Showing posts with label Technology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Technology. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 25, 2011

9 Best iPhone Games Apps 2011

Many attractive games you can find as features in the iPhone 2011. From the easiest to the most challenging one. I am so sure you love and have ever played, at least one of the games. Here is the list of 9 Best iPhone Games Apps 2011. Just play the games !

  1. Angry Birds
    • Dangerously addictive but deceptively simple, Angry Birds lets you employ cartoon birds as weaponized projectiles in an escalating war against a posse of egg-stealing green pigs. (Don't ask.) Revenge relies on vectors and basic principles of physics, but the gist is to use a slingshot to angle an 'angry bird' at the smug little pigs. The real challenge? Putting your phone down once you've started.
  2. Scrabble
    • Hasbro's iPhone app version of Scrabble might be even better than Grandpa's board version. You can match wits against the computer, against online opponents, or against your friends via Facebook. Scrabble pros can have up to 50 games going at once, while newbies will appreciate the game's learning tools, including a teacher mode and a cheater option, which allows the computer to choose the highest-score word for you.
  3. Plants v. Zombies
    • The thought of a zombie attack is enough to keep any sensible person up at night. But you know what's even scarier? Watching waves of zombies trampling your nicely manicured lawn. That national (or at least gardener's) nightmare is realized in Plants vs. Zombies, a perennial best-seller. Game rules? The zombies advance, you bombard them with any number of flora, including ears of corn and frozen watermelons. That's just common sense, right?
  4. Doodle Jump
    • One of the top-grossing apps of all time, Doodle Jump remains as compelling as ever. Tilt your phone to guide the adorably-long-snouted Doodler as he climbs a piece of graph paper, all the while dodging black holes, shooting monsters, and picking up goodies. Between the game's range of colorful winter, jungle, space and graveyard themes and its lack of a finish line, Doodle Jump is tough to quit.
  5. Fruit Ninja
    • Who knew that a Ninja's worst enemy could be fruit? Apparently, Halfbrick Studio, the developer of this popular game. Just swipe your finger to cleave flying fruit in two, ideally before they hit the ground. Oh, and keep a watch out for bombs; mistakenly slice one, and it's game over. The app is integrated with OpenFeint (so you can compete with your friends), and it's an ideal app for commuters or for those stuck in a slow-moving grocery store line.
  6. Cut the Rope
    • Angry Birds dominated the App Store in 2010, but Cut the Rope — an equally addictive puzzle-like game — gave it a run for its money at the end of the year. Featuring Om Nom — a wee green creature with none of the rage of the Angry Birds but all of the aww! factor — Cut the Rope requires players to maneuver a piece of hard candy through a maze of obstacles and rope-cutting, and into the open mouth of an eager Om Nom.
  7. Pictureka
    • It's either Where's Waldo? for the iPhone generation, or hell for anyone who has ever lost their keys in a messy room. Pictureka presents gamers with a screen cluttered with objects, and a list of things they must find (think five pieces of fruit, or six objects from space). Find them all before the clock runs out and get rewarded with. . . a new list. Trust us, it's more addictive than it sounds.
  8. Wurdle
    • With Wurdle, users spot then trace words from a grid of letters, acrostic-style, to see how many words they can make in a two-, three- or five-minute period. Stuck? Shake the phone to scramble the tiles, then get back to word hunting. At game's end the app will helpfully shame you with a list of all the words you missed, and also let you compare scores with friends or with other players online.
  9. GeoDefense Swarm
    • The principle is simple: Stop the creatures by blasting them with strategically-placed cannons before they reach your base. When it comes to the gameplay itself, things can quickly — but entertainingly — spiral out of control. (Before you know it, the casualty count will include your phone battery.) GeoDefense Swarm is easy enough for a child to play, but mastering it takes a nimble mind and even nimbler fingers.

