Is it a hairball? Is it a fur ball? No, it’s the Rolling Princess! On an adventure quest in a strange land . . .
Cute cartoon like graphics in an original style with unique gameplay make this app stand out.
This game by Toccata Technologies is priced at under $1 and is available for the iPhone and iPod Touch, although it plays well on the iPad too. There are 16 colourful levels using varied backgrounds with an optional in-app purchase to add 9 bonus levels. There are many evil creatures that pop up in the Furball Kingdom which are actually cute and whacky.
The music is very catchy and the sound effects are fun. This looks at first glance to be aimed at children, but in fact, adults and children alike will find this game quite challenging. There is a feel good factor to playing this game as it is set in a dreamlike land as if you’ve fallen into Alice in Wonderland’s hole to another dimension. You control the Furball Princess using brake and accelerate buttons. The Furball Princess reminds me of a poodle that’s been shampooed and blow dried till it resembles a pink pompom. I’ve included this game in the featured section as it is one of the best games for unique graphics that I have reviewed so far. You have 3 game lives for each level, indicated by the hearts in the top left of the screen. This adventure is Game Centre enabled with very easy to grasp controls and navigation. Can you survive and rescue the Princess in the furry frenzied world of crazed critters?
New technology, future technology, computer technology, emerging technologies etc. etc. The booby trap of our time. Freedom freedom from what? To free up our time? To enhance our lives? Or does new technology reinforce the trap that we are all caught up in already?
Take another look at your facebook profile . . . do you have 1000 facebook friends? A handful of your friends will be genuine friends no doubt, but what about the other 90%? Maybe they are people like ourselves, shutting our doors every evening and avoiding human face to face contact?
When you wake up, how many tasks do these new technologies impose on you. What about facebook comments and invites, better check those, and what about emails, better check those and what about Twitter and YouTube comments invites and other social media commitments? Best be sure to keep up with your social media applications and game demands too. Otherwise your virtual farm may become a desolate waste ground with your friends shaking your tree.
Don’t forget to check your smart phone for messages too. Also, don’t forget to go online and update your software for your computer, smart phone, applications and anti-virus applications. Oh and by the way, what about the next model smart phone and what about your computer hardware? You might not be able to update to the next operating system if you don’t keep up with the latest model and hardware requirements.
Don’t forget security . . . you’ll need to change your passwords often, find some way to record your passwords securely and also . . . don’t forget the virus database updates and to scan your hard drive  and flash drives regularly.
Your household appliances are another matter. Don’t forget to register your new product, fill out the forms and also buy extra insurance or be prepared to repair and update to the next model.
Oh yes, about cards, do you have a credit card and what about those store cards, fill out all the credit card protection forms and don’t forget to check your credit card balance regularly for signs of fraud. You’ll need to keep the credit card protection company informed yearly of different card numbers and issues. Also you’ll need some anti-scam software for lookalike websites and also insurances for your other new technologies like your car . . . which is another story entirely and would take up a page with service, insurance and maintenance reminders and weekly checks amongst other things.
Oh no, I forgot to charge up all my devices while taking time to think. Better charge those up now. And oh no, spam has entered my inbox so I’d better wade through that. Identity theft? Better erase those old emails and shred up those credit card statements.
Etc, etc, etc, etc . . .
The panic about nuclear weapons and the fact that it only takes one fanatical or crazy politician to trigger disaster is not in fashion anymore – the panic was banged out of our systems in the last century. Instead people are hanging on to global warming which is real and will no doubt happen after the inevitable. Or Mayan predictions about the world ending in 2012 even though they could not predict their own demise. And if you are reading this blog post in 2013 you’ll know already what utter nonsense this was. Nuclear war fear has gone out of fashion as did blue suede shoes, the only difference being that it is real and is escalating with more unstable countries entering the arms race ready to put religion as the reason for the final world war. While so called developed countries focus on oil as the reason for triggering a final world war.
