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Games That Would Be Awesome On The iPad

After brainstorming some ideas on what game to create for the iPhone/iPod touch/iPad, I came to the dilemma of having most of my ideas either taken from another game or something that sounds a lot like their original counterparts.

First game for the iPad is Finger Twister. The iPad selects the user to put whatever finger on whatever color on the iPad but the user must keep his fingers on the iPad or else he looses the game. One twist would be to do a timed session, where the user is given only a couple seconds to react.

Next is Monopoly. With the iPhone/iPod Touch support where you can sync the iPhone/iPod Touch to the iPad through WiFi or Bluetooth wherein you can keep track of your expenses, cards and owned land. The iPad takes care of the “banker” role and does the transactions that way and sends it to the appropriate user whoever you’re “renting” to to pass by.

Apples to Apples is next with the same iPhone/iPod Touch support. The “it” person would simply tap the green car in the middle to reveal the word and the rest of the users would simply flick their best cards from their iPhones/iPod Touches. The “it” person would then reveal the cards one at a time and maybe a button to choose which card fits best. One feature could be to have the “it”‘s word card’s definitions float across the screen while everyone’s deciding on which card to use.

Risk would be an awesome iPad game… think about it, shake the iPad to roll the dice, and tap and drag to move your soldiers.

A simple game show game: Deal Or No Deal, Wheel Of Fortune, Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, 1 VS 100, Jeopardy, ETC. (with iPhone/iPod Touch support to submit their answers), would also look awesome on the iPad.


You’d think they’ve started making these, huh? I wish to see more games like these that integrate the iDevices features in the future.

So… Is there a game that you would like to see on the iPad?

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The iPad: The Little Tablet that Could

The Little Tablet That Could

The iPad is truly a revolutionary device. Not that it can replace your desktop computer but that it has completely opened up a new category in portable computing. It’s a companion that could do so much! but depending on the apps that the third party companies make, it could technically replace your computer. Give some of the big companies some time and the iPad might as well be your only computer.

Not that I’m saying that this SHOULD be your computer; it all depends on what you do. There’s a computer for everyone. But this could be your middle-ground from desktop to phone. But for the rest of the people who are simple persons. This is the perfect device for you.

The apps themselves are separate from this review since they are what truly sets this tablet computer apart from other computers. They are why we enjoy this device so much in the first place! They open the window to what it can do; what the iPad is for. The apps themselves are also made to the highest standard – beautiful and functional and all utilizing most of the functions of the iPad.

The iPad gets everything done: with the help of third party apps.

Here are a few of the selling points of the iPad:

1. So, what sets the iPad apart from the iPod Touch/ iPhone? A bigger touch screen.
What’s the biggest selling point of the iPad? A bigger touch screen.
Why should you buy the iPad? It’s a bigger touch screen!

Simply put: the bigger the real estate, the more you can do with a touch screen.

It’s what sets it apart from phones, yet it’s small enough to be carried around compared to a bulky computer/netbook.

2. Why is it better than a netbook? Not only is a netbook not powerful enough or feels like it, it just feels too slow for one to be satisfied to use it as an everyday device. Often programs crash and it loads a lot slower whenever you have multiple softwares running at the same time.

3. Which brings me to this next point. IT IS to the iPad’s advantage that it can only run one app at a time. Too often does the netbook have so many softwares running at the same time that hardly any of the softwares work.
Another thing that the iPad has an advantage over the netbook is of that it’s third party apps are specifically created for its optimal use. Not only is the netbook trying to run a software that it was clearly not designed to run, it most often ends up trying it’s best trying to run that software that the whole system suffers.

4. So, why iPad? It’s more personal. It is a tool that can be exploited in so many ways with the help of, again, third party apps! Third party apps for us all.

With it’s upsides, there’s definitely some downsides. Yeah it doesn’t have flash (the proprietary web plugin that most users use to play games, videos, and some online applications), it doesn’t have a camera – most users rarely use this though it would be nice to have one, it isn’t necessary. We can live without those two.

Although recent reports about the iPad having problems with it’s WiFi and some apps crashing, it is due to it’s just recent release. There’s still some kinks that need to be ironed out.

Some problems that vie had recently were nothing serious just nothing an update couldn’t fix. There is a lot that i haven’t yet covered here but I do feel that the iPad is a revolutionary device.

5. It’s the little tablet that could.

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NEW MacBooks, iPhone, and iPod Touch 2nd Gen

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Today, Apple has, in its hay day, released, yet another, update…

Today, it has revolutionized yet again, its MacBooks. In the process altogether, the Apple has completely wiped out the MacBooks and replaced them with the MacBook Pro line: The 13-inch, the 15.4-inch and the 17-inch. Standardizing its Firewire-800, the SD Card Slot (sacrificing the slot-drive-thing) and also standardizing the “new” batteries on all the macs ones that go up to 8-hours a charge.

iPhone 3GS

The “NEW” iPhone, dubbed, the “iPhone 3G S,” is pretty much the same, only with new features such as: Video Recording; complete with a video editor and capture (all on your iPhone,) a voice-control (which we’ve seen on some apps but not on the native apps themselves), CUT, COPY, AND PASTE! Tethering – a process where you use your iPhone as a modem to connect to the 3G internet using your phone on your MacBook, the keyboard – where you now are able to go to landscape on Notes, Calendar, Safari, Phonebook and Messages! MMS (Multi-Media Messages) – Messages that contain pictures, audio and files, Maps, complete with a compass, and last but not the least, Search, sort of the Spotlight for your iPhone and iPod Touch.

As a new Mac user, I am, therefore irritated with these updates coming in so soon!!! I just bought my 15.4-inch MacBook Pro, 2.66 GHz, 4 GB RAM, 320GB HD; exactly ONE MONTH AGO, today! I WANT THE NEW MACBOOK PROS!!! and the worst thing is that I paid more money to have this rigged up to speed with what I wanted only to find out that the new ones will be $300 less than what I paid for. UGH! Many of the Mac users have been used to this feeling and I for one, have not yet been.

Bluetooth

I do have an interesting discovery. While visiting the Apple website in hopes of new updates for my MacBook Pro and my two iPod Touches, I stumbled upon the very word that I have been hoping for was on the iPod Touch… BLUETOOTH. Yes. You heard me. Bluetooth! As it turns out, the NEW iPod Touches already have them… Apple just hasn’t written the code to be able to use it yet. I’m glad I didn’t buy that Apple Headphone with mic and remote! HA!

To wrap things up, Apple, as we all know, is, and always will be, a guessing game. No one knows when things come out, how it will change us all and how agonizingly painful it is to see the prices. Well, that’s it folks! Tune in for more info on more Electronics and entertainments, only from, the one and only, youareageek!

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