Posts tagged ‘iPhone’
WARNING: Addictive game! Take caution! Have lots of caffeine ready in the morning.
Plants vs. Zombies for the iPhone is an awesome game. Let me repeat that – AWESOME GAME! This is coming from someone who doesn’t really play computer games, let alone even play a lot of games on the iPhone. I grew up playing Super Mario Brothers, Duck Hunt, and Zelda. Those are the only games I really cared for. On the iPhone, the only games I’ve been really playing are Chess with Friends and Words with Friends.
The other day, while surfing the App Store, I saw that Plants vs. Zombie’s had a rating of almost five stars, and that’s HUGE on an iPhone app. Most decent, good apps are rated 3 or 3.5. So, FIVE got my attention! Tested it out on someone else’s iPhone and I was HOOKED. Expensive at $2.99 instead of the typical 99 cent games, but worth it! On a side note, I just read that the developer made a million dollars in just nine days after the launch of this game.
There’s a lot of funny, irreverent humor here. There are zombies that totally dance in the spotlight (think Dancing with the Zombie Stars!), football players, ice machine driver, and pole vaulting zombies. And Dave, you cannot forget Dave, the narrator of the game and who sells you items to defeat the zombies, is a silly redneck or something like that. You throw peas at the zombies, cherry bombs, squashes that smash, mushrooms that shoot, and so on. What a great vegetable intake! Also a great Vitamin-D intake with all those sun rays for power to get those zombies!
When a wave of zombies come, that’s when my adrenaline rushes and I’m shooting out peas!
Ok, I’m off to Zombieland to sleep! Or not… after all, I am in the middle of a game.
Ahh the anticipation of the iPhone 4! I’ve only been in line for one hour (since 5:30pm) and the Apple store is loud and clear in my view! Wonder what it was like this morning? Regardless, I must have gotten here at the right time because now there’s a massive line behind me.
Last Wednesday, I went outside to begin running, but I sensed it would start raining any moment. So I decided to run on the treadmill across the street in the community gym. True enough, within fifteen minutes of my running, it started to pour. By the time I was done running, it was still pouring, really hard! I had my iPhone and iPod Nano with me. There’s no way I wanted to get those two wet! I grabbed some newspaper in the gym and stuffed the items inside. Then, I ran home clutching the newspaper to my chest for double protection. Next thing you know, I slipped in the rain and tripped right over! BAM! The top of my wrist hit the sidewalk, because I was busy clutching the newspaper! Say hello to my first bloody boo-boo in years! As I type this, it’s still pretty gross. New skin is growing from deep within and it burns.
Oh, and if anyone’s wondering, my iPhone and iPod are perfectly fine. Not one scratch. My newspaper and wrist saved them! Pretty shocking considering how I’ve damaged my iPhones in the past like this and this, eh?
I’d totally want this lipmobile in my stocking. But alas I’m quite well past the teen years.
Three days ago, I stupidly spilled tea on my iPhone and it stopped working. Click here to see what I did to try to fix the iPhone. Now, with anticipation, I’m about to see if my experiment worked!
1:40pm: Took the iPhone out of it’s peaceful coffin and blew off all the rice dust. Put in the SIM card, turned on iPhone. Apple logo came up!!! I feel hopeful!
Uh oh, the Apple logo is STILL on….*losing hope.*
1:41: iPhone home page came up!!! At this point my body can feel every ounce of excitement.
1:42: Oh boy, a lot of text messages poured in. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and so on. Many more due to Thanksgiving greetings. Oh they keep coming!!! Note to self: never break your iPhone during a holiday.
1:45: Clicked on Mail to see if email works. Email loaded and it was a SUCCESS!
Now the question is, can I click the home button and will it work?! It did not work when it was wet. I’ll click it now. OMG it works! (Yes, I’m a dork, April.)
1:45: Opened safari web browser. LOADED! Keyed in www.google.com. LOADED!
1:46: Stared at the iPhone in amazement. Then, grabbed the rice coffin and kissed it all over.
1:47: Clicked on iPod. Clicked on shuffle. Sounded good!
But, I am hard of hearing, so I’ll ask a hearing person tonight if the speakers don’t sound like there’s water sloshing around in the background!
1:48: Clicked on Facebook application. Looks good. I see someone’s status saying all hail the iPhone. Amen.
Checked other bazillion applications. All good!
Uh oh! A song on the ipod just skipped. Probably just that song.
2:00: About to make a phone call to see if it works.
2:20: Phone call worked just fine! My voice and the other party voice had no water sloshing sounds!
2:27: Clicked on photos, all my photos are still there!