Although new technologies improve health care and makes worldwide commerce possible. As well as enabling science to branch out and understand our environment, universe and our nature – my question is:
Are new technologies, such as nuclear weapons hanging over our heads and global warming as a result of advancing technologies nature’s way of cutting down the population explosion? And can we study new technologies and their effect on our behaviour and control their actual influence on us? Or are new technologies now firmly in control of our social life, time and inevitable extinction? Please leave your comment and opinion below as I’d be interested to know what your view on this is . . .
Whether it’s a  mosquito net, mosquito eater, mosquito spray, mosquito treatment or mosquito repellent, we all try to avoid mosquito bites and the post mosquito bite itchiness and swelling. As well as trying to avoid the world’s biggest killer’s disease spreading rampage.
We’ll start by looking at some interesting facts about this resilient little pest, then move on to how we can best protect ourselves from getting bitten too much.
Firstly, we are not just battling with a single ‘mosquito’ species as there are around 3,500 identified species of mosquitos worldwide. Â Some prey on livestock and some prey on humans. Interestingly, the male mosquitos feed off of plants, whereas the female mosquito is more attracted to feeding off of your blood as will as plants.
Each of these species of mosquitos have there own unique spawning specs in mind. Some prefer standing water, others prefer to attach eggs to aquatic plants and some even specialise in laying their larvae in pitcher plants.
The transition from egg to a mosquito adult can take between 5 days to a month and a half, depending on temperature. Their size depends on how many larvae competing for food there are in the surrounding area and also the amount of food available to the larvae. Depending on what species emerges, they can live from a week to several months.
The average mosquito can carry blood three times it’s own weight. And what causes that loud sound when one flies by your ear? Well, they can beat their wings on average at 500 times per second.
Why is it that only female mosquitos feed off of your blood? No it’s not because the males have become vegetarians out of a feeling of guilt for the bites they produce, the females need the protein from your blood for their eggs. However, both males and females also feed off plant nectar.
Where do mosquitoes go by day? It would be fun to imagine that they chill out with a beer and play games on an Xbox, but in reality they are lying low in cool areas by day and come out at dawn, dusk and by night to feed. They are kind of like mini-vampires, but less appealing to humans than say Jacob or Edward out of Twilight.
How to avoid mosquito bites . . .
1) The most obvious and most neglected advice is to wear trousers (without your ankles being bare) and long sleeved tops. This is often so obvious that it is dismissed by travellers in place of more promoted methods. After all, what pharmaceutical company is going to advertise wearing trousers and long sleeved tops?
Take a look at some old footage of when English soldiers where at war with the Japanese in the jungles of Thailand. The English soldiers were all wearing shorts and not wearing any top most of the time. The Japanese were much more in tune with this environment and covered up. More troops went down with Malaria than were killed in battle.
2) Get rid of any stagnant water near you if possible. Use insecticide spray if this is not possible. If you are unlucky enough to live next to a stagnant canal, give up on that idea right now unless the authorities step in with industrial insecticide spraying campaigns.
3) Use lotions such as eucalyptus oil based lotions to repel insects. Ask native people in the area that you are travelling in for the best products available. They will have practical experience of what actually works compared with manufacturer’s claims.
4) Wherever you are staying, spray the rooms and evacuate, then go back into the room and seal it with mosquito meshes, nets and doors.
5) Mosquitoes don’t like wind, so if you are at the beach stroll near the sea where the wind will be more breezy than strolling along the edge of a jungle area. If you are sitting, put a fan on and angle it toward you.
6) If you sit still, for a meal for example, light a couple of mosquito coils and apply a second layer of mosquito repellent cream.
7) If a mosquito is in the process of biting you, don’t swat it, as it’s needle like sucker will be stuck in your arm still and cause enhanced irritation. Let it do it’s deed. If you really hate the mosquito, as you will, cup your hand over it and when you feel it trying to flee, tense your hand up to crush the cheeky little critter and smile with insane joy.
