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Apple Patent Describes How to Create Seamless All-Glass Devices

Apple Patent Describes How to Create Seamless All-Glass Devices

Imagine a phone or tablet encased in one solid, seamless, curved slab of glass: hell to repair, but heaven, surely, in the hand. Well, a new patent obtained by Apple describes how it might manufacture such a thing, if it were ever to choose to.

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The Crazy Complex Project to Salvage the Costa Concordia Starts Monday

The Crazy Complex Project to Salvage the Costa Concordia Starts Monday

Removing the shipwrecked Costa Concordia has been a slow project. Crews finally flipped it upright last fall , and now the real challenge begins: taking it off the coast of Giglio Island to a port in Genoa for dismantling. Work starts Monday, and it’s gonna be a doozy.

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Roller Coaster Tycoon 4: Top 10 tips, hints, and cheats you need to know!

Roller Coaster Tycoon 4 strategy guide: How to build the biggest and best theme park ever on your iPhone or iPad!

Anyone who grew up playing computer games no doubt remembers the Roller Coaster Tycoon franchise. Now you can build amazing theme parks and attractions right in the palm of your hand in Roller Coaster Tycoon 4 for iPhone and iPad. In order to keep up with customer demand, you’ll need to stock your park with plenty of amazing rides, attractions, and food booths. However, coins and tickets are not unlimited and can be rather hard to come by if you don’t build and invest your money wisely. That’s where iMore can help! These are the top 10 Roller Coaster Tycoon 4 tips, hints, and cheats we think you need to know!

1. Don’t waste tickets on speeding up construction

Roller Coaster Tycoon 4 is one of the few games where you really don’t have to spend any real life money if you’re smart about how you spend your initial coins and where you choose to use your tickets. You only earn tickets for completing quests and as special finds. How many coins you earn is completely up to how well your park performs. One of the biggest wastes of tickets is to spend them on speeding up construction. Instead, be patient and pay attention to how long something takes to build. If it’s a long wait, build those things right before you close the game. That way you aren’t tying up money you want while playing. You also don’t end up spending tickets on rushing the process. It happens while you’re gone.

Unfortunately, unlike many other games, Roller Coaster Tycoon 4 doesn’t seem to be susceptible to rolling forward time. Many games like Candy Crush, Two Dots, and others are. That means you’ll just have to learn some patience and build smarter to avoid spending real money.

2. Add Food Rush and become an ultimate burger master

Food Rush is found under the Build section in Specials. Add it to your park as soon as you can. Tap on it and then tap play. Your job is to serve as many burgers to your park customers as fast as possible. The more you serve, the more cash and XP you earn. There are certain tricks to burger rush such as timing when ingredients must refill. The better you get, the more you earn. If you need some cash or need to burn some time, it’s a great way to do it.

3. Build your own coasters, don’t waste money on prebuilt layouts

Coasters that are already made for you may be convenient but they’re also astronomically expensive. Save your cash and build your own coasters. You can design them anytime and then build them when you have the money and tickets to do so. There’s also another advantage to this strategy and it’s that you can custom build coasters that fit to your park layout. A lot of times prebuilt coasters are large and bulky on purpose. This is so you’re forced to buy more land. Instead, rearrange your park and build to suit. It’s cheaper and makes your park more unique than the next guy’s.

4. Don’t can trees and bushes, transplant them

When you buy more land to expand your park, you may find lots of trees and bushes get in the way of construction. A big mistake many players make is that they remove them. Instead, relocate them to another area of the park. Your guests enjoy looking at nice landscaping and it increases their overall happiness. Happy guests equals thriving park. So let the shrubs stay!

5. Invite friends for free tickets

Like many other games, Roller Coaster Tycoon 4 lets you hook your Facebook in so you can share roller coaster designs, request blueprints, and send each other gifts. The same goes for Game Center. However, if you send invites to your Facebook friends, you’ll earn 1 free ticket for each friend you invite. Sure, we all hate Facebook spam, but it’s for a good cause, right?!

6. Upgrade attractions whenever possible

Many attractions allow you to spend some coins in order to upgrade them. This increases the buzz around them and keeps your guests happy. Upgrade your attractions whenever you feasibly can. While it’s easy to get distracted by building roller coasters and ignoring regular attractions, your park’s buzz will suffer if you do so.

7. Food booths and hotels are your biggest money makers

The main way you’ll earn money in RCT 4 is by selling food to your park guests. Hotels are important to since they increase your park’s holding capacity. The more people you have, the more rooms you book and the more food you sell. Figure out which food booths generate the most money and build a ton of them. I like to do it off in a corner of the game where they aren’t in the way. Hotels you can easily upgrade before building more so they take up far less space.

