The Boneyard is the size of just under 1,500 full size football fields and contains thousands of dead and retired aeroplanes from over the last fifty plus years, including Hawkeye, Tomcat, Lancer Bombers, F-14 Fighter planes, and B-52s.

It’s not just an aeroplane graveyard though as the team at AMARG also refurbish and repair aeroplanes ensuring that parts don’t just go to waste.

• Visit “The Boneyard” in Google Maps.
• Visit “The Boneyard” in Bing Maps.

Image Credit: Google Maps and Bing Maps

Where Do Aircraft Go To Die? is a post from: eggnchips.com - cracking good technology

The soon to be released iLuv App Station, or iMM190 for its technical name, seems to tick all these boxes and it’s innovative in how it applies the Alarm Clock – rather than having dedicated hardware to manage this function it will utilise an iLuv alarm clock application (which will be downloadable from the App Store) – so you just pop your device into the Dock which activates the unit.

The App Station can also be used in both portrait and landscape mode to suit the orientation of the device.

To learn more visit iLuv.

Nifty Dock For Your iPhone and iPod is a post from: eggnchips.com - cracking good technology

A 2D platform survival game. Withstand the endless
waves of creatures in the battle for your kingdom!
The controls are taught ingame.

Play more top games at Eggnchips – cracking good technology

Game Pick: Pixelknight is a post from: eggnchips.com - cracking good technology

Apple are currently limited the pre-order to two per customer and if you place your pre-order now it should be with you by April 5th 2010.

Visit the Apple Store to Pre-Order or Reserve One.

Apple iPad Gets Release Date – Pre-Orders Now Available is a post from: eggnchips.com - cracking good technology

So, where do they lead and what do they do? Only you can tell. Let’s get started with Three Incredible Links Of The Week!.

Ether Saga Online

Ether Saga Online, or ESO as it’s often known, is a 3D massively multiplayer online game that is free to play. It runs on the Windows platform and is an expansive anime based universe that pits you as a member of one of three races, the Renzu, Shenzu or Yaoh.

Visit Ether Saga Online.

Spirograph Your Way Through Excel

Excel can be put to some good use, and one of these is turning it into one of those Spirograph machine for producing all sorts of interesting and wacky patterns using the Spirograph for Excel tool, from Vertex42. Just download the spreadsheet, punch in some numbers and off it goes.

Visit Spirograph in Excel.

Encyclopedia of Life

The Encyclopedia of Life is an ambitious project to create an electronic page for every species of organism on our planet Earth. On this site you can learn about butterflies, fish, flowers, spiders, bacteria, and more – you name it – it’s probably here!

Visit Encyclopedia of Life.

We need you! To suggest a link for a future “Incredible Links of the Week" on www.eggnchips.com drop us a note with the web link and a short description.

Three Incredible Links Of The Week For 12th March 2010 is a post from: eggnchips.com - cracking good technology

G.I. Joe: The Movie isn’t the first time this brand was attempted in a movie length production. An early attempt was a 1987 cartoon video production, but these days the Hasbro company must be looking at the success of, say, Marvel and thinking there must be some way of doing something similar with the branded characters they own and/or distribute. Transformers demonstrated the popularity of taking a Hasbro distributed brand and converting it to a box office success which would inevitably lead to someone looking through back catalogue for new potential ideas.

G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra sees a couple of new soldier recruits, Duke and Ripcord, to the secret G.I. Joe alpha team who quickly get tied up in a plot by NATO weapons manufacturer (defense systems manufacturer?) McCullen (played eagerly by ex-Doctor Who Christopher Eccleston) to steal his own nano-mite warheads. It also turns out that one of the baddies is also one G.I. Joe’s latest recruit Duke’s ex-girlfriend, and not only that but the Cobra, of the title, is also linked into the close personal relationships of Duke – it’s all a bit convenient and frankly – if this is the best of the best then the world is in a bit of trouble (Ripcord didn’t even know there were instructions to his suit!).

Much mayhem, action, and CGI ensue as the story ropes in ideas from major blockbuster movies ranging from James Bond to Star Wars (with a few ideas from The Man In The Iron Mask). Dennis Quaid seemed a little out of place in the movie as General Hawk (the role might better have suited a much older actor IMHO), but the set pieces were as good as anything you might expect to see in a Hollywood blockbuster (perhaps a little more on the CGI for future though).

