Ingredients:
1 Tbsp. chili powder (ancho works great)
1 tsp. cumin
1/2 tsp. coriander
1 lb. sliced bacon (your favorite brand)
1/4 cup sugar free maple syrup (I use Vermont brand because it is the lowest in carbs)
black pepper
Preheat oven to 400′
In a small bowl blend the chili, cumin and coriander. Reserve.
Place a cooling rack inside of a large sheet pan. If you prefer, you can line the sheet pan with aluminum foil first but I never bother. Arrange the bacon slices on the cooling rack, trying not to have them touch each other. If they do touch a little don’t worry. Lightly brush each slice with the maple syrup and sprinkle generously with the chili mixture. Season with black pepper if desired. Bake for 10 to 12 minutes or until the bacon is done to your desired crispness.
Remove bacon from cooling rack and place on paper towel to absorb any remaining grease. There won’t be much because it falls away into the sheet pan.
Nutrition Facts
16 Servings
Amount Per Serving
Calories 39.1
Total Fat 3.2 g
Saturated Fat 1.1 g
Polyunsaturated Fat 0.4 g
Monounsaturated Fat 1.5 g
Cholesterol 5.4 mg
Sodium 113.6 mg
Potassium 42.9 mg
Total Carbohydrate 0.6 g
Dietary Fiber 0.2 g
Sugars 0.0 g
Protein 2.0 g
Note ~ If you would really enjoy the bacon extra spicy you can add cayenne pepper to the chili mixture.
Right now, before spring shows up and before kids spend more time outside, you should start thinking about your wooden outdoor products and consider if they’re safe or if they’re hiding a hidden danger.
Arsenic used to be a common additive in wooden outdoor products because it does act as a preservative. However, as you may have guessed arsenic is no good from a safety standpoint. Arsenic is a deadly poison and a known cause of cancer. Arsenic is linked to skin, bladder, liver and lung cancers and reproductive hazards, disrupts adenosine tri-phosphate (ATP) which is vital for normal body functions, causes weakened immune system along with weak liver function and bowel disease (to name a few). Worse, arsenic can leave your system once in your body but it can also be transported and stored in your body, affecting internal organs and your hair, nails, and skin.
The health implications alone should freak you out, but arsenic is also no picnic for the planet, polluting the food chain, soil, air, and water which of course means it makes its way back to humans.
Can companies really use arsenic in wood?
In 2004 the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) decided (finally) to stop companies from manufacturing or selling arsenic-treated wood for most residential uses BUT just because it was banned doesn’t mean it’s not around. In fact if you have a wooden deck or play area for the kids that’s older than 2004 it could easily contain arsenic.
According to Healthy Building Network any of the following, if older may contain arsenic…
The most common arsenic found in US based wooden products is Chromated Copper Arsenate (CCA).
PROTECT YOUR FAMILY:
Order A Home Arsenic Testing Kit – this will allow you to test the wood you already have. If you do have arsenic treated wood you should seriously consider getting rid of it. When you get new wooden outdoor products make sure you get untreated wood that’s naturally rot resistant like cedar and redwood or choose a non-wood alternative like metal or composite materials. There are also some safer preservatives on the market nowadays.
If you can’t get rid of your arsenic treated products do the following…
Also remember to think outside of your own home. Older parks can have arsenic treated wood play structures and tables as can your friends homes. Make sure kids (and you) wash up well after a day with an unknown wood source.
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Filed under: Motorsports, Japan, Acura, Honda, Racing
If you didn’t get enough of last night’s video and image onslaught of the Honda HSV-010 testing at Suzuka, we’ve got 20 more minutes of high-revving, carbon fiber cloaked SuperGT hotness below the fold.
Although Honda hasn’t released any more details on its new GT500-bound racer, last week’s open testing session had its fair share of lens-wielding onlookers, so we’ve included two more videos and a handful of high-res images to the gallery below. Make the jump to get another earful of the awesome 3.4-liter V8 shrieking down the straights and exploding out of the corners, but save your pleas to Honda to bring the HSV as the next NSX… it’s ain’t happening.
Gallery: Honda HSV-010 Spy Shots at Suzuka
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Wow- the “after Christmas events” are getting more and more interesting, ain’t they?
Texas Tech’s Mike Leach Suspended for Alamo Bowl
Allegedly, he made a player sit in an equipment bin during practice after the player wouldn’t play with a potential concussion. Because being careful with brain issues is for losers.
