Personally I don't like this game, but it was recommended by official, Apple-owned, Twitter account of App Store so I bought it (price: $0.99). This app has been published by Chillingo, who has many games in the App Store. So it is not an indy game per se, but credits show that, in fact, some small company developed it. And as you can see above they used ShiVa 3D game engine (a multiplatform engine), so this game might come to other platforms too. Let's take a look at this game! First thing that makes me angry is that this app insists on you being signed-into Game Center, and if you are signed...


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If there is a foreign language worth learning, then it must be Mandarin - the language spoken in mainland China and Taiwan. In recent years China has overtaken Japan and Germany, and is now the second largest economy of the world. And according to many analysts, in 10 years it will also overtake the USA. Here I am reviewing an app that helps you to teach yourself Mandarin language pronunciation. What is particular about this app is: it is made by Microsoft Research - a division of Microsoft that is working on products that are usually not directly commercialised (this app is free too). While...


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Convertcast Episode 117 LAME Sunday May 6, 2012 MISC  The Kindle Fire is no longer on fire...sales share drops to 4% Draw Something loses 5M daily users (15M down to 10M) in 30 days.  Are people getting bored with it or is it Zynga? eye controlled user interface coming, among others in windows 8, google glasess, etc, Eurotrash company from Sweden works on it: http://www.tobii.com/ - not science fiction! How many times does your cell phone ring before it goes to voicemail? Why do the carriers now allow consumers to control this? iDrive - http://t.co/61UzR50k 5 GB free for starters,...


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Convertcast Episode 115 Sunday, April 22, 2012   Special guests Gary Moskoff and Dave Schuman from Guess Your Songs Dave and Gary talk about the concept, development, plans for the future. What features do you get playing free as opposed to premium? Follow Guess Your Songs on Twitter and Facebook for chances to win songs from iTunes. Play online at GuessYourSongs.com. Follow Alli on Twitter Follow Diana on Twitter Follow Edward on Twitter Call the Just Another Geek Site Google Voice number, and leave us a message! (304) 884-JAGS (5247) Download the episode directly here....


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Let's turn our attention away from all those cool kids playing with their iPhones and Androids and their fancy shmancy apps, and let's review a Windows Phone app, shall we? So, why do I review this app? Well, not because it is great by itself - it's little more than an RSS reader wrapped in an app generated (look ma, no coding!) by follow my feed service (also, young Skywalker, you can have your own Windows Phone app if you only sign up and submit such generated-from-RSS app to Microsoft's app hub - no need to worry about app rejection as Microsoft now is so needy that it accepts any app no matter...


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Dallas, Texas - April 12th, 2012 - Award winning indie developer MumboJumbo, LLC today announced the release on iPad of Pickers HD, a unique trash-or-treasure game in which players travel the back roads of America, looking for gold in an ultimate treasure hunt adventure. Inspired by the popularity of such television shows as American Pickers, Pawn Stars, Storage Wars, and American Restoration, Pickers HD provides a new twist on hidden-object games by putting YOU in charge. You not only choose what items you can pick, but also when, so you can sell your items when they aren't in high demand. Pick...


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Dallas, Texas - April 11, 2012 - Award-winning indie developer MumboJumbo, LLC today announced the release on iPad of Midnight Mysteries: Haunted Houdini, the fourth entry in the long running hidden-object adventure game series. The Midnight Mysteries series has become one of the most well known and most popular hidden-object adventure game series in the world since debuting on the casual gaming market in 2009, and has attracted millions of players across multiple gaming platforms,  Stirring scenes within the game, combined with a mysterious storyline surrounding the life and death...


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Convertcast Episode 112 Sunday April 1, 2012 MISC  World Backup Day 3/31 - Did you do a backup? Box.com introduces Box OneCloud http://www.box.com/business/features/onecloud/ "Box OneCloud brings together all your mobile content into the secure Box cloud. Experience productivity from anywhere and accelerate your business with a collection of mobile apps that integrate with Box to simplify and extend your workflow, while keeping content centralized on Box." LG making a new flexible e-ink display that should be available in Europe soon, and in the US shortly after http://www.extremetech.com/electronics/124229-lg-begins-mass-production-of-flexible-plastic-e-ink-displays Apple  http://www.cultofmac.com/156802/this-software-can-extract-your-ios-devices-passcode-contacts-call-logs-and-even-keystrokes-video/...


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Personally, I use Amazon Cloud Drive as cloud storage for my private needs. But sometimes I indeed use Dropbox, too, because it makes file sharing much easier. For example, I use Dropbox to upload raw MP3 files with a podcast recording so that my co-host can do audio editing (adding intro, outro, mixing). Also sharing some files with friends, like some huge PDF files with documentation, is easier via Dropbox than via eMail (that is sometimes impossible due to size limits in some email services). However apart from storing huge files in Dropbox, one can use it to store small text files with notes...


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Convertcast Episode 111 Sunday March 25, 2012 MISC  Also on NBC Nightly News - http://techland.time.com/2012/03/19/faa-rethinking-airplane-gadget-policy/ Various news sources this week stating that teenagers send an average of 60 text messages/day - girls tend to send way more In-App Ads Drain Up To 75% Of Your Phone’s Battery - http://www.cultofmac.com/154790/in-app-ads-drain-up-to-75-of-your-phones-battery/ iPhone and Android phones! South Carolina Teacher Suspended For Reading 'Ender's Game' To Middle School Students - http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2012/03/19/south-carolina-teacher-suspended-for-reading-enders-game-to-middle-school-students/ Some...


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