I saw a new mag at Costco that lists the games and rates them for people like me interested in added this dimension to their Iphones.
As there are over 10,000 apps for the Iphone its hard to know which ones are good and which ones are not even worth the 99 cents.
Looking through this mag/book I found a few that look pretty promising. Each one is a real winner.
There is one called ipingpong. Its a very neat 3d program that lets you play ping pong with an imaginary player. You can select the level of competence of the player that you play. There are practice choices and game choices. You finger moves the paddle on the sceeen. Its cool its worth it.
I found an interesting game shooting ducks as in a carnival for the second game. The directions were not too intuitive.. but tilting the iphone around and taping the screen when the circle was over the ducks seemed to work just fine. Its a winner.
The third one is called Removem. The book recommended the free one..but for a very small fee you lose the adds and the constant do you want to purchase the paid one reminders. So do it you will like it. It is one of those games that you try to pick the dots that are continuously the same color and double clicking on them eliminates them and allow the next rank or color drop into place, There is a tote for accumlated scores and other cool features.
All three of these are winners. There are somewhat in the roll the bb around the dots kind of game that you get at the 5 and 10 cent store.. but still.. maybe thats really what you want when you are killing time with your iphone.
Best wishes for a great holiday season.
Pat
A written expression of a 65year old plus retired Speech and Language Specialist in the Central Valley of California.
Sunday, December 27, 2009
Friday, December 11, 2009
Setting up a New Iphone is Daunting
Sue got a new Iphone.
There were certain requirements that she had to have.
It had to be red.
It had to retain the photo of fassie.. or Maffsa the cat we lost two years ago. A photo on her flip phone was the last remaining daily photo.
It took the people at ATnT, (3) of them, 30 minutes to do it. The phone that Sue had been using was one of the first "pink" flip phones. It was rather unique because it was made half of one run that had one color of pink and the start of another that used another color of pink.
Its day was over since we are now more into texting. Having to sort through the triad of letters to pick out the best one was slowing her down.. and limiting her responses. She has also wanted to have wiki power in her pocket. So.. she was playing the martyr, mom is always the last to get the cools stuff.. Yeah but mom is the first to say.. I like it the way it is.. plain food! Ha!
The problem was that the photo was not contained in the sim or memory chip. It resided deep within the memory of the phone itself.
It was accomplished.
As for the red portion.. the cover for the phone was much more to her liking with a slim pink one. So she was happy with the hot pink cover that was silicon based.
Then the battle began to get this phone come capability.
All of my ITunes purchases and choices sync right over to her phone as we were use the same Itunes account. The facebook account was anothe matter.
As I registered her up for facebook, They needed a unique email account for her registration.
I signed her up for a g mail account through google. That worked out rather quickly. The only problem then was to get the Iphone to recognize the email for gmail and not the mail from the pac bell account. That had to come from eliminating my email account from her phone and selecting the banner with google as the supplier and then it worked.
So after a little bit of configuration, Sue is has her own email account and her own facebook account. I have been recommending many of you to her as friendss,
: ) Pat
There were certain requirements that she had to have.
It had to be red.
It had to retain the photo of fassie.. or Maffsa the cat we lost two years ago. A photo on her flip phone was the last remaining daily photo.
It took the people at ATnT, (3) of them, 30 minutes to do it. The phone that Sue had been using was one of the first "pink" flip phones. It was rather unique because it was made half of one run that had one color of pink and the start of another that used another color of pink.
Its day was over since we are now more into texting. Having to sort through the triad of letters to pick out the best one was slowing her down.. and limiting her responses. She has also wanted to have wiki power in her pocket. So.. she was playing the martyr, mom is always the last to get the cools stuff.. Yeah but mom is the first to say.. I like it the way it is.. plain food! Ha!
The problem was that the photo was not contained in the sim or memory chip. It resided deep within the memory of the phone itself.
It was accomplished.
As for the red portion.. the cover for the phone was much more to her liking with a slim pink one. So she was happy with the hot pink cover that was silicon based.
Then the battle began to get this phone come capability.
All of my ITunes purchases and choices sync right over to her phone as we were use the same Itunes account. The facebook account was anothe matter.
As I registered her up for facebook, They needed a unique email account for her registration.
