Hardware, apps and game reviews.

iPhone 7

A lot may think that it is not worth getting the iPhone 7 because it is "old" and you can get the iPhone 8 or X which are "a lot better" however I disagree

If you are on some sort of budget, I beleive that it could still be worth buying the iPhone 7. Even though it doesn't have a "super amazing" camera like the 8 or X, it still has a very good camera. The screnn is high quality and it srill has 3d touch which is very useful. The main thing that it doesn't have is the advanced camera app with selfie mode n' stuff. I am not trying to say that the 7 is better than the 8 or X, I am just trying to say that if you are on a budget it is still an option.

Habitica



Habitica is an app so you can set goals and be more productive. It has done this by making it into a game as well. It has three places where you can earn exp and gold, the in game currency. The three places are to dos, habits and daily. In to dos you set one time goals so that when you complete them they disappear. In daily you set goals so that you can do them every day once a day and you will be damaged if you do not complete them. Finally there is habits where you can set goals that wont disappear or you can only do once a day. You can just keep doing them. The actual game part is about fighting monsters or bosses. It isn't what most people call a game in the sense that you will do damage to your opponent daily, based on the tasks you do. For me the only things that I don't like about it (so far) is that the UI could be drastically improved and it will often freeze. However I would recommend Habitica and I think it is very good. You can use it on IOS, Android or use the web app

Dominus


Dominus  is an online strategy game where you have to take other peoples' castles while defending your own and getting resources. It is mainly free but the pro account doesn't really do much more so it doesn't really make a difference. The game has different speeds of game and I prefer the relaxed games because it happens quite slowly and means you don't have to be looking at it all of the time. Some of the mechanics in the game are quite complicated and hard to understand but it has a very good help option so you can easily understand (this resolves the fact that it doesn't have a tutorial). The goal of the game is to be a lord of everyone in the whole server. To be a Lord of someone you have to take their castle. As a reward for taking a castle you will get 10% of your vassal's (person who you are a lord to) income. The game is not optimised for the phone but it is possible to play it, although I wouldn't recommend it.

Tayasui Sketches

Tayasui Sketches is a drawing app for Mac Os, Android and IOS. I have experience with the app and I created this on my iPad in 20 minutes. The app is free but doesn't have some of the tools and you can't use layers. The pro version of the app costs £4.99 (not sure what in dollars) and, in my opinion, is worth it. It would be quite hard (not impossible but hard) to create any good art without the layers.

Bebot

 Bebot is an app for IOS and Android. It is a synthesiser app but it has a robot that looks like it is singing when the synth is playing. You start out with 30 standard synths but you can then edit and change to make your own. Once you made your own synth you can save it and come back to it, so can use and change it.

Blogger

As you probably know this blog is made on blogger. Blogger is an easy to use and almost completely free online tool for making blogs. I find it easy to use and it is an enjoyable experience using it.

Chrome OS

Chrome OS


Here is my actual review for Chrome OS, not for the Chromebook, but if you want to know I have a Lenovo N22 Chromebook. You would think that it is not that useful and that you can't do much on it, because it is mainly using Google Chrome for everything; but i can't find much that you can do on most computers that you can't do on the Chromebook. Google have recently added the Google Play Store to the Chromebook. This is both good and bad. It is good because there are more apps that you can access, but is bad because Google don't show what apps will work on certain Chromebooks and won't on others. I like Chrome OS and so far have written my whole blog on it, including this one.
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