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Outstanding IPhone Apps

Productivity / Management Apps

1. Awesome Note (BRID)

• Great note taking, to do lists and diary application
• Cool interface and very easy to use
• Group notes into categories and colours
• Insert pictures
• Free version has limited features (7 notes) but for $3.99, you can get unlimited notes and features
• It is really worth it to buy

2. Intuition (Icon Apps)

• Adapted from mother's intuition, it is an awesome to do list application 
• Great interface and easy to use 
• It has reminder alerts that can remind you twice for the to do items of the day
• Ability to group and filter to do items by locations and categories
• Find out what is happening in the community and the locations near you
• Recipes for you to try out andlifestyle tips provided in the app
• This app is free

3. Sticky (Tap Factory)

• This is a Sticky Note application
• Recently upgraded to the full version at 1/2 price
• Create sticky notes and badges will be displayed to indicate how many notes are there
• Various fonts are available
• Opt to export the note as a wallpaper (photos) and show it as a wallpaper

4. Spending (AppCheer)

• Keep track your expenses and income easily 
• Password protected (Full version) 
• Group expenses and income with categories. Can create your own as well.
• Charts and average spent 
• Comes with calculator 
• Available in a lot of currencies 
• Free to try the Lite version 
• $2.99 for full version

5. Convert Units for Free (FreeTheApps), Calc0Currency(Uplake Media LLC), GlobeConvert (GlobeMaster)

• Apps to convert units and currencies
• Covers units like cm, m, inches, km/h, miles per hour etc
• Calc0Currency supports a lot of currencies including $USD, $AUD, Euro, pounds, Indonesian Rupiah and RM

Games

1. Tap Tap Revenge 3 (Tapulous)

• Awesome game
• Great gameplay. Tap the music beat balls on when they land on the targets
• Need to be fast when playing at higher difficulties
• Free songs for downloads are available for downloads. Song packs from popular artists are also available at a cost
• One of the best games

2. Zombie Farm (The Play Forge)

• Grow zombies in your own zombie farm from normal zombies to girl zombies and mini zombies 
• Invade other farms to earn more coins

3. Tap Fish (Bayview Labs)

• A fish aquarium game
• Grow and feed all your fishes 
• Cleaning the aquarium daily would prevent your fishes from dying 
• Can also decorate your aquarium 
• Breeding is also available. I have two new species now after breeding namely green clown and sammy clown fish

4. Parachute Ninja (Freeverse and Zeptolab)

• Another great game. Keeps me playing more and more
  Full version has 30 levels and survival mode 
• Be a ninja and complete all the 30 story modes. The levels get harder each time 
• Try out the survival mode too with all the challenges and difficulties of all the levels

5. Magic Ludo (GameFront Singapore)

• A ludo game made for the IPhone 
• New ludo challenges. Can kill or knocked off your opponents Ludo pieces if you rolled your dice to their position and vice versa 
• Addictive

6. Tap Farm (Streetview Labs)

• Similar to Farmville in Facebook where you can grow and maintain crops on your farm. 
• Harvest the crops when it is fully grown to earn more income. 
• Build the most beautiful farm of all.

7. Traffic Rush (Donut Games)

• Control the traffic at a intersection. 
• Move the cars to the left and right quickly when there are no cars. The same going straight and the opposite. 
• Be careful though when there are more cars coming from all directions.
• Game over when a car or lorry or motorcycle crashes onto each other.
• Very addictive game.

8. Sentinel (Origin 8)

• Guard your towers and bases from enemy attacks with weapons
• 60 waves of attack each round. More difficult enemies each wave
• Open Feint

9. Sudoku (Mighty Mighty Good Games)

• Sudoku game for the IPhone
• Ability to make numbering notes during the game
• There are a few levels of difficulties
• Full version contains more than 700 puzzles with the same features ($2.99)
• Free version is available with plenty of puzzles of well but less than the 700 puzzles in the full version (I downloaded this)

10. 28 in 1 Game Box (Triniti Interactive Limited)

• 28 top Games in one app
• Open Feint compatible

11. Fingerzilla (Inert Soap)

• Godzilla like game. Try to destroy as many buildings as possible and earn money through it. There are additional game packs for you to download too.

