Archive for November, 2008
Review: Trace (iPhone/iPod Touch)
Trace is a free game that is available in the App Store that doesn’t look like a decent or fun game at first sight. The game itself is all drawn free-hand and the animations are quite basic but the game itself is fun to play.
The game Trace was developed by Bovinedragon Software and was released on 21/10/08 into the App Store. The game runs in landscape mode to give the user more area to play with. The controls are at the bottom of the screen which include a left/right arrow at the bottom left to control the character and a jump button at the bottom right. In between these controls is a retry, back and draw/erase button also.
Email Hoaxes
I have received not only one, but two email hoaxes from friends within three days of themselves.
The first one is the good old “Bill Gates will give you money if you forward this”, the other being “Ericsson giving away free laptops”.
Now here is some of the transcript from the emails, and why they are hoaxes.
First email, Bill Gates / AOL giving away money (Seems too good to be true).
Subject: Please read!!!! This was on Oprah!
Content: THIS WAS FEATURED ON TWO PAGES OF THE TUESDAY USA TODAY – IT IS FOR REALDear Friends; Please do not take this for a junk letter. Bill Gates sharing his fortune. If you ignore this, you will regret it later.
For every person that you forward this e-mail to, Microsoft will pay
you $245.00 For every person that you sent it to that forwards it on,
Microsoft will pay you $243.00 and for every third person that receives
it, You will be paid $241.00. Within tw! o weeks, Microsoft will contact
you for your address and then send you a check.
Now how does Microsoft know your address and where to send the cheque too. Further down in the email, it states one person received $24,000. Bill is also putting most of his money into the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation. So what makes you think your so important for Microsoft to give away money for nothing?
iPhone Screenshots
Well I did a full restore of my iPhone yesterday, and decided to re-do it all again and take some screenshots of the iPhone in all it’s glory, haha. The theme I’m using is called Tenius which is a nice lightweight theme and also using the NeoTech font which compliments it nicely.
I’ve installed the Five Icon Dock mod (available in Cydia) and Tenius Flow to match the theme. The lock screen is Eclectic + Micro which is a nice clean lock screen. The weather on the screen is WeatherWidget theme. I’m also using ‘Yes Optus’ logo’s to replace the default text.
Let me know what you think or if you have any recommendations leave a comment. 
Tags: iPhone
Acronis True Image Home 2009
Well I did a clean install of Windows Vista yesterday and got all my programs and applications installed. This time I decided to create an image of the drive, and see how the backup / restore goes. My main drive (C:) is 83GB and after Vista and all the applications it has 35GB used. I downloaded and installed Acronis True Image Home 2009 from the Acronis website (direct link).
I created a full backup of my main partition, which was only 15GB after compression and took 20 minutes to create, after that the image was verified for redundancy. I then created the bootable rescue media which was only around 85MB, so can fit on a MiniCD.
I booted the disc, and did a system restore from the backup I created on my External HDD, all in all it took 25 minutes to restore, and worked beautifully.
So if your looking for a great image backup / recovery solution, I highly recommend Acronis True Image from personal experience.
Games and Tools for the iPhone
I’ve been trying out a few games and tools for the iPhone, here are a couple that I really like.
1. Bejeweled 2 (Homepage)
It’s a great game where you have to line up gems, and can get bonuses by aligning 4 or more gems in a row, it’s a very addictive game.
2. Enigmo (Homepage)
The purpose of the game is to move various liquids into into their proper tanks. In order to do so, players must manipulate bumpers, sliders, accelerators and sponges to affect the course of each stream.
3. Google Earth (Homepage)
As the title says, it’s Google Earth for the iPhone. You can use the built-in GPS to locate exactly where you are, route destinations e.t.c.