Google Maps is a favorite around the Techlife offices.  After our recent article on “Make Your own Google Maps” a long time friend and reader Cindy from Boston sent us the simple email outlining Google Maps directions from New York to London. We were a bit puzzled, until we followed her instructions.  Here was the email tip we were sent:

DO THIS:

1. go to www.google.com
2. click on “maps”
3. click on “get directions”
4. type “New York” in the first box
5. type “London” in the second box
(hit get directions)
6. scroll down to step #23

ha ha ha ha

To lazy – we have saved the link from The Big Apple to Big Ben right here.

Got a tip for us, send it in to techlifetips [at] dkworldwide [dot] com.

Techlife was lucky enough to land a Wii, (not that you would know since we have been so busy playing we haven’t reported on it yet. Shame on us.) But thanks to the Wii we have been reading the blog, Nintendo Wii Fanboy for our latest news. And boy do they pump out a lot.

Recently they covered a really cool game that is super addictive NOT FOR the Wii, but for your browser. I will repeat that this small game is super addictive, that’s your warning. Meet Chick Chick Boom, a game where you control air, ground and chemical warefare attacks on baby chicks. Sound too gruesome? Well it isn’t.

You likely have already seen the graphics with this article to see that the chicks are cute little circles. This game all about cute. From falling elephants to giving the chicks hard hats. The fast paced, easy to learn gameplay and light and airy soundtrack make it really addictive. Basically you just trace shapes in your defense or offense area and that determines what your attack or defense will be on the opposing chicks.

I quickly cruised through the first 10 levels and then in my first pro game I scored 12. I don’t really have a benchmark, so please post your high scores in Pro Mode of Chick Chick Boom.

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“Barcodes for houses?” Everyone’s been shopping a big box, where the cashiers are miles from you in the front of the store, the employees are all on their 2 hour lunch break at the same time no where to be found and you need to know how much this Transformers: The Movie: The Board Game is for your nephew. So what did the big boxes install, mobile scanners. Basically you walk up scan the barcode of your item and it reads or announces the price.

Well Housefront just made price-checking a home easy. Even better is they allow you to do it when you need to: checking house prices with your mobile is the perfect application. (USA only for now). I mean how often are you out and see a for sale sign but don’t have your computer with you? Using it was simple.

As Lifehacker notes:

…just text the street address to HOUSE (46873). In a minute you’ll get back a text message listing the year the house was built, the square footage, the number of baths/bedrooms, and the estimated price.

Lifehacker and Techlife also agree that it is much easier than Zillow’s mobile app for the same purpose. I will take it one step farther. Housefront provided way more information in the SMS reply. Now the real question is accuracy, input a home you know and let us know how accurate they are?

Update 1: Housefront blogged about another cool feature today. Automated search history.  Basically by using their service via texting your mobile number creates an account of all the homes you viewed while you were out house shopping.  When you get back to your PC all the data from your searches are saved for your research/browsing.

Joost contacted me today! Apparently the Beta has gone widespread. Want an invite? Make a comment here. I will report more as soon as I have more.

Note: Comments have closed for this article.  Please see our Techlife’s Joost Invite Contest article.

Hello Dave,

The waiting’s over! Since we received your application to join the Joost
beta test program, we’ve been very busy fine-tuning it for you.

So here’s some good news: we’re now ready to expand our beta test
program, and we’re delighted to invite you to join us.

You can download the Joost software right away, by clicking on the link
below. You’ll find instructions for installing and running the software
on our download pages.

Get Joost here: {sorry had to erase this}
Before you can watch Joost for the first time, you need to choose a user
name and password. We’ve provided instructions for doing this on the
screens you’ll see the first time you run the software. So hurry – this
is still beta software and it’s not available to the general public yet,
so this is your opportunity to get the user name you want ahead of the
crowd!

Thanks for your patience in waiting for Joost. We hope you’ll enjoy
using it as much as we’ve enjoyed creating it.

Cheers,

The Joost team

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Thinking of visiting all the baseball parks on the North East Coast? It’s a trip that many baseball fans would love to make. But where to start? Beginning today you can start at your friendly, neighborhood Google. Google, the current mapping king, is releasing an add-on to their popular maps tool, Google’s MyMaps.

I whipped up a driving trip you could make this summer from Chicago to Memphis to Stanton, MO to St. Louis. Check it out. If you want to see Elvis, Graceland, caves, Budweiser, the Gateway Arch and Busch Stadium it’s all planned and thanks to Google’s MyMaps feature ready for you now. It was easy to use and took about 15 minutes from start to finish to get it all working.

Techlife had previously mentioned how cool Flash Earth was, I would love to see Paul Neave tackle MyFlashEarth next. Can he do it?

List your Google MyMaps in the comments, here and we will see who has some cool ideas.

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A big shout out to Nintendo Wii Fan Boy for their post on probably one of the greatest mashups ever. Friends of Line Rider, a series of Line Rider news and variations on the original that Techlife has been publishing since last year is happy to see an instant classic mashed up with a veteran classic.

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Trust me you will thank Techlife later that you didn’t know about this site until after the tournament started. Poologic is a web site run by Tom Adams with the mission of:

This site is dedicated to helping you win your college basketball tournament office pool.