Bad enough, right? But, to take things further, the player was Adam James. As in Craig James’ son. As in the ESPN broadcaster initially assigned to do color commentary for the Alamo Bowl (he has since been reassigned).
No surprise that I love Cap’n Mike, and believe that his willingness to speak first and think second makes college football more interesting.
However, if this is true, and given what we saw at Kansas, this does not look good for the Red Raiders’ commander.
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Rik alerts us to a recent Wired Magazine article that goes through Larry Ellison’s failed attempts at building a cheap computer (the network computer — or NC) that would mainly be used for internet access. That history is pretty well known. Ellison — in large part inspired by jealousy of Bill Gates — declared that the PC was dead, and in its place people would prefer to use a stripped down computer with everything on the internet instead. It got a ton of buzz, and lots of people expressed interest. But the product was a flop. A massive flop. And yet… here we are today, and more and more applications are online only, and the success of cheap netbooks have more than matched some of the original vision of the network computer. As the article explains:
We tend to think of technology as a steady march, a progression of increasingly better mousetraps that succeed based on their merits. But in the end, evolution may provide a better model for how technological battles are won. One mutation does not, by itself, define progress. Instead, it creates another potential path for development, sparking additional changes and improvements until one finally breaks through and establishes a new organism.
That is the process of innovation. And yet, we tend to only celebrate the invention — the first idea — rather than all the evolutionary process that it takes to make something successful. Things like patents tend to block that evolutionary process by limiting the pace at which those mutations and developments can occur. They slow down innovation, rather than letting it flow, by putting an arbitrary wall around each new step, rather than letting the evolution proceed uninhibited. We may get the innovation eventually, but at a much slower pace than we might otherwise.
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I wanted to point out a nice little app that we approved earlier today in our Homebrew App Gallery: Presteroids. It comes to us by way of kayahr, who humbly describes it as "an early alpha version." I humbly describe it as a fun and somewhat addictive asteroids app that I completely stink at playing.
If this is the ‘early alpha,’ I can’t wait to see what the Beta will look like. Best of all for you potential coders, kayahr is releasing it under the GPL v3 Open Source license, which means you’re free to dig in, learn from, and use the code (under the same license).
Never tried Homebrew apps before? Here’s how.
The brains of people who were abused as children and then commit suicide show DNA modifications that made them particularly sensitive to stress.
– frutas cruas, principalmente morangos, pêra, caju, frutas cítricas, acerola, kiwi, camu-camu,melão, ameixa fresca, cereja fresca e framboesa.
– Castanhas, principalmente a macadâmia, a castanha do pará, nozes, amêndoas, pinhão;
– cereais integrais que devem ser usados de maneira variada, principalmente a aveia e o trigo;
– iogurte desnatado.
Evite:
– alimentos estimulantes – café, chá-mate, chá-preto, coca-cola, chocolate, vinagre e pimentas;
– embutidos e fast-foods;
– alimentos ricos em gordura – bacon, manteigas, presunto, etc
– bebidas alcoólicas
– alimentos refinados que são pobres em nutrientes.
Fonte: Saúde com sabor
Every day, there’s always some piece of tech news or rumor that excites, frustrates or baffles people en masse. But this weekend takes the cake.
AT&T temporarily stopped selling iPhones online to people in New York City. Why does an AT&T-NY connection ring a bell? Because it’s one of Blue’s two most data-intensive areas in the country. (The other is San Francisco.) And not that long ago, the carrier admitted that “Gotham” suffered bad service on its network and vowed to address this — while notably pinning the trouble on the data-heavy habits of iPhone users in the region.
So this was their fix? Wow. It’s like saying, “Well that’ll teach you NY iPhone users to complain. You’re the worst offenders in the bunch, so we’re going to thin your numbers for the good of everyone, you cry babies.” (Note: To be fair, the company didn’t actually say that. This is just my own imaginary musings starring AT&T’s Ralph De La Vega, twirling his mustache and throwing iPhone hopefuls under a bus, one after another.) What’s strange about this is it only affected online shoppers. Brick-and-mortar customers were still able to buy them at retail stores, so as a defensive strategy, it wasn’t exactly logical.
The Consumerist actually went to try and find out the truth. The site confirmed over the weekend that online shoppers with NYC zip codes were prevented from purchasing iPhones via the AT&T website. Then blogger Laura Northrup contacted the carrier customer service department directly. Things only got more baffling from there:
Daphne: Welcome to AT&T online Sales support. How may I assist you with placing your order today?
Laura: Hi, I was looking at the iPhone 3GS and the system tells me that I cannot order one in my ZIP code. My zip code is 11231 (Brooklyn). Is this true? Are iPhones no longer available in New York City?
