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Hearthstone Grand Tournament Release Date

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Attention all Hearthstone fans! The release date for the Grand Tournament has been officially announced by Blizzard. The latest update to Blizzard’s wildly successful online collectable card game, Hearthstone, will officially arrive on August 24.

  • The only exception to this date is Asia, which will be able to play Hearthstone, Grand Tournament on August 25.

The Grand Tournament will feature an brand new game mechanic called Inspire. When you use your Hero Power you will trigger Inspire which in turn will provide you with a benefit like stat gains, additional minions, new abilities and much more. What happens with inspire is all based on the description of the particular card you’re playing. Ultimately, Inspire will now give you more reasons to use your Hero Power and provide a new way for you to defeat your enemies.

Grand Tournament will bring with it 132 new cards to the game, which will now provide players with a reason to spend all of that gold and dust that they have been hanging on to. Along with the new cards there will be a new board to play on and a new game mechanic called Jousting. This new mechanic will have players draw and reveal one card from their decks, the player who draws the higher cost card will be the winner. If you drew the joust card and win, then you will gain the additional benefit from that card’s description.

This is Hearthstone’s second major expansion and it looks to be a lot of fun. For complete information head to Blizzard’s Hearthstone Grand Tournament page.

Featured App: Papa Pear Saga

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Papa Pear Saga is a game made by the same company who also made Candy Crush (King), and it’s just as addicting. With so many matching games very similar to Candy Crush, Papa Pear is something a little different and very fun.

It does involve “lives”, you have 5 and every time you lose a game, you lose a life, then the timer counts down to receive more. You also have the option of in-game purchases (with real money), such as power ups, or gold bars to help you move along a little faster and easier. If you’ve played these types of apps before, you know all about it. Most of them now a days all work pretty much the same, but I do recommend this game, it is really fun.

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Description

Try to make each Papa Pear shot bounce on as many objects as possible. Land a Papa Pear in each Barrel to advance to the next level.

Instructions

  1. Try to make each Papa Pear bounce on as many objects as possible to earn points.
  2. Try to land Papa Pear in each Barrel and advance to next level, new levels means more things to bounce on = more points.
  3. Try to catch all multiplier pegs because this will increase your multiplier and thereby your score.

You can play Papa Pear on Facebook, Google Play, and at Papa Pear Saga.

If you go to PapaPearSaga.com it says the game will soon be coming to iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, and Android devices.

How To: Fix iPhone Autocorrect Without Turning It Off

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If you text on your iPhone, and start typing but the phone doesn’t recognize the word you’re trying to type, it will autocorrect it to what it thinks you meant to say, and it’s often way off. If you’re like me, quickly typing through a text, the autocorrect is otherwise very useful as it does a pretty good job most of the time.

I like to have autocorrect turned on for the words it does get right and so just turning it off doesn’t work for me. For the those words that just don’t seem to ever autocorrect to what you want, you can use the “shortcut” feature in iOS to correct this issue.

Here’s how it’s done:

  • Go into Settings > General > Keyboard.
  •  Select “Add New Shortcut” at the bottom of the list.
  • In the section that says “Phrase” type the word you want the phone to learn.

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The “Shortcut” option is optional, and is for shortening your phrase, for example: Phrase- “On my way”. Shortcut- “omw”.  If it’s just one word you do not need to add the shortcut.

There you have it, so easy. Add more words as you wish and the autocorrect will bother you no more! Yay!

Featured App: Battle Camp

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Battle Camp is a great FREE app I came across and haven’t been able to put it down since. I’ve been seeing a lot of these types of games lately but this one is by far the best. Customize your little character from head to toe. They start you off with plenty of hairstyles and clothes, unlike some apps that want you to pay for 90% of the goods with real money. There is the option of in-game purchases, of course, like more energy and coins.

Battle other players in PvP, or monsters within the game. It’s as if Bejeweled and Pokemon had a love child. Match 3 or more and it creates an attack or gives you health. Fight to gather new monsters to battle with. Evolve them, make them stronger to battle your opponents.

 

Description

EXPERIENCE THE AWESOME!

Dare to clash with rampaging dragons and fire-belching warthogs? Then join Battle Camp, a persistent virtual world filled with legendary monsters and ancient evils. To survive, train a fierce monster team and form a Troop with fellow Rangers. Then work together to crush raid bosses, wage Troop Wars and dominate in real-time PvP.

Features:
• Monster battling Puzzle MMO.
• Explore a LIVE Virtual World.
• Form a Troop with friends and other players.
• Crush the opposition in Troop Wars.
• Coordinate attacks in monthly Raid Events.
• Destroy rivals in Real-Time PvP Tournaments.
• Capture and raise over 175 monsters.
• Design your own unique avatar.

Get the app: App Store (Coming soon to Google Play)
Facebook: facebook.com/BattleCampApp

 

Apple’s Special Event October 2013 – iPad Air Revealed

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October 22, 2013 Apple hosted a live streaming event to announce new updates and products. Here are some of the highlights of this event:

Mavericks:

Added iBooks, and available to download today for FREE regardless of which Mac OS you currently have installed. For more details on OSX Mavericks head to our earlier post.

MacBooks

 

Macbook Pro 13 inch:

    • Retina display
    • 2.4 GHz dual-core i5
    • 4GB DRAM
    • Iris Graphics
    • 128GB SSD

Starting at $1299 (ships today)

Macbook Pro 15 inch:

  • Retina display
  • 2.0 GHz quad-core i7
  • 8GB DRAM
  • Iris Pro graphics
  • 256GB SSD

Starting at $1999 (ships today)

Mac Pro:

Less power consumption and very quiet with a completely new design. Available in December 2013

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iPad Air and iPad Mini:

An all new designed iPad was announced, and they are calling it the iPad Air. Along with the Air they added a retina display option and the new A7 chip to the iPad mini which will cost $399. iPad Air will be available November 1, 2013.

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iPad Air thickness compared to the latest generation iPad
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iPad Air bezel compared to the latest generation iPad

 

The biggest day ever for apps – Eddy Cue

Today they talked about major app updates and how they will now be useable on both Mac and iOS, free to download today.

iPhoto, iMovie, GarageBand, and iWork all with new features and updates to work with the new Mavericks and iOS 7.

To watch the whole key note head here, Apple.com