Get Your Game On

If you’re loving your iPod touch for the gaming, then you’ve probably downloaded all of these apps already?

First there was news Doodle Jump overtook Bejewelled as highest game downloaded on iTunes. Now Fruit Ninja has overtaken both of them.

• Have a strong preference to any of them?
• Haven’t heard of them and (gasp) don’t want to feel left out?

Check them all out below.

Doodle Jump

In Doodle Jump, you guide a four-legged alien known as the “Doodler” upwards through a series of platforms without falling or encountering monsters or black holes. The character is controlled by tilting the iPhone left and right.

Highly Addictive. One reviewer tweeted “if you value your life, never download Doodle Jump”.

Download Doodle Jump on iTunes:

Business Insider reported that based on calculations, the app was at that stage being downloaded approximately 28,000 times a day. That many people can’t be wrong?! But of course, we all move on unless it’s something that can keep us entertained.

Next came Fruit Ninja….

Fruit Ninja

Swipe your finger across the screen with speed to slash & splatter fruit like a true Ninja!

With global leaderboards and fun fruit facts, Fruit Ninja – it’s a little bit messy…

Fruit Ninja:

ps congrats to a local Brisbane crew for Fruit Ninja: @HalfBrick

Bejewelled

Now, even without an iPod touch or iPhone, I think you know how popular Bejewelled is. You have seen all your Facebook friends newsfeeds with who reached the highest score and such.  But it has been fully optimised for touch screen. Global leaderboard where you can update your Facebook page with stars and medals, four different game modes, hours of fun!

Download Bejewelled2 on iTunes:

Where to download ringtones

Audiko is a fantastic site for ringtones.

Free for all

You can create a ringtone of your favourite song in just a few easy steps – for free!  Just upload the song, choose the section you want to use and download the ringtone to your phone. I think this way is better, as you know you own the songs you’re creating the ringtone from.

But, if you can’t be blowed doing that, then they also have heaps and heaps of ringtones ready to go.

You can:

• View top 100 popular ringtones
• See what YouTube ringtone videos are available
• Search the database for artists, by genre, tv shows etc
• See a list of similar artists

There’s even support for lots of older mobile phones.  AND iPhones (save your newly created ringtone as a .M4R)!

Easy as 1-2-3

Just select and download a ringtone to your desktop (for syncing or bluetooth transfer). Or if your phone supports barcodes, then you can just transfer it using the QR/barcode application.

The best part about free ringtones is that when your favourite song changes (like happens every few days? weeks? months?), you don’t have to keep shelling out cash to buy your new favourite song as a ringtone.

Enjoy!

Apple iTunes 8

At 10.00am in San Francisco, Apple’s Steve Jobs walked onto stage for the unveiling of what’s next – live from Apple’s “Let’s Rock” event.

He announced that it’s all about music – and headlined his keynote with the unveiling of the updated iTunes store – Apple iTunes 8:

“Now offering 8.5 million songs, over 125,000 podcasts, over 30,000 TV shows, 2600 movies… and now offer over 3,000 apps for iPhone and touch.”

TV shows in HD are also now available…

As well as a feature called “Genuis” where it recommends similar songs to add to your playlists.

So, new iTunes features, improved user interface – and just more, more, more.

I guessing over 3,000 apps for your iPod touch and iPhone is reason alone to upgrade

Related:

• Apple “Let’s Rock”
• New 4G iPod nano
• New 2G iPod touch
• Renewed iPod classic

If you own a computer that’s running Windows Media Center Edition, or Vista Home Premium or Ultimate then did you know you can turn it into a TV recorder?  Just another way of ensuring you never miss one of your favourite TV shows again..

All you need is the know-how and a couple of bits extra and you’re all set to go!

How?

To take advantage of its inbuilt DVR Media Center software, you can install a $70 capture card in your computer and a bit of freeware third-party software.

Why?

‘Cause then you’ve got all the tools you need to record television shows on your PC using Media Center, extend that Media Center to your Xbox 360, schedule recordings and stream TV over the internet.

“That sounds like a fantastic idea”

For full information, head across to Lifehacker for their tutorial on How to Turn your PC into a TV recorder

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