Archive for June 29th, 2009

Wuzzle App for Google Android

Wuzzle App for Google Android

Summary

For anyone that was a Boggle fan or still is a fan of that very popular word game Wuzzle. Wuzzle app for Google Android is a game that is definitely worth taking a closer look at. Out of all of the games that are currently available for public consumption, Wuzzle is the one that really does the game it was modeled after justice. There are a few new features added in for this game that was developed by Robert Green, but in the basics it is still essentially Boggle under a new name.

User Interaction

Interacting with Wuzzle app for Google Android is extremely easy to do. All you need is access to the letter keys so that you can type in words as you see them on the screen and then access to the scrolling so that you can look through the results and then select the options that you want from the original menu that comes onto the screen. It is essentially very low skill interaction and for that reason even a person that has just picked up their Google Android can download Wuzzle and have a great time playing this game again and again.

User Interface

The interface of Wuzzle application for Google Android starts with the menu screen. This includes the title of the game and five different options that you can select. You can start a new game, play online against friends or total strangers, take a look at your personal statistics that are kept by the software as you play along, change some of the difficulty or play settings or take a closer look at the basic metadata surrounding the game’s release.

From that basic menu, you basically just have the actual game screen as the other major interface in the game. It contains either a 4 x 4 or 5 x 5 grid with one letter per block in the grid. It has a time left indicator as well as a score indicator and the bottom of the screen is reserved for information about this round and a field where you can enter in the words that you have found. All in all, it is a simple and straightforward interface that is very easy to interpret.

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Utility and Productivity

As far as this category is concerned, Wuzzle for Google Android definitely has to be a game that gets a lot of kudos from the people that have downloaded it and continue to play it to this day. When you are playing a game like Wuzzle, what you will find is that a single round is short enough that you can quickly wrap up the round and put the Android away when you have come to the end of a commute. You don’t have to worry about overshooting your commuting time and therefore diminishing your productivity as a result. That is exceptionally good for a mobile application and it definitely gains positive scoring points for Wuzzle as a result.

Rating

In the end, Wuzzle app for Google Android gets a score of 9.0 out of 10 for all of the amazing things that were mentioned above.

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1 comment - What do you think?  Posted by admin - June 29, 2009 at 2:53 pm

Categories: Android Apps, Android Games/Fun Apps   Tags: ,

Group Card App for Facebook

Group Card App for Facebook

Summary

It has been described as a great way to send and receive greetings. In fact, it has been described as quite possibly the finest greeting you’ll ever send or receive, although that one came from the people that actually created the app. No matter how it is described however, the one thing that cannot be denied about Group Card is that it is a useful Facebook application that people will be using for many years to come.

User Interaction

Interacting with the Group Card app for Facebook is very easy to do and essentially has two aspects. The first of these aspects occur when you are the person that has started creating the card. You need to actually go through the process of selecting a cover, signing the card and then getting all of the friends to sign the card. The good news here though is that there is no limit whatsoever to the number of people that can sign a single card. While no records are kept, it is definitely true that some cards have had thousands of signatures on them.

The other part to the interaction that you can have with the Group Card is when you are not the person that originally created the card. If you are in this position, it is actually even easier to interact with the software because all you have to do is sign the card when it comes to you. It does not get any easier than that in the world of online and mobile applications.

User Interface

The interface of the Group Card Facebook application is one that is very easy for a person to recognize and visually navigate. This is because the graphical user interface for Group Card is essentially the Facebook graphical user interface with a few more page elements added in that correspond to the actual Group Card options.

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Utility and Productivity

Both the utility and productivity ratings for Group Card are quite high because of what this Facebook application is capable of.

The utility rating comes from the fact that you can use this application for all kinds of different occasions. You don’t normally just give a card to a person on their birthday and for that reason you can go totally wild with this application and create cards for people to sign across a number of different occasions.

Similarly, the productivity rating is high firstly because the utility rating is high and that therefore allows you to get a lot of mileage out of this particular online application. What makes the productivity rating even higher however is the fact that you can save all kinds of time by using this software package. Every time you use this package you save the time you would have spent carting the card around to all of the people to sign. Here you just set and forget and therefore are able to do other things with the extra time you now have.

Rating

Overall, Group Card app for Facebook is simply fantastic. It gets a rating of 9.5 out of 10.

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1 comment - What do you think?  Posted by admin - at 2:35 pm

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