Source: TIME in partnership with CNN

Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Five Storyline Reveals in the Modern Warfare 3 Trailer

Modern Warfare 3 Trailer appeared in the news this afternoon with the release of a new trailer, these images show a gameplay for the first time. But its mix of cutscenes and action sequences left us asking more questions than before. So we know 1UP wanted to at least share some of our findings and see if you've noticed something interesting too. Here are our five key outcomes of the gameplay trailer.

  1. Not familiar faces, only action.
    • Captain Price and Soap MacTavish is nowhere to be seen in this trailer, but I would not worry too much about it. At the end of the Modern Warfare 2, we were left to question where they will go and how they could do without getting caught. With the most powerful nations in the midst of World War III, it is much more likely than soap and prices can slip under the radar.
  2. Lone Ranger
    • "It should not be the most powerful nation on Earth to create the next global conflict, only the will of a man." Although we know that Makarov, head of the Russian terrorist group, made the statement, the author is not very clear. Sure, it could have caused the war, but do not know who is attacking.
  3. Marina
    • From what we see today, the war sailors has an important place in this game than its predecessors. If only we knew what country is represented in this screen shot - it's hard to believe the U.S. deliberately attacking Manhattan.
  4. U.S. to attack or support of France?
    • In this screenshot of the game, it seems pretty clear that the player attacked a district in France. Remember, they do not take to the streets, but the building itself. Is this another "No Russian" when we are asked to attack civilians? Or are the Americans, the biggest enemy of France?
    • U.S. defends NYC and it is unclear the role of France. We're not sure if Britain and Germany to travel elsewhere in order to initiate full-scale war, or if it is only in their immediate vicinity.
  5. WTF! What's wrong?
    • The scenario seems to be everywhere, so now more than ever. It's easy to assume that understanding will not be easy to pick up the franchise Modern Warfare for the first time. Suppose I invent a brief summary of appropriate sufficient money to meet Modern Warfare 3.
    • Some of our takeaway fast the trailer tonight. Have you seen something else to note? Or do you have any ideas about what will happen in MW3? Tell us below!

Sunday, March 6, 2011

USAF Has Launched Latest Mysterious Space Plane

A second mysterious, robotic space plane was launched into orbit by the U.S. Air Force yesterday, after the first craft safely returned to Earth late last year following a secretive months-long mission and speculation about its potential military or intelligence uses.

The X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle taxis on the flight line in 2010
(Credit: U.S. Air Force)

The second Boeing-built X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle, or OTV, left Cape Canaveral, Fla., at 2:46 p.m. PT, atop an Atlas V rocket, Boeing said.

"History was made in December when the X-37B became the United States' first unmanned vehicle to return from space and land on its own," Craig Cooning, vice president and general manager of Boeing Space and Intelligence Systems, said in a statement today. "The success of that mission validated this reusable and effective way to test new technologies in space and return them for examination."

The X-37B, which was originally a NASA project, has the potential to pick up where the space shuttle program will leave off when it winds down. And Boeing's statement suggested as much.

The "OTV-2," the second X-37B space plane,
launches atop an Atlas V rocket (Credit: Patrick
H. Corkery/Boeing)
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But an Air Force statement at the time of the first craft's launch that a successful project could "make our access to space more responsive...and push us in the vector toward being able to react to warfighter needs more quickly," has, for some, lent the X-37B program an air of intrigue.

Some observers think the project is designed to facilitate the development of combat and weapons systems; others have suggested that the unmanned craft could be used as an orbital spy vehicle.

The Air Force said in its statement today that the program "has the potential to make space experiments more affordable, which would allow future experiment designers to focus resources and dollars on technology and innovation rather than on basic services, layers of redundancy, or ground operations."

The present mission is scheduled to last about 270 days, but the Air Force said that might be extended. The first craft stayed in orbit 224 days.

The X-37B is about 29 feet long with a wingspan of about 15 feet and looks something like a smaller, eyeless relative of the space shuttle.