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EACH WEEK, WE highlight five apps that are worth downloading for your smartphone and tablet. There are a lot of apps released on a daily basis, but not all of them are worth paying attention to.
This week includes an old-school shoot-em-up, a way to ensure you never lose anything you type ever again, and a tranquil adventure.
R-Type II
For: iOS, Android
Cost: €1.79
- Anyone who had an Amiga during the early 90s surely had one game from the R-Type series.
- For those unfamiliar with it, R-Type is an old-school shoot-em-up that’s hard. Not impossible but it does require a lot of concentration.
- It’s frantic from the word go. If you’re looking for a laid-back and easy game, you may want to look elsewhere. You have the option of choosing unlimited lives, but that defeats the purpose of the game.
- Touch controls and auto-fire mode are there to compromise for the small screen, and you may need them if you’ve never played it before.
- A refreshing change from the casual and freemium games that currently flood the app stores.
(Video: TouchGameplay/YouTube)
Bing Health & Fitness
For: Windows Phone
Cost: Free
- We’re finally arrived at March and while it’s still rather chilly and wet, the evenings are getting longer so chances are you’ll be more likely to exercise as a result.
- Bing Health and Fitness enters a crowded market, but its aim is to be your sole resource for everything fitness related. To its credit, it does a great job.
- The calorie tool lets you set goals for what you eat and has over 300,000 foods on its database.
- On top of that, it has the usual fitness functions, GPS tracker, workout suggestions, tutorials and even info on possible health conditions, although we’d be hopeful you won’t have to rely on that.
- If you’re not already using a fitness app like Endomondo or MyFitnessPal, you should try this out first.
(Image: Bing Health & Fitness/Windows Phone)
Telegram
For: iOS, Android, Windows Phone (unofficial version)
Cost: Free
- Telegram has received a lot of attention in the last week. It was downloaded over 8 million times in the space of four days and for good reason.
- The focus is on speed and security, allowing you to send messages fast without having to worry about your messages being intercepted or used for third-party purposes.
- Alongside the usual multimedia features associated with messaging, you can share videos as large as 1GB, which gives you a lot of leeway with photos as well.
- If you want, you can create group chats that have 100 people involved. Again, you probably won’t need it, but it gives you an idea of what the service is capable of.
- The only caveat is a messaging app is only useful if all of your friends are there, but those who download it will discover a clean, and quick app that’s deserves the praise it’s received.
(Image: Telegram/Google Play)
Type Machine
For: Android
Cost: €1.49
- Ever type something and accidentally delete it or the app you were using crashed without warning, wiping out everything you’ve written?
- Type Machine keeps track of everything you’ve written on your phone. Find the app you were using and everything you’ve typed is found there.
- Every native Android app is supported, and if you don’t want text from certain apps saved, you can blacklist them so they don’t appear.
- Passwords aren’t logged in and you can set it so it deletes all info every day, or during a set period.
- If you use your smartphone or tablet to write more than one word responses, it will save you a lot of hassle.
(Image: Type Machine/Google Play)
Temgani
For: iOS
Cost: €4.49
- A lot of smartphone games put a lot of time and focus on 3D graphics, which while it shows what your phone’s hardware is capable of
-It’s been said about other games here, but Temgani is a beautiful game. The origami-style visuals and pop-up book setting is frankly stunning. It’s preferable if you play it on an iPad as you’ll appreciate the level of detail on a larger screen.
- It’s an adventure game that is slow and peaceful, a simple interface and the pop-up mechanics leads to some relaxing gameplay.
- The score playing in the background is also worth a mention, adding atmosphere to a tranquil game.
- If R-Type (mentioned above) doesn’t appeal to you, this will be right up your alley.
(Video: TouchGameplay/YouTube)
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How do you account for the fact that so many Christians in Gaza and the West Bank are supporters of your organisation and at the same time you are supposed to be Islamic fundamentalists?
How do you explain the book banning, the religious police, the reports by human rights watch concerning the imposition of sharia and the attendant curtailment of personal freedom, the rampant antisemitism, the relationship with the Muslim brotherhood, the abundance of islamist content in the hamas charter for a supposedly islamist organisation
Marc, how do you explain widespread Christian support for Hamas in places like Bethlehem? Throughout what is deemed “Palestine” Christians support Hamas. Why do you think this is? Uncle Mort and the like would have you believe that Hamas and ISIS are bed fellows, when in fact they are sworn enemies.
Maybe they’re afraid of being dragged through the streets tied to motorbikes.
