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Reminder: TDL Live Tonight

ryanrit — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:15:49 +0000

Just a quick reminder: Tonight at 9PM ET / 6PM PT it's the last TDL Live for awhile as the show goes on hiatus, as we call it in the video world. So be sure to "web in" (there's no "tuning in" online, after all) tonight!

Star Trek Saturday, Episode Nine - Dagger of the Mind

ryanrit — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 11:01:01 +0000

A new treatment for the criminally insane has deadly results!

Befruited for the iPhone and iPod Touch Video Review

ryanrit — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:37:44 +0000

(Disclosure: The developers of Befruited have also been advertiser on TDL.)

A confession: I never really understood Bejeweled. Sure, I could change gems and some would vanish, but the strategy ended there. Befruited is a similar type of game, but there's something about the sliding of the rows and columns in Befruited that makes it easier, at least for me, to play the game.

It's a straightforward match-three game. And as a bonus, for some odd reason, if you look at the fruits long enough, they take on a strange 3-D quality. If you like Bejeweled (even while secretly not knowing what you're doing) you'll like Befruited as well.

(iTunes link)

Here's a look:

Doppelganger for the iPhone and iPod Touch Video Review

ryanrit — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:41:00 +0000

As a kid, I was a big fan of the Concentration-style board games: flip over a card, then try to find a match by flipping over another card. Make more matches than the other players, and you win! Doppelganger brings the same kind of play to the iPhone. Doppelganger is fast-paced, pairing a certain number of cards with a maximum number of missed matches per round. Do well (especially on the bonus rounds) and you'll have more chances on the higher, more difficult levels.

It's fast-paced, simple, and addictive.

(iTunes link)

Here's a look:

Wednesday Website of the Week: Pete's Twilight Zone

ryanrit — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:46:31 +0000

This week's WWW, while a nice choice for fans of The Twilight Zone, actually represents a dying breed on the internet. Pete's Twilight Zone site represents one man's cataloging curating of Twilight Zone episode summaries, trivia, and clips. In this age of Wikipedia, it seems like the need for fansites for classic shows is disappearing. So here's to Pete and his site, and all the other fansites like it still out there, cranking away.

Retro Tech Tuesday: Flatscreen TV Debut

ryanrit — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:42:38 +0000

Hard to believe, but those good folks at Philips brought the first flatscreen TV ads to the U.S. in 1998. More than ten years before than the digital TV transition finally occurred, this TV was "digital ready." Sadly Philips left the U.S. TV market in 2008. I had forgotten this ad, but the ad and tagline came flooding back after one viewing:

Crazy Pirate Slots for the iPhone and iPod Touch

ryanrit — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:13:41 +0000

Why go to Vegas when you can have the slot parlor right on your iPhone!? There are nearly as many variations on slot machine games for the iPhone as you would find in an actual casino. Today we take a quick look at one of them: Crazy Pirate Slots.

No "multiple line" play here: this is straight-up match-three slot action, with a fun pirate theme, and a pirate who encourages (or discourages) you along the way. Here's a look:

Star Trek Saturday, Episode Eight - Miri

ryanrit — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 16:24:36 +0000

You know, as this episode begins, I realized they could get a lot more science done if they would just ignore distress signals. Starfleet really should have some vessels out there just to deal with distress signals. This week's signal comes from a strangely familiar place. Or is it?

Hotel Mogul for the iPhone and iPod Touch Video Review

ryanrit — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 11:13:19 +0000

We can't all be Paris Hilton, so here's your chance to be a Hotel Mogul. Hotel Mogul plays like SimCity, with you controlling building, repairing, and buying properties to meet specific revenue/hotel goals on each level. Be sure to take the time to go through the tutorial to better understand how to build and upgrade your properties. You get a fun game, in which before long you start caring about your properties, and want to experiment to see how you can get your hotels built and profitable as quickly as possible.

Here's a look:

DoubleTap Episode 13

ryanrit — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 14:25:36 +0000

This time of the year is a bit of a sports drought: The Olympics have wrapped up, baseball is still weeks away, and for the football fan, there are months until training camp starts. But that doesn't mean you can't get your football (or at least field goal) fix on the iPhone. Our first app this week is Flick Kick Field Goal, then we take a look at Diner of the Dead.

Enjoy: