Sooo this quarter turned out a lot less active for me, as I got pretty busy with work, but also, I started playing this non-iPad and arguably non-casual game:
Pokemon Ultra Sun (Image: Nintendo)
Look, sometimes you gotta spend money on a good game that lets you walk through every metre of tall grass as you wish, or chase dozens of side story arcs and mini-games and feel rewarded by connecting these pieces of a virtual world.
The S.O. says I play “a lot” of iPad games – not sure if it’s something to be proud of – and suggested I could do recommendations for casual players.
My short-lived Instagram hashtag #hazm8playsgames was actually similar in intention. It was meant to be a compilation of games that I felt were less mainstream for the casual player, one who might not really browse the App Store regularly or install new apps, etc.
I don’t like putting star-ratings on games, as I think it depends a lot on what kind of games each person likes. These are my preferences:
So it’s not exactly book reviews – I’m still struggling to read, thank goodness for fembookclub! But let’s give it a go…
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As the preparations for B:READ’s Mabohai Bookswap were in full swing last month, I found myself using managing tasks using not one, not two, but three to-do apps in that same period. I admit that I enjoy keeping lists, and they help me keep track of things in my head; but at one point, it did occur to me: “Why am I using three different apps to handle my tasks? This is kind of ridiculous.”
So I took a closer look at the apps, and as it turns out, there wasn’t a problem of redundancy – the tasks recorded in each app were mostly different. Each app served a different purpose, depending on what tasks I wanted to achieve.
I am terrible at keeping to any weekly goals – yes, I find my day job a challenge, thanks for asking – but I keep trying!
Workflowy is a web app and an iOS app. Its specialty is that you can have tasks at different levels, which I can break down or move up as I wish.
For example, here I have a list of things I meant to do within a week:
![Screenshot of Workflowy app, shows higher level tasks under 'By 16 June 2013'. One of the tasks is called 'Finished Documentation for [x]'.](https://i1.wp.com/possiblyzebra.net/p/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Photo-12-6-13-5-51-31-PM.png?ssl=1 "Screenshot of Workflowy app (1)")
If you have ever found it difficult working towards such high-level tasks, you may understand that vaguely defined list items like “Documentation” just aren’t helpful when you’re panicking or procrastinating, because they seem like such big tasks. Read more…
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I am a relatively new iPad user. The app I most want an update for, on the iPad, is the App Store itself. Grr.
A list of gripes follows.
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One of the first few games I started playing on the iPad (not mine) was Pocket Frog.
It’s easy to see what drew me to it. I like “collecting” things in games, and the app is pretty smooth, and its gameplay is simple. What I was going for in particular were the awards, for example to collect 8 frogs of a specific species in the same habitat.
I found myself playing for hours… until I finally let go of the iPad, looked at the clock, and concluded Read more…
