Zoom User Reviews Combining two very popular trends currently in iPhone gaming, Doodle Blast! is one fine indulgent venture into doodles and destruction. The story behind the game is pretty interesting. Shortly after cranking out Pop Fizz, the developer behind Game Collage got sick with the flu. Wanting to make the best use of his time, but reluctant to invest too much time in something that would just be buried in the App-alanche(pardon the pun), Game Collage decided to see what he could create in a week. After reminiscing over the good ‘ol days with his brother, Game Collage decided to bring back their long-forgotten brainchild and seven days later (just like God!), Doodle Blast! was born. Though there is an amusingly detailed tutorial included, Doodle Blast! is at its heart, very basic, simple fun. Staying true to their original idea, it’s essentially you and your tank stacked with its ever-expanding arsenal of guns and rockets blowing things up. Each weapon looks and works differently, with some having continuous fire and others requiring a regular tap-tap-tap. I was pleased to realize it has multi-touch functionality so that I could defend myself against both the ground troops and airstrikes. For scorings, there is a global leaderboard as well as Twitter integration to post and compare scores online. Game Collage has a blog detailing the creation process of the game and for those interested, I found it to be a nice representative of the work that goes into any game development. Combined with in-game details like the slow stalling sound of the engine when you pause, insight like that really gave me a renewed respect for developers who take pains in releasing a quality finished product. Because the game is relatively simple, some may find Doodle Blast! a little limited but for anyone who’s ever been even a little hellbent on stick-figure destruction may easily find Doodle Blast! a fun little game with little creative details that many can appreciate. Doodle Blast! can be in the AppStore for $0.99. Appsfari Rating: 4/5 Here is a video demo of the Doodle Blast! app on the iPhone This 3rd Party App is available at the Apple iTunes AppStore. Browse the full list of all AppStore apps filed under the AppStore category. View the developer website here Download Doodle Blast! at iTunes App Store Price: $0.99 Share This iPhone App Tweet about this iPhone app Email this app to a friend! del.icio.us Facebook MySpace StumbleUpon Reddit Google Yahoo! Buzz added 0 minutes ago and filed under Action , appstore , fun , games (Viewed 2 times, 2 so far today). Need help on using these apps? Please read the Help Page . Источник: feedproxy.google.com , получено с помощью rss-farm.ru

Zoom User Reviews In 2008, the UK based Blackout Crew released their song “Put A Donk On It,” and now thanks to Flaming Mitten Studios, everyone has a chance to do so. For those not in the know, a donk is an onomatopoeia for the pipe sound that is characteristic of bouncy house/techno, particularly in subgenres like scouse house or happy hardcore. All sounds contained in Put a DONK on it were professionally engineered by S-Scape Studios and as such, every soundbite is quality, sounding crisp and clear. From the start page, you have two arrows pointing left and right. To the right is the giant Emergency Donk button for the times you just gotta have a donk and to the left is a 24 button soundboard with 6 loops, 8 donks and 8 other “fx” for you to play with. Put a DONK on it is a solid collection of soundbites though it feels a little limited and more loops, donks and effects and an ability to record and import/export would also be nice adds. Despite being a simple soundboard, Put a DONK on it is fun and very well designed. It is sharply arranged, with neat color-coded organization and vibrant, polished buttons. If you’re a fan of the whole iPhone band movement, this soundboard could be a welcome addition to your soundboard/pocket instrument collection. Put a DONK on it can be found in the AppStore for $1.99, though you can get the Emergency Donk button for free with its Lite version. Appsafari Rating: 3/5 This 3rd Party App is available at the Apple iTunes AppStore. Browse the full list of all AppStore apps filed under the AppStore category. View the developer website here Download Put a DONK on it at iTunes App Store Price: $1.99 Share This iPhone App Tweet about this iPhone app Email this app to a friend! del.icio.us Facebook MySpace StumbleUpon Reddit Google Yahoo! Buzz added 0 minutes ago and filed under appstore , music , fun (viewed 1 time). Need help on using these apps? Please read the Help Page . Источник: feedproxy.google.com , получено с помощью rss-farm.ru

The New York Times has a long, juicy look at what’s been going on behind the scenes with the ever-escalating conflict between Google and Apple . The cause for all the enmity, according to insiders? Ego. When Apple filed suit against HTC earlier this month, it was clear that Google and Apple’s romance had turned sour. But the Times’ article , which draws on “interviews with two dozen industry watchers, Silicon Valley investors and current and former employees at both companies,” offers a sense of just how personal this battle is and always has been. The writers begin by summarizing: At the heart of their dispute is a sense of betrayal: Mr. Jobs believes that Google violated the alliance between the companies by producing cellphones that physically, technologically and spiritually resembled the iPhone. In short, he feels that his former friends at Google picked his pocket. The article starts with the good old days, when the two companies were cooperative and when the individuals that ran them were close. Even before the mutually-beneficial industry chuminess between Steve Jobs and Eric Schmidt, Jobs had a personal relationship with those heading Google. In the company’s early days, the article explains, Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin “considered Mr. Jobs a mentor,” and they did the things that mentors and mentees do: [Sergey] Brin was also known to take long walks with Mr. Jobs near his house in Palo Alto, and in the nearby foothills of the Santa Cruz Mountains. According to colleagues, they discussed the future of technology and planned some joint ventures that never came to fruition - like a collaborative effort to develop a version of Apple’s Safari browser for Windows. Google’s development of Android, however, was the thin end of the wedge, and even in its early stages was a source of tension. The article recounts one Android-related meeting between Jobs and Google that sounds mighty uncomfortable: At one particularly heated meeting in 2008 on Google’s campus, Mr. Jobs angrily told Google executives that if they deployed a version of multitouch - the popular iPhone feature that allows users to control their devices with flicks of their fingers - he would sue. Two people briefed on the meeting described it as “fierce” and “heated.” Eventually, we on the outside caught wind of the conflict. As early as January 2008, Jobs was slighting Android , and a year after that we heard that Apple had stopped multitouch on Android altogether. We watched things get publicly uncomfortable when Apple rejected Google Voice from the app store. And soon we saw their acquisitions become undeniably competitive, Apple allegedly feeling that Google “stole” AdMob from them and preemptively gobbling up Lala in return. On the AdMob acquisition, the article reveals that Apple had a 45-day window in which it could have purchased the company for $600 million, but they stalled and Google swept in to outbid them. After this move, a source says, “Mr. Jobs speculated that AdMob might have violated its legal obligations, with help from Google.” At the time, the AdMob saga suggested that the stakes were being raised in the face-off, and Apple’s recent patent infringement suit against HTC was just further confirmation that the bad blood was turning into a blood bath . In January we heard that Apple was in talks with Microsoft to replace Google with Bing as the default search engine on iPhones and iPads, and the Times article ends by mentioning that “One Apple employee says that Qi Lu, the president of Microsoft’s online services division, was recently seen visiting Apple’s campus in Cupertino to discuss such a deal.” The Apple-Google war is waged by massive, relentless corporations, but it is fueled by the bruised egos of a few men. Given a better picture of how personal the conflict has been all along, it’s hard to imagine the giants reconciling anytime soon. [ NY Times ]