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Dog Park by Dogster.com. It’s a virtual dog park for the iPhone or iPod Touch (wi-fi needed for iPod Touch). Social media for your dog. Although it’s a cute little app, there’s not much to it. See other dogs that are online, nearest, or favorites. You can see who’s in the Dog Park, chat with other people (unlimited text messaging), earn virtual currency (dog bones) to buy gifts, send picture messages to other dog owners and manage your tiny profile for your dog.
Dog Park by Dogster.com is a nicely designed app, but like I said, there’s really not much to it at all, which is disappointing. They have these “friend codes” all over the app. You need them to send dog bones to others and to friend others, but I don’t see friend codes in the app itself. No clue of what my friend code is. Another downside to this app is that it’s no way tied to Dogster.com profiles. I really think that would be a big asset to this app.
Dog Park by Dogster.com is free from the App Store, so it’s worth it to check it out.
Overall, this app is nice, but a disappointment if you’re trying to get your dog into mobile social media. I have heard the Facebook app “Dog Book” is working on an iPhone app. I’m very interested in seeing that.
Caught this very creative image just a few minutes ago over at One+Infinity. If you have all the right apps and align them up properly, you can have a lot of fun!
I noticed these three “gems” today while going through AppShopper.com. I’m still amazed at Apple’s app review procedures. Sometimes little stupid issues get blocked and other times they let the ridiculous through. You can make up your own mind on which categories these three fall into.
Sex Shake – $0.99
Don’t know which sexual position to use, there’s an app for that! Looks like UrbanSpoon, but for sexual positions.
Boobs² – $0.99
See pictures of women with big boobs because there’s an app for that too. You can even email pictures to the developer to be included in future updates.
Adult: Boobs and Butts -$0.99
An iPhone app with pictures of women with nice boobs and butts.
Want a real review on one of these apps, flip me a promo code.
This is what the Earth would look like if it had rings around it like Saturn. It’s truly an amazing video. Just think: You look up into the sky, day or night, and you see the rings!
Monday night I took part in Sci-Fi Party Line’s podcast #40 where we discussed the old & new versions of V on ABC and The Prisoner on AMC. We also talked about Doctor Who: Waters of Mars, which will be podcast #41 from Sci-Fi Party Line.
So, back in October I posted that Star Wars: Trench Run was coming out. I received a comment stating that “Not sure that this is true” and I I got a few replies to my tweets about the post saying the same thing (I don’t recall if it was the same person or not). Guess what folks, Monday Apple approved & released THQ Wireless’ STAR WARS: TRENCH RUN (App Store link). I was right. HA HA!
I was reluctant to buy the $4.99 game, but eventually succumbed to the Dark Side. For a Star Wars fan, the game is a must. Taken from the old 1980′s version of the Star Wars arcade game, Star Wars: Trench Run is just you, playing as Luke Skywalker in his X-wing fighter during the Battle for Yavin 4 (the last battle during Star Wars: A New Hope [Episode IV]), you dogfight with TIE Fighters and do the trench run (hence the name of this game) in an attempt to destroy the Death Star.
You use the iPhone’s accelerometer to control the flight of your X-wing in the game. It takes a little bit to get used to, but once you do you’ll enjoy the game. There are four parts to the screen, divided into 4 quadrants: change view (chase cam/cockpit views), pause, slow (using the Force), and fire weapon.
There are 2 modes of gameplay: Mission and Arcade. The Mission mode you must complete each mission before you can advance to the next step of the game to eventually when you get the chance to blow up the Death Star, complete with clips from the movie. In Arcade mode, you pick either doing the trench run or dogfighting the TIE Fighters. You must clear several distances or waves of TIE Fighters to see how far you can go. And there are also different levels of difficulty to play. I’ve had the game for about 24 hours and played it several times and it does get harder and harder.
Star Wars: Trench Run is definitely a good and fun game to get and a must for any Star Wars fan. It has great game play and great graphics. It’s only $4.99 so pick it up from the App Store.
So, you want to change a name of a Twitter List that you created or maybe delete it altogether? It’s easy to do, although it’s not too apparent for some people. Here’s how you do it:
1. Log into Twitter’s web site. Go to your Home page or your Profile page. On the right side bar you’ll have your lists. Click on the list you want to edit or delete.
2. At the top of this list, just underneath the “Update” button you will see “View list page” (in red box for attention). Click that link.
3. In the top right, just under the Twitter navigation bar, you’ll see “Edit” and “Delete” listed. Click on either to make your changes.