I signed her up for a g mail account through google. That worked out rather quickly. The only problem then was to get the Iphone to recognize the email for gmail and not the mail from the pac bell account. That had to come from eliminating my email account from her phone and selecting the banner with google as the supplier and then it worked.
So after a little bit of configuration, Sue is has her own email account and her own facebook account. I have been recommending many of you to her as friendss,
: ) Pat
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
A Story that left us Rolling on the Floor at Lunch
We have a crazy lunch time group and sometimes we are really out of control. We are loud and we have too much fun for a therapy session.
Today's topic took us out. We read the story in our local Sun Star and the implications just drove us over the edge.
Now you have a chance to do the same:
Merced County Main Jail inmate's stashed 'shank' is surgically removed
Prisoner had hidden the weapon inside his body cavity.
By VICTOR A. PATTON
vpatton@mercedsun-star.com
Don't try this at home -- or in jail.
An inmate at the Merced County Main Jail had a homemade knife surgically removed from his body cavity last month, according to Merced county Sheriff's officials.
He now faces concealed weapons charges.
This 5-inch plastic weapon was recovered from Rance Johnson, a prisoner at the Merced County Main Jail, after surgery at a Modesto hospital.
The inmate, 19-year-old Rance Johnson, approached corrections officials Nov. 18, complaining about an item stuck inside his rectum, causing pain, according to Deputy Tom MacKenzie.
Even worse, Johnson told deputies the improvised weapon -- known in jailhouse slang as a "shank" -- had been inside his body for three weeks.
He was taken to an emergency room in Modesto, and the 5-inch-long plastic shank was surgically removed, MacKenzie said.
"The taxpayer money does cover actual stupidity; hence this guy did have to have this surgically removed," said Sheriff Mark Pazin. "It's unfortunate, but it's a mandated surgery."
MacKenzie said Johnson told investigators he had no idea what the item was, that he'd found it in an interview room and tried smuggling the weapon by inserting it into his rectum. The item was wrapped inside tissue paper and placed in a sandwich bag before it was inserted, MacKenzie said.
Johnson is being held at the jail on suspicion of shooting a 17-year-old male near Castle Airport in September.
In addition to the concealed weapons charges, Johnson is facing an enhancement for allegedly committing a crime while participating in a criminal street gang.
My additions:
Yes the poor Dr, that took it out.. he didn't know sh
The defense attorney. " He didn't know..."
The jury.. Listening to the details
The judge.. trying to keep a straight face
Today's topic took us out. We read the story in our local Sun Star and the implications just drove us over the edge.
Now you have a chance to do the same:
Merced County Main Jail inmate's stashed 'shank' is surgically removed
Prisoner had hidden the weapon inside his body cavity.
By VICTOR A. PATTON
vpatton@mercedsun-star.com
Don't try this at home -- or in jail.
An inmate at the Merced County Main Jail had a homemade knife surgically removed from his body cavity last month, according to Merced county Sheriff's officials.
He now faces concealed weapons charges.
This 5-inch plastic weapon was recovered from Rance Johnson, a prisoner at the Merced County Main Jail, after surgery at a Modesto hospital.
The inmate, 19-year-old Rance Johnson, approached corrections officials Nov. 18, complaining about an item stuck inside his rectum, causing pain, according to Deputy Tom MacKenzie.
Even worse, Johnson told deputies the improvised weapon -- known in jailhouse slang as a "shank" -- had been inside his body for three weeks.
He was taken to an emergency room in Modesto, and the 5-inch-long plastic shank was surgically removed, MacKenzie said.
"The taxpayer money does cover actual stupidity; hence this guy did have to have this surgically removed," said Sheriff Mark Pazin. "It's unfortunate, but it's a mandated surgery."
MacKenzie said Johnson told investigators he had no idea what the item was, that he'd found it in an interview room and tried smuggling the weapon by inserting it into his rectum. The item was wrapped inside tissue paper and placed in a sandwich bag before it was inserted, MacKenzie said.
Johnson is being held at the jail on suspicion of shooting a 17-year-old male near Castle Airport in September.
In addition to the concealed weapons charges, Johnson is facing an enhancement for allegedly committing a crime while participating in a criminal street gang.
My additions:
Yes the poor Dr, that took it out.. he didn't know sh
The defense attorney. " He didn't know..."
The jury.. Listening to the details
The judge.. trying to keep a straight face