Twitter Review

Tweet Tweet! With a 140 Character limit Twitter is one of the new social networking sites that is rapidly rising up to the top. Pretty much if you haven’t used any of its competitors’ services (i.e. Facebook, and Myspace). They all give you the ability to post status updates. Pretty much short things like “going to the mall be back l8r”. Or “I just took a dumb now i want cereal”. Twitter is mostley just that. Status updates. To send a “tweet” (what Twitter calls sending a message) you can either tweet from the website from your cell phone via sms even from your iPhone. (Just search “twitter” on the App Store and there are a gazilion apps available.) You get a limit of 140 characters (letters numbers symbols etc.) to state what your doing. You can get all your friends on Twitter and you all can follow each other. Following someone or followers are the people you subscribe to and the people who follow your updates. There are so many other things you can do with twitter. But one of the most amazing things is how many times its helped solve crimes save peoples lives and secret intelligence! There was one story where a college student was in Egypt on vacation and his peers all used Twitter and knew this. He got arrested for taking a photo of an aincent demonstration and taken to jail. He was able to tweet “Arrested.” to all his 48 followers. They called UC Berkeley, the US Embassy and a number of press organizations on his behalf. He got released. But if it haden’t been for Twitter he may not be here today! Still tweeting but now with 1028 followers! But even though there is many good that comes from Twitter there still are many bads. You need to be careful what you post to the inerwebz any way but especially something moving as fast as Twitter or Facebook is really dangerous. Like the guy that got a good job offer and he was going to take it. But instead he had to tweet “man got a great job that pays good bucks even though the work sucks”! He lost the job... Twitter is a free service that I highly recommend signing up for as I tweet always to my 300 Followers! (Sign up at http://twitter.com and you can find my updates at: http://twitter.com/dawildkid) Just make sure you are careful as what you put up there ( no last names no like street names dont say where you live and dont put anything that gives anything related to your location away.) and you will be fine!

Chopper iPhone Game Review

GameReleased July 06, 2008

David Frampton©2008

Majic Jungle SoftwareVersion: 1.0

3.0 MB$.99

9+ [Infrequent/Mild Realistic Violence]

Chopper is a very addicting game. With over 60 levels it entertains for hours (literally)! The tilt controls are very nice. not over sensitive and not really much getting used to. Which is nice because games like Monkey ball it took time getting used to and the first times playing it I was about to chuck it out the window!
The goal in this game is to pick up injured people or civilians caught up in the war and take them back to base/hospital. Along the way you are bombing or spraying bullets into your enemy.
The graphics are great for what it is. Its 2D but it still looks great. even the littlest things are moving and detailed. all the rain, snow, and even the little people on the ground waving there arms look great.
The price of $.99 is an amazing price (i think its more worth $5.00)
So all in all Graphics (for what it is): 4.5/5Controls: 5/5Cost: 5/5Fun/Addictiveness: 5/5Overall i give this game a 4.5/5I recommend this game to anyone who likes addicting games who doesn’t mind paying a small fee and likes stable controls!

The Digital Revolution

Cell Phones AIM the internet digital cameras and VOiP. This world is going funnly digtal. Technology is taking over. In alot of ways this is a great thing but to every great thing there is always a bad.

I for one am definetly for technology. I feel it makes everyday tasks easier faster and the finished product almost always turns out better. But alot of people do not agree they think that the old ways are always better. and in some ways they are correct. There are also alot more dangers in the world now. Online predators stalkers hackers etc.

Most teens use the internet every day. Quite a few have a myspace facebook etc. Since most kids are growing up only knowing technology to be at their fingertips they dont always know tobe extra safe. In my opinion more kids need to be aware of the terrors of technology but not be scared of it.

Using the internet to research a paper couldnt be easier. Now just go to google.com and you virtually have the whole library that you would have to travel 5 minutes to get to on your computer screen. The Internet is like the Industrial revolution all over again - except this time its more like the digital revolution.

So in conclusion I think more teens and adults too need to be more educated on the internet and digital activities but not be mortally afraid. Because for every bad thing out there there are atleast 2 great things!

Area 51 Mutating ANIMALS????!!!!!

AREA 51 MUTATING... ANIMALS??

Yes it is true. we have just got information [see attached pic] from an inside source that Area 51 has nothing to do with alines but a super high tech lab in which they are mutating animals. From the picture itlooks as if we see a Rino and a Giraffe crossed? And way in the front we have some sort of alligator tiger monkey?! This is crazy. For years we have all thought it was aliens... But instead who woulda guessed it was mutations! 

