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To: ~digs who wrote (179)	6/22/2001 10:43:54 PM
From: ~digs	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6763

Netsurfer Digest: "You can never take enough tests. That's the guiding principle of AllTheTests.com, a search directory of online tests that measure IQ, EQ ("the social equivalent of IQ"), infotech comprehension, and more. We never realized there could be so many kinds of tests online till we got here. We dabbled in the fun category, which links to the lipstick personality test, Find Your Star Wars Twin, "Are You A Spammer?", and many other self-assessment challenges you'd likely never find without this site. Relationship tests also abound, including the Relationship Auto-Blender, the Two-Partner Match-o-Matic, and Can You Survive a Long Distance Relationship? The Knowledge category covers learning styles, plant and animal trivia, and more - even the AA9PW Commercial Radio Exam. The site rates each test with icons to indicate whether results are sent by e-mail, whether the test requires paper and pencil, and whether you can take it offline. As you might guess, this site has much to offer both occasional and obsessive visitors." allthetests.com

To: ~digs who wrote (179)	6/30/2001 5:22:50 AM
From: jmiller099	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6763

Thanks! Good article, I've been behind on industry news in USA and Europe due to dialup connections here. Now if anyone cares to read below here it is my take on why i like this article. <<IFone plans to release six Java-compatible games this September, with a further half dozen planned for December 2001. >> Late. Asia has better faster. <<Carey predicts that users will pay around 50p to download a game, which they will then have to delete afterwards. "A phone running one of these games wouldn't have much room left to do much else, so you'd have to get rid of it after you have finished playing," he said>> Hassle. BREW enabled phones don't need to delete their apps per use. Now you incur air charges everytime you want to play a game. Yuck. <<Mobile phone users keen to experience childhood favourites like Pong and Centipede will have to invest in a phone that can run a form of Java called Java2 MicroEdition (J2ME). >> Java apps are bigger than BREW apps which will cause handset makers to have to put more expensive ram chips into their phone to run ATARI-like games. Games I have seen in Asia are much better quality than Atari level. Color gameboy and up are about the equivalent of those that I saw. <<ISoccer will be playable on handsets that run Symbian\'s\ Epoc\ 6 -- but Carey doesn't expect that many games based on Epoc 6 will be available until mid-2002. >> late again.