You might recognise ex-Lost cast member, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, in the role of Heavy Duty and Scary Movie veteran Marlon Wayans plays the character of new recruit Ripcord. Brendan Fraser even turns up for a brief cameo.

The movie is fun and moves along at a fair old pace, even though it runs for just under two hours (113 minutes) – but don’t expect too much from it, eat the popcorn and enjoy the experience.

If G.I. Joe becomes as successful as Hasbro might hope we may even see additional characters transferring to their own movie franchise, including M.A.S.K, Zoids, and Jem.

Movie: G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra is a post from: eggnchips.com - cracking good technology

Utilising the Linux based Chumby OS, Sony dash Personal Internet Viewer, or the HID-C10 to give it it’s less funky name, looks like a nifty little gadget. This, as the description indicates, is a personal internet viewer in the same vein as the Toshiba JournE device. Once you have the dash up and running you can get access to over 1,500 free applications to extend it’s use to include news, weather, calendars, social networking and more. The dash not only accesses content from Chumby applications but also from Sony’s Bravia Internet video platform including YouTube, Pandora Internet Radio, Epicurious, Crackle, LiveStrong, Blip.tv and more.

The dash utilises a 7” touch screen, stereo speakers, headphone output, and USB connection and can run multiple content simultaneously to take advantage of music playing, internet radio, alarm clock functions and news feeds.

It launches in the US in April 2010 and there is no news yet as to when we might see it in the UK, but to learn more visit Sony dash Personal Internet Viewer.

Image Credit: Sony

Access All Your Information In A Dash is a post from: eggnchips.com - cracking good technology

My child was playing around on a kids drawing program, we downloaded from the App Store, for our new Apple iPhone and an Advertisement popped up at the top of the screen whilst they were drawing – and sure enough they pressed it. My child didn’t know that is was an advertisement nor did they make a real conscious choice about selecting it. The first I knew of it was when they asked me what it was for – I am just glad the content it bought up wasn’t of an inappropriate nature for a five year old.

I understand that application developers need to earn an income and this is often derived through appropriate placement of advertising in mobile applications however…

My question is this – for Apple iPhone applications, or applications for any other device for that matter (We have seen similar for the Android), that are clearly aimed at the small children’s market – are pop up adverts suitable or even appropriate?

I can’t imagine how it might benefit the advertiser, and it is certainly lost on the child. For the parent it is simply a cause of concern and for the developer it pretty much equates to a false click-through?

What are your thoughts on this matter? Am I being an over-sensitive parent?

Update: The most recent occurrence of this has been a photo goo style application for the iPhone where you move your finger over the image to make a photo look weird – my daughter moved a little too far and activated a pop up ad which actually dialled in 0845 number on the iPhone – fortunately, we were using the device together at the time otherwise you can imagine how much the bill might have stacked up!

Popup Adverts In Games For Kids – Is This Right? is a post from: eggnchips.com - cracking good technology

RuneScape has announced a bonus XP building weekend commencing 12th March 2010, applicable to all members of RuneScape. As they say “You will be able to earn over double your standard XP rate for any “normal training” when you start playing. This is a fantastic opportunity to make progress on skills you’ve not started yet or to push forward with your current training.”

RuneScape: Bonus XP Weekend Coming is a post from: eggnchips.com - cracking good technology

Classic battleships game on 10×10 cells field.
You and the other player (computer) bomb one cell of opponent’s plot in turn. Opponent responds by telling you you’ve “missed”, “hit” or “sunk” his ship. If you’ve not missed, your opponent skips his turn and you may bomb again. The winner is the first to sink all enemy’s ships.
At first step you should deploy your fleet on the battlefield.
All your ships are already placed there in random positions. You can move them as you like by dragging them and rotate them with double click. You can generate another random disposition also by clicking Autodeploy button. You may also select a difficulty level there.
When you are ready, click the Fight! button. You will see your fleet placed on your field on the left side and the empty field (because you know nothing about it for the present) of your opponent on the right side.
It’s your turn now. Select the cell on the opponent’s field and click it with left mouse button. Bombs away!

Play more top games at Eggnchips – cracking good technology

Game Pick: School Age: Sea Battle is a post from: eggnchips.com - cracking good technology