1. Spiral Defense – I LOVE this game. It is a tower defense game thatyou can easilly play for hours on end. I think it was a buck or 2 and totally worth it.

2. Bubble – Useful app, I use it all the time. It is a level that is very accurate and really nice when you can only find a HUGE level.I used it to level a LCD TV and shelves in my sons room.

3. Scrambled Net – another fun game that is free so there is a bonus. The game is based on the “pipes” type games. It is pretty mindless and fun when waiting in a DR office or something. Has the ability to shut off the sounds.

4. HideNSeek – This is a useful utility for hiding your files on your G1, when you open it from the menu it pops a flashlight up and then you hit menu 3 times and are prompted for a password. The only down side I have seen from the app is you need to remember to CLOSE the program when you leave or then anyone can access the program.

5. Statusinator – Good Face Book app. Allows you to upload pictures right to your wall as well as see friends updated status and update yours as well. If you tap to a feature not supported it takes you right to facebook to see that thing. I use this app every day.

Ok so there is my top 5 G1 apps I will add more as I go through them. I will try and let you know which ones blow too.

Matt Giraud-  there is something about this kid and I don’t know what it is. More then likely it is that gravely blues thing going on with his voice. I was shocked to see him in the bottom 3 a few weeks back, and have decided that was Idol playing with the numbers again because they wanted to keep Crazy Megan. Yes I have a very conspiracy theory view of Idol. I think they send the people home who are voted off, but I also think sometimes they play with the bottom 3 to try to get results they want.

I will say, that even though they are touting this group as the best ever (like every year) I am not seeing it. I think that seasons 4,5, and 6 were definitely the hay day. Last year was a snore! This year isn’t turning out much better. I watch every week and find myself more and more talking through the performances and ignoring what is going on. I think it is a multitude of reasons, but the main one for me in the new stage.. HATE IT! I liked the closeness of the other set. I liked being able to actually SEE the band.

One was odd had like 1000 uses left to it. Gift of Lost Legacies.. so I claimed it. I received two 10 stack of potions 3 pieces of armor all better then what I had on .. it was the Defiant stuff.. a new weapon (which I did have better of) and a  book with 5 charges of port to PoK. I think this is awesome, part of the problem I have had in the past with trying to go back to Everquest, is that my gear just is not good enough for the newer zones. This allows me to gear back up and go hunt without having to go back to the older expansions that no one is in to get re geared. One of the potions is the Adventurer Potions which allows you to increase your exp for 30 minutes. I guess you can now buy these with real cash. So they have given returning players 5 hours of increased exp which is nice. I have not checked out the new mercenary system, but I think it has something to do with hiring PC’s to hunt with you. I find that kind of sad, means that the server populations have dropped so much people need to hire people to hunt with them. eqtheme

Now the reason I am bringing this entire thing up is tonight is the Myth Busters new Discovery Channel Shark Week special, actually in 40 minutes I am going to sit and watch it. I hope this is a good show filled with ridiculous experiments that put Adam in REAL peril.. like the time he scorched off the hair on his body, not just another wanna be special effects show, if that is what I want to see I will go watch a movie with the money to give it to me.

Q. How do I grow my mob?

A. There is a lot of answers to this question but the easiest way I have found to cause some growth is to invite people to your mob with a lot of mobsters already, they will usually have a Myspace Friends Category that they will add you too. Once in that category you can see all the friends they have that also play mobster and are more than likely looking for more friend invites.

Q. Do I have to have them be my friend in order to add them to my mob?

A. YES! This can be circumvented with some “shady” software but this is not the intention of MySpace or Mobsters and can be cause for banning on MySpace. Your best bets is just add the friends, play Mobsters with them, and enjoy all the new people you are meeting. I was a hard core REAL LIFE friends only before Mobsters with having like 30 real friends and 20 “star” type friends, I am loving all my new pals and anyone who annoys me I just delete them.

Q. Why am I losing fight all the time?

A. You have to remember that your Mob strength is based on your level times five. So let’s take me for example I am level 35 so 35×5=175, so I am only using 175 of my mobsters when I actually fight. That means I can have 1 gun, 1 body armor, 1 Vehicle for each of the 175 people it counts. So if I go and look at my equipment screen this is what you will see.

This allows me to be at full strength when I am attacked, if I didn’t have a weapon, body armor, and vehicle for each person it counted that mobster would fight with their fists. It is also good to remember that when you attack you are getting a higher “dice roll” and get preferred treatment by the mobster app in the fight for being the aggressor.

Q. How are people getting over 500 Mobsters?

A. Ok I know I went over this in another post, that maybe it was a cheat, but it isn’t which was clarified but a great commenter. Deal is Mobster will only ever allow you to use 500 mobsters RIGHT NOW. You can have as many as you like but owning over 500 guns, cars and such does you no good. So yes you mob can be over 500 but you can never bring more then 500 to a fight which begs the question is level 100 the max mobster level?

Q. What is the most important stat to increase?

A. To me this is completely subjective. I have a ton of friends that like to increase their stamina so they can fight the hell outta people, and me I like increasing my energy so I can get about 2 million an hour. If someone has some better ideas of what stats are important and what ones are not let me know.

Q. How do I get more Godfather Points?

A. You can buy them with Paypal, or you can sign up for silly surveys, or you can earn a few here and there by reaching certain achievements with you Mob. I have not found it important to have the Godfather points, but it is the way the guy who wrote Mobster makes money off of us, so it can’t hurt to go and fill out some of the free ones.

So that is some of the ones I come across in my emails every day if you have any other please feel free to leave a comment and I will try and answer to the best of my ability.

Ok so here is the deal I spend a lot of my time watching youtube videos of people playing Rock Band and Guitar Hero. The one trend that I have seen is that all these videos seem to be of people who are awesome at it, but what about us regular folks that are playing for the sheer fun of the game. That is why I wanted to make this video of me and my kids playing.

So to set the scene this is me, my 2 sons and my soon to be brother in law. My sister is the camera “person” and isn’t happy about it either.. She totally didn’t want to have to film us. We have been playing for about 3 hours now when we decide to get the camera out. I wanted to thank my kids and Andy for letting me film them and then put our silly asses on the internet, all for your enjoyment. Anyway, I hope this moves all of you to get up and ROCK OUT like we did, more videos of that is what I want to see, I don’t care if you can get 100% on expert. Hell, my eleven year old can do that.

Oh and let’s not forget that burp it up in the video!

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