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Cartoon Wars for iPhone – Awesome Game

Posted on November 27, 2009 by danaedwards| Leave a comment

Simple games are always the best games for me. Cartoon Wars is one of those games. It took all of about 10 minutes to figure out and I am still playing it occassionally now. So, I received about 2 – 3 months of fun for $0.99! :)

The game is basically a cross between a typical defense games and an RTS where two cartoons attempt to take over each other’s castles. You create special characters each with different abilities – some move faster, some have higher attack, and some higher defense – in order to take over your foe’s castle. The units change graphics as you upgrade them and include units like ninja, warrior, gunner, wizards, and even upgrades for your primary bow and castle.

To make a long story short, this cost a whole dollar and was a blast to play. I recommend it and have included a couple of screen shots below for you to see it.

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NPR iPhone App – Best News App

Posted on September 26, 2009 by danaedwards| Leave a comment

Before NPR released their iPhone app, I used Thomson Reuters and CNN Newsreader to get news on my iPhone. Thomson was a significant upgrade over the CNN Newsreader and now, NPR is a significant upgrade over Thomson.

The first feature that strikes you when you start the app is the News. NPR has high quality news as you know and now it is right at your fingertips. The stories are updated all day long and at times have accompanying audio. The audio can be listened to immediately or added to a playlist for later. The news is broken into three main categories – Top Stories, More Stories or Newscast which is a 5 minute piece that is updated every hour.

In addition to standard news articles and the newscast, NPR makes all of their shows available to you. If a show is on the air at that time, there will be an “on-air” logo next to the program and you can tap into it live!

The NPR iPhone app also lets you listen to live broadcasts from any NPR member station. You can search by state, by zip code, or let the iPhone GPS app locate the nearest one for you. The stations will let you listen to the live stream or any other program from the recent past.

To download the free app, go to iphone.npr.org/recommendnprnews or search for “NPR News” in the iTunes App Store. I hope you enjoy it like I do!

-Dana

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First iPhone Blog Entry – Catching Fireflies with the Family

Posted on June 26, 2009 by danaedwards| 1 Comment

I am still new to my iPhone and because of that, I am looking at every way possible to use it. My hope is that I will figure out the best and optimal way to suggest to others as well as make my own life simpler. There is probably a side of my family that sees the good and the bad of all this mobility and integration.

Anyways, here is how this blog entry came to be. First, I had to buy a mobile device. The biggest deliberation was determining if I would ever use it and after that whether I wanted an iPhone or a Pre. I ended up choosing an iPhone because I didn’t like the keyboard or the size of the Pre. After choosing the iPhone, I spent a few moments opening up the app store and installing the WordPress app. Configuration of the app took almost no time at all – just enter my URL, my userid and then my password. I was up and running in just a few moments. There was really nothing to it at all.

More importantly, my evening was filled with a fun event with Claire, Brennan and Jill catching fireflies. I was responsible for Lucy and taking the photos. Jill and Brennan caught all of the fireflies while Claire ran around the yard carrying he jar. It was a lot of fun and gave me a fun topic to end my blog entry.

- Dana

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