App Review: Hot or Not!

Remember a few years back before smart phones and apps, you'd find yourself wasting your day away at work flipping through pictures of strangers and judging them instantly based solely on their appearance?  Those days seem like so long ago and it felt like they were gone forever as the fad passed into history.

Well the fad is back and you can do that all over again.  This time, you can do it anywhere, anytime, with your phone.

That's right Hot or Not is back with a new app and now you can see all the "hot" people around you and if you are brave enough, let the world determine your hotness, or lack there of.

The app boasts of having over 190 million users and this time around it acts more like a social network than just a random judging app.  You can chat with people around you now instead of just looking at the pictures.  So, should you be so inclined, you can not reach out and talk with the people you think are hot.

The app is now optimized for iOS7 and allows you to see how you are connected to other people via your own friends so you can play six degrees with complete strangers now.

Check it out for yourself and see if it's for you.  Personally, I'm not near brave enough to put my self out there for judgement but that's just me.  I just barely got the nerve to see how Grindr works.

Check it out at tryhotornot.com and check out the sweepstakes to win $1000 gift card!  I think the key to enjoying an app like this is to not take it very seriously.  Have fun with it and see if you can boost your own confidence.

And by the way, no matter what anyone on some app believes you're beautiful.

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Minecraft Pocket Edition 0.7.3 Update Review

Today, Mojang released the newest update to the mobile version of its Minecraft franchise, 0.7.3

Most of the new features are cosmetic and don't improve actual gameplay. These small improvements do, however,  bring us closer to seeming like we're playing the PC version of game.

The biggest aesthetic additions are the sun, moon and stars.  There's something magical about watching the stars and moon pass over the cubic terrain, because the days and nights are much shorter in the Pocket Edition of the game. Mojang also added the Quartz slab, which you can now use to build make-shift stairs or other purposes.

Also notable is the main menu.  The background now does a sweeping pan of a plains biome, the picture is blurred out as always, but it adds motion to the menu.  Adding even more motion is the implementation of the pulsating yellow text atop the Minecraft Pocket Edition Logo.  This yellow text changes with every loading of the menu.

The other big feature in this update is double chest.  You can now place two single chests side-by-side to make a double chest, which holds double the inventory as a regular chest.  In addition, the player can place double chests side-by-side.  This cannot be accomplished in other versions of the game.

There were various bugfixes and tweaks to Realms, namely the login.  Loading it a lot smoother and fast.  Also there is less of Realms crashing and disconnecting players.

Other Realms Tweaks include:

• Realms can be reset
• Glowing Obsidian can yield resources with an Iron pickaxe, but obsidian can only be mined with a Diamond one
• You can't type capital W in world or seed
• Wooden Slab hard to break w/ Axe (easy w/ pick)
• Furnace crash bug *SEVERE*
• Inventory bug (throwing items in hand while in a gui)

There is much room left for improvement on Minecraft Pocket Edition, but this definitely a welcomed small update. What we need now is access to creating our own Realms, still this feature is in Alpha and Mojang has released only a few hundred to the public.  If things progress at this pace, we will see another update in October. With all the bugfixes, tweaks and added features, I'd rate this 4 out 5 stars. 

What feature would you like to see most in Minecraft Pocket Edition?

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Ladies and Gentleman: Let's Talk iPhone

Any minute now Tim Cook will take the stage up in the bay area at Apples HQ theater, 4 Infinite Loop. What will we see today? Well I suspect this post will be updated. The lights have dimmed and the show is on.

[Update  10:15]  Time Cook has taken the time to talking shop on stage. The Macbook Pro and the iMac have become the best selling notebook/desktop in America, oh and they threw a mention to that thing I think is called an iPod (that has a lot of market share). As I type Tim is talking iPhone market "More coming up on iPhones..." as he moves on to iPad.

[Update  10:30]  Scott Forstall has been invited to the stage. He is talking iOS and App Store. He is talking about iOS 5's announced new features. New Lockscreen, Notification Center, iMessage, Reminders, "deep" Twitter integration and Newstand. "Comes with more than 200 new user features".

[Update  10:36] iOS 5 will drop for iPhone 4/3GS, iPad/iPad2 and the most recent Touch's on October 12th! (No mention of iPhone 4S/5)

[Update  10:39] Eddy Cue has taken over from Scott with a recap on iCloud and iTunes in the Cloud. Most of this has been heard before at WWDC. People in the crowd are getting anxious waiting for a new announcements. iCloud will launch October 12th (I see something to this 10/12 date *hint*) and iTunes Match will be $24.99/year and launch at the end of October in the U.S.

[Update  10:46] Phil Schiller is on stage talking iPod hardware. New iPod Nano being announced. They are adding new clock faces for those that wear it as a watch (really?). It will come in seven colors and is now priced at $129 for 8GB and $149 for 16GB. Available today.


[Update  10:46] Next is a new iPod Touch. It will run iOS 5 with all it's wonderful features, now comes in white also. 8GB was priced at $229 now it's $199 with the 32GB coming in at $299 and 64GB at $399. Available October 12th. (That date again.)


[Update  10:54] Next up is iPhone, and here it is "[We are]Pleased to tell you about the brand new iPhone 4S". More to come just click through the break (Hit the Rawr just below) to hear what's next.

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Get Your Terminator On

Terminator Vision from Rich Cameron on Vimeo.


I am really tempted to let this video speak for itself.  It's a pretty awesome looking app called Terminator Vision.

Facebook and Face Recognition software make for an awesome little combo here.

Want.

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