One Moxie Ventures LLC

No iPhone?As I said in MMAHQ last week, I am in Sugar Land, TX for the month of November, living it up with the townies. For those of you who don’t know, Sugar Land is the anchor suburb of the Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown metro area, and was rated by CNN/Money as the third best city in the United States. You would think that in a well to do suburb with a ton of kids, you would see an insane number of iPhones. I live in Phoenix most of the year, and everyone I know there has an iPhone (maybe because they all work or worked at various Apple Stores…). Not seeing someone with an iPhone is almost confusing to me. I mean, how in the world would I communicate with people without it. Some people claim that using the phone feature is the answer, but their 20th century thought process is as foreign an idea to me as cheese on apple pie. I’m rambling… it’s a bad habit. So, to get to the point, I’ve discovered that nobody in Sugar Land, except for my dad (who still can’t grasp the concept of an app), has an iPhone. Something is wrong, and I can really only think of two people to blame. Being a Sugar Land native, I of course blame myself first, but the real culprit is the local Apple Store in the First Colony Mall. The recently red-shirted Apple employees need to step up their game and pump out some iPhones! The gauntlet is thrown. Tell every Apple employee you know to shoot an email to the store manager over there so that they know that they need to be on their A-game. Unity?I was sad to hear Friday that Ravensword, Chillingo’s new, amazing looking RPG/adventure game, along with a bunch of other games that were made with the Unity engine, were rejected from the App Store. The official word is that, Ravensword like many other Unity games have found themselves caught in the crossfire between Apple, Storm8, and API calls which exist inside of all Unity games. The same APIs were used by iMobsters developer Storm8 to solicit contact information from players. While Ravensword and other Unity-built games do not collect information from users, Apple rejected the game and others as a measure to prevent such from happening again. Fortunately for us, the API’s have been removed and the game Read More

Math Flash Cards by One Moxie Ventures LLC is an app that throws you back to your early elementary school days when you use to use those really big math flash cards that had the answer on the back and you use to peak to make yourself feel smart, especially on the multiplication ones. Come on…you know you did! Now, this app can get a little stressful the more you play. The stress comes in because the series of cards you are doing is timed. And if you’re like me, you want to get done as fast as possible. Why? Because you want to go to recess! Duh! It also will show you the percentage of cards you have gotten right. The fastest time and score is stored to motivate you to get better. This app allows you to also select the type of cards (Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, Division) and number groups (0-15) you want to practice. It will also allows for negative answers, shuffling or sequential cards, multiple choice answers or inputting the value, redoing of missed cards, or trying until get it right. You can also select the amount of cards that you want to do (all, 25, 50, 100). This is a great app for your kids to start toning their math skills or for you try and remember the math skills that you once had. I haven’t even gotten a perfect set of cards yet! I’M 27!! I did better in 3rd grade!!! Either way, well worth the money spent. Read More