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GTA3 – Decoy tips
Your Grand Theft Auto 3 mission, should you choose to accept it, is to act as a decoy for the cops to chase while the real merchandise is smuggled away. Thankfully, this is not mission impossible. If you have a plan, it’s pretty straightforward. If you don’t and just take your chances out on the … Continue reading
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Six stars are the ultimate wanted level on Grand Theft Auto 3, but seemingly no matter how much mayhem you cause they are frustratingly difficult to attain with your health intact. However, we’ve found an easy way to quickly earn yourself six stars, while preserving your health and giving you the best chance of hijacking … Continue reading
Like the iPhone that launched it, Angry Birds has been a catalyst for the mobile phone industry. Record after record has tumbled and the brand has since expanded into new products, other mobile platforms, the web, toys, t-shirts and even a movie. But how many has it sold across the product range? Statistics from ATYM … Continue reading
Continuing our series of how to posts on the top App Store games, here we look in detail at the phenomenon that is Angry Birds and the first of now six themes, plus of course the famous Golden Eggs. Ever helpful, the developers at Rovio have put together a great series of walkthrough videos that … Continue reading
A milestone stat has emerged from the US via Nielsen’s May survey of mobile consumers. While feature phones are still the majority of handsets with 62% of the market to Smartphones’ 38%, among those who have bought a handset in the last 3 months a majority, 55%, bought a Smartphone. Of course that trend in … Continue reading
Our piece on how to complete level 50 has proved the most popular in the site’s history and with enough perseverance it should help you complete level 50. However, there is another way using a slight change in tactics and characters, so if the first method is not working for you, then give this a try and let … Continue reading
It was only back in November 2009 that the App Store passed the significant milestone of having 100k apps available. Nearly 18 months later that figure has been dwarfed by the flood of apps available for iPhone, iPod touch and now iPad and Mac store, passing the 400k mark in terms of available apps. So … Continue reading
Mini Golf on a mini screen should be a good combination. Fortunately, with 3D Mini Golf Challenge it is. Love The key to mini golf is that it should be fun and this is. The graphics are high quality and the physics engine realistic enough to feel that you’re in control as you guide your … Continue reading
Google has launched The Guide to the App Galaxy, a decent primer for getting started in app development covering development, but also the commercial considerations of promotion, business models and measurement. Contained within the guide are interesting snippets of advice from other developers. This includes advice from the current darling of the app store, Rovio, … Continue reading
Present a small child with a computer and it’s a confusing jumble of buttons. Even a mouse isn’t that straightforward to use for tiny hands. However, we are nearly all blessed with the most versatile controller of all. Our fingers. Hand a touchscreen device to a child and they pick up the interaction almost instantly … Continue reading
Enjoy some arcade-style slogging with the entertaining Stick Cricket, our Follow That App of the Week for May 14th 2011. Love Fans of the slog-fest that is T20 cricket will enjoy this chance to live their dreams, smashing boundary after boundary against the world’s top bowlers. It takes time to get the timing right, but … Continue reading
Keep track of your drinking with the Follow That App of the Week for May 7th 2011, NHS Drinks Tracker. Love Where the web allows you to track every part of your life, mobile apps give you the practical tools to do it and this app is a perfect example. It’s easy to lose track … Continue reading
One of the challenges of building your own app business is the lack of real sales data. Apple only provide headline figures and while the sales lists are useful, you have to rely on the generosity of other developers to release their share their sales figures and wisdom. Instapaper’s Marco Ament did just that with … Continue reading
If you have even a passing interest in apps, let alone if you’re an app reviewer, then in no time at all your handset will contain screen after screen of apps. Help is at hand though. On Apple devices with iOS4 (nearly all iPhones and iPod touches and all iPads can be updated to this), there … Continue reading
Take a journey into space with our Follow That App of the Week for April 30th 2011, SkyView. Love If you’re looking for app eye candy to show off your phone to your friends, then this app is pure gold and you’ll learn a considerable amount in the bargain. It’s a wonderful augmented reality app … Continue reading
Apple’s addition of multitasking to the iOS software was long in the coming, but worth the wait. Generally, it manages the memory well meaning you don’t need to close down apps running the background and can just get on with what you’re doing without having to think about memory issues. However, sometimes if you have … Continue reading
Get things done in retro style with Epic Win, our Follow That App of the Week for April 23rd 2011. Love The ‘to do list’ reinvented in wonderful retro role-playing style. Procrastinators love a good to do list. It helps put off getting things done. However, there may be hope yet with this app that … Continue reading