Daphne: I am happy to be helping you today. Yes, this is correct the phone is not offered to you because New York is not ready for the iPhone.
Daphne: You don’t have enough towers to handle the phone.
But AT&T released a statement by spokesman Fletcher Cook, who simply gave a ho-hum explanation to The Consumerist that contradicted these remarks while actually illuminating nothing: “We periodically modify our promotions and distribution channels.”
Ooookay…
I guess it’s AT&T’s network and services, and I suppose they are at liberty to do what they want with it (within legal limits). Not that I agree with the company’s approach here, but I suppose it’s not a crime. A weird, wacky, nearly inexplicable course of action, yes, but not a crime.
Alright, PhoneDog readers — In all honesty, here’s where this post was going to end, with a conclusion in the vein of one of those “Waddayagonnado?” type of articles. But things keep getting weirder, and I can’t seem to look away. Since the story broke all over the webs, AT&T reps started telling people the following: “Due to increased fraudulent activity, the Apple iPhone may not be available to purchase online in certain ZIP codes.”
Is it me, or does none of this make any sense? Earlier on, some blogs hinted that the strange drama could’ve been due to some sort of New York–based online sales fraud, but that theory was (and still is) full of holes. First, the shutdown was completely iPhone-centric — none of AT&T’s other equally costly handsets were singled out. And even if some sort of scam targeted the iPhone only, why does it make sense to target only one region? Meanwhile, the handsets are still being sold in stores. (As a response, the AT&T customer service rep quoted above added: “We do have others at similar prices, you’re right, but nothing else that is as popular… sometimes popularity leads people to make poor decisions.”)
But in the 2008 Internet Crime Report (PDF), from the FBI and the National White Collar Crime Center, New York isn’t the No. 1 state for internet fraud; that’s California. New York is No. 2, and Florida is No. 3. But residents in neither California (including San Francisco) nor Florida have had trouble purchasing iPhones online.
At this point, online iPhone purchasing has been restored to New York. So I guess that internet fraud thing must’ve sorted itself out at lightning speed, or perhaps the carrier’s modified its promotion and distribution channel again. Or maybe Big Blue just decided that the bad press wasn’t worth its crazy scheme to “fix” the area’s network.
Whatever the real truth is, I can’t help but wonder one thing: Would AT&T ever dreamed of pulling this stunt if it wasn’t about to lose iPhone exclusivity? I doubt it. (No wonder the carrier hired Luke Wilson to give a celebrity recorded pep talk/holiday greeting to its own, probably demoralized, ranks. If I had to work there and deal with upset people when I didn’t know what the heck was going on, I’d be demoralized too.)
Via: Consumerist, Gizmodo, BoyGenius Report
Hope all of you have a great 2010…
Winter brings a lot of worries, however that first big snowfall brings a ton of fun for kids. Here’s a quick list of some additional ideas that your kids may and may not think of.
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Snowball Wars– The first thing your children will need to do is build their snow forts so they have some protection from their enemy. Once the forts are complete each team should make 10-15 snowballs and then begin the war, the team with a fort still standing wins. Or you could say those that haven’t lost a person have one.
Snow Art: This can be anything created out of snow, from the famous snowman, snow angels to even the igloos. Point the kids in the direction of the snow and tell them to make you something. You’ll be delighted in the creations and they’ll love just playing in it.
Catch a Snowman– Build a snowman and just like Frosty take a hat and see who can toss it and land it on his head. The person that actually tosses it and gets the hat to stay on the head wins. We used a baseball cap for this and it worked great.
Snowball Freeze tag– This was created by my kids, I’m unsure if this is a real game or not. Basically you play freeze ta but the person that is it (the tagger) must lodge snowballs at a person. But the balls cannot hit above the chest or the tosser is out of the game. Those that get tagged with a snowball must freeze until someone unfreezes them by tagging them.
Sledding– This can be done by a real sled, snow sled or even a cardboard box. If you use a box you will need to flatten it out and make sure it isn’t going to rip in half as you go down hill. Make sure to find some type of hill, even if it is just a small one, my kids use the driveway. My Walmart is currently selling snow sleds for $5, now they aren’t the fancy ones but these will definitely help them get downhill.
If you have it somewhat slick there is always ice skating, we don’t have any ponds or rinks near us so we won’t be doing this. I’ve seen some kids wearing regular tennis shoes on the ice and skating around though.
