Jul 27
MoggyAngry Birds, App Store, iPhone/iPod touch
Currently (as of 27th June ‘10 in version 1.4.0), there are 14 Golden Eggs to find in Angry Birds. This is comprised of 10 new levels, and 4 other eggs.
Screenshots for each are coming soon!
1. Tap a few times on the sun on the main menu level selector.
2. Press the “i” button on the main menu, and watch the credits. At the end is a golden egg.
3. Within any level, go to the help screen. Tap through the different types of birds, and a golden egg is at the end.
4. Level 1-8, tap the treasure chest a few times.
5. Level 2-2, use one of the blue birds to destroy the beachball.
6. Complete all the levels in Episode 1 (Poached Eggs) with 3 stars. This will earn you a golden egg.
7. Level 4-7, zoom out, and use the yellow bird to hit the egg which is hiding in the top right of the screen.
8. Level 5-19, zoom out and hit the egg which is hiding high in the air above the rocket.
9. Complete all the levels in Episode 2 (Mighty Hoax) with 3 stars. This will earn you a golden egg.
10. Level 6-14, using the ‘boomerang’ green bird, burst the gold coloured balloon in the bottom right.
11. In the Episode 3 level selector, scroll as far left as possible, as to the right of the Theme 8 levels is a golden egg.
12. Level 8-15, zoom out, and you’ll see the golden egg hiding beneath the catapult on the bottom left of the screen. Use a ‘boomerang’ bird to get it.
13. Complete all the levels in Episode 3 (Danger Above) with 3 stars. This will earn you a golden egg.
14. Level 9-14, zoom out and hit the golden egg hiding underneath the yellow helmet on the far right. See this post.
Jul 25
MoggyAngry Birds, App Store, Apple, Software, iPad
Sketchbook Pro (£4.99)
I love this app, and in many ways the best I have. However there are a couple of niggles that stop me from rating this 5 stars, and with any luck these will be addressed in forthcoming updates.
- when importing a photo for a new layer, there is no way to rotate, resize or adjust the imported photo on the canvas, which is very restricting
- a crop tool would be nice, rather than the standard 4:3 canvas
- a text tool, so we can type into images
The great thing is that I apart from these things, I can’t find anything to complain about, as such. 
Tracking my finger is very good, the zoom is fantastic and best of all, I brought it when it was half price!! Horrahh!
My rating: 4 out of 5
Pages (£5.99)
Don’t get me wrong, I like the Pages app, and recommend it, but here are a few annoyances that I would like to see addressed in future updates:
- being able to save and upload to MobileMe iDisk. Currently you to sync via iTunes, or use the buggy iWork.com service.. Or email.
- being able to print wirelessly… Just make it work!
- ability to import/add more fonts to the iPad library.
- a way to draw directly (ie. Diagrams, pictures, etc) into the app. This would be really helpful for lecture note taking.
Other than that, it’s very polished and good to use.
My rating: 3 out of 5
Angry Birds HD (£2.99)
The HD version couldn’t have been executed better, it really is brilliant. I was effected by the previous version that kept on crashing on opening when connected to the internet, but it was fixed quickly which shows great feedback response. However, I have two digs with the HD version…
1. Is it really worth £2.99? The original app is 59p, which is five times less, but I wouldn’t call this game five times better.
2. Thanks, your making my iPhone feel really annoyingly small!
My rating: 4 out of 5
The Metro (free)
Right, the good…
- free, very intuitive and easy to use
- really takes advantage of the iPad’s large screen
- not very buggy, simple and effective.
The bad…
…the Metro can’t report news for ****. The articles seem to be written completely by blind, brainless idiots who I’m surprised can only just string together a sentence, most of which are about whatever new errand Cheryl Cole or Russell Brand are up to.
If you are looking for quality journalism for free, just head over to the newly designed BBC news website, and add the icon to the home screen. Simple.
My rating: 3 out of 5
Jul 25
MoggyAngry Birds, App Store, Mobile Phones, iPhone/iPod touch
Golden Egg 14 is found within the latest Angry Birds update with Theme/World 9.
Head over to level 9-14. The level looks like this:
Zoom out:
The golden egg is found underneath one of those yellow helmets to the far right of the screen. The picture above shows you where it is.
Use the green ‘boomerang’ bird to hit it, as the two red ‘fat’ birds can’t travel that far.
And this is the 14th Golden Egg level:
If you are struggling to complete it, hit the structure next to the second horizontal wooden pole up on the left of the structure. That should take the whole thing down.
Enjoy!
Not a clue what this post is on about? Angry Birds is a hugely popular game for iPhone, Nokia Ovi phones and the iPad. The game contains a number of hidden ‘golden eggs’ or the gamer to find, unlocking hidden bonus levels – typically with impressive designs! The first 9 golden egg locations can be found out here.
