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Facebook Apps – The next best/worst thing?

July 27th, 2009

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Facebook Apps – if you are like me than you have no idea how you got into even playing with these apps… I normally only use Facebook for keeping in touch with college friends. However, I see these as a new way to stagger through my work day.  Some of these apps are meant to just take your mind off of what you were currently doing and waste a little bit of time.  Others are so addictive that you just find yourself now checking your Facebook for updates with these apps and freak out because your co-worker or some friend you haven’t seen in 3 years just beat your Chain Rxn score by 32 million…and you need to sit in an imaginary bubble for just 10 minutes while you try and beat this gloriously high score…I’ve been there already.

1) Farm Town and Farmville (they are both basically the same): Pretty self explanatory, you plant seeds and trees and watch them grow. Then you harvest and sell them for money. The more you plant and harvest, the more experience you receive and then higher your level will be. You can also get animals and fences, buildings, the list goes on. You can also send plants and animals to your friends for their farms. The only down side I have yet to see is you either check your farm too late and have to delete the withered left overs or wait 3 days for your corn/wheat to grow, some plants take 4 hours and some take 3 days.

2) Chain Rxn: This is a super-massive addictive game, no lie. The object of the game is to click anywhere on the screen to start a chain reaction of balls as they bump into the other balls that have explodedfrom the initial ball. The longer the chain goes, the higher the score for each ball that bumps into another exploded ball. I have nothing bad to say about this except that it is the new crack, it’s that addictive.

3) Mafia Wars: I cannot really review this only because I have never played it, though I am going to review it now because it was the first app that made me cringe at using any other app. I used to have about 40+ new updates about my friends’ Mafia and always got invites to join the crew. I am sure that within the next few months, I will probably give up and join. I am a lemming…

4) Bejeweled Blitz: Come on, my generation and even those who may be a little bit older certainly remember the game Bejeweled. I would play that game like it was then end of the world, if I even turned my head away, the Earth would face certain horrifying death. Yeah, I know, I had issues. Either way, Bejeweled Blitz on Facebook is basically Bejeweled 2 with a 1 minute time frame, thats pretty much it. I adamantly tried to burst all of your bubbles there to save you the annoyance, because that is what happened to me.

Hopefully, this little tidbit of highly important information will either have you interested in playing with some of these Facebook apps (there are a TON more out there.)  If you do happen to get into most of the apps I mentioned…send me something for my farm…please…

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MuchGeek is live!!

April 13th, 2009

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That’s right, and much sooner than expected!  MuchGeek is here, live and ready to bring the thunder.  Or at least the tech news and stories that we find interesting.. whichever comes first.

Thanks, first of all, to everyone who has been helping us get the site off the ground; we’ve already started to develop a solid community of like-minded individuals who all bring something awesome to the table, and there’s every reason to believe that what we are doing here has the potential and ability to become a strong resource and destination for everyone living the life of a geek (or at least trying to keep up to date with the world of tech).

If you haven’t already, stop by the Forums and see what’s going on, leave us a message.  We’re still happy to talk to new people who are interested in contributing stories or, really, anything to the site.  Obviously a new logo is in the works and hopefully there will be something better out soon, what I’ve put up there is just a bit of a place holder (edit: changed to a newer image.. a bit nicer, thoughts?).  Same for the theme here, while it’s nice and sleek it doesn’t full fit the feel or provide the identity that we’re looking for for the long run.

Thanks again for stopping by, now it’s time to get to work on keeping up with making something that you will want to come back to every day for the stories, community and just the experience!

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Status update

April 11th, 2009

Hi everyone, thanks for stopping by – just wanted to give a quick update as to what we’re working on.

So far, it seems the site is pretty stable all around. Planning right now set the URL to go straight to the blog on Monday. Having a meeting at MG HQ tomorrow night to go over some things (and maybe get something cool done) and talk about some ideas.

Also working on getting a real layout figured out and setting up some main categories. Head over to the forums and give us some input on how we’re doing and what you’d like to see!

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Check out the new gallery software!

April 6th, 2009

Let me know what you think.  Just a quick gallery of stuff from my twitter folder… also, note the twitter icon by the RSS, werd.

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Testing Twitter blog plugins.

April 6th, 2009

They all worked properly on the test blog.  Let’s see what happens.  Hopefully, this post will go out as a tweet.

Then, I’ll try to use the Tweet This button below on @xris_ and hope she works!

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Welcome back, hopefully for the last round :D

April 5th, 2009

Hello everyone, Chris here.  Just as an update, if you had been stopping by today you probably saw a lot of craziness.  Hopefully everything got evened out now.  Somehow, I managed to 404 the blog when I deleted a user profile last time around.  Tomorrow I’m pulling a full server backup down just incase anything crazy like that happens to fly by again.

For now, however, everything SEEMS to be working properly.  You can create an account here on the blog or over on the forums (links above) and log into either with the same credentials.  Let me know how things are looking, if any features are missing or not working, or just any comments you care to give.

Tomorrow, I’ll reinstall all of the addons for bbPress.  Until then, hold tight with the lack of avatars, sigs, images, formatting bars, new post updates and a lot of other things it doesn’t come with out of the box.

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