Hello Everyone, Just so you know, I am cross-posting this email.
I've been downloading games, both paid and free, from the Apple App Store since 2008. In all that time, I have found only one, Aurify, that even remotely held my interest. Unfortunately, that remarkable audio game only worked, properly, up until iOS 3.1.3. Recently, I discovered a second, out of all of the hundreds I've tried, game that I find absolutely, totally, and completely addictive. The most wonderful part of this new game is that you don't need to download any special apps in order to participate. To participate, one only needs a Twitter account. That's right, the game is based on Twitter hashtags. First, let me tell you how to play, then I'll make a recommendation as how best to get started. Every day, various organizations or people create a hashtag theme; for example "why dates fail", which would look like #WhyDatesFail. Next, they invite everyone to post a tweet containing a clever answer including the hash tag phrase in the tweet. For example, I might tweet "Because she forgot to remove her wedding ring. #WhyDatesFail". Get it? The point is that people compete to see who can come up with the most clever submissions. Remember, this can all be done using only Twitter hashtags. To see the various entries, for any hashtag, all one need do is to simply perform a search, using the hashtag phrase. Doing this will show you all of the entries. You can share them, retweet them, like them, or just ignore them. I am truly amazed at how funny and clever people can be. Now again, this is all without doing anything except finding and searching for hashtags on Twitter. As some of you may recall, I recommended the free app called Tag Stalker, for finding and following hashtags, in a previous post. Still with me? One major source used to create these community hashtags is a free app called Hashtag Roundup. While this app is reasonably VoiceOver accessible, it could definitely use some work. The only reason I'm recommending it, here, is because all of the basic, free functions of the app are VoiceOver accessible. However the more advanced areas, which consequently cost money, are not-at least, the buttons are not labeled properly. Should you decide to download the app, I recommend that you use it only to discover the currently trending hashtags. Then, once you do this, you can close the app and use your preferred Twitter client to participate. The Hashtag Roundup app makes a game out of this process in so far that it gives you points each time someone on Twitter likes, shares, or retweets your submissions. One more thing, that I find very interesting, before I paste in the description and link, to the Roundup app: In case you didn't know, very often, companies release apps in both the Apple App Store and the Google Play Store. Depending upon the app, sometimes screen reader accessibility is better in the iOS version and sometimes it's better in the Android version. I discovered that HashTag Roundup is vastly more accessible in the Android version than it is on iOS, at this time. So, if you have an Android device, you may prefer to use Roundup on it, until the iOS version can be updated. Just as an F.Y.I., I'm running Android Marsh Mellow on a Samsung Galaxy S6 Smartphone. I hope that those of you who do decide to explore the iOS version of the Hashtag Roundup app will write a review in the App Store requesting greater VoiceOver accessibility. Okay, I think that about covers it. I will paste in both the description and link to Hashtag Roundup below my signature. Good luck, enjoy, and I'll see you on Twitter. Mark HashTag Roundup Description Hashtag Roundup brings you the very best hashtag games on Twitter. Hashtag games are word games where Twitter users contribute clever and funny responses to a common theme. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hashtag-roundup/id985741893?mt=8 -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
