Lockerz, this has recently become my favorite website on the web! Lockerz is a site that lets it’s users accumulate points to trade in for cool things like PS3′s, Xbox360′s, Wii’s, iPod Touch’s, and even the NEW iPad! You can gain points just by signing in and answering a simple daily question. Of course, the way to accumulate more points though is playing games, videos, and listening to music! Most videos give you 4 PTZ so it makes things a little faster. The downside is it’s invite only, but luckily for you I have invites and I’m willing to share! Visit our Lockerz page and input your name and email and soon you too will have a Lockerz invite!

Openfeint is one of the iPhone world’s social gaming engines much like Xbox Live is to the 360. It shares achievements, adds friends, and gives you an incentive to keep playing games and buying more titles. Soon though, this service could fall under the colossal cloud of the new Apple Gaming Center.

With the new 4.0 firmware announced today, Apple said it is creating a new social gaming element for the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad dubbed the “Gaming Center”. Since the powerhouse devices have become a popular platform for gamers, Apple decided it was time to implement a technology that has been used countless times by numerous others, a social gaming platform. With this new platform, supposedly it will be like the Nintendo DS’s market mixed with Xbox Live elements (pure speculation at this point) providing users the choice to play friends, gain achievements, and share them on social networks. Wait wait wait, isn’t there something like this already? Oh yeah, OPENFEINT! The service does everything described above and is already in place on your device right now, no update needed. I’m sure the interface of Apple’s ripoff will be phenomenal and make it hard to resist (plus it’ll already be there on your device), but don’t let OpenFeint fall to the wayside. Maybe Apple could provide us with the ability to import achievements and friends from the service if it is going to destroy it. Hopefully, this rant is completely wrong but atleast it may open some minds.

UPDATE: OpenFeint responds to Apple Game Center [Link]

FacetheMusic, an app by my good friend Shabbir Vijapura (@shabzcohelp) over at TouchMiPhone, allows users to post what they’re listening to on their iPod, iPhone, and iPad right to Twitter and or Facebook directly from their device. With some new features added to this release, FacetheMusic has gotten better than ever!

The new update to FacetheMusic improves on many things and rids this app of a few known bugs. It’s sleek interface accompanied by the powerful coding structure gives this app an upper hand on any apps that wish to rival it. Being that it is integrated with the two most popular social networks to date, FacetheMusic will be an excellent buy today as well as tomorrow. If you choose to post to Twitter, there are a few options in place that will automatically place the hashtag’s #musicmonday and #facethemusic onto your post provided you have them enabled. You can also disable them if you only wish to post to Facebook or care not to share with the Twitterverse that you are using this amazing app! Oh and don’t forget to add album art and an actual music link to your post! With FacetheMusic, you can post the album art of the album you’re listening to (provided you have it attached to the music file and the network allows you to at the time) and a music link from either Twt.fm or Youtube, these features are a little hidden so find them!

Pros:

• Ease of use
• Awesome Interface
• Reusable at any given point in the day
• It’s price: a mere $0.99 (cheaper than a cup of coffee)

Cons:

• Network error causing Twitpic uploads to fail
• Youtube may need to be loaded several times

All in all, FacetheMusic for your iDevice is a must have for music fans, status updaters, Twitter fiends alike!

Purchase “FacetheMusic” on the AppStore!

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars

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The Ultimate Alphabet Game is an upcoming app from ToyTek Ltd. and it’s going to blow your mind! It’s a game that requires you to find everything (and I mean EVERYTHING) that starts with a certain letter. In this build, there are letters A-D and each one has over 256 things to name! It’s insane! The vocabulary is really hard at times and it does have a little problem with the buttons at times. The target audience for this app is definitely 18 and up not because of the content but because of the words. Most people won’t be able to figure out some of the words without hints but if you don’t mind doing that, then this game is a definite buy when it comes out! Check out their website, or their twitter @toytekltd for more info on when this app comes out!

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars

This is a test post to see if the Geotagging feature for WordPress app works on a selfhosted blog! Probably not yet but if it did, this should be tagged.

The Acacia Strain is an American deathcore band from Chicopee, Massachusetts, even though they have stated that they do not belong to any set “genre”. They recently released a live DVD entitled “The Most Known Unknown” which is a live performance in Worcester, Massachusetts and it was one brutal show. The line up couldn’t have been chosen any better and the boys of TAS performed like always, simply brutal! Vincent (lead singer) talked to the audience about his hatred towards the human race and how we are all screwed up  and deserve to die. The audience’s response to this was screams of acceptance and acknowledgement, followed by countless circle pits, moshing, and at the finale a wall of death. Of all the songs performed, JFC had to be the most brutal in my opinion. The DVD is a two disc set featuring the full line up in Worcester, MA, a smaller set at The Waterfront, and includes a few extras including music videos from their popular hits. All I can say is… PICK THIS UP NOW IF YOU LOVE BRUTAL DEATHCORE/METAL/HARDCORE!!!

Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars

The Acacia Strain on Wikipedia
The Most Known Unknown DVD on Amazon

Starting to write an Android application, I found out just how versed in Java I really was… very minimal. Still I think I can acomplish this challenge that I’ve made for myself. I still don’t know what kind of app I’d like to develope, maybe a Twitter client or something similiar to that. I am also purchasing a Nexus One once my taxes come back so I’ll have my iPhone and my Android! Cannot wait!

Dave Thomas (@loldave) and I (@cfultz) were thinking about doing a Tweet-Up for all Staunton,VA Tweeters! This blog post is a portal for everyone to talk about it and share your ideas on the matter. Please let us know what you all think!!!!

By the way, if you don’t understand the lingo, here’s the definition for Tweet-Up

Etymology

Blend of tweet and meetup

Noun Singular: tweetup

Plural tweetups:  tweetup (plural tweetups)     1. A real-life meeting organised on the social networking site Twitter.

Edit 1: Should there be a formal meeting or just a get together kind of thing?

Edit 2: Should it be sometime soon or would Spring time be better?

I attended the Bella Morte concert in C-Ville last night! Here’s my favorite video I shot all night! The song is called “Find Forever Gone” and can be found on their album “Beautiful Death”! Rock On Bella Morte!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATGg1kcUikQ

More on my Youtube Account: CFultz

I just read my friend Dave’s blog post over on deargravity about his 2009 experiences and I thought I should do something similar. It was  a very weird year that’s for sure, but all in all for me it wasn’t all that bad. The biggest events of my year were breaking up to finding myself, buying a car to falling in love again, and many more things of that nature. I’ll break this down into seasons and highlight key events to make this a little more of a speedy read.

Winter-Spring (Jan. – March)

So Happy New Year!!! It’s 2009, woo woo! Nothing much has changed since last year. Same job at Irish Alley, same beautiful girl friend (that wasn’t at the New Years Party), nothing really to write home about. January 29, my geekness lead me to purchase my iPhone! Had the best birthday ever on February 5 because it was spent with the girl I loved. Then just 2 weeks later, I get another birthday present, my 2000 Civic Si! March 3 was probably the biggest relationship argument I’ve ever had over loving my car more than her. Dumb arguments…

Spring-Summer (April-June)

After breaking up with my girlfriend over some stupid arguments and finding out some secrets she was keeping, April started off horrible. I felt so out of place in the world, I decided it was time for a drive. Drove to Harrisonburg on I-81 as fast as I possibly could just to clear my mind. I stopped in at a Sheetz and talked to this girl who needed help pumping gas. After helping her out, I realized I wasn’t the person I felt like I was, mean and cold, but something someone more caring and loving than ever. Then May brought the big Twitter boom, everybody and there mama got a Twitter account. Already having one, I felt more in the loop and made some friends on there @loldave, @pobenschain, and @edgebz. Then some crazy rebounding happened… Not going into details about that *cough mountain troll* but June wasn’t all bad, nice warm days and fun times at the Quarry oh and a Bella Morte concert!

Summer-Fall (July-Sept.)

July’s best moment was Kings Dominion hands down. Lot’s more swimming at the Quarry and a few bond fires. Running kids off of our turf had to be an excellent end to July at the Quarry. Started talking to a beautiful young woman and fell in love with her during the first weeks of August. Love blooming before fall never works and it was more of a fling I guess. Still, she taught me alot about not to look at the outer appearance and appreciate the inner beauty of someone. Wake me up when September ends… because it was so boring and pointless.

Fall-Winter (Oct.-Dec.)

Nothing  über happened in October except on Halloween my iPhone 3G met it’s demise from a pot of broccoli water at work… Which lead to me buying a 3GS in November. It was a lonely November playing COD:MW2 to pass the time, listening to music from Emmure and playing iPhone games. Jailbroke my iPhone and made a Cydia repo for the fun of it and nothing more. December 31, 2009 was spent at work most of the day then lead to a party at Ben’s house. Hung out with all my Kroger friends and my homies. Then at the stroke of midnight, 2009 was finished!

Woo, what a year!

Let me finish this post by saying that 2010 will be a better year for sure! It started off really well last night when a beautiful girl sat on my lap, took my beanie, took a picture, and got my number, yeah it looks to be starting off better than last! So Happy New Year and best wishes in the upcoming year!