DUDES AND DUDETTES – RICE COFFIN REALLY WORKED! RESURRECTION SUCCESSFUL.
So far, that is.
2:53: Oh boy. Battery life possibly compromised. So far it’s depleted more than 1/4 of it’s life. This isn’t normal, according to my memory of how long the iPhone battery life lasts based on usage.
NOVEMBER 29, 2008
7:45am (yes early, because it’s hard to sleep in!): Battery life did look like it was depleting fast yesterday afternoon, but it was a fluke. Somehow, the battery life icon bar suddenly went back to full. Now, I just checked the iPhone and it’s got a little more than 1/4 of life left, and I didn’t even charge it overnight. FABULOUS!
RICE IS MAGIC!
NOVEMBER 30, 2008
10:37am: iPhone still works just fine. I consider this a case closed, and consider it a lesson learned. No more tea, water, iPhone, and pen party. I shall move my water and tea elsewhere because that spot is MY iPHONE SPOT WHERE SIGNAL IS LOVINGLY RECEIVED.
Case closed! Experiment successful! Get rice if your iPhone falls into the ocean, falls into a bubble bath, or if you just plain silly spilled your drink all over it.
Dear iPhone,
Oops. I did it again.
Just a few weeks ago, I cracked your screen by dropping you in a drunken stupor. Although you looked all ghetto, you still worked just fine. But, I was afraid you’d cut my fingers somehow with your cracked screen, so I shelled out another $200 to replace you.
Not even two weeks old, I’ve already abused you again. At work, I always placed you on a specific spot on my desk, because that was one of the best places you receive love from the towers – a signal. You could also say I’m addicted to you, and I like to know when I’m loved by a call, text, or email. However, I must be really stupid, because I also place my green tea and water right next to you. Everyday! It’s like a party in that spot: iPhone, green tea, water, and pens.
You see where this is going? Yep, I somehow knocked over the green tea into your direction, and it spilled all over you. My eyes widened in shock and I gasped. I even think I stopped breathing for a couple of moments. Then, I quickly ran to the bathroom to get a wad of paper towels, ran right back to you and started frantically drying you up. All the while, I was hoping you wouldn’t leave me for the heaven of broken gadgets again.
Imagine my relief when your screen was still vivid, showing every sign of life. But then, you started to spazz out by flickering. Then, you decided to take revenge on me for the abuse by making the home button stop working. OH WHY, WHY?! I tried to turn you off to prevent further damage, but you wouldn’t budge. It’s like you wanted to stay on and torture me into a slow cell phone death. The Apple logo kept coming on and off, and you flickered like an eerie haunted movie. So I stuffed you in some tissues to dry out FACE DOWN, while you spazzed out all you wanted. Finally, your battery gave out. HA.
I frantically googled ideas to get you back to life from water damage. Many sources said to put your wet self in a box of rice for two days. So, when I got home, I poured rice into a tupperware and stuffed you right in. It’s like you’re in a coffin. I’m staring at you in sadness, sad because of our domestic violence.
There’s so much to be thankful for this Thanksgiving. You know how you could make me thankful for you more than you already have? If you emerge from your rice coffin VAMPIRE STYLE, alive and pumping! And I’ll try so hard not to abuse you again, if you try to not be so wussy.
Love,
Your addicted owner
My two most important geek stuff, besides my Human-Geek, have suddenly become ghetto.
First, I dropped the faithful TV remote control on my laptop’s keyboard, which caused #6 to fly off and land under my coffee table.
A week later in Arizona, I had my laptop propped up on the dashboard of the rental car while I was reaching in the backseat for something. The Human-Geek suddenly accelerated, and my laptop fell to the passenger floor. The “Z” flew off, and still is MIA to this day.
Just recently, my iPhone screen cracked. Yeah, yeah, it’s my fault. I dropped the iPhone, which was secured with a hard case, but the case broke in half. An hour later, I dropped the iPhone again, without the case since it was broken.
I went to the Apple store and tried to sway them into thinking the damage could be covered by the warranty, but har har. Obviously, this is accidental. Morale: don’t carry around an iPhone if you’ve had a few drinks with friends that make you jolly. If you do, make sure your iPhone is secured with a silicone case, not a hard one. Silicone, baby.
The last time one of my toys got ruined was in 2006, when I ran across Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley, California. My sidekick phone flew out of my sweater pocket and landed on the street. Of course, because I’m deaf, I didn’t hear it fall. Besides, would a hearing person have? It was a busy and loud road. Later, I realized I couldn’t find my phone so I retraced all my steps. After lots of hunting, I found it on the street…SMASHED. That was funny.
