Sixty-six percent of players dump their free Android and iPhone games the day after they try them out, according to a study by Swrve, a company that helps developers of free games make some money. Around two percent of players buy things within a game. These spend $20 on average.
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We recently watched a NOVA science show about a guy who created a game that lets people from all over the world help find solutions to cancerous growths and viral infections. The solutions were tested in the lab, and when they didn’t work, people went back to their computers and found others that did work.
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Engaging in a Skype video chat with a group, where each person is in a different location, used to be part of their premium service. Now it’s free. To start, locate one of your friends on Skype. Then click the plus sign next to their name and choose “add people.” Start adding them and when you’re finished, click the call icon. For now, it works with PC, Mac and the Xbox One. Depending on the device, you can call people in three to 10 locations.
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When you see an older celebrity pictured in a magazine and looking 20 years younger, you can’t help wondering if some trick is involved. Well it is, and we’ve discovered a way for anybody to do it. (No, it’s not botox.) It’s a $50 program called “Portrait Pro,” from PortraitPro.com. Take any photo in the computer and let the program work its magic for a few seconds. The results in Joy’s case were so stunning, she is reluctant to accept her old look. She will only walk outside now with the new “Portrait Pro” photo pasted on her face. (This has caused some comment.) You can see examples of before and after photos on their website. When you see it […]
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“Multicolr Search Lab” fills your screen with similarly colored thumbnail pictures taken from ten million free-to-use photos on Flickr. All pinks and reds, for example. If you click on any of the tiny pictures (very tiny) it opens up. (By the way, Flickr gives you a terabyte of storage for your own photos.)
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Imgur.com has “575 Wallpapers,” and if you Google that phrase you’ll find it. Some are astonishing, such as a futuristic Paris with the Eiffel Tower surrounded by surreal buildings and flying cars. Or Hokusai’s famous painting “The Great Wave” done as a wireframe CAD drawing. Many are fantasies, others, like a photo of giant oaks, are real.
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UnnecessaryKnowledge.com has some odd fun facts. Matt Groening, for example, the creator of “The Simpsons,” had a dad named Homer, a mom named Marge and sisters named Lisa and Maggie. No mention of a brother named Bart, however, so that kinda tells us who the “Bart” was. And this: Any month that starts on a Sunday will have a Friday the 13th.
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“Ten states where taxpayers get the worst bang for the buck” Type that phrase into Google or your favorite search engine and you get a list of who gets what. California has the worst air pollution, for example. An interesting thing about that is if you move to California and bring your own car, the state charges a hefty extra license fee for the stated purpose of fighting pollution. (Since their pollution is still the worst in the country, what do they do with the money?)
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