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The official Wikipedia iPhone app is actually kind of lame
The good news is that Wikipedia finally has an official iPhone app. The bad news is that Wikipedia already had an iPhone-optimized website, and the app doesn't offer any compelling reason why you shouldn't just keep using that. Unlike some of the downloadable, offline-readable versions of Wikipedia we've covered before, the iPhone app isn't any more useful than a bookmark of the mobile site. When I rounded up a bunch of ways to enhance your Wikipedia experience, I mentioned two good iPhone apps: Wikiamo and Wikipanion. I'd recommend either of those over the official app, as they offer options for searching, formatting, and offline reading that the official app simply doesn't. I hope to see the Wikipedia app improve over time, but for right now, it's just taking up space on your home screen.
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So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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JayMonster said 8:00AM on 8-21-2009
Perhaps they were afraid of adding to much and getting rejected for "obscene words," "duplicate functionality," or some other stupid excuse from the AppStore.
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