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?

Most, if not many of you have already heard of the magnificent iPad. Steve’s baby – as some may recall.

Here are a couple of tips and tricks I’ve learned while playing with it for a couple hours.

Tip #1: The dock can support up to six (6) apps!

Tip #2: You can mute your iPad by holding down the down volume control button.

Tip #3: Double tapping the space bar will insert a period followed by a space.

Tip #4: You can get rid of the keyboard by tapping the keyboard button on the bottom right corner of the on-screen keyboard.

Tip #5: The iPad can support up to 11 app pages (i.e. the dots at the bottom of the app page.)

Tip #6: Tap the groups ribbon on the Contacs app to filter your contacts by group.

Tip #7: In the Maps app, tap and hold anywhere on the map to drop a pin.

Tip #8: In the iBooks app, you can tap and hold to select a word and when you “Bookmark” it, it actually highlights the words you’ve just selected.

Tip #9: Double-tapping a word selects it.

Tip #10: Let’s say you’ve reordered every app on your iPad and decided that you want to go back to its original state? You can now reset specific parts of your iPad from your Home Screen – resets the built-in apps of your iPad to its original first-page location, reset your network settings – in case you want your iPad to forget every network it was previously connected to including the one you’re in, reset the location warnings, reset your keyboard dictionary and last and finally, to reset all.

Tip #11: If you’ve paired your bluetooth keyboard with your iPad, chances are, you’ll have noticed the on-screen keyboard disappear. Whenever you’re not using your keyboard anymore, and wants to regain the on-screen keyboard, you can always turn the bluetooth keyboard off by holding down the power button for a couple seconds.

If you’ve got new tips and tricks you want to share, by all means post them on the comment section below! Thanks and enjoy your iPad!

To sum it all up, it simply isn’t a simple simplistic router. It has the standard specs – 802.11 b/g/n… a simple router that could and did it.

What sets it apart from everyone is that it’s a powerhouse in one tiny device that even the Apple AirPort Express is a mere fart.

Boasting not one, but FOUR USB ports for easy hard drive, printer and media sharing (yea, you heard me right, MEDIA SHARING! PS3 and XBox fans rejoice!), you get a network hard drive router, print server, media center and more:

• Wireless backup (including Time Machine compatability)
• Hard drive mirroring (with a touch of a button)
• iTunes compatability (so you won’t need to put all your humongous songs in your computer hard drive, you just simply tuck it away inside a portable hard drive. Leaving you with more space for important stuff.)
• Free software – TrendMicro Internet Security, EMC Retrospect Express Backup software, Iomega QuickProtect and MozyHome Online Backup  Service.

Among its new features include a “Full HD” 1080p Hi-Def resolution, a Bluray and DVD player (all the things we clamored for before) but now we have it, here I present to you: the NEW Apple TV***:

Featuring Apps from the brand new AppleTV App Store.

(*** DISCLAIMER: This is not an actual product, simply a concept rendering of my idea of a conceptualized Apple TV. Comments and Suggestions welcome. Thank You.)

Sorry to burst your bubbles but these are, unfortunately, MY CONCEPT iPod Touches.

I had the idea on what a colored iPod Touch would look like. These seem to work best. I took a shot and shot for the stars.

Hope you’re drooling on them already… I’m planning on buying another one… even though I have two of them already. But I’ll wait till the one comes out in color AND has a camera.

Here’s a silent commercial I made out of the picture:

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.

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.

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!

The long anticipation is over. The update’s here! Vavle‘s awesome game of the year, Left4Dead has brought waves of zombie lovers all over the world. From tactics, to planning to surviving to keeping each other alive… or not! Left4Dead is pretty much the best zombie game ever made! Since its release in 2007, it has brought many fans the excitement it can muster. But 2007 is so not today! People want more!

And so, with Valve’s ingenious updates, Left4Dead has brought itself to a whole new level that people will love. Although we didn’t get new maps for Left4Dead, Valve has released the Editor! Not only can you edit and make the game yourself, you can play it and share it with your friends.

Some new features in the maps are the updated building architechture; in other words, more hiding spaces for the infected. It has added new rooms and has given the players new places to duck and cover. Also, in the update, they’ve made the Versus Mode available to all the maps. They’ve also put a distinction between the Versus maps and the Campaign maps.