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Mighty God King reviews Avatar:
ME: You know, I have to admit – the Nav’i look totally natural.
FLAPJACKS: There is no uncanny valley.
ME: You only know that concept because of that one episode of 30 Rock.
FLAPJACKS: So?
ME: I’m just sick of critics who learned a new phrase thanks to Tina Fey and want to show off.
FLAPJACKS: Speaking of that episode of 30 Rock, I’m pretty sure I didn’t need to see the blue aliens doing it.
ME: Oh, quit whining. You barely saw anything.
FLAPJACKS: But now it’s in my head.
ME: Okay, the scientists are totally going about this the wrong way with Giovanni Ribisi, Businessman. They should have been all “this entire planet is a gigantic biological computer more advanced than anything we’ve ever imagined. Think about how much that would be worth.”
FLAPJACKS: Wouldn’t work. Giovanni Ribisi, Businessman, is all about the quarterly profit report. I know this because he said “it’s all about the quarterly profit report” at the start of the movie. He is an Exxon-type guy and you are presenting a Google-type business plan. Ne’er shall the two meet, because despite what people might say about Google, Google is never going to hire mercenaries to kill aliens.
ME: They might hire mercenaries to spy on aliens.
FLAPJACKS: Well, that’s Google for you.
The scary thing is, I heard the phrase about a planet scale biological network that can upload the consciousnesses of the dying, and thought, “they should really tell the business guys that that could be really valuable, so don’t, um, fuck it up.”
We are constantly combing the web for good resources on decluttering, reorganizing, and improving kitchen storage. Many of us have little kitchens, and we’ve discovered a lot of ingenious and truly functional ideas for maximizing space. Many of these ideas have come straight from you, our readers! Here’s a look back at 20 good ideas on storage and organization from the past year.
There are a few topics that we feel deserve special mention and regular column space here at The Kitchn. Those currently include beer, wine, cocktails, and cheese — all fascinating subjects with rich histories and intelligence. Every week our lovely columnists in these areas bring you beer reviews, cocktail history, wine lore, and passionate writing about cheese. Here’s a look back at a few of our favorite posts in 2009 from our beer, wine, cheese, and cocktail columns.
Soup and salad, salad and soup. That combination sounds like a menu for happiness right now, after the rich indulgence of the holidays. Here’s a look back at some favorite soups and salad recipes from 2009, including raw kale slaw with peanuts and peppers, creamy soups with rutabaga and potatoes and leeks, and more than one crunchy, flavorful fennel slaw.
by Ben Holland
When Tesla Motors opened its new showroom in Boulder, it did so in style. Hosting an invitation-only party, the automaker brought out a lively group of local politicians, environmentalists and entrepreneurs for a night of martinis, music and test-drives of the Tesla Roadster.
A Tesla Roadster on display at the electric vehicle maker’s new store in Boulder, Colorado.Eric Magnuson via FlickrThe much talked about, all-electric, luxury sports car has received as much attention for its price tag as anything else. At more than $100,000, few people are likely to buy a Roadster. But with a temporary Colorado tax-break reducing the price to $67,800, surely someone in affluent Boulder will snag one. So why not throw a blowout party, invite a bunch of friends, and put the car on display for all to see?
But the Roadster is more than just an expensive car. Its sleek contours and luxury styling are enough to turn anyone into a car fanatic. Well before the party started, invited guests and curious onlookers had gathered outside the building, taking photos with their cell phones as traffic slowed along the west end of Pearl Street. It is a beautiful car, yes, but its performance—demonstrated in an all too brief test-drive up Boulder Canyon—is even more impressive. (Check out a video from Grist’s own Tesla ride.)
Inside the showroom, there was a certain zeal running through the conversations of the crowd. Like family members around a newborn’s crib, guests hovered over this car, taking photos and clinking cocktail glasses. To be sure, this was a party. But it was also something else. It was a night for the optimist, an opportunity to be there at the beginning of something new and exciting-something world-changing.
Born to be wired
Still in its infancy, the electric car has a future that is both promising and uncertain. It is often cited as an antidote to U.S. dependence on foreign oil, and for good reason—a Pacific Northwest National Laboratory study claims that if 73 percent of the country’s light-duty vehicle fleet were electrified, oil consumption would fall by 6.2 million barrels a day. That would eliminate nearly 53 percent of our current oil imports.
It’s an alluring goal, but 73 percent is a big, distant number. President Obama has called for 1 million electric cars on the road by 2015, and that’s only 0.5 percent of the entire U.S. fleet. The electric car has a ways to go.