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As an afterthought, we all hate mosquitos but it’s really nothing personal, the females need you for their eggs – their children. If any mother had to become a vampire in order for their offspring to survive they’d do it at the drop of a hat . . . but admittedly, it doesn’t change the feel good factor after swatting one with a rolled up magazine. 😉
World citizens of developed or developing countries, as well, have a growing need for information on ways to improve home security. To read an article about home protection can be a wise intellectual investment for you to make. In such reading, one of the first things you might discover is the difference between protection for homes and security for homes.
Thus, home security tips tend to span two types of unique details. These two concerns are:
1) Actual protection against the dangers of electrical shortages or general malfunctions of home equipment; and
2) The emotional safety and well-being which stems from the knowledge that your residence is safe from criminal activity or vandalism.
Although both of these concerns for home protection and home security are highly important, the general public tends to lean toward the latter type of home protection — that is, SECURITY.
Real people are willing to spend hundreds of dollars, even on a DAILY basis, to maximize comfort and peace of mind. Average citizens, however, lean toward the more affordable and common home security devices.
These include things that you can do on your own to ensure against break-ins or potential personal attack of nearly any kind. Since criminal activity which intends bodily injury is NOT the primary motive in burglaries, for example, enough protection can come for most people by simply knowing and reviewing the basic facts about home security improvement.
For instance, basic house alarms comprise an effective first-line defense, and are a surprisingly viable way to improve home security. Yet, here are some helpful facts you should know about fundamental home alarm engagement:
— Vandalism tends to occur much higher in locations where home security systems are NOT actually visible.
— One of the most beneficial and practical usages of virtually any home alarm system is to maintain instantaneous connection to local law enforcement agencies. One cannot overestimate the type of mental peace which comes from knowing that help can be on its way whenever it may be needed.
To continue, regarding the current popularity plus widespread usage of hand-held or mobile devices, it only makes good sense to utilize applications which can accentuate the availability of personal plus home security assistance.
The list of ways to improve home security remains nearly unending. For example, on a slightly higher financial scale, features like motion detection become available. The greater advantages of these types of home security devices are that “seamless” plus highly effective security can be extensively had throughout essentially all parts of your residential surroundings.
Here are some ideas for home security at minimum cost:
Install deadbolts.
Leave a light on a timer when you go out in a couple of rooms set to go on and off at random times.
Leave a radio on a timer for when you go out.
Be careful about announcing when you go out on Facebook or other social media sites.
Buy a watch dog.
Install dummy cameras if you can’t afford real cameras.
Hide valuables in hard to discover places.
Start up a neighbourhood watch scheme in your area.
Install a lock on the room where you sleep which will give you time to react more as the burglars will have to break through the door.
Install a really loud and obvious alarm that you can set off manually if you hear them break in.
If the law is on your side – weapon up after checking what legal force or weapons you can use to protect your family and home.
Keep your car keys in a place that will not be obvious for burglars as your car is often more valuable and quicker to steal than your actual valuables.
Put extra locks such as steering locks or handbrake locks on your car when it’s in your drive.
Above all, make sure that your house looks the most formidable to break into in the whole of your street.
A side note to people living in England:
Remember that in England you will have to announce 3 times if you intend to use a martial art against aggressive burglars who will no doubt be carrying weapons. Then you will be required to make a calm citizen’s arrest with minimum force. You will only be able to do this on the top floor of your house, so maybe kindly suggest to the burglar your predicament and he may help you by going upstairs to aid in your calm citizen’s arrest (bad news for people living in bungalows). After all, he will be able to write a bestseller in prison about the episode as well as have certain bored women wearing shell suits fascinated with aggressive men writing to the prison and asking to marry him. Not to mention, he will be able to star in one of the many ‘never mind about the emotionally scared victim‘ reform documentaries about how hard the system has been on him. 😉
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