They’ve also updated the infected’s powers, so to say. They’ve given players more control over the Tank and had its health last a little bit longer. They’ve updated the blinding bile from the Boomer; and yes, you really can’t see anything. Given more pounce-ablility to the hunter and a longer range for the smoker. Also, depending on what the skill levels of the players are, they’ve modded the horde so they can spawn quickly in quick attacks.

As stated in Steam:

Survival Mode:

New Gameplay Mode

16 NEW Maps including Last Stand

Leaderboards; and

7 NEW Achievements

Versus Mode:

2 NEW Versus Campaigns

Fixing the scores even thought the scoreboard has opened up

And more…

All in all, this is, by far, the best update ever! I’m off to go see the new maps! So, we’ll see. I’ll try to make my own levels too. As soon as I’m done with all my projects and exams and jobs. Hehe

Comments and Suggestions Welcome!

The iPod Shuffle features a new “voice-over” technology where it reads out loud the controls. It also is TINY! and features a 4GB start.

One other thing that they went away with is the classic click wheel. Instead, they built the controls onto their new and improved headphones with volume controls.

The new iPod Shuffle is as small as a flash drive yet still functional as the old shuffles. The only problem is, you have to use Apple’s Headphones to use them – it’s the only way you can control the device.

The NEW Voice-Over technique is a bit iffy and needs more work. It still has that “Microsoft Sam” type of quality and not a fluid human-like voice.

Some new features of the Shuffle also include playlists. Now you can play playlists on your shuffle.

Apple has come a long way. This by far is their ingenious way of modernizing the MP3 market. I am a bit disappointed at Apple for their quest for “smaller is better”.

I’ll let this one sit with the public and how they will view it. Comments and Reviews welcome!

Apple has finally unleashed the NEW Mac Mini on March 3, 2009.

Now that Apple has gone away with the WWDC Apple Conference/Macworld Expo, hearing about their new products takes chance to word of mouth, or by simply stumbling upon their website.

To keep their theme of going green, Apple has finally unveiled their new Mac mini. It still has the same dimensions as the old one, just with better and updated guts.

Here are the specs of the new Mac mini:

It starts at 2.0 GHz and is upgradable for up to 2.26 GHz

It has 2 RAM card slots that are upgradable for up to 4 GB

1 Firewire port

5 USB ports

NVidia GeForce 9400M at 128MB or 256MB

mini-DVi port

and the standard 802.11 a/b/g/n AirPort WiFi, Bluetooth 2.1, 1-Gigabit Ethernet, Built-In Speakers, you can choose from 120, 250, and 320 GB for Hard Drives at 5400rpm, Slot-loading SuperDrive that reads and writes CDs as well as DVDs

and it starts at $599 and up.

Nintedo DSi comes in Black and White

 Upon searching for new technoligies on the interwebz, I stumbled into the upcoming, long awaited (well, in the US anyway because it is already available in Japan in Japanese, duh!) Nintedo DSi.

As you can see from the video, it looks promising and now has the Nintendo Wii feel to it menu-wise. It does come in two colors at the moment: white and black and is only available in Japan in Japanese but I guess the whole world has to wait! Anyway, in further research, I found these mouth-watering specs that will truly keep this portable game device on top.

Pros:

• 3.25 in dual screens (the DS Lite has 3 in)
• Power button has been moved to the left side of the Screen which is also works as the HOME button
• No more volume sliders: they replaced them with buttons so you can’t accidentally hit it while playing
• It finally has an SD Card slot that can take in photos, videos and some of your music. I haven’t checked out if you can play homebrew games throught that but there’s a pretty good chance that someone will hack his way through it.

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• TWO CAMERAS!!! Yeah, you heard me, the Nintendo DSi has two cameras, one facing you and the other one facing the other way
• With the two cameras integrated into the DSi, it also comes with multiple softwares wherein you can warp, colorize, paint and some other ways you can destroy your pictures.
• Although you can’t play MP3 audio files, it does support AAC Files. It also comes with weird music playback softwares where you can warp, edit and listen to music and have fun while doing so.
• New Menu (which has a Wii Menu feel to it)
• You can now “Hotswap” wherein you change the game cartridge by going to the Menu and by not having to turn the entire system off just to play another game.

Cons:

• No more GBA slots (say goodbye to your Guitar Hero attachments!)
• Not an MP3 Player just an AAC Player
• Although  you it does come with a web browser (or you can buy the Opera Browser for ### “DSWare” Points), it’s a pain to use.