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Facebook for iPhone 3.0

Tom — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:50:43 +0000

Facebook didn’t just make sure their app worked on 3.0… Oh no! They went back to the drawing board! Check it out after the break!Facebook is one of the most popular apps in the app store, with over 25% of all iPhone users using it. Facebooks Joe Hewitt released more details on the new app today. It includes whole heap of new features like:

1. The “new” News Feed
2. Like
3. Events (including the ability to RSVP)
4. Notes
5. Pages
6. Create new photo albums
7. Upload photos to any album
8. Zoom into photos
9. Easier photo tagging
10. Profile Pictures albums
11. A new home screen for easy access to all your stuff, search, and notifications
12. Add your favorite profiles and pages to the home screen
13. Better Notifications (they link to the comments so you can reply)
14. Quickly call or text people right from the Friends page
15. Messages you are typing will be restored if you quit or are interrupted by a phone call

Certainly some welcome improvements however Hewitt says that push notifications aren’t quite ready yet and will come in the summer in 3.1. No details on when it’s released however he says he’s 97% done.

Sims 3, The Iphone Version.

James — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:42:40 +0000

Right the Sims 3, as you would expect this comes with a heavy price tag of £5.99 from the app store.I must admit this is one of the best games out for the iphone right now, and if you don’t mind paying £5.99 its defiantly worth a buy

You first get to make your own sim in the traditional sims way, by changing gender, hair style, colour just about anything. You also get the cool new feature taken from the PC version which is been able to pick a personality type for your Sim. You get the choice of six different personality types, Jack of all trades so your sim is just a God really and is good at everything, you can have the Nice guy so yeh your sim is friendly and can easily make friends etc, Your sim can be made a Jerk so basically he/she annoys everyone in the neighbourhood, You can get a generous amount of WooHoos by making your sim a Sleaze ? Or make he/ she a Power seeker, so yes your Sim loves money and Power. Finally Maniac, this is my personally favourite your sim is just all round crazy.

Right the game play, You can not build a new house from scratch but what do you expect, you get a standard house at first, with everything you need to get started But as you get through the game and make some simoleons you can upgrade your home. Okay so now in Sims your sim makes wishes so for example they make wish to stay entertained for three days or kick over every trashcan in the city etc. By completing the wish it will generally improve your Sims happiness. What I find very impressive is you can walk around the new Sims town well you can go from building to building, just with a small loading time. You can get a number if jobs such as test subject in the lab there are around 5 different jobs you can get, and of course you can gain a promotion.

There are around 9 different houses you can visit and around 15 different sims to befriend or annoy. Which I think is pretty impressive for an iphone game. You can take up fishing as a hobby, which you enter a mini game using the tilt motion on your iphone/ ipod to catch different fish. Or if that doesn’t take your fancy maybe take up gardening or repairing things.

Next the graphics, the graphics for Sims 3 are very impressive again EA has done a great job. After publishing games like Tiger Woods and Need For Speed, EA hasn’t disappointed in the graphics department. They look great and the touch screen works great letting you zoom, move the screen around and of course control your sim.

Overall this is a great game for the iphone. You can play for hours on end and still be amused, With EA announcing cool features to go with the recent 3.0 software update, you will be able to play your on music through the sims stereo and let your Sims dance away to your itunes collection. So yes it is priced at £5.99 but this has to be one of the best iphone games currently available, yet again EA has done a great job.

Facebook App Update

Tom — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 22:40:04 +0000

Facebook posted yesterday a update on there App for the iPhone or iPod Touch. The new facebook app update brings lot’s of great features. The new update basically brings the full facebook experience. You can now see everything in your friend updates. You used to only see status updates and album updates. Now you can see all the updates like you would at facebook.com. Profiles have now been brought up to date with the new design on the site. Your profile is now on tabs with a combintaion of your wall and mini feed. Facebook say it has been a popular request to search and apporve friends. This has now been added. Also in the first version your inbox could only display 30 messages but now you can see all your messages! Anyway check out the gallery:

Dream Apps

Tom — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 13:28:13 +0000

I have now upgraded to 2.0 on my iPod Touch and am pretty dismayed with the App Store. Yes, they are some great apps on there but I think they’re some missing and are in desperate need of creation. One of the ones I think needs to be made is a Windows Live Messenger App. It would be perfect! I think there’s loads more potential out there and I want to know your dream apps! Leave a comment and tell me!