Friday, May 21, 2010

Pac-Man Google Doodle

Tomorrow is Pac-Man's 30th anniversary and Google has decided to celebrate it with a playable logo on their main page. Google doodles are event and holiday specific logos that Google sometimes use in their homepage. This time they have gone further by not just making an image logo. They've made it playable. Below you can see the logo:


You can actually play with this logo as an actual Pac-Man game which includes 255 levels and it even includes a 256th level "kill screen" just like the original coin-op. To control the Pac-Man use the arrow keys.

I have to say this has been my favorite Google doodle so far, it looks creative and best of it, it's fun. I have played with it for a while and I've become addicted. You guys should try it out.

If you like Pac-Man you can still enjoy it in newer consoles or portables like the iPhone from its App Store or with NDS's Namco Museum or Pac Man World 3.

EDIT: Hey guys, i just found out an interesting thing you can do. You can play with 2-player mode. Instead of the "I'm feeling lucky" button you'll usually find in Google's main page, there's now an "Insert coin" button. If you click it while already playing, "Ms. Pac-Man" will appear as a second player. Ms. Pac-Man is controlled with the "WASD" keys.

Monday, May 3, 2010

Spirit Jailbreak released



Sorry for the late news. Yesterday Comex (an iPhone hacker) released his Spirit. But with his Spirit I mean his new jailbreak tool. This tool is now able to jailbreak iPads making it the first iPad jailbreak. Not only that, it's also an untethered jailbreak for all devices, taking away all that worries for people who had no choice but to have it tethered. It works for all devices with firmwares 3.1.2 to 3.2 (all the models of iPods, iPhones, and iPads). It works on both Mac and Windows. It does not activate devices though, and unfortunately it is a userland based jailbreak which makes it very easy to patch by Apple, so please enjoy while supplies last (well, while you can actually). Spirit is also NOT a carrier unlock so watch out with that.

You can get this jailbreak from the official site.