The NCAA March Madness Tournament always brings about stories about infallible systems for winning your office pool but this one takes the cake. Since you have all sorts of stories such as the one I heard on the radio about a little girl who picket Florida last year since she was going to Disneyworld later that spring, it is only fitting you have all sorts of websites providing advice on winning.

After finding the story titled, Web Site Uses Math to Pick NCAA Winners from the Associated Press on, I thought wow this is it…until you read the whole thing…

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Sometimes you need to plan a last-minute trip fast, as Techlife wrote about in “How to Win The Amazing Race.” But more often than not leisure travel allows you to research your destination. Today’s traveler will use quite a wide range of resources, we recently covered one such in video travel research. But the bottom line is as TechCrunch details, airline costs still are a huge bulk of the cost.

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Readers of Techlife know I use a Sidekick 3 for my mobile email, phone and web. But I also use it for the great AOL Instant Messaging or AIM service it provides. Instant messaging is quick back and forth text snippets, like an SMS message. While chatting with a live friend or colleague is useful, there is another type of chat, chatting with a “Bot”. An AIM bot typically provides various types of information as requested by the user, such as a phone number of a local business or the weather in a specific area.

I have been beta testing FeedCrier, an RSS reader built into an AIM bot. It also works on MSN, Jabber and Google Talk. Wow! That’s a lot of mumbo-jumbo, so let’s simplify it. RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication and that refers to the code that allows easy and free subscription to blogs, web pages, and other data on the internet. FeedCrier by developer Adam Kalsey takes something simple in Instant Messaging and combines it with a popular format in RSS and the result is elegant yet easy.

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Today TechLife‘s friend Skye Boyes stopped by with some thoughts. Skye is the principal of XGen Studios, makers of Stick Arena, the popular Flash game we previously covered.

Skye was happy to see all the discussion from fans of Stick Arena. He wanted to clear up a few things about the game. I liked what he had to say so I am publishing it here as well for all to read.

I also wanted to mention publicly that the original post even had one person so enraged that they commented with death threats. Needless to say I chose to not post those.

Now on with Skye’s Thoughts:

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Since the beginning of time, not matter your race, religion, background, the people of Earth have a few things in common. One is that we all have a family. You can make your arguments how there is no way you are related to Sloth, your third cousin on your mom’s side, but you know deep down you are. Geni.com (said genie, as in Genealogy) can help you track down the family you know and more importantly the family you don’t know.

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Sometimes the simplest game is the best. Our friend SapiensBryan from Latest Hi Tech News, who you may remember from the Flat Panel LCD TV in 1 step, posted a link to a highly addictive game by Grant Robinson called Guess the Google.

The instructions are easy. You will be shown a montage of images that would show up if you typed in a query into Google Images. You can guess as many times as you want in 20 seconds. Guess the word get points and a bonus based on speed. There are 10 rounds. So simple, yet highly addictive.

*SPOILER ALERT* Here’s my hints

1. Glance at the images as a whole you might get the right answer fast.
2. No luck with the glance method? Look closely at a few you might see the word in the images.
3. Still no luck, play again, I got a few words repeated in successive games and was able to get those fast.

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As Friends of Line Rider continues here at Techlife,  we bring you another  in the series: Stunt Bike Draw.  This game starts off pretty easy but gets more and more complex.  It reminds me a lot of  Snow Line,  as it is  very much a puzzle game with objectives for getting your Stunt Bike Rider to  jump  and land.  To bad they didn’t up the ante and get Evel Knievel’s permission.  Now that would have been cool.  What do you think of this game?

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Lombard Street in San Francisco is known as the most crooked street in the world. As someone who has driven down the street it is a unique and popular tourist attraction in a city with the likes of the Golden Gate Bridge, Alcatraz, and countless museums like the SFMOMA.

But maybe you can’t make it there anytime soon, let Flash Earth help. From flash guru Paul Neave’s comes the comparison tool of all things maps. It is the ultimate maps mashup. As the image shows you can see up to eight different views of a location. Not all locations have imagery for all eight views. Here are the visuals from Google Maps, Micrsoft Virtual Earth, and Ask.com comparing their view of Lombard Street all taken from the identical coordinates.

See the comparisons after the jump.

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Well it happened…Line Rider has gone corporate.  From the official site…

Line Rider was originally created by Boštjan Cadež, a Slovenian university student, in September of 2006. It almost immediately gathered a cult following and became the seventh quickest gaining keyword in Google. Since that time, the ‘toy’ has generated over 16 million views. Fans quickly noticed that they could create tracks, set them to music, and share them over YouTube.com. Currently, there are over 11,000 shared videos with many more to come. inXile Entertainment is extremely excited to work with Boštjan in order to reach the full potential that we feel the Line Rider application can live up to.

Seen over at the new Official Line Rider site.  It appears they are going to create a Nintendo DS and Nintendo Wii Line Rider game…coming sometime in 2007.  In the meantime, check out the new Beta 2 they have up.  I think this video is from Beta 1, but the inXile folks liked it.

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Thanks to Brian over at Fairly Useless, who has been commenting on Techlife, for the original link to Beta 2.

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