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		<title>Sportacular App Shoots and Scores</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:48:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RJ Huneke</dc:creator>
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The meeting drags on as the drab droll continues to reflect on the integral usage of office toilet paper, and in the process the March Madness college hoops game slips away.  Get a text message on the iPhone that sheds light on the score at the end of each half with the “Sportacular” application.
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The meeting drags on as the drab droll continues to reflect on the integral usage of office toilet paper, and in the process the March Madness college hoops game slips away.  Get a text message on the iPhone that sheds light on the score at the end of each half with the “Sportacular” application.</p>
<p>The free sports guide quickly assembles all of the current day’s games for nearly every game, and with the flick of a finger the “Sportacular” App user can have any game report a change in score, or an update at the end of a period in the game!  </p>
<p>Games are listed by sport, and clicking on a Bulls Vs. Magic basketball game will result in the live game time ticking away every few seconds, the score, the stats, the channel the game is on if it is televised, the spread and even a scoring summary!  </p>
<p>Scrolling down to the bottom of the basketball court background, that beautifully borders the highlights, the “Sportacular” App user can see the game leaders, like Matt Barnes in the Orlando game, complete with a picture and his six points for the first quarter.</p>
<p>At the top of the screen a fixed scoreboard reflects the score no matter what aspect of the game the user is researching.  Fantasy picks and custom teams can all be figured into this intuitive and quick action sports tracking “Sportacular” application!</p>
<p>IMPULSIVE Review Grade: A</p>
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		<title>Fingerzilla App Causes Catastrophic Fun</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:21:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RJ Huneke</dc:creator>
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Godzilla fans rejoice, as the awesome destructive power of the classic monster is currently free on the iPhone!  
The “Fingerzilla” application takes the player’s thumb and puts it to good use…destroying cities, property, vehicles and various people.
For a limited time the “Fingerzilla” App is free to download in the App Store where it is [...]]]></description>
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Godzilla fans rejoice, as the awesome destructive power of the classic monster is currently free on the iPhone!  </p>
<p>The “Fingerzilla” application takes the player’s thumb and puts it to good use…destroying cities, property, vehicles and various people.</p>
<p>For a limited time the “Fingerzilla” App is free to download in the App Store where it is currently the Number One Most Downloaded Free Game!  Watch as a Sim City-looking cityscape fills the iPhone’s screen in the game, and as the time ticks away Fingerzilla, the player’s thumb, must do as much damage as is humanly (or monsterly) possible.</p>
<p>Simply press the thumb onto the buildings to level them.  Hit the big skyscrapers and power plant towers multiple time to raze them to the ground and get the most points before time runs out.  Cars and trucks will continue to drive bye, but the cop cars will quickly grow as they follow Fingerzilla’s trail.</p>
<p>Wiping out the homes, buildings and trees will cause the surviving people to flee from within the toppled pieces and run amuck to try and escape.  The all-powerful Fingerzilla, with his Godzilla-like roar, can then snatch up and eat any of the lawyers, bankers and bosses that scurry about.</p>
<p>When the damage becomes significant news helicopters will fly toward the fiery scene, and Fingerzilla can then knock them from the sky, like annoying gnats reaping the points.  Catastrophe in the “Fingerzilla” App is simple, fictional and could not be more fun.</p>
<p>IMPULSIVE Review Grade: B+</p>
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		<title>Eco Punk App Depicts Environmentalist Extremists Blowing Up Cars</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 22:43:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RJ Huneke</dc:creator>
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“Now get green, or die!”
