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Which Sims Game Should You Buy on iOS, iPhone, IPod, Etc.?

So you’re trying to figure out which of the 7 Sims Brand games on the app store to buy huh? EA basically broke up two games (Sims 3, Sim City) into 7, which makes it really confusing to figure out which to buy. Let me make your decision easier by providing an unbiased summary of each one.

 

  • Sims 3: Have a job, and climb the corporate ladder by sleeping with your boss. Buy furniture. Go fishing. Have sex wahoo. Move in with another Sim, and grow richer and richer. It’s a fun game for the basic Sims experience. I once found a cheat for this game (which is gone now) that made me millions of eaves in a few minutes, so I stopped working, and bought everything, but in this game there’s only so much you can buy because you can’t expand your house (you can in Sims ambitions below).
  • Sims 3 Ambitions: All the stuff above, and you actually do stuff at your job ( you can actually participate). You can have a baby, start a daycare. Get married and have sex wahoo (and a baby). Renovate your house and make it bigger. This is probably my favorite, tied with world adventures.
  • Sims 3 World adventures: Have a job, all the other stuff from Sims 3, travel the globe and explore (around 4 other cities). This is my favorite feature for all of these games because it gives you so many options. I had ladies wanting me all over the globe :)
  • Sims 3 Medieval: Sims meets vampires. Same usual stuff except it’s themed to the middle ages. I wouldn’t buy this AND Sims 3 but it’s not a bad thing to buy one or the other.
  • Sims Free. Basic features for free. Nothing worth downloading unless you can’t buy a $0.99 game.
  • Sim City Deluxe: I played this game religiously as a child, so I was SO dissapointed to see how featureless this game was, and how bad the graphics were. On the PC this game is incredible. You can go as micro as watching one guy and setting people on fire (god mode) and as macro as full view. If you want a city-building game for iOS that won’t nickel and dime you, this is the best option available though.
  • Sim City Deluxe Free: Are you sure you want to buy Sim City Deluxe? Try out many of this features in this good testing platform.
So, in short, you’re making compromises no matter which you buy. They’re pretty good though, and whichever you choose, as long as you put thought into it, will keep you occupied for a few hours, and maybe a few days. Thanks for reading. If you want to play some great games, check out our ten favorites.

Why Facebook Should Hire Teenage Girls

Facebook often seems to be playing catch-up. They released Poke, a video-communication app similar to Snapchat just days ago, and they payed nearly a billion dollars for popular Photo-Sharing app instagram. What do these apps have in common besides the use of the camera? A large portion of their original users were teenage girls. Their biggest partner, Zynga wasted hundreds of millions to buy DrawSomething- another application first populated by teenagers, and now they’re about to go out of business. Any teen player of that game, regardless of gender could have told them that Drawsomething was going to get very old, very fast.

From my observation and survey, teenage girls know when an app is going to be big, and when an app is going to die off. I first learned about Snapchat from a teenage female friend of mine in April of this year (I wrote about it here). It seemed so obvious that this would soon be very popular that you’d think Facebook would have taken notice earlier. Reports show though, Facebookers only learned of the app a few weeks ago, and spent every available man hour rushing to build and launch Poke after their attempt to buy the social photo app was refused.

If you want to capitalize on a trend, start from the source. Teenage girls are (sadly) at the center of society. The music and movie industry capitalizes on the predictable buying power of teenage girls through such trends as Jbiebs (makes my ears bleed), One Direction (makes Justin Bieber look like Billy Joel), and Twilight. Teenage girls drag their friends, male friends, and family into whatever they’re doing, so when an app is popular with them, it will soon be popular with everyone.

So, I may be crazy, but I think that if Facebook wants to be at the top of the social app world, they’ve got to get more girls than Mark Zuckerberg did in High School (not hard- but Just Kidding). Anyway, that’s The App Store Chronicle for today. And speaking of sharing, help me out and share this on Facebook, Twitter, G+, whatever makes you happy.

There’s a Psychologist in your Mac- Mac Easter Eggs 2

I wrote yesterday about some easter eggs hidden deep within the mac, and today I’ll write about some more great ones.

Access your inner self- The Terminal Psychologist

Terminal has a built-in ‘Psychologist bot’ that’s very entertaining to play with. Here’s how to access it.

  1. Open up Terminal from your utilities folder.
  2. Type in “emacs”
  3. Press ESC and X at the same time. You will see M-X appear in a type box.
  4. Type in “psychoanalyze-pinhead”
  5. Press enter to stop the scrolling. Answer the “doctor”‘s questions as he digs deep into your psyche to examine.

Get the Weather Report from Nowhere.

Go into dashboard, hold down Option/alt and command keys, and click the icon of whatever the weather is on top (i.e the sun). The city will change to “nowhere” as well as the weather report.

I posted a photo of this at the bottom of this article

File Download Date- January 24th 1984 at 3PM

One of my favorite easter eggs. Whenever you download a new app from the mac app store- until it finishes downloading it will say it was downloaded January 24th 1984 at 3PM (the time and date of the release of the Macintosh).

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Weather in Nowhere Easter Egg

Play Tetris on Your Mac, and Other Easter Eggs- How To

Mac OSX has a ton of “easter eggs” (fun hidden features) built in, but not many people know them. Did you know you can play snake, and tetris, and pong straight from Terminal? I put just a few of the best easter eggs and fun little tricks here.

How To Play Tetris, Snake, and More for free- no downloads necessary

  1. Open up Terminal from your utilities folder.
  2. Type in “emacs”
  3. Press ESC and X at the same time.
  4. Type in whatever game you want to play. Your choices are:
  • 5×5
  • Animate
  • blackbox
  • bruce
  • cookie1
  • decipher
  • doctor
  • dunnet
  • fortune
  • gamegrid
  • gametree
  • gomoku
  • handwrite
  • hannoi
  • landmark
  • life
  • meese
  • morse
  • mpuz
  • pong
  • snake
  • solitaire
  • spook
  • studly
  • tetris
  • yow
  • zone

How To Read the lost note of Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs left this earth one year ago, but before he did, he left a note about the crazy ones to Kate and this note is the icon for Textedit. Here’s how to read it.

  1. Open finder.
  2. Open applications and drag Textedit to you desktop.
  3. Right click textedit on your desktop and select “show view options”. Increase your icon size to the maximum. On the textedit icon you can make out the note. I’ll also post a picture of it enlarged to make it easier below.

Tomorrow we’ll have some more eggs for you here.

1984 Mac Download Easter Egg

A preview of what’s to come in tomorrow’s easter eggs

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