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Re: Missing CAVE's Wonderful Shooters on iOS 11? 'Aka to Blue' is Here to Rescue You

mbjones — Wed, 27 Sep 2017 05:50:33 -0000

Looks nice! But I still want Ikaruga on mobile...

Re: Pocket Gamer Advent Calendar 2016 - Football Manager Touch 2017 | Feature

mbjones — Tue, 06 Dec 2016 05:33:04 -0000

Brandon Jones iOS

Re: Rescue Your Inbox and Email Address, Throttle Is Coming

mbjones — Tue, 24 May 2016 10:40:49 -0000

Can't wait!!!

Re: DEVONThink 2Go Beta Progress [Link]

mbjones — Mon, 16 May 2016 09:18:22 -0000

Hoping it doesn't take too long to come. Really waiting for it as well :)

Re: Super Tribes updated with endless mode, almost a perfect Civilization-like experience | News - update

mbjones — Mon, 16 May 2016 09:13:48 -0000

Love this game. Well worth it. I wouldn't quite call the new domination mode endless though as things do technically end when you destroy the last rival tribe. Personally I'd like to see endless go a step further in not only allowing this but allowing space to fully develop your civ (every square developed sort of thing).

Re: The Short History of Emails Apps

mbjones — Sun, 03 Jan 2016 09:08:25 -0000

I didn't see Postbox on the list. That seems like a major one?

Re: 10 Things I Wish Everyone Knew About the New Charismatics

mbjones — Sun, 11 Oct 2015 11:21:24 -0000

Hello! I'd be curious as to who are the primary "voices" for the new charismatics?

Re: Raspberry Ricotta Gluten Free Breakfast Cake

mbjones — Wed, 19 Aug 2015 14:44:41 -0000

Well I just made it tonite (I'm in Kenya) and it turned out amazing with the Marscapone. Super moist. Now, my flour mix was a bit more cassava which is itself good for making things moist so some of it could be from that.

Re: Raspberry Ricotta Gluten Free Breakfast Cake

mbjones — Wed, 19 Aug 2015 09:13:31 -0000

question: have marscapone on hand but no ricotta. would it make a viable substitute?

Re: Beyond FF7 - The 7 biggest JRPG franchises we want to see on iOS and Android next | Feature

mbjones — Wed, 17 Jun 2015 16:04:59 -0000

Star Ocean & ChronoCross please please please!

Re: 'TwoDots' Review - Connecting Dots Is Still A Beautiful Thing

mbjones — Tue, 24 Jun 2014 07:27:30 -0000

loved dots; hated this primarily because of how dependent on luck it is and how aggressively they try to monetize said luck. deleted within 24hrs.

Re: Our BIG Adventure: South Africa, Going for It, Exciting New Book Deal, and a Few Questions for YOU!

mbjones — Sat, 22 Mar 2014 03:35:16 -0000

1. I'd love for you to meet my crew in All Nations. Our Africa "hub" is located in Noordhoek. We focus on raising up leaders from neglected communities for neglected communities. I was there until moving to East Africa a couple of weeks ago to start a new AN work here.

2. The main touristy things are worth it (Robben Island, Table Mountain, Cape Point). Other than that we loved the 2 saturday markets in Tokai (Forest Market & Earth Fair Food Market) and the Old Biscuit Mill on saturday mornings (in woodstock). It's worth seeing the differences of SA: if you hook up with any AN people have them give you a respectful introduction to some of the communities we work in. You could go to Cape Town and completely miss the townships if you wanted. There is a lot more but that will get you started.

3. See #2 if you connect with AN there is a lot of different potentials. See two of our ministries here: thebabysafe.org & http://childrenofpromiseafr...

4. First make sure it's unlocked. Your original contract with AT&T needs to be up or you need to be able to sweet talk them. Once that's done, all you have to do is go and get a SIM card. I've used all major cell providers in SA and would recommend Vodacom for coverage. If you get them, you won't likely have an issue any where. Cell C is another good option: their customer service is world's better than the other options but their coverage isn't quite as good. Avoid MTN like the plague.

