Bed Bugs iPhone Gaming App – don’t let the bedbugs bite!

Bed Bugs

Category: Games

Released Date: 221 June 2009

Seller: HOWARD N HUNLEY © Igloo Games

Price: $1.99

Simple, entertaining, unlimited fun and absolute worth for money – these are the right way to describe the amazing iPhone gaming app Bed Bugs. Some users have even claimed it to be one of the most entertaining games they have experienced on the iPhone. “Good night, Sleep tight…Don’t let the Bed Bugs bite…” is perhaps what most people say or hear before going to bed every night. Developers of the Bed Bugs iPhone application have used this concept to develop this amazing game – which involves a sleep walker and whole army of unique bed bugs.

Storyline

If compared to the high-end action-packed games, Bed Bugs has nothing that special, but its simplicity and uniqueness is what makes it so popular among the users. The storyline of Bed Bugs goes like this – as night falls, the sweet little animated sleep walker gets up to take a stroll through dreamscape, still deep in sleep. The dreamscape is filled with all kind of creepy crawling bedbugs, who approach the sleepwalker to bite. In order to protect the sleepwalker from getting bitten, you need to smash the bedbugs before they reach him. As the player your goal would be to keep the sleepwalker safe and sound asleep.

Gameplay

To play the game, you need to be alert and very quick. You can smash a bug by tapping, while holding another and flick a third one without disturbing your sleepy friend. Hang on! Smashing the bugs is not as easy as it sounds. Each bug requires different techniques to get destroyed. You have to know the techniques to kill them all. The friendly Fairy, Jack in the Box, Splitters and the Twins are your buddies who will help you to find the tricks.

Features

Here is a list of features that the Bed Bugs app offers:

Easy gameplay

28 unique bug enemies

Simple yet attractive 2D graphics and animation
Perfect bug smashing animation
5 awesome built-in music tracks (you can also play music from your personal collection)
Stunning dreamscapes
Ideally suited sound effects
However, apart from the one little drawback or flaw in the game – the lack of replay value – Bed Bug is perfect in every other respect. Not only users but iPhone developers have also appreciated the simplicity and addictiveness of the application.

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Associate Press’ new news application does full justice to the “push notification” support of iPhone OS 3.0

Since Apple messed up last year when it attempted to launch a “push” email, calendaring and contact service with MobileMe – people did not expect much when this time Apple confirmed that the new iPhone software upgrade would support third-party “push” applications. Many had doubt whether or not these applications would work on the iPhone platform at all. However, after much controversy and speculations, Apple has finally come up with the “Push Notification” system, which is one of the major additional features in the iPhone OS 3.0 software upgrade.


After the release of iPhone OS 3.0 software last week, Associated Press’ news application is the first and highest-profile push application that was available. The app and its push service were beta-tested by iPhone developers before it was finally available in the store and was confirmed to have an extremely easy and simple set up. This application can be simply turned on from the iPhone’s “Settings”. Go to your iPhone’s “Settings” and turn the “Push Notifications” on. Then from the Associate Press’ settings, you can specify the way you want your notification to appear. You can receive the notification in the form of a text alert or as badgers or even as an alarm beep – or maybe in all the above mentioned forms.


As per the users, the push notification system of the app has been quite successful so far. They have received several news alerts even when they are not using the news app. At times they had received it a few minutes after the event took place, but nevertheless it has been of great help. However, some complain that it is not as fast as the previous notification systems – specially the SMS text notifications. They say that the alerts sent by Associate Press through its iPhone app reached them a minute or two after CNN’s SMS alert. Well, the efficiency of the application can only be judged after it’s used by more people.


How much tight its market competition may be, Associate Press’ push application works perfectly and consistently – it is absolutely effortless to set up and extremely comfortable to manage. According to several iPhone app reviews, Associate Press’ push notification undoubtedly does full justice to the “push notification” functionality of the iPhone OS 3.0.