Who doesn’t love puppies? I certainly love puppies. If you love puppies, then you should check out Touch Pet Dogs from ngmoco. You adopt a virtual puppy, train it, feed it, take care of it, play with it, just like a real puppy. You have seven breeds of dogs to choose from: Labrador, Portuguese Water Dog, West Highland Terrier, German Shepherd, Jack Russell, Dachshund, and even a Robot dog. Robot dog? Yes. A robot dog. They act just like real puppies too. Wait, no pug? What the fuck? Pugs are the best dog breed around. If you follow me on Twitter then you know that I own a pug, so I’m a bit biased. I have a few other favorite breeds, unfortunately they’re not in Touch Pets Dogs.
Touch Pet Dogs allows you to earn money for use in the game to buy things for your puppy (or puppies). Petting, cleaning, playing, feeding your puppy will let you earn that money. WIth that in-game money you can adopt another puppy and buy various items from the pet store like more toys, cloths, cleaning supplies, and more. You can also purchase more food for your puppy from the App Store for various amounts of real money. You can avoid that for the most part, but if you need and want to, go for it.
You can also socialize your puppy with other puppies on ngmoco’s Plus+ network. Puppies love play dates. So far I haven’t seen anything naughty with the puppies yet. I don’t think your little puppy with get too excited during the play dates, so there’s no need to worry about a little of puppies. Puppies having puppies? That’s just wrong.
As a responsible owner of a puppy, your skill levels will rise when you complete various amounts of activities with your puppy. There’s a news feed that has other player’s activity on there and you can use Facebook Connect to have your activities published to Facebook if you so desire.
Overall, Touch Pets Dogs is a fun time killer for any dog lover, even if you don’t actually own a dog. The app is FREE [App Store link]. As I mentioend before, you can purchase additional food units; you can get 10 for $0.99, 20 for $1.99, 120 for $9.99, or 400 for $29.99.
I’ve come across two iPhone apps that people say are fun to have, play, and use. First, I found Gowalla (App Store link). Nice interface. Interesting GPS-based location game. You start off with a blank passport. You go to different locations (they call them ‘spots’) and check in. When you check in, you get a stamp for the spot. You can also pick up items or drop items at the spot for others to get. If you come across a new spot that no one has been to before, you can easily enter the location’s info into the app to create the new spot for Gowalla. If you drop an item in that new spot, you become the founder. You start of with five objects. Unfortunately for me, don’t live in a major city so I’ve had to drop all of items to become the founder of new spots. Not too big of a deal. I don’t think I’ll have a large collection of items until for a while. One nice thing, Gowalla will surprise you sometimes with giving you an item when you check into spots sometimes.
As for the finding ability of Gowalla, it uses the GPS on the iPhone and it works SPOT ON. No issues. If you make a mistake, you can edit the spot’s name, actual location on the map, category, and check-in radius. As far as I can tell, it’s for the web site only. There are multiple spots set up close together called trips. You can complete trips by going to each of the trip’s spots. You can also create trips for others to complete.
One last note about Gowalla: Do not get discourage if you drop all of your items if you live in an area where there aren’t many Gowalla users. You’ll find more when you check into spots. Trust me.
Next, is foursquare (App Store link). It seems to be popular in some major cities worldwide. It works similar to Gowalla in that you go to different locations and check into them. Instead of getting stamps in a passport, you can get badges and earn points for different things you do, like go to a new spot, bringing friends with you, and traveling some distance.
I’ve played with the app for a few days and have be very disappointed. Since I don’t live in a big city that’s supported by foursquare, I’ve had to create new locations. After doing so a few times, I’ve discovered that this app is not GPS based, but based off of addresses from Google Maps. So my new locations are way off from their actual location because foursquare does not use GPS to pinpoint my iPhone’s location. Even if you do edit the address of a created location, it still won’t be right due to Google Maps. I’ve tested this on the iPhone and on the Google Maps web site. The problem is with Google Maps. foursquare tweeted me after I tweeted with what I’ve found and they were quick to blame the iPhone’s GPS for the errors. They said “Phone GPS can be wonky sometimes… esp when deep indoors.” That might be true IF I was indoors, but I was outside. I WAS OUTSIDE. Now this might work great if you live in a major city, but I don’t. I live in the suburbs.
If foursquare ever changes how their app finds location then I’ll give it another try, but my clear favorite is Gowalla. Both apps are free, so it doesn’t cost you anything to give them a try and see for yourself.