@Jamie Where have all the Christians gone. is it support Hamas or get lost quick! Down from 5,000 to 1.500 and decreasing? —-
—”This was a reference to to an incident in February, when unidentified attackers left an explosive device inside the compound of the Church of the Latin Convent in Gaza City, which includes a church, a school, a nursery, a rectory and a nunnery. A threatening message – “We’ll get you soon, O worshippers of the cross” – was scrawled over the gate to the compound. As Middle East website Al Monitor noted at the time, “the Christian community in Gaza has been subjected to a number of unorganized attacks. These attacks have led to a decrease in the Christian population in the Gaza Strip. There are 1,500 Christians in Gaza, while in the mid-1990s there were an estimated 5,000. There are four churches in the Gaza Strip, yet only two are operational.”
http://www.algemeiner.com/2014/12/24/fear-of-islamist-attacks-overshadows-christmas-celebrations-for-christians-in-gaza/
@jamie Is it true that you/ Hamas used Christian churches to launch your terror rockets at Israel?
-”Hamas’ use of mosques to hide its rockets and attack tunnel entrances has been decried by Israel, but the eyewitness account of the leader of Gaza’s tiny Christian community suggests that the terrorist group also fired rockets at Israel from a church compound in Gaza, exploiting Gaza’s Christians as human shields
—’Spiritual leader of Gaza’s Christian population of 1,500 showed a reporter for CBN News how Palestinian militants used the roof terrace outside his office from which to fire rockets into Israel.
Archbishop Alexios of Gaza shows CBN the spot in the church compound where Palestinian terrorists fired rockets at Israel. (Image source: CBN/YouTube)
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/08/07/gaza-christian-leader-says-hamas-used-his-church-to-launch-missiles-at-israel/
@Jamie et al. What OTHER countries are on the OBLITERATION list?
Hamas Charter page 1
“Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will OBLITERATE it, just as it obliterated OTHERS before it” (The Martyr, Imam Hassan al-Banna, of blessed memory). ”
Which of the following PLACES were not OBLITERATED by ISLAM..
All Arabia, Greek Anatolia/Turkey, Persia,Afghanistan,Pakistan ,CLONGRIFFIN,IR., Egypt,Tunisia,Morocco +about 40 more.
PJ for all your copy and paste effort you don’t make much sense. Hamas represent the Palestinians, arab christians and arab muslims. Do you want me to paste election results or would you like to accept that the war in the Holy Land is far from explainable?
By the way PJ mate, I’d be the first one to support a Jewish homeland in that region.
Arab proverb:” We’ll begin on Sat/( with the Jews) and finish on Sun/with the Christians.”
HAMAS CHARTER Art 7
“The Day of Judgement will not come about until Moslems fight the Jews (killing the Jews), when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees. The stones and trees will say O Moslems, O Abdulla, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him. ” (related by al-Bukhari and Moslem).
Hamas! Where will be the best place for us Christians to hide when you come to kill us?
@Jamie If and when they have one I’ll see myself the results.
No matter what side of the fence someone is regards the conflict in Palestine, they will find themselves in the company of madmen. Jamie, Hamas apologists do nothing but provide material for those that wish to denigrate the Palestinian cause. Hamas are a textbook example of islamist terrorism.
Regarding the Christian support; Hamas killed all the other parties after they were elected. Their is no PLO to support anymore. I don’t know what it’s like to live under the buzz of drones, to live under siege by a state backed by the world’s largest economy, but I presume it’s stressful, and I cannot therefore vouch that in that situation I would be in possession of the faculties to distinguish soundly whether or not the party I supported considered me a kafir.
@jamie Profanity and name calling shows your true class. Get lost!
OK PJ no name calling. Political solution needed?
Ha Ha,he speaks of them been Falsely represented as terrorists, and one of the guys in the picture has his face covered up like he was about to initiate a rocket attack.
What exactly are the right reasons?
Good idea. What if there was an ask the IRA during the tick of the troubles. Might open peoples minds to a different point of view not just the fox and us media view.
I don’t know what the hell you are taking about?
Declan, any questions you have I’d be happy to answer. #asktheprovos
What chu talkin’ ’bout Declan?
I never know what I am on about…..
@proudirishrepublican where do I begin, il start with where are the remaining bodies buried?
Is it true Fosters is served at the kangaroo courts?
No pun intended with the use of the work tick I presume!!
Is it not true that members of the provos raped children and sf hid abuse ?
Is it true that a mother of ten was tortured and executed? Who done that? Who ordered it?
How many sexually abused people did the sf leader know about and force them into silence?
Why does sf support garda killers
Why does sf send it’s members to columbia to train farc terrorists?
I think it would be fair to add murder to rape. It gives a more accurate description of the achievements of the various IRAs.
I propose starting a #AskSF hashtag.
Tis it not funny like???
Loonies will always find other loonies to follow them. A lonely loony is a lost loony and a lost loony looking for a leader can be easily lured by other loopers.
Genius Hamas, real smart. They should be asked about why they incorporated the crazy anti/semitic Protocols of the Elders of Zion in their Charter.
And when will they will hold elections in Gaza.
Not a bad idea but it came short as the world is trying to get rid of ISIS
http://Www.jihad.ie
Abo Obayda still looks the same after all these years.
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