The Anteater's Review: Best Bytes and Beyond

Reviews of new and upcoming web hotspots and services.

Friday, July 21, 2006

My Interview with SquidU

About a week ago I got an email from the senior director of community development for Squidoo, Heath Row. He asked if I would be interested in being interviewed for a profile on his SquidU website. A week later, my interview has been posted. The interview focuses on how and why I create lenses on Squidoo.

Read my interview on SquidU.


Check out all of my lenses on Squidoo.

Friday, July 14, 2006

Loads of Flash Games for Your PSP!

If you're like me and you recently installed the 2.70 Firmware on your PSP, you already know that there's a beautiful new feature that's been added: Flash support. Now you can play Flash games through your WiFi connection to the internet or play saved .swf files on your memory stick. Unfortunately many flash games don't work well on the PSP. Flow for instance doesn't completely load. Others require keyboard input. However, a few programmers have stepped up and created PSP compatible Flash games and, better yet, Flash games that work exclusively on the PSP. Here's a list of sites to help you find these games.

Shallan's Flash PSP Games - There are five fairly entertaining games here. One of the games, Switch, is an addictive puzzle game that requires you to match up similar shapes by switching them two at a time. Portaball, an Arkanoid clone, is another addictive puzzle game on Shallan's site.

QJ.net - QJ.net held a contest for flash games for the PSP. There are about 10 reviewed games.

Tetris - This is a nice little tetris game I found on the PSP Vault.

Chubigan's Blog - This blog has a PSP Flash game of the week feature.

GFX Pros
- This site has a few real simple games like Tic Tac Toe, Paper Rock Scisoors, and Snakes.

Game.Salesmunn.com
- This site has a selection of classic puzzle games, chess, etc.

Pac Man - The quintessential arcade classic in flash form for your PSPleasure.

Thursday, July 13, 2006

Blufr: Trick Questions Were Never So Much Fun

About a week ago, I learned about Blufr(http://www.blufr.com/), a simple yet very addictive trivia site. Blufr tests your trivia threshold by dispensing user submitted trick questions one at a time. The question is accompanied by a "global Bluf rate" or a percentage of people fooled by the question. Once you answer, you either see "You've been Bluffed" or "You're Right" along with an explaination of the trivia fact. The site keeps your score and, in the style of the old school arcade classics, you can claim your high score and put up your initials.
As if that wasn't enough... Blufr has another beautiful aspect: Webmasters can add Blufr to their site. Through an easy copy/paste code window, you can add your favorite "Bluf" content. I was even able to include a bluf on this blog entry. Try out the bluf below.


blufr - bruising your ego one bluf at a time


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