn how to play a true keyboard or piano, the pedagogy here seems sound. Much of instrument playing consists of training our hands and our eyes to work in concert as well as independently of each other. Watching true musical notation while learning where those notes are on the piano keyboard seems like a grand way to start learning one of western music’s most representative instrument. Time will only tell if the virtual keyboard learning can transfer to a true “real life” keyboard.

PlayItYourself 4 HD is available now on the App Store, and won’t cost a thin dime for the price of entry.




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Trenches Generals

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Trenches Generals

By
Chris Kirby on July 27th, 2011
Our Rating: ★★★★☆ :: VIOLENT CARTOONS
iPad Only App - Designed for the iPad

Trench warfare and tower defense – two great tastes that taste great together!

 

Developer: Thunder Game Works
Price: $2.99
Version Reviewed: 1.1
Device Reviewed On: iPad

Graphics / Sound Rating: 4.25 out of 5 stars
Game Controls Rating: 3.75 out of 5 stars
Gameplay Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Replay Value Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

Overall Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

World War I conjures up many images – the grime of newly industrialized war, the birth of chemical weapons, and the rise of the shell-shocked soldier, to name just a few – but none is as devastating as the start of trench warfare. This new approach to the art of war multiplied casualties and helped WWI earn its reputation as the “war to end all wars.”

It’s strange, then, to find myself liking the slightly cartoonish approach taken to this grisly subject by Trenches Generals. Developer Thunder Game Works has created a game that is an odd pastiche of styles. It’s not realistic, but the use of a muted, barbed wire-littered terrain is in stark contrast to the exaggerated cartoon soldiers that players command. I’ve never given a single thought to the loss of a defense tower in, say, Fieldrunners, but in Trenches Generals there is a palpable sense of loss when soldiers fall.

Gameplay in Trenches Generals is also a hybrid of styles, but it best resembles a tower defense game. Tired of TD games? Don’t be discouraged from playing Trenches. It’s unique enough to make it seem fresh to even a TD veteran. Unlike Fieldrunners, the area for battle is surprisingly linear. Players mass their troops on the left-hand side of the screen, while the enemy masses on the right. The goal, simply enough, is to move armies to the opponent’s headquarters and destroy it.

As is the tradition with tower defense games, units have multiple upgrades. One of the nicer touches in Trenches Generals is that soldiers level up automatically based upon their lifespan – the longer they live, the higher their rank and the more damage they do. It keeps the game from becoming micromanagement meltdown and is a strong design choice. All units are realistic to the time period – sniper units, mortar units, etc – so the theme remains consistent throughout (except for the obligatory “zombie horde” levels). Between rounds players can purchase perks to help survive the upcoming slaughter. It’s all well -executed, and surprisingly addictive.

Multiplayer is only local head-to-head at the moment, which is a shame. A game like this could really benefit from online multiplayer, so perhaps it will show up in a later update. Also, be aware that even the devs acknowledge Trenches Generals is a memory and resource hog. It can become laggy at times, and controls can sometimes not be as responsive as they could be.

Minor quibbles aside, Trenches Generals is an engaging, fresh take on the stale tower defense genre. While it is a far cry from a true wargame or a simulation, it has enough atmosphere to connect players to the time period and the game itself – and I STILL don’t like to see my little soldiers die.



Trenches: Generals


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Our Rating: ★★★★☆ :: VIOLENT CARTOONS
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Released: 2011-06-23 :: Category: Games

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7 Free QR Code Scanner and Reader Apps for Android

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HowStuffWorks Out Now for the iPad

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Visiting HowStuffWorks.com has given millions the information they crave on just how things actually do work. A Discovery Communications property, the website was founded by Professor Marshall Brain in 1998 (yes, that’s actually his name) to help explain, well, how things work.

While the iPad app was released just last week, the iPhone version of the app is the winner of a Webby Award for the Best Mobile Education and Reference App, as well as having been listed by Apple staff once as a New and Noteworthy app and twice as a Staff Favorite.

With the app on an iPad, users have access to over 40,000 articles, 12,000 videos and over 2,000 audio and video podcasts from the comfort and safety of your magical device. The videos are also AirPlay enabled, letting users wirelessly stream them to their AppleTVs. Quiz and trivia nuts rejoice, as HowStuffWorks for iPad also contains over 1,000 quizzes that contain over 30,000 questions. Every article and podcast has a “Related Stuff” button to allow real knowledge hounds the ability to dig deep on any of the topics presented.

Podcasts Include:

- Stuff You Should Know
- Stuff You Missed in History Class
- BrainStuff
- Stuff Mom Never Told You
- TechStuff
- Stuff to Blow your Mind
- CarStuff
- Stuff from the B-Side
- Video Podcasts:
- Stuff They Don't Want You to Know
- Stuff of Genius
- Coolest Stuff on the Planet
- New! Stuff from the Future

The app includes a search system, daily featured content, and new facts and quotes every day. Users can save their favorite topics and articles, as well as share with friends and family via email, Twitter and Facebook options – a requisite feature in this day and age.

While all the content is available on the web for free, HowStuffWorks for iPad is designed for Apple’s magical tablet from the ground up, even going so far as to be a separate app from the iPhone version. As can be seen in the screenshots below, the interface and visual design fits right on the larger, shiny screen of the iPad.

HowStuffWorks for iPad is available now for the grand total of Free. How’s THAT workin’ for ya?




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Pocket RPG Review

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Pocket RPG Review

By
Jennifer Allen on July 27th, 2011
Our Rating: ★★★★☆ :: COMPACT FUN
iPad Only App - Designed for the iPad

Pocket RPG offers very lightweight RPG elements, but it’s fun to jump into for quick doses.

 

Developer: Crescent Moon Games
Price: $2.99
Version Reviewed: 1.01
Device Reviewed On: iPad 2

Graphics / Sound Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Game Controls Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Gameplay Rating: 3.75 out of 5 stars
Replay Value Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars

Overall Rating: 3.81 out of 5 stars

Pocket RPG is quite an inaccurate title for such a game as this. For one thing, it’s an iPad only game which is far from pocket sized. For another, the game doesn’t feel particularly like an RPG despite a few RPG style tropes. There’s an argument the other way for both though, considering the gameplay could be described as compact, much like a pocket game would be. Plus there are just enough RPG elements to carry on the facade.

Despite the mildly inccorect title, Pocket RPG is still quite fun even though there are some limitations. Think of it as a twin stick shooter but with close combat thrown into the equation. While there are signs of some depth here, it’s not really the case once players look under the surface. At the start, players are given the choice of three different classes: the Dark Ranger, the Blade Master and the Battle Mage. The Blade Master is the typical warrior class while the Ranger is a long range expert and the Mage offering area effect magic (duh!). Experience points and gold can be gained in order to acquire new character perks and skills, as well as new weapons and armor. Much like other dungeon crawlers, the right items play an important role and can make all the difference in battles.

The downside to all this however is a strange one. After completing a quest, levels are reset to zero and all items are removed. For an RPG this is positively bizarre behavior. Sure it’s easy to level up again but all satisfaction is removed along with the material goods. Considering Pocket RPG is a game to drop in for short bursts rather than extended periods, it’s not as unforgiveable as in story driven RPGs but it is still an annoyance.

Such a problem overshadows what is a pretty fun, simplistic RPG. The graphical style is basic but cutesy and it’s certainly very easy to just pick up and play. For those wanting a less than cerebral offering, Pocket RPG could be just what they want. RPG fans will need to look elsewhere for their next fix however.



Pocket RPG


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Our Rating: ★★★★☆ :: COMPACT FUN
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Released: 2011-07-14 :: Category: Games

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