You see that ad for the iPhone app book in my sidebar? It’s not something I just put up out of the blue. It was written by my friends! That’s right, they’ve made it big in the iPhone app industry and decided to share how they did it with the masses. One of the tools for success that they used is outsourcing. That is, in fact, how they developed the apps. Why? Because they don’t actually know how to program them! Which means that, if you have an iPhone app idea, you don’t need to know how to program either! That’s what their book is all about.

Check out their featured article on Elance!

By now, I think we all know that just because a person on a TV show is standing on top of a mountain or in front of a humongous space ship doesn’t make it true. Most movie go-ers know that “movie magic” makes things possible. But do we know how they did it exactly? Where is the blue screen? Is it only the actor and a giant green wall behind them? This video can help give you a better picture of what goes on during shooting:

What really amazes me too is the confidence of the production team. There are basically saying, “Just stand right there and pretend you are walking on the moon — I’ll make it look like you are.”

There are tons and tons of free and cutesy games on Facebook. Some are not fun at all *cough*Fishville*cough* and most of them can never be beaten. I, as a gamer, am not used to that at all. Even on-going RPGs (e.g., WoW) at least have end-game content so you have something to strive for.  So, for these Facebook time-wasters games, you have to make up your own goals. For Farmville, my goal was to have a Black character running a plantation — complete with a hedge maze!

Along the way, Farmville has special animals that you can collect from that yield fun items. For example, you collect chocolate milk from the brown cow and you collect ice cubes from the penguin. Fun, right? One day, a baby elephant was available. I got one and placed him in the middle of my beautiful maze. Then, just as I was living in my fantasy world with my Black man running his plantation, I was snapped back to reality and quite shocked when I went to collect from the Baby Elephant.

Man alive! This game is too real for me!

Ever wanted to find out what happens when games stop being polite and start getting real?