But with consumer demand uncertain, automakers are treading lightly. Though most major companies plan to manufacture plug-ins during the next few years, with list prices substantially lower than the Tesla’s, initial production rates will be meager. Chevrolet, for instance, has revised plans to release 60,000 units of the highly anticipated Volt, cutting back to a conservative 10,000 units.
Demand is nearly impossible to predict. A product or technology can stagnate for months-years even-and then take off, spreading out into the marketplace. With electric vehicles, there’s legitimate concern over the likely demand. But, in the meantime, we can work on dismantling the obstacles most likely to plague this technology. Much of that work can be done on the ground, at the city level.
Home is where the start is
Electric vehicles aren’t likely to pour into car lots next year. Our current economy will make sure of that. Nevertheless, many cities can position themselves to benefit from the technology. In doing so, they very well may play the most vital role in the success of these cars.
One such city, Denver, has already begun this work.
As one of several partner cities on Project Get Ready—a Rocky Mountain Institute initiative that convenes city leaders and plug-in champions nationwide—Denver has assembled working groups to facilitate the move to electrified cars. By targeting concerns and perceived inconveniences related to the electric vehicle, these groups may achieve more than any car commercial, marketing campaign, or glitzy cocktail party could ever hope for.
The City and
County of Denver has selected nearly 100 sites around the city at which
public charging units could be installed. This will offer the public the first tangible look at how electric cars will operate in the city while assuaging fears over their driving ranges.
There’s a strong argument for this approach. Although electric vehicles have garnered considerable attention over the years, many people still lack an understanding of how the technology will work in the cities and on the highways. Charging units, placed in key locations, will serve as a visual reminder that the technology is real and the infrastructure is in place.
Smart Grid City
In nearby Boulder, one of the nation’s largest electrical utilities, Xcel Energy, is busy installing new smart meters in selected homes and businesses throughout the city. The first project of its size, Smart Grid City will demonstrate the benefits of advanced energy software and real-time information.
If Xcel’s recent request to the Colorado Public Utilities Commission for a peak-pricing program is approved, the company will offer consumers a financial incentive to draw energy at off-peak hours. An electric vehicle, for instance, could be plugged in at 9:00 pm, when peak power usage has leveled off, therefore promoting the use of night-time wind energy. The smart meters used in Xcel’s program may end up playing an important enabling role in the use of electric cars since utility rates will play an intrinsic role in what time people decide to charge their vehicles.
A Bright Future
Boulder and Denver’s civic and government leaders, research institutions, and entrepreneurs are building a home for the electric car. Rather than waiting for the car to arrive, these entities are plug-in-proofing their cities and demonstrating a belief in the potential for vehicle electrification.
With all the money and time going into this effort, the electric car will have a better chance of widespread adoption and we’ll be one step closer to energy independence. If it takes a party to sell some cars and get the word out, so be it. That’s a future that calls for celebration.
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Filed under: Concept Cars, SUV, Hummer, Design/Style, Off-Road
With Hummer‘s future seemingly in the hands of China’s Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machinery Co. Ltd, questions naturally turn to the automaker’s barren product cupboard. How will Tengzhong replace Hummer’s current crop of SUVs? With the news that the Chinese automaker would like to focus on more environmentally friendly models, a Romanian designer by the name of Andrus Ciprian envisions something along the lines of the compact HB concept you see above.
A Hummer wouldn’t be a Hummer without significant off-road capability, and Ciprian suggests that the HB would retain a body-on-frame design in lieu of a lighter unibody, though hewn from aluminum and carbon fiber instead of steel. Under the comely concept’s hood sits a biofuel-capable V6 engine. But those aren’t the most interesting bits of the concept, the stance and general proportions of which would look perfect on the front of a Traxxas RTR box.
Ciprian included two separate windshield designs, one of which sees the screen sectioned into thirds with a slew of cameras relaying additional information to the pilot. We’d go with the more production-likely single-piece glass. In any case, see the stunning high-res renderings in our gallery below and let us know what you think.
Gallery: Hummer HB Concept
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Of all the things Google has launched this past year, the most useful may be its Music Onebox feature that allows you to easily play popular music from Google Search results. Following its debut in October, I found myself using it left and right for songs I wanted to listen to. One thing I noticed was that while deals were in place with iLike, imeem, Rhapsody, and Pandora, the majority of the one-click play results were from the streaming music service Lala. This was awesome because most of the songs served up by Lala were the full versions. But fast forward to today, and it’s a much different story: Lala Onebox results are few and far between.
