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Bookmarks for March 4th through March 10th

These are my links for March 4th through March 10th:

Bookmarks for February 19th through March 3rd

These are my links for February 19th through March 3rd:

Bookmarks for February 15th through February 19th

These are my links for February 15th through February 19th:

Bookmarks for January 29th through February 14th

These are my links for January 29th through February 14th:

Bookmarks for January 14th through January 21st

These are my links for January 14th through January 21st:

Hama Time: Pacman Patterns

I’ve been at it again and this time, for your beading pleasure, I present Pacman  Hama patterns.

Pacman Strawberry Hama Pattern

Pacman Ghost Hama Pattern

Pacman Strawberry Hama Pattern

Pacman Cherry Hama Pattern

Pacman Cherry Hama Pattern

Pacman Apple Hama Pattern

Pacman Apple Hama Pattern

Pacman Orange Hama Pattern

Pacman Orange Hama Pattern

Bookmarks for January 7th through January 13th

These are my links for January 7th through January 13th:

Podcast Novel Ordering Solution

I’ve been listening to lots of podcasts recently and particularly enjoying the Solar Clipper series. My main problem has been that the iPod Touch defaults to playing the newest podcast first, so that I always have to skip backwards to get to the next episode.  I found a neat little solution for this that I thought I should share.  It only really works for completed podcasts, or podcast novels though.

I downloaded all of the podcasts to iTunes, then selected the podcast and selected “Get Info” from the right-click menu.  I then changed the content type form Podcast to Audiobook.  This moves the completed podcast into the audiobook section and gives you correct ordering – sweet!

App Review: Bubble Defence

Bubble defence is a tower defence game.  There are several of these available on the Market and this is one of the simplest looking, if no less addictive for it.
The basic concept is to build up defence towers along a path to try to defeat wave after wave of increasingly armoured bubbles which follow that path.
There are four different kinds of towers:
The Basic Tower – shoots a single shot
The Six Barrel Tower – shoots 6 equally spaced shots at once
The Flame Tower – melts ice balloons
The Transporter – transports balloons back to the beginning of the track
The variety of enemies isn’t huge but it’s an elegant solution.  Shooting each enemy removes 1 “layer” of protection until you finally get down to the last layer and destro them
You earn money foe every hit but, unlike many of these games there’s no interest to be earned by saving your cash
These towers are used to defeat the 7 different kinds of enemy.  Most of these are basi
There are 7 different path layouts and Five levels of difficulty.
Bubble defence is available as a free ad-supported version or as a full version for 1.99.  One thing that annoyed me after buying the full version, and is something I’ve seen in several upgrades of that kind, is that your history of high scores isn’t imported to the full version.  It might be a bit of extra work but it would be rewarding for those of us who’d played enough of the free version to cough up the cash.
Battling the Bubbles on the Icy Road

Battling the Bubbles on the Icy Road

Bubble Defense is a tower defense game.  There are several of these available on the Market and this is one of the simplest looking, if no less addictive for it.

The basic concept is to build up defense towers along a path to try to defeat wave after wave of increasingly armoured bubbles which follow that path.

There are four different kinds of towers:

  • The Basic Tower – shoots a single shot
  • The Six Barrel Tower – shoots 6 equally spaced shots at once
  • The Flame Tower – melts ice balloons
  • The Transporter – transports balloons back to the beginning of the track

These towers are used to defeat the 7 different kinds of enemy.  Most of these are basically the same, with different colours and speeds, all nested in one another.  Shooting each enemy removes 1 “layer” of protection until you finally get down to the last layer and destroy them.  The most difficult enemy shoots back though, so be careful

Some maps have more than one entrance for bubbles

Some maps have more than one entrance for bubbles

You earn money for every hit but, unlike many similar games there’s no interest to be earned by saving your cash, so feel free to splash out.

There are 7 different path layouts and 5levels of difficulty, leaving quite a lot of variety and replay value.

Bubble defense is available as a free ad-supported version or as a full version for 99 cents.  One thing that annoyed me after buying the full version, and is something I’ve seen in several upgrades of that kind, is that your history of high scores isn’t imported to the full version.  It might be a bit of extra work but it would be rewarding for those of us who’d played enough of the free version to cough up the cash.

Bubble Defense Free

Bubble Defense Free

Bubble Defense Ad-Free

Solution: Mail Sync failing on G1

Fail Road by Fireflythegreat

Fail Road by Fireflythegreat

I’ve had a problem with my G1 for the past week or two and today I found a solution.  My Gmail wouldn’t sync with the device in the same way that it had before.  It seemed to be stuck in the past and I couldn’t send or receive any new email using the Gmail app.  There was always a big button at the end of my inbox saying “No Conection” with a “Retry” button that didn’t seem to help.

Today I found the solution for the problem on the Google help pages, via the androidcommunity site, and it simply involves clearing the app’s storage.