Cool beans.

Here we go.

Looks cool.

Best line of the episode:

"I know you! You're dumb enough to stop them!"

My mom could use mobile e-mail.

Scrabble was one of the first three apps I bought for the iPhone and so far it's the only app I was willing to pay $10 for (the price has since gone down).

As much as I love the game, this version has three main problems for me:

1) The multiplier squares should be using the standard colors: red/blue/pink, etc. After playing thousands of games on "normal" boards, it's harder for me to recognize strategic opportunities based solely on those squares' positions, especially when zoomed in. Since this is an officially-sanctioned version of the game, it shouldn't be a licensing issue.

2) Certain words are disallowed because the game uses the OSPD4 (scholastic) dictionary instead of the TWL98 (tournament) dictionary. Since the word lists I study come from TWL98, I'd like the option to switch.

3) And the big one: The gap between the normal and hard settings is too big for intermediate players. If I played 100 games on normal, I'd win all 100. If I played 100 games on hard, I'd be lucky to win more than 8 or 9. If I've stopped playing the game as often as I used to, it's because I have to choose between not being challenged and beating my head against a wall. I'd settle for a medium setting where my expectation is to win less than a third of my games, rather than less than a tenth.

Unfortunately, there has only been one minor update since this program was released over the summer, and I'm not holding my breath for another. Now, if someone would write an ISC client for the iPhone, I would happily dump this version and play that one instead. :-)

Odyssey 5

It's set in SF.

The 800x480 resolution on the 7" model is a bit disappointing. It's fine for SD video, but it makes for a cramped web browsing experience. Otherwise, not a bad package.

I've never been to Puerto Rico.