Monthly Archives: August 2009

Review: Vortex Victory

Posted on 8/10/2009 by C.K. Sample III

Review: Vortex Victory—$2.99 Release date: July 14, 2009 Distributor/Developer: Ahoy Software Inc. Genre: Game Version 1.0 tested on a 16GB iPhone 3GS Vortex Victory is a rather simple game that works by tilting your iPhone to attempt to place planets … Continue reading →

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Review: Fun Booth

Posted on 8/9/2009 by C.K. Sample III

Review: Fun Booth—$0.99 Released: August 6, 2009 Developer/Distributor: SpoonJuice/Rohit Singal Genre: Photography Version 1.0 tested on a 16GB iPhone 3GS I‘ve included a full gallery of pictures depicting the different “photo-enhancements” offered by Fun Booth. The app lets you add … Continue reading →

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In Apple’s Defense

Posted on 8/9/2009 by C.K. Sample III

Yesterday, I helped proofread my friend Jason’s essay, The Case Against Apple—In Five Parts, which is currently top of Techmeme. It’s an interesting take on the state of Apple that you should all read and that I sincerely hope that … Continue reading →

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Tweeting too hard

Posted on 8/8/2009 by C.K. Sample III

Yesterday, I was top of Tweeting Too Hard for this tweet: “I love it when I have brilliant ideas.” I love that site. Now that tweet has slid down the charts to number 8. It can be found here if … Continue reading →

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OMG TWITTER IS DOWN! WTF BBQ?!?!?!

Posted on 8/6/2009 by C.K. Sample III

Twitter is suffering the biggest downtime it’s had in quite some time. Please feel free to freak out like the people pictured below. More on the outage over here. Evidently it’s a denial of service attack and not, as I’d … Continue reading →

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