Best iPhone Apps for Toddlers Part 2
Here are the funnest, most educational apps to date for toddlers and childlike adults since our last review in February 2009. 1. Elephant Song Wonderfully interactive, beautifully simple pictures, and a lovely song. When my son first played it, it was my morning anthem for a few weeks. After a while, I couldn’t get the [...]
Read MoreShop.Com Now
Since I am one month to go before popping out another human, I have been doing most of my shopping online. I can’t quite carry my son in a carrier anymore (he prefers to run and explore, and my pregnant beer belly is in the way). Plus I like getting stuff in the mail. So [...]
Read MoreBest iPhone Games in 2009
After months with my iTouch now, I feel I know it as well as the back of my hand. So does Jack, my almost-3 year-old, hence more apps have been downloaded for him than myself and I daresay he spends more time on it than me. Educational games of course, and here are the best, [...]
Read MoreWoW – the Fix
After persisting another day, I eliminated the final possibility. I read this forum post about the Hostage of Comodo Firewall Pro and knew this must be it! Firewall conflict – that’s what the nice Blizzard lady Leah wrote and told me. So here’s what I did. In Vista (yes, still using that confounded thing), under [...]
Read MoreWoW Woes
It is now day 2 and I have solved the “Tracker not responding” problem. Turns out WoW doesn’t like Comodo Firewall such that even turning it off doesn’t work. When I finally threw in the towel and uninstalled it, the Launcher worked and downloaded the latest patch. Now when I restarted it, the News page [...]
Read MoreBEFORE You Subscribe to WoW…
Make sure you patch the game first. I did that before signing up for the Burning Crusade free trial but somehow after getting an itch to run through the Barrens again, this time I stupidly went to subscribe via Paypal BEFORE patching. I’m not worried about a whole day lost patching the game but possibly [...]
Read MoreMobile Game Review: Stranded by glu
I’ve been a fan of glu since I started playing mobile games back when. Now I can’t remember what game that was nor which ones they are famous for, but I remember they make great games. Stranded, seems suspiciously reminiscent of the TV series Lost (same premise – people stranded on mysterious island) but when you [...]
Read MoreGuild Wars: 2 Good, 2 Bad
THE GOOD 1. Hire Your Own Party One of the perks of playing Guild Wars is you can hire (for shared xp and gold) NPCs to join you in a party and avoid the potential social nightmare of hiring bad players and are guaranteed a skilled player, albeit computer. Of course, you’ll miss the social [...]
Read More8 Reasons Why Guild Wars is Better Than World of Warcraft
1. Amazing Graphics While World of Warcraft boasts a vivid landscape, let’s face it: the graphics are blocky and past the starter levels, most of the regions look depressing and dark (save for Stranglethorn Vale and Feralas – which is simply gloomy really). Alliance got most of the pretty characters but when I started out, [...]
Read MoreNot a Day for Online Gaming
Today I decided to start playing WoW again. I last left my level 49 human rogue at Feralas and was keen to explore that place again. So I paid for a month via Paypal and waited… and waited… half an hour later I cancelled the subscription and began to look for my old Sacred Gold [...]
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Christina Sng worked as a web developer, information architect, account executive, producer, technical writer, and usability consultant in the 10 years (that's 30 years in Internet time!) she brought bread home. She has since retired to raise her children but still spends most of her waking hours on the net, no thanks to Apple. Here are some of her adventures.
