This is the only way you can beat the sh!t out of Flappy Bird and “win”.
In A Feminist Culture – Putting A Man In A Woman’s Spot
Does this make you flinch!
Flappy Bird – The Latest Gaming Viral Hit – You Addicted Yet?
A new retro arcade-style game has taken over the No: 1 spot for free games on the Google Play and iOS app stores. The game is called Flappy Bird and chances are that you may have heard of this craze. What’s good to know is that the games industry can still surprise you in the form of a brutally simple game and with it shatters the myth that the holy grail of addictive gaming has been figured.
This game has an 8-bit realm of graphics mimicking the style of old school super Mario. The premise of Flappy Bird is simple: the gamer has to navigate through a series of gaps between pipe-shaped vertical hurdles. In order to do so, you have to continue tapping the screen to make the cute 8-bit bird’s wings flap and keep her afloat. The gameplay is very addictive and closely resembles the Mario levels in the air or underwater where punching a button was the only way to keep the Italian plumber alive. Feeling nostalgic? Well, I am!
Now what’s left the gaming experts scratching their heads is how come a frustrating game with such shaky graphics, bumpy animation and awful edge-detection has accumulated over a million downloads and about 85,000 five-star ratings on Google Play in less than a week’s time of its availability. Sure, the name definitely tries to ride on some of Angry Birds’ popularity, except that only a few taps on the screen have been enough to keep users glued to their smartphones.
Our verdict
Rating: 7/10
Pros: Simple, addictive gameplay, nostalgic (Mario theme)
Cons: No pause button, no option to remove the annoying ads
Have you tried Flappy Bird yet? Are you already addicted to it, or you too aren’t getting what all the fuss is about? Honestly, even I do not understand the appeal here but yes, after a hundred or so tries, my record is fourteen. What’s yours?
Let us know in the comments section below.
Mumbai Monorail Opens Today – 10 Things Mumbaikars Need to know
The much-awaited Mumbai monorail was finally inaugurated on Saturday. The major new addition to the city’s public transport system will be thrown open to the public on Sunday, making Mumbai the first Indian city to ever use such a transit facility.
- The operational stretch is 8.93 kms long between Wadala and Chembur in east Mumbai.
- For now, the monorail will run every 15 minutes between 7 am and 3 pm.
- The trains will stop at Wadala Depot, Bhakti Park, Mysore Colony, Bharat Petroleum, V.N. Purav & RC Marg Junction, Fertilizer Colony and Chembur.
- Tickets are priced between Rs. 5 and Rs. 11 covering the 7 stations.
- Monorail trains are blue, green or pink in color and all coaches are air-conditioned.
- The monorail will help Mumbaikars, who often spend a quarter of their lives in transit, commute the entire distance from Wadala to Chembur in less than 20 minutes.
- The monorail stations will be seamlessly linked to major local train stations with a skywalk.
- The total capacity of each 4-coached train will be about of 568 passengers.
- Unlike Mumbai’s lifeline, the local trains, there will be no monthly passes for the monorail, but there will be a provision of buying smart cards.
- The monorail can run at a maximum speed of 80 kmph (kilometers per hour) and the average speed will be around 32 kmph.
9 Scientific Reasons Why Women Live Longer Than Men
1. Because contrary to nobody’s belief, men do not have magical powers
2. And because of superhuman acts like this
3. And this
4. Because men have no idea how to go from point A to point B
5. Because 8 out of 10 men have no idea how escalators work
Okay make it 9 out of 10
6. Because getting dressed up in the morning should be adventurous
7. Because even lifeless objects can beat them in a fight
8. Because they can’t be trusted even in trust falls
9. And because men have no idea how electricity works
Bill Gates dresses up as a blonde and as a chicken and as a…
The world’s richest man wanted to encourage people to visit his new website. So what does he do?
The Microsoft founder appeared on the show Late Night with Jimmy Fallon for his humorous but noble feat. While chatting to Fallon about his latest philanthropic venture GatesLetter.com, Gates suggests his idea to get a viral video out.
Fallon amusingly responds saying he has no time to help but Gates takes over the show with his bizarre clip. He goes on to demonstrate his sense of humor in a to-be-viral video, dressing up in a multitude of funny costumes, from a chicken garb to a Mandarin beard to a blonde wig.
Throughout the video, Gates recites his website’s name in a monotonous but a jazzy manner. The video is certainly doing it’s intended job – it has attracted 1,000,000 views in less than a week’s time.
Twitter Mobile Update – Introduces Filters, Photo Cropping – Pushes Trending Events to the Top
Have you been a fan of Twitter forever now but always felt let down when it came to sharing photos. Well we got you some good news. If you’re an Android user, your virtual life just got a little easier. The microblogging website’s latest app update adds a simple photo-editor letting you add filters to your images, crop and rotate pics without using a third-party program. These features may also help Twitter in containing users from migrating to popular photo-sharing apps like Instagram, which is owned by Facebook now. The update also flashes a reminder to @mention friends whenever you upload images with people in it, imitating Facebook’s popular photo-tagging trait.