Why? It’s hard to know for sure, but it seems pretty likely that Apple’s recent deal to purchase Lala is at play. At the very least, it would seem that behind-the-scenes politics are dictating the results now being shown. We noted at the time of the Apple/Lala deal that it could change the Onebox offering, and it looks like it has. Plenty of results that used to serve up a Lala play option now default to iLike, which itself is now a part of MySpace Music (as is imeem). In fact, doing a random sampling of 30 popular songs brought yielded 28 iLike Onebox results, and only 2 Lala results. The problem with this is that for the majority of iLike Onebox results, you can only listen to either 30 or 90 second clips, rather than the entire songs, like you could on Lala. That obviously makes Google Music Onebox music much less useful.
A couple weeks ago, BusinessWeek got a comment from R.J. Pittman, Google’s director of product management, stating the Apple’s Lala deal would not alter the Google/Lala agreement. “We are agreeing to continue to leave the service as it is,” he said. (Apple declined to comment on the matter.) But this may simply mean that Lala will remain as one of the Onebox options, but has been taken out as the featured player for most musical content.
“We have enjoyed a good relationship with Apple for many years, and that continues to be the case,” Pittman also told BusinessWeek. That’s true, but there has definitely been a growing divide between the two in recent months as their interests continue to overlap. This has become a big enough issue that Google CEO Eric Schmidt had to step down from Apple’s Board in August despite assurances that he had no plans to do so leading up to that.
It’s not clear if it is Apple or Google that would have wanted Lala to be less prominently featured in Music Onebox, but it’s certainly possible that neither really liked the placement. After all, in pitching the idea to the record labels, Google likely played up the idea as an alternative to iTunes. The music labels have long sought a viable alternative to Apple’s musical powerhouse that could restore some leveraging power to them. Meanwhile, Apple will now have to foot the bill for Lala streaming — and that means paying the labels for every clip longer than 30-seconds, we hear. So they probably don’t want all those Lala clips being served up either.
Regardless of the reason, Google Music Onebox is now a lot less useful, and that’s too bad.
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We knew that the holidays were going to be super busy for iPhone developers — in a good way. Gaming community platform PlayHaven and mobile ad exchange Mobclix released data yesterday saying that iPhone game usage is likely to set record in the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day, called a “Game Rush,” with usage 28 times greater than the same weekly period last year.
One developer, Oliver Cameron of Taptivate, the developer of Voices (an application that morphs your voice into different sounds like Darth Vader, Chipmunks, etc), sent me an email saying that sales have been through the roof for them, and their app is now in the 44th spot because of the “Game Rush” as they’re calling it. It’s one of those “it’s stupid but fun” kind of apps that usually move well when people are looking for quick apps to download.
Cameron mentioned that sales were as high as 18,769 downloads of the $0.99 app on December 25th. So if you do the math, that’s $18,581.31 in sales, not including Apple’s 30% cut. If you included Apple’s cut, the app made $12,688 in one day. Those are some pretty crazy numbers, regardless. Check out a graph of Voice’s sales numbers below as well.
The app in total has made a little more then $250,000 sales, which got me thinking: If this app is #44 on the App Store, imagine what the number one and two apps were doing (Skee-Ball and Live Cams). We also just spoke with Colin Smith, Vice President of Freeverse, which said that their application, Skee-Ball sold 47,926 units — which is about 10x what it did the previous Friday. Another one of their apps, Flick Fishing, sold 31,741 units on Christmas day.
We’re also hearing that an app which has been one of the most popular since the launch of the App Store 18 months ago, saw its downloads on Christmas Day double its previous record for a single day.
All of this could well point to the possibility that Apple itself set a record in the amount of iPhones and iPod Touches sold during the holiday season.
Update: More numbers are coming in. Lima Sky’s Doodle Jump, which just hit the 1 million download mark about a week ago, managed to sell 80,000 units on Christmas day alone. Two days prior, they were pushing around 15,000 per day; two days later, they were hovering around 35,000. All in all, they sold 197,821 copies between 12/23 and 12/27 – at .99c a pop, we’re calculating that they took in just shy of $139,000 after Apple’s cut.
Update: Even more numbers to report as Tapulous, developers of the popular Tap Tap Revenge series, check in with good news. They’ve pulled down over 2 million installs of Tap Tap Revenge 3 since going free last Wednesday, 700,000 of which came on Christmas day. Between Tap Tap Revenge 1/2/3 and the Metallica/Lady GaGa editions, Tapulous now has 5 applications in the Top 100 grossing apps.
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