Archive for September, 2008

iPhone App Review: Aurora Feint

Title Screen

Hailing itself as the first iPhone MMO, Aurora Feint isn’t too revolutionary other than the eventual multiplayer aspect. It’s gone through a few versions, each one fixing bugs as well as improving the game play. This game has also had it’s share of controversy, which I’ll go over later in this article.

The game itself is currently only a few minigames, two of which are in the “match three” style and one which is a logic problem though still a type of “match 3”.

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iPhone App Review: Twinkle

Home Screen

Update: I’ve finally figured out that this isn’t just a Twitter App. It has it’s own network that, sadly, seems to be attracting more and more harassing users. Due to this, I’ve actually stopped using this app and have moved to another one.

Twinkle is a Twitter application for the iPhone. By far it is my favorite. While it seems a bit lacking in a few features I like, what it does have is pretty awesome.

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Up and Running Again

I dearly apologize to my readers for being absent for so long. As my Computer Woes post stated, my old XPS M1710 (Roadkill) had a faulty nVidia video card that finally died after just under a year of use. Apparently I was lucky it lasted that long. My husband Quu spent weeks dealing with Dell tech support and finally wrangled them into sending me a new laptop, a shiny refurbished XPS M1730 (now dubbed Cadaver) which I sadly think might have the same nVidia card troubles eventually. However, it’s still a vast upgrade even though I’ve gone back down to Windows XP from my old Vista. Yes, I’m one of the few people who actually really liked Vista despite it’s huge memory consumption. Adding 4 GB of ram made it quite useable. But, that’s another story.

What is even worse is that during the process of moving my data from Roadkill to Cadaver my external hard drive suddenly started giving a master table corruption error. About the only things I had transferred off of it was World of Warcraft and my Steam account. Fortunately we think we have a way to salvage the information off of it soon.

In the mean time I am going to try to get more iPhone App reviews posted. Next one will be for Twinkle, a Twitter App for the iPhone.