The second update gives users a significant way of discovering events and monitoring real-time trends on the microblogging network. Twitter has pushed its iconic Trending Events right to the top of the timeline allowing timeline users to even have a detailed view of these trends – to the extent of displaying the number of Tweets about every trending topic! Pulling down on the timeline further reveals other exciting features – if there aren’t any new tweets to load, the app will recommend tweets, trending topics and will suggest you users to follow.
While these new updates to the Twitter feed are available only for Android as of now, the microblogging service promises that they’ll soon bring it to the iOS platform.
Confused with buying a new camera? Let Flickr help you
There comes a time when you realize your camera phone is no more doing justice to your photography talents; when you discover you are extraordinarily good at clicking random pictures that are garnering a decent number of likes on Facebook. And then comes the moment – in one split moment, you have decided to give photography a decent shot! Off you pop- to get yourself a SLR now. Wow! But moments into a store and you are at sea. So many lenses – so many models, an ever-widening price range. Suddenly you are lost – you realize you don’t even know what you were looking for in the first place!
Now that’s where Flickr should come in. You may have browsed through thousands of images on the image-and-video-hosting website but what you never knew of was this feature – “Flickr Camera Finder”; it’s a very useful feature that correlates the Exif data from all pictures uploaded to the website and creates analytical tools based on that data.
When you land on the main page of Flickr Camera Finder you see three graphs – the first lists the Most Popular Cameras in the Flickr Community, the second indicates the most Popular Point & Shoot Cameras and the final graph shows the most Popular Cameraphones used across the world. Scroll down a bit further and you get a list of names of the most used Camera Brands in the Flickr Community.
And if all that data was not enough for you to zero in on to one particular device, there are even more useful tools hiding in the Camera Finder stacks. If you select one of the linked camera names on the Camera Finder page, it’ll launch a gallery of photos clicked with that camera by different users. That’s what makes it super useful and interesting — especially if you’re buying a camera for the first time.
At the end of each gallery page, you can further filter your results depending on what you’d like to shoot with your camera. For example, typing “low light,” “macro,” or “action” into the search box will display related results for that camera. You can then compare and contrast the results between cameras by having a couple of windows open and looking at them side-by-side. This is one of the best ways to really see the difference between a smartphone camera, a DSLR, and everything in between. And in fact, we would suggest you to prefer this crowd-sourced analysis over any editorial reviews that you would have otherwise gone with.
Bust lock-down: Now a bra that unhooks only if true love is detected
According to Japanese lingerie manufacturer Ravijour, women are mostly clueless when they’re confronted with true love and who they should take their tops off for. So the company came up with an innovation for these baffled ladies — a bra with a front clasp that only unhooks when “true love” is detected. Yeah… you heard it right! Kill me now! Here’s how the technology works: The bra comprises of built-in sensors that measures the wearer’s heart-rate and other vitals. The data is continually transmitted via Bluetooth to a special app on her phone.
The app then processes this data using a special app and measures the heart rate elevation using special algorithms and predetermined data. The software then calculates what the designers call the “true love rate”.
And it is only when the wearer’s heart has truly found their prince Charming would it beat in a way that the app would recognize and automatically unhook the brassiere.
The engineers at Ravijour say – “It is only when a woman falls in true love does she get excited enough for the Adrenal Medulla to secrete Catecholamine which affects the autonomic nerve and magnifies the heart rate which is distinguished by the sensor and processed by a specially developed iOS app”. So ladies may not worry as not any randomness in heart rates will unclasp the bra. A promotional video brags the bra could help save women from “the animal”, “the technician” and “the flashy guy”.
And since the product comes not from China but from Japan, we think it’s okay to assume this is a safe and “real” product.
Bill Gates takes on world chess champ, mated in 79 seconds
Bill Gates is a pretty smart man and of course the world’s richest. What happens when he challenges the world’s greatest chess player to a match? Well you might expect these two titans to spend a couple of wars locked in battle over a chess board. But guess what. The game lasts only 79 seconds!
Yes, that’s what precisely happened when the newly crowned Norwegian world chess champion Magnus Carlsen took just nine moves to checkmate the founder of tech giant Microsoft.
The world’s second richest man was appearing on a chat show when he was challenged to face off with the ‘Justin Bieber of chess’, and even before the match, Gates admitted the outcome was ‘pre-determined’.
“Wow, that was fast,” he said to Carlsen as he was mated in 9 moves. Carlsen who is a grandmaster since he was 13 had conquered defending champion Vishwanathan Anand of India in November last year to take home his first world title.
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