8. Check the parking lot for special deliveries

Sometimes you’ll find cargo boxes in the parking lot that contain special gifts your park receives. It’s easy to overlook them so be sure you check from time to time as gifts vary from statues to other decorative objects that you can place in your park for free. Your guests enjoy looking at them so it never hurts.

9. Listen to your guests

Every once in a while you’ll see guests with thought bubbles over their heads. Tap on them to read their thoughts. Listening to your guests is the number one way to increase park buzz and make people spend more money. If you’re meeting their needs, your park will thrive. So before you build another roller coaster, make sure that’s what your guests are really asking for.

10. Equip your park with engineering and maintenance staff

Adding an engineering building to your park will minimize the amount of time overall construction takes on rides and attractions. It doesn’t cost a lot so be sure you add one. As for maintenance, after you add the building, you can trade tickets to keep it running. As long as the maintenance building is paid, your rides won’t break down while you’re away. This is a nifty way to make sure you come back to the game with tons of money to collect and a great park buzz.

Your top Roller Coaster Tycoon 4 tips, hints, and cheats?

If you’ve been building the theme park of your dreams on your iPhone and iPad, what strategies have you used to become a theme park master? Be sure to let me know in the comments below!



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Inhabitat’s Week in Green: translucent house shell, Prêt-à-Loger and a skyscraper made of waste

Each week our friends at Inhabitat recap the week’s most interesting green developments and clean tech news for us — it’s the Week in Green.

Self-driving cars are set to become a common sight on roads and highways around the world in the coming…

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Yahoo’s Developing a Map Algorithm to Find the Most Beautiful Route

Yahoo's Developing a Map Algorithm to Find the Most Beautiful Route

Sometimes you want to get from A to B as quickly as possible—but what if you want to savor the journey? Well, Yahoo has been working on an algorithm that can plot the most beautiful route, for those days when time is less of a concern.

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If you’re buying an Android Wear watch this weekend, read this first

Android Wear is finally here. Two devices were launched at Google I/O: LG’s G Watch, and Samsung’s Gear Live. Both became available in the Play store this week, and while we’re sure you read our comprehensive review, with much of the spec-sheet…

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This Week’s Top Comedy Video: The Onion Reviews Planet of the Apes (NSFW)

Peter Rosenthal’s here this week to review the new Planet of the Apes movie. No, not the one from 2011. No, not the one from 2001. Nope, not 1973, 1972, 1971, 1970, or 1968. No, the other one.

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Final ‘Halo 3’ Easter egg is actually a birthday wish

Okay, so you’re probably wondering why we’re talking about Halo 3 almost seven years after it originally released. That’s natural, it’s essentially a lifetime in the world of tech and video games. Well, here’s the deal: Halo 3’s developers at Bungie…

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Spaceteam

Spaceteam is a decidedly unique local multiplayer game. Players gather together with their iPads and iPhones and connect over either Bluetooth or Wi-Fi. They’re then presented with ridiculously-labeled spaceship consoles with all manner of sliders, knobs, switches, and buttons. Each player then has a message flashing telling them which control needs to be tweaked in order to save their ship from exploding. The thing is, that control could be on anybody’s device, so what ends up happening is everybody starts barking ludicrous orders at one another with straight-faced urgency. Random events can have players in a panic trying to wipe goop off their controls, or shaking their devices to avoid an incoming asteroid.

Two to four players are able to hop in. With a $4.99 in-app purchase, players can unlock a challenge mode, Game Center Achievements, new symbols, new ships, and new outfits. Players that backed the Spaceteam Admiral’s Club Kickstarter campaign can also manually tweak the game difficulty, introduce custom words to their controls, and manually pick costumes rather than simply take whatever random outfit is provided when the game starts.

Spaceteam will be one of the most fun party games you play, and thanks to cross-platform compatibility even your Android-toting friends can join in.

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Simon Sage
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$0.00
App ID: 
570 510 529
Vendor: 
Henry Smith
Initial Release: 
Thursday, November 29, 2012
Version: 
1.5.2



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The World’s 19 Weirdest Hangover Remedies

The World's 19 Weirdest Hangover Remedies

When you travel the world, having a few drinks with your hosts is a great way to get a sense of the local culture. But excessive alcohol consumption can cause physiological consequences . Don’t worry—a hangover is universal, and your new friends probably already know a way to cope with it.

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