MeowWalker Promo Codes: Michael Jackson returns to life as a kitty

Posted by: Jayvee Fernandez on Dec 8, 2009 | No Comments |

Hey guys look. It’s a cat and Michael Jackson crossed together. Either it’s a really bad joke, or for USD $0.99 cents you can have a thrilling new sensation on your iPhone / iPod touch. Seriously guys, it’s fun. MeowWalker makes use of the accelerometer of your iPod to moonwalk “Mewskers” the cat to the left and right of the stage. You can execute dance moves by tapping, holding and dragging your fingers across the screen. On the peripherals, you will also need to swat away boots and tin cans from the more discerning critics, which in turn earn you points.

MeowWalker grabs songs from your iPod so it would be really cool to have the complete Michael Jackson anthology in your playlist. It’s not the best thing we’ve seen around, but it sure is fun.

OK go crazy. Five promo codes. Be quick:

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Kindle for iPhone App To Make Kindle Extinct?!

Posted by: RJ Huneke on Mar 19, 2010 | 8 Comments |

With the oncoming approach of Apple’s newest technological juggernaut, the iPad, Amazon quickly released the “Kindle for iPhone” App about a year ago. Why?

Well, despite the successes of the digital book reader, the Amazon Kindle, Amazon appears ready to concede the war for the ultimate portable digital reading media device to Apple in the hopes that customers will continue to buy digital books and newspapers through Amazon.com.

The “Kindle for iPhone” application is free in the App Store, and provides exactly what it says: the Kindle’s high quality, high resolution reading abilities, using the iPhone as the tool and means to view the media. The App is very intuitive, and imports much of the functions that iPhone users are used to, like pinching to zoom, tapping to highlight words, tapping on the side or flicking to turn pages.

For Kindle owners that own iPhones as well, the App uses a syncing mechanism to seamlessly switch back and forth between the two devices so that a reader does not lose a page or bookmark when switching between the two devices. The “Kindle for iPhone” immediately locks the user in to their Amazon.com account and the web site’s vast store of digital media are available for previewing or purchasing.

Clearly Apps like the “Classics” application, which Apple allegedly based its new reader for the iPad off of, provide welcome sights for book readers who prefer paper, but will use digital devices in a pinch. The iPad, with the already successful iPhone, looks to force Apple into the head of the digital reading field, and so the expensive and underwhelming Kindle might be going the way of the dinosaur.

With the “Kindle for iPhone” App, Amazon has wisely yielded up its digital device in favor of battling over downloads on Apple products; Amazon has chosen to fight with Apple and the iBookstore for the craze of consumers that might start downloading digital books, like iPhone customers download applications.

IMPULSIVE Review Grade: B+

That’s Why I Use a Mac

Posted by: Kevin Whipps on Mar 18, 2010 | 1 Comment |

“PC load letter? What the f*** is that?”

Ever since my wife had our child back in February, she’s been staying at home taking care of the little guy. OK, technically, she’s been staying at home since she was laid off in October, but that’s neither here nor there. Last week she got a call from her old job. Turns out they need help, and she’s the only one who can do the gig, so they want her to do some freelance work. That’s good news of course – money is always a good thing – and they gave her a copy of their software plus a key to install onto her computer. Plus a deadline – Thursday afternoon.

About a year ago we bought her a 17-inch Dell laptop for her job as a designer. It was originally a Vista machine, but she upgraded to Windows 7 Ultimate fairly recently.  Most of her software is Windows only, and although she likes Macs, she’s nowhere near the Apple geek that I am. Today though, she might have taken a step in that direction.

It’s Tuesday night and she starts installing the software on her machine. It doesn’t quite take, so she decides to go to bed and try again in the morning. 6:30 a.m. rolls around and with it, the two of us. She gets cracking on the install again, while I get ready for my day. I shower, eat breakfast, watch a little TV while she’s hunched over the computer, one hand on her forehead, one on the mouse. Once I’m done around 8:15 or so, I meet her in the office and start doing my work. Up and down she goes, alternating between installing the program and taking care of our son until at 11 or so when she turns to me and says, “What am I doing wrong? This just won’t install.” We try troubleshooting, including calling my Dad the software programmer, and decide to try the Mac. I have XP on VMWare on my iMac, so we gave that a shot. It installed, but it still didn’t work right, so now we decided to try the XP emulation mode on Windows 7. Same problem as the iMac, leading us to believe that it was a problem with running that program on an emulator.

Around 2 p.m. she’s even more exasperated. The hand is still on the forehead with the other on the mouse, but now her jaw is almost constantly open and every so often she says “Really? REALLY?” Then she turns to me and says, “Kevin, can you help?”

At this point, I was a little behind in my day as well. I had run a few errands, taken care of Kevin Jr. for a bit, and I needed to catch up myself. So I said what I felt. “Kirsten, I’m sorry but I just don’t know what to do. It’s been a long time since I had to figure out something like this. I just don’t budget ‘fixing computers’ into my work day like I used to, because I don’t have to.”

That epiphany really changed my perspective a bit. I remember spending hours on end trying to get scanners to load, or printers to be found, all trying to work the angles and get XP working correctly. When it did, I felt like the hero who just saved a town of kids from a stampede of cattle. But now I don’t have to deal with those problems very often, so I just don’t worry about it. My day is more about productivity, not about trying to troubleshoot. It’s relieving.

We did finally get the software to work. Turns out there was a newer version available for Windows 7, and the company was able to remote in to her computer and download it for her. That said, it was 4 p.m. before she got started on her work, which was due the next day. I decided that we’d make a fun night of it and have an all-nighter so she’d feel more comfortable with company nearby. We got a lot of Red Bull and she eventually got it done.

When PC people talk to me about how inferior my Mac is in the future, I’m going to tell them about this moment. It may sound cocky and arrogant, but my computer does pretty well on a regular basis and that’s a welcome relief from my PC days.

Apple Gazette Daily 345 – Quake, iTunes, and more!

Posted by: Michael on Jul 6, 2009 | 1 Comment |

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AGTV – Should you upgrade to the iPhone 3G?

Posted by: Michael on Aug 16, 2009 | 13 Comments |

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