12. Millionnaire (Savy Soda)

• Monopoly game for the IPhone

13. World Championship Table Tennis(Skyworks)

• Great table tennis game
• Tournament, Arcade, Head to Head and Practice modes available in Full version ($0.99)
• Addictive

14. Bubble Tap, Tap Tap Free, Speed Tapping, Tap Tap Ants, Tap Tap Ants 2 (RiseUp Labs)

• Great tapping games
• Bubble Tap - Tap to break all the bubbles as fast as you can, great gameplay, stress reliever
• Tap Tap Free - Tap all the balls as fast as you can
• Speed Tapping - Tap as fast as you can
• Tap Tap Ants and Tap Tap Ants 2 - Tap as many ants as possible as you can. For Tap Tap Ants, you can only tap at the highlighted area. For Tap Tap Ants 2, you can tap it anywhere

15. Space Deadbeef (I.D.P)

• Shoot at all the planes coming to you by tapping where the planes are
• Another great game
• Each level increase is more difficult than the previous levels

16. Action Bowl Free (Kronos), Shrek Kart (Gameloft)

• Action Bowl Free is a bowling game for the IPhone. 
• You can use the sensor controls on the IPhone to play the game
• Like Nintendo Wii, u race by tiliting the IPhone left and right in Shrek Racing. 
• Race using Shrek characters in the game
• These two games have great game play too

17. Can Shooter (NC Japan K.K)

• Shoot the cans into the dustbin within the time limit
• Wind free mode will appear in the game
• Time limit for higher levels decreases

Other notable IPhone games include Mafia Wars, Street Racing and Scramble from Zynga. Of course, there are plenty of great games available for the IPhone. I also downloaded Solitaire, Payload, Monkey Party, You Vs Wall, Air Assault, iChess and Water Slide among others. These are only a subset of the total number of games.

Dictionaries & Encyclopedias

• Dian Hua Dictionary (Powered by CC-CEDICT)
• Wikipedia
• Dictionary.com

News

•   Channel News Asia, Thomson News Pro Bloomberg, MSNBC, Bernama, MKini2, Time Mobile, ESPN Score Centre, Eurosport, F1 Racing, Engadget among others
  

Christianity

• YouVersion Bible (YouVersion) - Free app
• Logos - Free App
• Our Daily Bread Inspirational - Free App (not related to RBC's Our Daily Bread)

Social

• Facebook, Twitterific (IconFactory), Skype

E-Books  

• The Valley of Fear (BeamItDown)
• Classics (Andrew Kaz and Phill Ryu)
• 101 Classics (Sun Scroll)
• IPhone Tips and Tricks, Battery Tips

There are many more apps available for the IPhone. You can measure things or check out information on space when you download the NASA app. You can also find hotels and book air tickets (MAS has an app) as well. Google and Yahoo also provides apps for their mail services, weather, photos, news, Google Earth, Google Calendar, Google Earth and other information and services. Apps for the IPhone camera such as providing flash effects and other camera features and effects such as A+ Camera Flash and 10xCamera Tools are also available. Photoshop Mobile is an another app to manage your photos. There are also apps to download for the IPhone such as wallpapers, check BMI app, health tips and check music lyrics. The list of apps for the IPhone goes on and on.

In the nutshell, you can do anything with the IPhone.

Cheers,

Rogerkoo

Don't Look Twice (Andrew Gross)

Hi Everyone,

I bought this book last year, Don't Look Twice written by Andrew Gross. Andrew Gross was co-author with James Patterson in some of James' books before writing on his own. This is his 3rd book. The paperback came out this year. I saw this at MPH 1 Utama where it is offering 20% discount to members and non-members (purchase of RM5 to quality for offer) until 31st July 2009. Because I am a MPH Readers' Club Member, I bought this at 20% off instantly without the need to buy at least RM5 of items for MPH. It is a savings of RM7.20. I bought this for only RM28.70 instead of the usual price at RM35.90.

It talks about a police detective, Ty Hauck who had a good life. He had a waterfront house, a new girlfriend and even a hero after unconvering a Wall Street scandal. Then during a day trip with his daughter, they encountered a shooting that an innocent man got killed. Now he has a new investigation to follow. It is just a normal shooting? Is it because of revenge? Ty suspects things go deeper and everyone, from the FBI to his own family wants him to stop finding out the answers. He could not turn away from the case for his estranged brother, Warren is also in danger. Here we will see how Ty continue to find out more about case despite the devastating consequences that he will be facing. I've finished reading this book.

Cheers,

Rogerkoo

A Good Day ... Zondervan

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The Associate

The Associate is another impressive and great book by John Grisham. I bought this book around September last year.


