If you bought a Baby Einstein, then you might be eligible for the Baby Einstein recall. Disney is offering a full refund of $15.99 to anyone who purchased a Baby Einstein DVD between June 5, 2004 and Sept. 4, 2009. The reason behind this is prominent research shows that these videos are ineffective thus are worthless.
“We see it as an acknowledgment by the leading baby video company that baby videos are not educational, and we hope other baby media companies will follow suit by offering refunds.” said Susan Linn, director of Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood.
Really then, the secret to an intelligent baby relies not on any educational DVD but on the parents themselves. Train them right from a tender age and expect your babies to grow up as intellectual individuals.
The PS3 Slim Release Date is on August 24, 2009 which is next week!! It would be selling at the price of $299. There is already a link to online stores offering them. Here is one.
This new PS3 baby includes a Blu-ray, a 120GB hard drive, a DualShock 3 gamepad, and HDMI support and I can’t wait.
I absolutely have to blog about this. Lebron’s crazy last second shot (that overtakes Jordans ‘The Shot’ as the best shot taken by Air Jordan against Ehlo) that brought them their much needed win in Game 2 of the Eastern Conference Finals. Watch it here:
Do you play chess online? If you do, you probably play at famous sites like Yahoo (Yahoo chess). But if not, I am going to a suggest a very good site – Red Hot Pawn.
What I like about this site is you can make one move now and leave your PC and do whatever you want and come back later to see if your opponent has already moved or not. In other words, your games are saved even if you leave the website. Red Hot Pawn sends you a notification email when it is your turn to move.
What’s more, you can play simultaneous games at once! For the free version, you get to play 6 games at once. But for the paid version you get to play a million games at once . The free version would show non-obstrusive ads while the paid won’t. But hey, the free version works pretty well to me.
So, if you want to play chess online but do not want to get hooked for long straight hours at the computer, try out Red Hot Pawn and you won’t regret it.
Update: Added more games, 05/03/2009 Update: Added more games, 05/01/2009. Update: Added detailed reviews on the games I’ve played, 04/22/2009. Update: Added more games today, 04/19/2009.
Since I have sort of advertised and recommended the Mobile24 site as the site to get E71 games, I’ll also be reviewing the games they have posted there. This would not be a comprehensive review but would just serve a guide on whether you should download the game in the first place or not. I reviewed the games which did not have specific phone model tags and those that are for General audiences . Here goes:
If you have played the PC version of this game before, then you’ll certainly love this one! Having this in your E71 games list is like having a pet. You would have to check on your villagers every now and then to make sure that they are okay. In terms of how well the game was created, I give this a two thumbs up since the graphics is above average and the game is very stable (I haven’t experienced a crash so far…).
This one is of the games with cool graphics (like Virtual Villagers). This is a mini strategy game of battleship with a storyline. I won’t tell the story so just go ahead and download it!
Ok to dowload but…
Civ 4 War of 2 Cities
- Java Array Index Out of Bounds error after a couple of rounds in the campaign mode
- Ok to download for the quick game mode
If only this game was created without the errors I encountered above, I would put this at the top of my list. Another strategy game that will keep you thinking on hours at end. Well what do you expect from Sid Meier’s?
As I was writing my previous post, I found lots of E71 games on the net! And again the problem I saw was they were poorly organized. We (or I) as someone who is finding E71 games for our mobile phone would type out some thing like ‘e71 games’ or ‘download free e71 games’ on our favorite search engine. The problem is the top results often do not give us what we want (at least for me)! The top results would show us mobile phone sites where we can find a gazillion links and pages about games and phones but nothing about our e71 games
To solve this problem, I will show you 2 ways to get free e71 games.
1st Way
I will give you here legitimate links to sites where you can download free E71 games. As of now I only have 2 but as I find new ones, I will update this post. Here is the list:
The second way is a bit long and manual. Here I will show you how to find free E71 games by giving you the keywords you would have to use in the search engine form. Here is the list (use them without the quotation marks):
“free e71 games 240×320″
“download free e71 games 240×320″
“free java mobile games 240×320″
” _______.jar 240×320″ => in the blank, fill out the name of the game
” _______.sis 240×320″ => in the blank, fill out the name of the game
If you notice, all the search terms/keywords contain the term “240×320″. This is because the E71′s display is 240×320 in size. Also, most of the games I found are appended with that term in their file name so you will most likely find games that are compatible with the E71.
How to Install?
Now on the installation part. There is again 2 ways (that I know of) you can install those games into your E71 phone.
Direct Install
If the site you found allows you to download the game by providing a mobile version of the site, then by all means go to that link and download it from there. Once you have downloaded the game, make sure to install it in your phone memory and not in the memory card. This is to improve game performance (this is another discussion so just believe me ).
Install via E71 PC Suite
This type of installation involves the following steps:
Download game from site and save it in your PC/Mac
Open your Nokia E71 PC Suite and choose the ‘Install Applications’ option
Find the game you saved and install it into your E71 by pressing the ‘Install’ button (right arrow button)
. The free version would show non-obstrusive ads while the paid won’t. But hey, the free version works pretty well to me.![Reblog this post [with Zemanta]](http://img.zemanta.com/reblog_e.png?x-id=917921b4-4b27-4f69-bda2-32d9965e64e1)
