May 15, 2008
By Chris in Applications, Other Sites, Reviews | 0 comments
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I’ll hand it to Apple, their iPhone has spurred a flurry of new development activity for mobile platforms. The web 2.0 aesthetic–simple, uncluttered interfaces, large button-like links, and streamlined services–works well with the iPhone’s touch-and-tap interface, and in many cases websites designed for the iPhone screen work well on other mobile screens as well.
That’s the [...]
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February 7, 2008
By Chris in Games, Reviews | 0 comments
“Supermodel Empire” is obviously a product of a reality TV world, in particular one in which “Project Runway” and similar fashion and design competitions exist. For its setting it borrows heavily from the world of “Project Runway,” introducing you as the winner of a design competition and the new small-business-owner of your very own label. [...]
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January 25, 2008
By Chris in Games, Reviews | 0 comments
There is nothing remotely New York City-ish about “Megacity Empire New York” from Gameloft, so disregard the last half of this game’s title immediately. This is a city-building sim that presents you with a series of escalating stand-alone challenges (there’s no narrative thread to call it a “story mode”) where you’ll have to grow a [...]
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October 15, 2007
By Chris in Games, Reviews | 0 comments
Ancient Empires II, from Glu, is a turn-based strategy combat game where you create and move small groups of units, each with unique abilities, on a game board against up to three other opponents. Although the name is clearly a reference to the popular PC series “Age of Empires,” it’s closer in spirit and game [...]
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August 15, 2007
By Chris in How-To, Reviews | 0 comments
S60 uber-site allaboutsymbian.com has spent much of the summer examining every single potential use of the TV Out capabilities of the N95 (you just plug a headphone-style jack into the headphone port and then plug the other ends into your TV’s composite input ports). Most owners probably overlook this feature because it opens up [...]
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