Kyle McAvoy was studying to become at lawyer at Yale. His future is very bright and promising until some men approached him regarding his dark secret which would ruin his career and future. They have a compromising video that can be used against him unless he cooperates with them.


The deal is for Kyle to work at a law firm as a law associate. The catch is that he is not working for the law firm, but against it in a dispute between two powerful defense contractors worth billions.


Can Kyle outsmart the men and find his way out of this situation with his intellectual mind? Will he survive this? Find out by reading this book! 


John Grisham is superb at legal stories. The Associate is another example of why he is so good. His other books include The Last Juror, The Appeal, The King of Torts and The Firm. These are also very good books to read.


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Cheers,

Rogerkoo

Fruit of the Spirit

Galatians 5:22-23

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.

As Christians, we need to bear good fruit and live a life worthy of God. These are some of the qualities and virtues of Christians as in Galatians 5:22-23

Love
We should love one another. We are called to love our neighbours as ourselves and also to love our enemies. God so loved us that he sent his Son, Jesus Christ to die on the cross for our sins. His resurrection 3 days later symbolises the victory our sin and death. Our sins have been forgiven and we are made right with God as a result of the resurrection.

Mark 12:30-31
Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength. The second is this: Love your neighbour as yourself. There is no greater commandment than this.

Matthew 5:43-44

Love here means being Christians who forgives or ask for forgiveness when we hurt others, caring for one another and being accountable to one another. Another way to love is to pray for one another. It also means being warm and friendly to one another without discrimination.

1 John 4:19
We love because He first loved us. (NIV)

Joy
We should be happy for we received the gift of life from God.

Romans 6:23b
For the wages of sin is death but the gift of God is eternal life. (NIV)

Everyone of us is a sinner. The penalty of sin is death. However Jesus has paid the price of sin for us ad gave us eternal life.

We should rejoice because of that. We should be happy because God is with us and he gave us the Holy Spirit.

Peace
We are feeling the peace from God in every situation. Can pray when we are having issues or troubles. God will be with us.

In Phillipians 4:7-8:
And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. (NIV)

Patience
We should be patient in our daily life. Not getting angry for no reason. Just as God patiently loves us, we should also be patient.

In Colossians 3:8, it says:
But now you must rid yourselves of all such tings as these: anger, rage, malice, slander and filthy language from your lips (NIV)

Kindness and Goodness

We are called to be kind and good to others. This comes as a response of our love of God because of what he has done for us. He has forgave our sins. We need to show kindness to others in situations as Jesus did without discrimination. Anyone can receive our kindness no matter who we are or where we are from.

Gentleness
Gentle in speech. Not hurting and insulting each other. We do not speak vulgar and obscene languages. We also need to be humble in the way we conduct ourselves.

Faithfulness
We are faithful to our God. We will not succumb to sin and temptations. It is our faithfulness that brings us closer to God each day. We should have faith even we are facing challenges and difficulties in our lives. God is always here with us no matter where we are. As we walk with God closely in our lives, our faithfulness will also grow. Then we are facing the most difficult time even during serious illnesses, we still trust God is always with us and he is still in control of our lives. We will have faith in him no matter what happens in our lives.

Self Control
We will face a lot of temptations in our daily life. For Christians, we need to have self control so that we are not too obsessed with certain things. We need to have a balanced life. I pray that the Holy Spirit will guide our hearts and minds so that we do not fall into temptations easily. We also need to think of what we are doing before we do the things that we are supposed or called to do. Our conscience will tell us if it is right wrong. There are people who do the things they know it is wrong but they blinded the eyes for that.

As Christians, we need to know that it is wrong to do such things and therefore be able to refrain ourselves from doing it. If we are called to do what is wrong in our eyes, we should not do it. We should stand firm in our decision not to do it because it does not glorify God.

These temptations include drinking alcoholic drinks, pornography and other sins. By having self control, we will not fall into those tempations easily.

I may not cover everything here but this is my summary of the fruit of the Spirit. It is my current understanding of the fruit of the Spirit. I hope that as Christians, our character will be like that of Jesus who is perfect. I pray that we will bear the fruit of the Spirit thirty, sixty, or even a hundred times more than when we first believed him. This part of the sentence is extracted from Mark 4:20 (The Parable of the Sower):

Others like seed sown on good soil, hear the word, accept it and produce a crop - thirty, sixty or even a hundred times what was sown. (NIV)


Cheers,

Rogerkoo