This blog entry about free iPhone game apps is my follow-up post to iPhone Apps. Since none of the apps I listed in the other post were games, I thought I would do an entry related solely to (free) iPhone games!

• Solitaire Free
  I’ve always been a solitaire fan, and Solitaire Free is a great app for every solitaire geek. Not only does it has the traditional solitaire game with the option of drawing one card or three (Klondike Deal 1 or Klondike Deal 3), but you can also choose from variations of solitaire like Baker’s Game, Baker’s Game Easy, Demon, or Spiderette. My personal favorite is Demon.
• FarmFrenzy
  While the full version of FarmFrenzy is a paid app, the lite version is really good and I’m not even sure I would bother with the paid app since the lite one pretty much has all of the game’s features! It’s the quintessential farming game, where you raise geese and collect the eggs and send the eggs to refineries and cart off your goods to earn money. Along the way, you have to plant grass for geese to feed on, capture attacking bears that will eat your livestock, and raise other animals like sheep, cats, dogs, or even cows!
• Tetris
  I’m pretty sure this one needs no explanation.
• Lemonade Tycoon
  This, as far as I can tell, is exactly like the computer game version of Lemonade Tycoon. You set up a stand, order lemons, water, sugar, cups, and ice, and every day you sell lemonade to try and make a profit. When I first downloaded this app, I couldn’t believe that it was a free full version rather than a lite version because it seems like all games only give you a free lite trial!
• Falling Gems
  Falling Gems is quite similar to Bejeweled. You slide the gems so that you make a combination of 3 or more same-colored gems, but unlike Bejeweled, the combination doesn’t have to be in a straight line. It’s incredibly addictive and you can save all of your scores to create a high score scoreboard.

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Sarah Palin’s kids have pretty unusual names. Trig, Willow, Bristol, Piper, Track… they’re not exactly your run-of-the-mill names. The Sarah Palin Baby Name Generator can “translate” your name into a name that Palin would use to name you!

Since I was Sarah Palin last year for Halloween, I was curious as to what my name would be. (That and the fact that I wanted to see what types of names the generator came up with anyway.) I typed “Manda” into the name generator and my name was Filter Skate Palin.

Huh. Filter Skate. Somehow, I still prefer the name Manda

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It’s no secret that I love to travel. I have a map in my house where I’ve used pins to mark which cities/countries I’ve been to¹, and I love the Where I’ve Been application on Facebook.

I came across the Visited Countries website, which works pretty much the same way the Where I’ve Been Facebook application does. You mark which countries you’ve been to in the world, and then it color-codes the world map according to which places you’ve visited. Then it generates the coding for the map, and you can always update your map as long as you have a saved copy of the code!

This is my map:

visited 12 states (5.33%)

Apparently I’ve visited 5.33% of the world (Where I’ve Been has me listed as visiting 4%). That means I have 94.67% of the world left to explore!

1. The pins are color coded to represent whether my family has lived or visited there, and then there are different colors for each member of my family. [↩]

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I hate netspeak. You know, that internet phenomenon where people TYPA LIEK THES N 4GET EVERY GRMMAR N SP3LNG RULA IN EXISTANCE. It’s irritating to read, takes more effort to type than “regular” speak, and generally makes the user look dumber than a dead gnat. Yet, as much as netspeak annoys me, it kind of holds this strange mystifying element for me. Kids insist on using it – but why? Where do you even learn to speak netspeak? I’ve never been a “netspeaker,” I used proper spelling and grammar (took me a while to use proper capitalization though, I’ll admit!) and never became fluent in netspeak.

Maybe the AOLer Translator is what kids use to learn netspeak. It’s a generator that “translates” the regular text you input and outputs the translated netspeak version. It’s pretty cool and accurate (although netspeak is a foreign language to me!). The only thing missing is a netspeak to regular speak translator – that would be much more useful than regular speak to netspeak!

I input the first two paragraphs of this entry in the translator, and this is what it generated:

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I love word/tag clouds, I’m always playing around with the one I have on this blog as well as my personal LiveJournal. So, imagine my delight when I stumbled across Wordle, a word cloud generator!

Wordle lets you generate word clouds from whatever text you input into the generator. The more frequently a word is used in the text, the bigger the word will be in the word cloud. You can also pick what fonts, colors, and layout you want your word cloud to have. I input the URL of this blog as the source of text, and this is what it gave me:

Wordle

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