12 Days of iTunes: Day 10

Another app, another racing game.

Day Ten

Need For Speed: Shift 2

I’ve been a fan of the NFS series for far longer than I care to remember. NFS & NFS2 were released in 1997 and the series is still going strong.
The reviews of this game on AppStore are decidedly mixed. So I decided to give it a go before writing this.
Have to say I enjoyed the game. It isn’t as good as NFS: Hot Pursuit but is a very nicely rendered track racing game.
If you want more out if the game I’d recommend playing with some of the ‘auto‘ controls disabled, especially automatic breaking.

4/5 (two racing games from 12DoC)
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12 Days of iTunes: Day 9

Good, not music.

Day Nine

House
30Rock

Two TV series I haven’t seen at all even though they have been around for years. Definitely will use these pilots as indicators as to whether it is worth investing time (and money) in watching more.

4/5 (it is nice that these are the pilots)
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12 Days of iTunes: Day 8

One Direction! Yuck.

Day Eight

One Direction: Gotta be you

Really not impressed with this one. Boy band, really?
Included is both the audio track and the video, as per the other offerings from Apple this season.
This will be deleted. Period.

2/5 (and that is because my better half would like it)
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Personally,
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Day 001: Topic Blunder

Well what should I do then?
I want to blog daily on a specific subject.
But what to choose? I want it to be a popular topic but also something I work with myself.
Security is my speciality but that hasn’t drawn in a readership.
Films could be popular perhaps, I do watch a few.
Books perhaps? I have over a thousand (way, way less than some of my friends but still a decent number).
The most popular topics of the year were Facebook and iOS 5.
Both of these are related to problems people in the real world find with technology.
So a difficult question: what should be my topic?

Continue as is

I think my best approach is to continue blogging irregularly on my normal topics (security, social media, Apple etc.) and to add a unique slant solely for the 365 project.

Tick tock

So just 12 hours left to make my mind up and choose a topic…
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12 Days of iTunes: Day 7

Happy New Year!
An another app! Goodo.

Day Seven

Snapseed

I love playing with photos on iOS.
The touch display makes it a pleasant experience.
Snapseed is a general photo enhancement application; brightness, contrast etc. It also includes some effects that can be greatly tweaked and played with. For example the ‘grunge’ effect with variable styles and textures.

5/5 (useful and intelligent choice)
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