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UAE iPhone app 'Kalimat' shortlisted for global award
Kalimat is a word game. “Something like Scrabble, but with some new features,” explains Fares Fayad, the Lebanese app designer based in the UAE. “You just need to form words as quickly as possible, because there is a three-minute time limit.”
Fares cannot deny being an Apple fan. Ever since the product was on the market, he committed himself to it and thus became an expert user. Gaming especially led to whole new level when the iPhone hit the market. “I just get hooked onto it with the iPone.
A couple of years later his name was connected with one of the most popular word games played on iPhone. The app is nominated for the ‘Best Board Game’ and the ‘Best Word Game’ and in just about one day users all over the world will bring out their votes.
“I wanted to turn my expertise and ambition for these products into a business, so I started designing apps,” says Fares explaining how the Kalimat game became a product linked to his name. But, he admits, his wife has a share in it. “She found something missing in the conventional word games; it was then that I came up with the idea of a timer, taking away chances of using help.”Driven by his ambition, Fares soon got to meet people willing to look into his ideas. AppsArabia, a mobile app fund set up by Abu Dhabi's twofour54 media hub to encourage the local mobile app-market, responded enthusiastically by offering funds needed to develop the game and published the iPhone application in February last year.
Pyranha Molan and Burn Review/Mystery Creek and Holtwood
So these past couple of days have been a great start for the boating season considering West Virginia and Pennsylvania was flooded pretty much everywhere. I drove out to Sam’s Cabin in WV Friday night after work with my new Burn strapped up on my car. Got some sleep that night and then woke up early (6 am early) to meet up with some other local paddlers to fire up Mystery Creek. This was the creek that had a lot of paddlers going crazy over Boatertalk until it was finally revealed. The creek is High Ridge Run and shouldn’t be underestimated, dropping 500 feet per mile and had only been run 5-6 times with that much flow so needless to say we had to scout everything. Because of being talked up so much on the internet some of the best local paddlers on the East Coast were out to get their fair share. Geoff Calhoun (Potomac Paddlesports/LVM Video) and Jason Beakes were shooting video of the top half and Nathan Sass and Sam Kane (Team Thunderdome) were boofing every drop like it was another day of the falls. Brian Dorsey and Topher Smith (Holtwood Crew) caught up to us near the end and we all helped each other out scouting the big ones. I was feeling a little sketchy on the first half after recovering from the 2 mile hike up hill and the mile hike in through the snow but pulled together very nicely down the bottom half. Everyone made it down safely and big props to Mike Moore and the WV locals who helped lead us down that one. Thanks guys!
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UAE iPhone app 'Kalimat' shortlisted for global awardEmirates 24/7 - Jan 01, 1970
“Pyranha Bite was the right choice of developer, because of the quality the company emphasizes. There are many companies in the region that compromise quality. The design is not always perfected, and the games crash a lot. Then they are on the market