Since the leakage of these photos the security has been extra tight. Guards everywhere. I think they know that we now know. If Area 51 has been going on for so long is it true that for them dolly the sheep is way old news? That they have already passed the technology of cloning? How will the people, Media, Government etc. take this? This could cause a great disturbance in the world. Protests and animal lovers all over the world will be on Dr. Phil complaining about  the poor animals. How do we know that this isnt a big chunk of the reason why are economy is terrible now?

Still so  so so many questions left un anwsered. Will they ever be? We may never know. But we do know one thing.... It has NOTHING to do with aliens!

Youtube Music Rules

Most (if not all) video sharing sites such as MetaCafe and of course YouTube have rules about what you upload in terms of music or movie clips. They are very strict on what they allow and what they don't. I put songs into many of the movies that I upload to Youtube. With those videos, Youtube either inserts advertising on it or they take down my video. I can understand why they do that but it doesn't always make sense to me. Why wouldn't a music artist want their music in someone else's video creation? It would surely get them more fans and possibly boost their popularity. The reason they don't want people using the music would be because the song doesn't belong to them. But how would it hurt them if you gave full credit to the original artist? The credit (that is clearly visible) could be in the annotations or in the description box or anywhere that everyone could see it. Because of that Youtube video, more people now know the original. They might even head over to iTunes and buy it and put it onto their iPod. And the original artist has now made more money than he or she might have made otherwise. I might not know all the reasons for why Youtube and artists don't like it but it seems to me that the artist wants to control their song too much. I think Youtube and the music industry need to ease up on that. Maybe Youtube could have a partnership with record companys so that as long as someone gives clear and accurate credit to both the record company and the artist, then the user could upload the video. Youtube is a great place. Many new artists wouldn't be where they are today without the exposure that Youtube and amateur video makers have given them. Esmee Denters (a current Youtube music artist with a debut album coming out) was discovered by Justin Timberlake when he was cruising through Youtube. Without different people posting videos including her songs, he might not have found her! So all in all, what I'm saying is this: I think the music industry needs to think about the impact that Youtube has on the music-buying public. Even my videos--in which I give full credit to everyone--get taken down every once in a while and it really annoys me—especially when it is one of my best productions.

Video Game Ratings!

After every video game as been written, designed and tested, it goes to the ESRB. They rate the video on many different levels. The ratings range from E (everyone), E10+ (everyone 10+), T (teen), M (Mature 17+). There is also AO (adult only) and you can imagine what is in those games. But there are, at most, 10 of those games ever published. What I am most irritated about is how they rate them. Games such as Call of Duty (the older ones) are rated T, but they still have bloody killing in a realistic way--as if you were really fighting in the war. Then you have Halo which is quite a fun game yet rated M. When you compare the 2 games Call of Duty is defintely worse. In Halo, you might be shooting and killing, but there is hardly any blood. You are killing aliens and there is nothing realistic about it. This really sucks because a lot of parents will NOT let their 6th, 7th, and 8th graders play M games. So Halo is off limits but parents will let their kids play a war game in which you can kill other people and see their blood! The most recent Call of Duty game is rated M and I think the game deserves the M rating. Not that isn't an excellent game, but I just can't imagine it being rated T. Call of Duty is not the only game like this. The new Tom Clancy game is T and I think it's probably as bad as Halo (which isn't all that bad unless you're against shooter games). Halo is still M and Tom Clancy is T. This really is annoying. Now Halo and other games like it have now built up such a bad rep as a really violent terrible game and yet Medal of Honor is still T rated, but has the same level of violence as Halo, Call of Duty, and the Tom Clancy games. But Medal of Honor has a good rep (not perfect but not as bad as Halo or others) so it gets a T rating. I don't think the ESRB can fix this now. But I definitely think that they need to start comparing different games before they rate any new games. And just so you don't think that I'm not singling out only Halo, Dead or Alive 4, Mass Effect, The Elder Scrolls IV, Oblivion, The Thief Trilogy, and Devil May Cry 4 just to name a few are also facing the same issue. All got M ratings when Call of Duty 2 and 3, The Bourne Conspiracy, Ghost Recon Advanced War Fighter 1 and 2, and War Hawk all got away with T ratings when they really deserved the same rating as the previously mentioned games!