May 29
MoggyApp Store, Apple, Technology, iPad, iPhone/iPod touch
Given that Apple announced the iPad in January, and it is now late May, and the shiny device has only just reached the UK, I am pretty irritated with Apple’s incompetence there. Despite this, I am very happy to finally see the iPad, and delighted that people can actually go use one, rather than just talk about them.
I have been rather quiet about my opinions on the iPad. Since it was announced, I have always said that the iPad has huge potential when the developers get their hands on the SDK, and will only do significantly well with the public at the right price. Now we can finally review those two things. Horrah!
I’ll start with addressing the many things people dislike about the iPad.
- Lack of flash support – In my opinion, this is something that I, if anything, am glad about. Flash is buggy and becoming a dead technology.. and I congratulate Apple in bravely progressing forward with the move. From a personal point, I honestly don’t use many flash sites these days – even I, as a web designer – don’t use flash in my designs.
- “Too much like an iPhone, just larger” – They have the same software operating system (to an extent), but thats about it. If anything its probably more like a MacBook than a iPhone. When you look closer – they are worlds apart, mostly because of the interaction element, just you wait to touchscreen full, non-mobile websites on the utterly gorgeous 9″ screen.
- “Not a computer” - I’ve said this time and time again. That’s because it’s not meant to be a computer. It’s a multimedia device, and in that, there is no need for USB ports, physical keyboards, massive speakers, etc. Too right, if it’s software was not iPhone OS, but Mac OSX and designed to function as a computer, then yeah, I’d be annoyed… but it’s not a computer!
- No phone function – well what are you going to do!? Hold the damn thing up to your ear? Yeah, you’ll look cool. If you are really desperate… there is a Skype app for you.
Talking of apps, I am very pleased to see some great names out there. My favourite iPhone game, Angry Birds, now has an Angry Birds HD for iPad. Newspapers such as the Guardian (free) and Murdoch’s Times (a tenner a month) are making their content available on the iPad. And this free IMDb app, sums up the whole 9″ touchscreen format, and I think if developers go down this route, the iPad has a very promising future.
But there are flaws, and annoyances. I am annoyed about the lack of camera, I would have liked to hear of better sound quality, and I am irritated by Apple’s constant going on about “HD movies on the iPad”. The iPad has a terrible 4:3 screen resolution of 1024×768, when the minimum for a HD quality video is 1280×720. Not good enough, Apple! Only say that when you give the iPad 1280×960 screen, please.
But my biggest gripe of all, the one that really matters – the price. Thanks to the clueless American mortgage lenders who initially started this whole mess, the dollar to the pound is terrible, and while many thought my price predictions were too high, they were for the most part, pretty accurate (give or take a few tenner’s). The cheapest iPad will set you back £429 (which is roughly the same as an iPhone 3GS on pay as you go) – and If you don’t already have an iPhone, I know for sure which I’d get first.
So would I get one? Put it this way – If I was given one, I would be delighted, use it to it’s potential and love it. If I had to buy one at my own expense from hard earned cash? Not at that price I wouldn’t…
And after all, this summer I intend to buy myself a new iMac. Money needs to be saved for that!
Feb 22
MoggyApp Store, iPhone/iPod touch
Hey guys,
Many of you iPhone & iPod touch users out there will have heard of the app X-Plane, released in September of last year. It is a really awesome flight simulator app that allows users to fly planes using the built in accelerometers and touchscreen. However, with every first app, there was a couple of bad things – cost, for example, it’s £5.99 here in the UK which is a lot for an app. The simulator, too, was a bit sluggish, had reports of crashing, limited number of flying locations and only 4 relatively unheard of aircrafts.
Well, the folks down at Laminar Research, decided to fix some of the issues customers were having by releasing two awesome new apps just before Christmas:
X-Plane-Airliner, and X-Plane-Helicopter. Both are much the same as the original, but, these versions have:
- More commonly known aircraft (in ‘Airliner’ you get the choice of a Boeing 777, 747, 787 and an Airbus A380, while in ‘Helicopter’, you get helicopters… obviously… which is cool)
- LOADS more airports
- Larger flying areas
- And, most importantly, at half price. Thats from $9.99 to $4.99, or £5.99 down to £2.99 where I am.
The app looks awesome. As a result, as soon as I heard the news of the app becoming available, I raced to the app store, read a couple of reviews, brought the Airliner version, and downloaded it.
The app is brilliant. After a couple of months of playing, I can safely say I’ve had no problems with it crashing or anything. The gameplay is fantastic – the accelerometer is very precise, and it’s got all the features of a desktop flight simulator, such as MS Flight Simulator X. I am also getting frequent free updates that are adding new features such as new locations, new planes and other fixes.
More recently, Laminar Research have also produced a fourth app to the X-Plane series, X-Plane-Extreme, that focusses of precise mobility and flying with aircraft such as a B-1 bomber and the F-22 Raptor. On release of this application, the prices of all four games were moved to £5.99 or $9.99 – Annoying for those who wanted to get in on the half price versions.
Later guys.
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