This is one of the slogans that greet players of the “Eco Punk” game, which is free for one day for the iPhone.  Take &#8220;Grand Theft Auto&#8221; and drop onto the streets an environmentalist that is a skateboarding skeletal punk bunny with a mean attitude.  Add a thrashing punk [...]]]></description>
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“Now get green, or die!”</p>
<p>This is one of the slogans that greet players of the “Eco Punk” game, which is free for one day for the iPhone.  Take &#8220;Grand Theft Auto&#8221; and drop onto the streets an environmentalist that is a skateboarding skeletal punk bunny with a mean attitude.  Add a thrashing punk and hardcore soundtrack and you have the “Eco Punk” App!</p>
<p>The game is simple, fun and addictive though its message is certainly speaking to extremist ideals.  The bunny with the mean looking skull with floppy ears skateboards the car-heavy streets with the dragging of a finger along the sensitive touch screen of the iPhone.  </p>
<p>The player collects garbage and litter for points, avoiding cars, which instantly kill the radical bunny.  Once the player gets enough points he can collect a blue or red circle, which allows the punk to then either skate into cars, blowing them up, or shoot at cars blasting them to pieces.</p>
<p>Morality is called into question immediately, as this Top Download from the App Store is adept at providing difficult and engaging gameplay that makes for a lot of fun, but at the same time is sending a very pro-extremist ideal into the hands of iPhone gamers.  Extremist environmentalists have been known to blow up vehicles and more items of loggers and polluters across the globe.</p>
<p>The “Eco Punk” App is not even attempting to hide the fact that the game is a cultural model in which eco terrorism is rewarded, with points and more fun activities in the game, because it is reinforcing the “Eco Punk” rebel position that it is celebrating.  </p>
<p>The fact that Apple does not approve of pornography, yet allows for a game of this nature is staggering.  Society is influenced by the smallest of things, including an App, and the extremists have provided a fictional point of view where blowing up polluting cars is the biggest goal?</p>
<p>IMPULSIVE Review Grade: ??</p>
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		<title>Gibson Learn &amp; Master Guitar App Has It All</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 01:18:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RJ Huneke</dc:creator>
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The application for the true guitarist is finally here and free for the iPhone.  The “Gibson Learn &#038; Master Guitar” App goes far beyond the simple tuning applications, and approaches the iPhone as a portable tool to be utilized by the musician’s musician.
The “Gibson L &#038; M” App provides lessons for beginning, intermediate and [...]]]></description>
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The application for the true guitarist is finally here and free for the iPhone.  The “Gibson Learn &#038; Master Guitar” App goes far beyond the simple tuning applications, and approaches the iPhone as a portable tool to be utilized by the musician’s musician.</p>
<p>The “Gibson L &#038; M” App provides lessons for beginning, intermediate and advanced guitarists, a chord library with essential fingerings documented behind the intuitive touch screen, and direct access to Gibson.com where the player can check out up to the second news on the Les Paul, one of the world’s best selling guitars.</p>
<p>Many music masters insist that playing an instrument by one’s self and without a metronome is almost a wasted practice session.  Welcome an application that provides an excellent metronome, metronomes cost at least twenty dollars in a music store, that features an amazingly displayed device that includes the time signature, in 4/4, ¾ and 2/4; there is a beats per minute dial to quickly flick a thumb and pick up the right background beat, which also shows up in a digital readout so that precision is easily achieved.</p>
<p>And yes it has tuners, phenomenal tuners!  The “Gibson Learn &#038; Master Guitar” App features a professional chromatic tuner that utilizes the iPhone’s microphone to tune any instrument.  There are also alternate tuning settings so that putting one’s guitar into the key of Drop D is seasy, and the tuner also plays sample tones to match your instrument to.  This App is a guitarist’s dream!</p>
<p>IMPULSIVE Review Grade:  A+</p>
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		<title>Don’t Miss a Score with the Hockey News App</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2010 16:17:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RJ Huneke</dc:creator>
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As the U.S. hockey team is poised to battle with the Olympic powerhouse, in team Canada, there is one App that is a must have:  “The Hockey News” application.
 When an entire game might consist of sixty minutes and just one pivotal goal being scored, does the hockey fan risk missing such an incredulous [...]]]></description>
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As the U.S. hockey team is poised to battle with the Olympic powerhouse, in team Canada, there is one App that is a must have:  “The Hockey News” application.</p>
<p> When an entire game might consist of sixty minutes and just one pivotal goal being scored, does the hockey fan risk missing such an incredulous feat, such a mind-blowing universe shaking goal, by going to the bathroom?  </p>
<p>Welcome “The Hockey News” App, which is free for the iPhone!  Do not face the embarrassment of hockey fans everywhere by coming out of the john without your friends having heard your cheering from the porcelain throne.  How could a true fan miss the game-encompassing goal?  The hockey fan cannot miss it.</p>
<p>Fire up “The Hockey News” application and immediately the fan is greeted by live action scores of the current ice hockey games being played; the teams, the scores, the game times, the venue, the teams’ records are all shown in an intuitive day of the week setting.  Switch back to yesterday to view the results of all the games past, or thumb tomorrow to view all of the future matchups.</p>
<p>There are also statistics and standings categories that allow for the hockey fan from New York to follow the Rangers or the Islanders as they attempt to push toward the playoffs, because someday in my lifetime they might see some success. </p>
<p>IMPULSIVE Review Grade:  A</p>
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