5. Our office would know the answer to this. Unfortunately I don't.

6. The housing market is rough at the moment (hard to get) so you might have a bit of difficulty finding a short term lease. I'd start looking on gumtree (gumtree.co.za) now.

7. This is super tricky in SA, due to visa restrictions. It would be almost impossible to get a job as an educator from my understanding. You could however volunteer (potentially at a place like the schools in the townships that DO need help). The one US teacher I know that's being paid in a school is actually being paid by a UK consortium and isn't allowed by the school to teach students rather just to train teachers. It's a big hurdle.

8. Your best bet ATM is to get a combo of ADSL and 3G. ADSL through mweb (if you have a permanent place) will get you good speeds. 3G works well too, but is really expensive. There are various places you can go (internet cafes) but their are kind of a mixed bag. I used our office for anything super important.

9. Not local, sorry :(

10. Definitely.

Re: AppStorm is Shutting Down [Link]

mbjones — Mon, 06 Jan 2014 06:42:49 -0000

Agreed. I was bummed when I read this. Any other review sites that you'd recommend?

Re: MailMate, the Markdown-Powered Power User Email App, is Crowd Funding for v2.0

mbjones — Sat, 16 Nov 2013 11:19:44 -0000

I'm curious as to what you think would be worth $20 or $50? Mailmate is far superior to postbox/airmail/sparrow/mail.app in many way. If you add a bunch of addons to mail.app, you can get at some of the functionality (but you end up spending just as much to add on to an app rather than having it natively baked in). Smart Mailboxes alone is a life saver. Then you add on markdown/intelligent sigs/filtering/tagging/thread arcs & conversational view and woah. Anyways. Just find your comment interesting.

Re: MailMate Explorations

mbjones — Thu, 14 Nov 2013 03:09:00 -0000

I picked it up because of the indiegogo campaign and couldn't be happier. After a day I went crazy and removed the gigs of space of email from postbox & mail.app as I saw no reason to go back. I'm hoping for a successful campaign and an exciting 2.0 launch in the future.

Re: Kindle Ebooks – 10 Recommended Bargains for June 2012

mbjones — Mon, 04 Jun 2012 08:53:19 -0000

I like how #8 becomes a stylish, sunglasses wearing smiley face :)

Re: Order & Chaos Online Review

mbjones — Tue, 03 May 2011 08:35:53 -0000

Didn't see it in the article, but what kind of data usage can we expect with this game? That's one thing important in places with limited (or expensive!) access to the interwebs.

Re: Zenonia 3 Review

mbjones — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 10:20:23 -0000

Sounds intriguing. Not quite intriguing enough to buy, but intriguing enough to comment, and attempt to win a promo code.

Re: Songs of the Year: 2010

mbjones — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 19:26:07 -0000

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Re: Songs of the Year: 2010

mbjones — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 17:57:04 -0000

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Re: Songs of the Year: 2010

mbjones — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 03:05:14 -0000

I've heard that tune before. Not impressed. :)

Re: the MBA…

mbjones — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 17:14:11 -0000

You can hate it but it doesn't change the fact (for better or worse). Personally I agree with you but the market is the market...and it likes it. It reminds me of a friend who opted out of internships while pursuing an engineering degree. Upon getting said degree, couldn't find a job because people wanted experience. His options then became "more education" or crappy non-engineering jobs (PhD won out). It goes to show though that those pieces of paper (degrees) mean less and less in an age where we all have limitless information at our fingertips.

We are doing good. Ship out February 4th :) Super excited and can't wait!!

Re: the MBA…

mbjones — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 16:20:52 -0000

Purely devil's advocate (mostly) but is this more and more indicative of the times? After all in the age of google everyone can be an expert about anything.

Part of me says this coming from a field where degrees mean very little (IT/Tech) compared with practical, "real world" experience and some common sense.

Another part of me says this as I think employers could prefer in fact the scrub credentials as it may very well mean less pay with the same expectations. So they look good for hiring MBA's but it's cost has been half the price (and because of the prevalence and ease of access to information, they can expect the same degree of work).

Re: Story ‘09 | Skye Jethani

mbjones — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 10:30:50 -0000

I just got Divine Commodity and am reading it now. It may be the most important book I've read in a long time.

Re: mbjones

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