Last year I recieved an iPod Touch 2nd Generation for my birthday. My 40gig iPod photo had died and I wanted a new one. What makes the Touch and iPhone so good is all the apps you can run on them. Here are four of my favorite apps:
Chess With Friends is a fun and free chess game. Whats really nice is you and your opponent do not need to be online at the same time to play. Games within the app get updated when you or your opponent make a move. If anyone feels like challenging me my user name is Shack70.
Tweetie is a clean, easy and simple to use Twitter application. Even though it cost $2.99 it is worth every penny to a Twitter user. Everything you can do from the website you can do with Tweetie and more. Some of the extra stuff included with Tweetie are: find other Twitter users near you, follow Twitter trends and a good search. Follow me on Twitter.
ComicZeal is a free digital comic reader. There are several digital comic readers in the iTunes store but ComicZeal is about the best one. Comic Zeal allows you to add your own digital comics and read them on the iPhone/Touch. ComicZeal Sync is a stand alone application that will allow you to covert digital comics you have on your PC or Mac and transfer them to the iPhone/Touch for viewing within ComicZeal created by the makers of ComicZeal. Comics look really good in ComicZeal and can viewed in portrait or landscape. Zoom is also availible for thos hard to read word bubbles.
Stanza is a free ebook reader for the iPhone/Touch. With the use of a desktop app provided by the makers of Stanza you can port you ebooks over to the iPhone/Touch and carry a small library with you. Stanza is very customizable allowing you to adjust things such as font, font size, text color and background color. There is no support for PDF files at this point.
I usually post about this earlier but I’ve been kind of busy. Saturday May 2nd is Free Comic Day this year. Free Comic Day is a good chance for anyone who is interested in comics to try some for free. How it works is comic publishers supply your local comic shop with free comics to give away to anyone who enters the store. The idea is to get people into comic shops and to introduce readers to something they may not have tried reading. It’s also great to take kids to Free Comic Day and let them pick a few comics. It gets them to read and they have a good time as well, but make sure you screen what they pick since some of the titles offered at Free Comic Day aren’t completely kid friendly.
Yeah I know, Lego Rock Band? I’ve rumors of it but thought it was a joke. Planet Xbox 360 posted today that Rock Band Lego will be out for the holiday season of 2009. The game lets players “build” a Lego band and work through different venues though out the Lego universe. Existing Rock Band instruments will work with the game as well. A few tracks were also announced with the game:
Blur: “Song 2”
Carl Douglas: “Kung Fu Fighting”
Europe: “The Final Countdown”
Good Charlotte: “Boys and Girls”
Pink: “So What”
So far Travelers Tales has not disappointed me with any of the Lego game, even though the first Star Wars Lego was the best in my opinion and Harmonix has also not disappointed me with either Rock Band titles while they continue chugging along with great down-loadable content for the Rock Band games. I hope this team up turns out a fun and enjoyable game and not the possible disaster it could be.
Character photos of the game are available at Planet Xbox 360
In 1985 Crisis on Infinite Earths a twelve issue limited series set forth to correct problems that had plagued the DC universe. Up until that point there were all these different Earths vibrating at different frequencies. Because of this you had all different versions of the heroes and villains and once in a while they would spill over into existing story lines. It gave DC the freedom to write strange and wacky stories then explain at the end that it was an alternate Earth. Crisis on Infinite Earths was a way to merge all these Earths and the characters that inhabited them into one universe, effectively reboot the DC universe. As it turns out things didn’t work out as planned and DC has been having mini-series after mini-series to fix problems caused by Crisis on Infinite Earths. When I first heard about Final Crisis it was supposed to be the final fix for everything that has been wrong since Crisis on Infinite Earths.
After reading Final Crisis I have to say that I have no idea what happened. Without giving away too many spoilers, there were many things that happened that I have no idea as to how or why they happened. It seems the story turned from fixing the DC universe to what happens if evil wins. I really have no idea how evil won but they did in this story. Darksied and his minions have somehow killed all the New Gods and are now on Earth disguised as regular people. Then all of a sudden they pop up and take over the world.
If I had to write a book report on Final Crisis I don’t think i could do it. The story was that bad that I can’t describe what happened or how it really ended. The only thing I really got out of the story is that Barry Allen, the original modern Flash is back from the dead. He had died in Crisis on Infinite Earths. In Final Crisis he shows up again because he is needed. Don’t ask how, I have no idea.
If you are planning on reading Final Crisis I urge you to get it at your local library as it is definately not worth buying or owning unless you enjoy utter confusion and disappointment. If you have not yet read Crisis on Infinite Earths it is a good book that has every DC character you can imagine in it and is worth owning.
Thought this was really funny, the Japanese Spider-Man. Her even seems to have a flying robot that also might be a car that he controls with this funky wrist watch.
Not sure if anyone else is watching Terminator The Sarah Conner Chonicles Fridays on Fox, but I am hooked on the show. When I first heard they were turning the Terminator franchise into a TV show I thought it would be terrible. All I could imagine was week after week of the Conners getting attacked by new terminators. Turns out that they actually pulled off a great show. With many plot lines going on at the same time and character developments that are shocking yet enjoyable the show has turned out to be great. Now into the second season and ending soon I think, episode 21 jsut aired last week and 22 airs this week at 8pm EST. One of my favorite characters is Cameron, played by Summer Glau who you might reconize from the show Firefly. Cameron is a reprogrammed terminator sent back from the future to protect John Conner. Lending from the S.M. Stirling Terminator books, Cameron is an infultrator model and thoughout the she shows human characteristics while posing as John’s sister and fighting off threats to the Conner family.
In 1985 
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