pac mans perspective

[gregm]

the game seen through his eyes. pretty stressful

then look out

browser games to waste time. this one is still around

If you type “Atari Breakout” as a Google image search query, you play the 1970s game right inside your browser.

The tiled image results shrink down to form the layers of bricks as the bouncing ball emerges from the bottom of the screen. You use either the mouse or keyboard arrow keys to control the paddle.

HRmageddon is a turn-based strategy game where players wage war over the territory in an office -- fighting under the fluorescent lights for every cubicle they can claim. Players hire their own specialized team of employees, take over nearby territory, expand their power, and destroy their rivals in brutal business-themed combat.

Controls

This game is controlled via the mouse. Click on a character to bring up a contextual menu of options like movement and attacks. In-game help is available at any time by clicking "Help" at the bottom of the screen or via the "How to Play" option on the title screen.

 

[reno cool]

thats cool, but the dude wold have to have some view from top otherwise he couldnt spot ghosts until its too late

 

[roguejuror]

we need a Hollywood production out of this

 

[gregm]

pretty cool app I used yesterday. dark sky. Better radar than the weather channel app

"What Dark Sky is...

1) An accurate short-term weather predictor.

Dark Sky is an app for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch that predicts the weather.

Using your precise location, it tells you when it will precipitate and for how long. For example: It might tell you that it will start raining in 8 minutes, with the rain lasting for 15 minutes followed by a 25 minute break."

I am sort of a space buff, this one is pretty good.

Night sky

"When has it ever been possible to hold a device up into the sky and be able to identify which stars, planets, galaxies, constellations, and even satellites?

Not since Night Sky debuted. This app uses your location data provided by the GPS and compass to brilliantly display outer space and its closest content.

This game changing app has the ability to turn anyone into a pro star gazer."

Barometer for nightlife. Tells you whats happening at bars

DonQ

"Picking the perfect watering hole can be tough. You might not know exactly where to go to satisfy your urge for, say, one of those places with a mechanical bull. If only you had a group of locals that knew just the spot...

You do! Barometer is a new app from Don Q Rum that allows you to see what's happening where so you don't end up at a fromage and ros joint with background music provided by a harpist. Barometer provides real-time vibe data for bars and venues. Is the mechanical bull place a nightmare because of competing bachelorette parties? Conversely, is the place down the street a "Hipster's Paradise" that's hosting the best DJ ever in the history of DJs? So maybe you go to that other joint and save the bull place for another night.

Once you're there, check-in, add your two cents to the groupthink by rating it, then share where you are with all of your fellow thirsty friends who may be roaming the neighborhood looking for exactly the kind of place you've discovered"

crimemapping app

Locating a taxi

OVERVIEW
The days of calling, texting, emailing, even hailing a cab are long gone as the Uber app stretches its wings, swoops in and changes the way you get from place to place.

Mixologist App

"We raised our glass to the unbelievable capabilities and recipe combinations available through this cocktail app. Any mixed drink imaginable can be created with the Mixologist recipe app, and we guarantee you will never have the same drink twice. "

Hotel tonight App

HotelTonight - Last Minute Deals on Hotels

Book amazing last-minute hotel rooms at incredible rates in 12 countries and 100+ destinations.

 

[gregm]

North Korea just put out a tablet. This isnt some onion style parody. The games included are pretty warlike, it sounds like a lite brite

http://www.geekosystem.com/north-korea-samjiyon/

North Korea Builds Its Own Tablet, Fails to Include the Internet

North Korea has come out with what’s basically its own version of an iPad: The Samjiyon. Unlike the iPad, which is used to access the Internet to get movies, books, and music in addition to communications and basic web-browsing, the Samjiyon does not get Wi-Fi, and is instead basically a touchscreen tablet devoted to delivering government propaganda and also slingshot games, a few tank-shooter games, a basketball flinger, and “Slingshot,” a barely disguised knockoff of Angry Birds.

Even though the Samjiyon can’t access the Internet, you can still use it to enjoy the media that comes built in to the tablet. Predictably, this media centers around praising Kim Jong Un as a great general and teaching children such important skills as how to properly line up, draw a red flag, or offer unquestioning support of their Glorious Leader.

According to NK News, there are a few games as well: Slingshot, the requisite Angry Birds ripoff; several combat-themed games, most of which revolve around shooting tanks; and a sports game, in which you flick basketballs towards a hoop.

 

[gregm]

Every restaurant should have one of these. You are rewarded for your visits, get paid for your girth.lol

"A chicago start up, Belly Belly, backed by Groupon investor Lightbank, is the latest startup in the loyalty rewards space. Chicago-based Belly places an iPad in merchants’ stores to register customers’ visits. The system is designed so that it can be set up in a merchants’ store in minutes. Customers use the iPad to scan a bar code either on a physical loyalty card or on the Belly mobile app"

Belly Card

"Each time you scan your Belly Card or Belly App at your favorite restaurant, shop, etc. you rack up 5 points for that location. (Tip: If you forget your Belly Card at home or can’t access the Belly App from your smartphone, don’t panic! Just type in your e-mail address on the iPad!)."

 

[Cami]

Not a huge fan of their advertising, but the concept seems cool enough.

 

[Blitty]

Belly has been in NYC for a few years. The rewards are retarded. Deleted the app after a week.

 

[roguejuror]

another one for the failed start ups thread

 

[gregm]

lol sounds like it. I didn't like that dogs voice in the youtube commercial.

Lets see how long this idea lasts

Yelp Wordmap Identifies Bacon-Heavy, Tourist-Filled Locations

http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_t..._yuppies_and_bacon_in_nyc_sf_la_and_more.html

A heat map that lets you know where anything from dim sum restaurants are to where hipsters and yuppies are congregating. Looking for bacon in toronto? knock yourself out. Bacon is bigtime now!

http://www.yelp.ca/wordmap/toronto/bacon

hipster map of DC

cocktail map

sketchy places in san francisco

 

[Matty]

 

[roguejuror]

define sketchy

 

[gregm]

That terminology was from a web site, in my opinion the sketchy parts might make this interesting. I dont care where yuppies,hipsters and pbr and all this other stuff is. Unless it were made legal, yayo dealers and ladies of the evening in the states are not going to be on these gps/foursquare/ yelp maps. lol. Just alerting the cops . Ladies of the evening in alot of countries might like this, would probably be pretty cool for amsterdam and alot of places.

 

[roguejuror]

backpage alone is good enough for the cops

 

[CASPERWAIT$]

we need a Hollywood production out of this

With Channing Tatum as PacMan and Lindsay Lohan as Mrs. Pac Man.

 

[bacon]

Casper I am requesting a top ten list from you today, I don't care about the subject. You're better than Letterman's writers at that and I just need it.

 

[gregm]

After the last power outage and alarm clock mishap, I have been using phone as back up alarm clock. pretty decent app for waking up

Clipboard has been shut down. I always thought pulse is the best newsreader anyway, great way to get favorite sites, articles in a magazine format on a tablet