Games you should be playing: Flood-It!
Filed under: Awesomeness, Free Stuff, Free on iTunes, Games, iPhone
I just downloaded Flood-It! for the iPhone, and you should too. Why? Because it’s a pretty sweet puzzle game, AND it’s free. Flood-It! is a unique strategy game (at least to me, although I suppose everything is based off something these days). Flood-It!’s developers describe the gameplay thusly:
“Flood It! is a simple yet addictive strategy game in which you have to flood the whole game board with one color in less than the allowed steps. You start from the top left corner and progress by selecting one of the colored balls on the left. When you change your current area color, every adjacent square with the same color also changes, that way you can flood other areas on the board. Select from 3 sizes of the board and try to flood-it in the least amount of steps! Highly Addictive and Fun!”
The game is just a little confusing at first, so maybe I better show you how you play. Read more
Win a Mophie Juice Pack Air for iPhone 3G!
Filed under: Awesomeness, Free Stuff, contests, iPhone
Thank you, we have a winner, and it is faithful Macenstein reader Torrance! Congrats Torrance!
What’s this?!?! Did I just say you can win a Mophie Juice Pack Air?!?! Why, those things aren’t even out yet! I must be crazy. Let me just re-read that again… Yep, looks like we really ARE giving one away to one very lucky winner. Maybe even YOU! (But let’s face it, odds are it won’t be).
If you have an iPhone 3G, you want the Juice Pack Air. Why? Well, because it is pretty much the coolest thing ever. The Juice Pack Air is a rechargeable external battery concealed inside of a protective form-fitting case for the iPhone 3G. It offers you the full protection of a hard-shell case while providing virtually twice the battery life of the iPhone alone; all in an ultra-thin, light-weight, low-profile design.
• The world’s thinnest Apple certified “Works With iPhone” external battery for iPhone 3G!
• Rechargeable 1200mAh lithium polymer battery virtually doubles your time to rock, talk, surf and send.
• Pass-through USB charging and sync with iTunes
• Extended smart battery and full case protection
• On/Off switch offers choice of battery or case
• Integrated 4 LED charge status indicator Iight combines nearly all the battery charging goodness of the Juice Pack (almost doubling your iPhone’s battery life) while protecting it inside a protective form-fitting case.
To enter: I think we can all agree that “AIr” is one of those things that most of us would put at the top of our “Can’t live without” list. To that end, in order to enter, simply tell us what is the one material possession you have that you cannot live without. Is it your car? Your phone? Air conditioner? What? Contest ends April 21st, and one winner will be picked randomly (US residents only this time, sorry folks). Good luck, and thanks for reading Macenstein!
Here’s your chance to win Things!
[THANK YOU - WE HAVE OUR WINNERS, THIS CONTEST IS NOW CLOSED].
We know you guys love winning things, so we’re going to let you win things, literally! That’s right, we have TWO Things:Mac prize packages to give away, courtesy of our good friends over at CulturedCode. Each pack includes a copy of their Macworld Best of Show award winning Things:Mac and its companion iPhone app Things: iPhone – a $60 value!
So, what is Things, and why should you want it? Things is the most well-designed, powerful, yet easy to use “to-do-list program” available on the Mac, or any platform!
Things has a ton of cool features including:
iPhone Sync via Wi-Fi, a smart Today list, Repeating To Dos, Scheduled list, Search, the ability to track the progress of your coworkers and teammates, as well as Include notes and links to files, web sites or email messages. (click here for the complete list) And to top it off, we’re throwing in a copy of Things for iPhone (a $9.99 value) - the app that lets you take your to-dos with you no matter where you go. And we are not just talking about a simple to-do list. They’ve put the whole application in your pocket. Even better, it syncs seamlessly with Things on your Mac via Wi-Fi.
To enter: We all know there are tons of things you should be doing right now instead of reading Macenstein. So to enter, tell us the one thing on your To-Do list you have been putting off doing forever. Winners will be picked randomly. Contest is open to readers world-wide (but please note, the iPhone version of Things is US-only). Winner will be chosen Monday, April 13th. Good luck!
Queen apparently still bitter over that whole Boston Tea Party mess
MSNBC reports on the meeting yesterday between Barack and Michelle Obama and Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip.
During their private meeting, President Obama and the first lady gave the queen a personalized iPod with video footage of her 2007 visit to Washington and Virginia. She was also given a rare songbook signed by composer Richard Rodgers.
In return the queen and her husband, Prince Philip, gave the Obamas a signed portrait of themselves.
Now, I have been giving people signed pictures of myself as gifts for about 25 years now, so I totally understand where the Queen is coming from, but if someone were to give me an iPod, I think I would have sweetened the pot a bit by maybe throwing in a couple ShamWow’s or at least a Snuggie Blanket. Of course, maybe she got wind that the Obamas planned to give an 84-year-old woman an iPod and just assumed (and rightly so) that they were insane, and therefore the gift SHE gave didn’t really matter.
Thanks to faithful Macenstein reader Andreas for the tip!
Contest: WWDC invite Wurdle
THANK YOU< WE HAVE A WINNER, and it is DAVE with the word "HAYMAKER"! Congrats Dave!
Attention Wurdle fans! We took at look at the new WWDC invitation Apple just put out, and the SECOND thing that popped into our head was, “Wow, that looks kinda like Wurdle!” So to that end, we thought it would be interesting to put out a challenge… What is the longest “Wurdle-style” word you can make from the WWDC invite? If you are not familiar with Wurdle, the object is to “draw” a word path from letter to letter, trying to make the longest word possible. Your finger can move in any direction, so long as the letters are touching and have not already been used. (See our “Mayor” example above).
Winner will get a $20 iTunes gift card (US only).
In the very likely event of a tie, we will use Scrabble point values to determine a winner. If there is still a tie, um, well, the first person who posted the longest of the tied word wins. And NO, you CANNOT use “MAYOR”.
Contest ends April 1st. 
Good luck!
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