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Flapper - the animated, life-or-death weather widget
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 3)
Sham The Sam said 5:55PM on 1-05-2007
I saw flapper and was excited about an Art Deco dame tell me that it was going to rain. Alas, no such luck.
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Sam said 5:18AM on 1-06-2007
It didn't get the weather right today, but it did tell me when the sun went down. Pretty cool. Dashboard worthy for a week or so maybe. I admit I am a bit curious to see what it evolves into.
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MJ said 3:00AM on 1-07-2007
I wish I knew how to work it (other than inputting my city). Does it need what's flashing red, or is the red flashing meaning to stay away? How do you know what it needs when? :)
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Shauna Usiak said 1:02PM on 1-07-2007
Yes I believe the red flashing lights indicate that is what it needs. Okay - so I get the food, play, and sleep buttons. But what the heck is the fourth option?! The one with the exclamation point? When I click on that one - it just seems to upset the Flapper...
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Douglas Caton said 12:22PM on 1-11-2007
My flappie has an issue where it thinks it is nighttime all the time it never has the right weather but yet I keep feeding t. Personnally I think the thing is full of glitches it also tells me every other day or so that there is a new version available and asks if I would like to update
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SC said 4:50PM on 1-11-2007
Yeah - that definiteloy sounds like a bug. Mine thinks it's daytime 20 hours of the day and is always sunny. Anyone know the significance of the population # on the back? It jumps around from 4 to 7 to 2?!!!
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B. H. said 4:14AM on 1-17-2007
I'm wondering what the exclamtion point button is too. I think it might be like verbal punishment. Also I think that the population might pertain to how many flappers are living in that area, but still not totally sure. My brother thinks that the population might refer to how many thousands of people live in your town. Hope this was helpful or idea sparking.
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jamie said 9:05PM on 1-14-2007
so my flappie is not showin!
theres jus this little circular thing thats spining aaround
does that mean its evolving????
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Kev said 2:27PM on 1-19-2007
Looking at the Widget code that extra button is titled: discipline_button. My Flappie does not seem to mis-behave though. :)
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beansol said 8:25PM on 1-18-2007
the population is how many friends you have given it to play with!
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Shauna Usiak said 3:45PM on 1-20-2007
Ahh! Good to know. Wait but the # is how many friends you've given it? How do you give it friends? By clicking on the play button? Everytime you click you give it a friend or something?
Anyone figure out how long it takes for this guy to "transform" by the way? I think I'm on 2 weeks now and nothing...
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MJS said 2:37PM on 1-31-2007
I have had flapper for about 1 week....
the weather is never correct when its sunny and clouds on the widget its actually snowing....sorrta stupid..
I think what the population means is how many flappers are in your neighborhood. reason to that is when i got it the population was 3, i told my sister to get one and it went up to 4. Plus i bent she told her friend and now the population says 5.
I bet u this thing doesent turn into enything.....
it would be cool if it did..
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richafix said 8:01AM on 1-25-2007
I think our Flapper has attention deficit syndrome. Our toddler requires less attention than this thing. I am ready to let the little widget die just so I don't have to waste so much time trying to make this thing happy.
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Leeann Pierce said 3:43PM on 2-11-2007
You have to use the verbal discipline button when your flappie gets crosses for eyes... this happens if you feed and play with him too much sometimes. My flappie is always smiling, he never shows any emotions. And I think he has night and day mixed up, and the weather is never right.
But I have to tell you, this is my second flappie. I let the first one die by accident, and it was pretty sad. It just shows a little tombstone that says, "RIP Flappie". And where are you guys seeing the population number? Mine doesn't have that....
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carlbaratbeauty said 1:30PM on 2-18-2007
The new version of Falppie has no population on the back and there is this heart. Does anyone know what that means?
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SC said 7:33PM on 2-19-2007
No - I have that new updated one and it doesn't seem to light up the "things" flappie needs?!! I've waited over 24 hours to see if that would change - but it hasn't...now there's a "1" in the heart....is that bad or something?
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Kate said 2:30PM on 2-22-2007
I have the "1" in the heart too...
Does anyone else notice that it makes a howling sound at about dusk? When it's still a bit light out, and the stars can be faintly seen in the background? It's a strange coyote-like howling sound. Maybe not. It could be something else on my computer I have yet to figure out...
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PJL said 10:54PM on 2-22-2007
I wish there was an "about" section for little Flappie so I knew what to do. How often do I feed it? Do I wait until its little lights turn red or do I just feed it whenever? Can you overfeed it? If it doesn't get squiggly eyes, do I just keep feeding it and playing with it until they eyes get squggly? And what gives with the little heart? How many numbers until I know its number is up?
Is this supposed to be like having a baby? It doesn't come with a manual, but you just figure it out? Hmm...
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Elena said 3:03AM on 2-23-2007
I just got my Flappie today. I moved him to Bali, where I thought he'd have some nice weather. He's already done a stint in Ulan Bator - but I thought that was a bit unkind so I gave him an upgrade. Does anyone else move their Flappies about? Do they die of cold?
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VeganDragan said 1:13AM on 2-26-2007
Mine did the howl today too! What's that about? Plus, I originally believed that the heart number was the number of days you'd kept it alive, but now I'm several days in and still have "01" showing. What sucks is that this is my second flappie: I'd kept the first verson alive for a month and it hadn't evolved at the time I updated. And I can only gather this means I'm starting over. I feed it and play with it at least twice a day and put it to sleep at night. I hope this isn't all for naught. Sigh...
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