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Chances are if you have an iPhone, iPhone or iPod Touch, most likely be used for moving video games. If birds or angry Fight Night champion, a mobile game on a platform of IOS is a great success.

Samuel Axon over on Mashable has a list of 10 classic PC games, some of which you may have grown up with, that have found a new life on Apple’s mobile platform. Some of the best include Doom Classic, a recreation of the original Doom and the Oregon Trail, which has been updated with modern day graphics and new mini-games to break up the action.

Beneath a Steel Sky Remastered and The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition are excellent examples of old school PC adventure games which have been updated in order to take advantage of the different control scheme. However, my favourite out of all the showcased applications has to be Plants Vs Zombies.

I first played the game over on the PC, but I have sunk many hours into the iPhone version of the game. Sadly I don’t own an iPad, but I have heard that it is the ultimate way to play Plants Vs Zombies.

See the complete list of more than Mashable and is considered as a treatment for one of those classic games that has found new life in the market for Apple. What game on the iPhone / IPAD is your favorite? Let us know in the comments below.

X1 Technologies, Inc., an innovator in email, desktop, and ediscovery search solutions, today announced X1 Mobile Search for iPhone, bringing the award-winning X1 search experience to iOS-powered devices. X1 Mobile Search allows a user’s iPhone, iPad, or iPod to act as an extension of his desktop computer by providing instant and secure search of desktop-bound email, attachments, documents, and files. X1 Mobile Search can put access to terabytes of information in the palm of a user’s hand, literally a fingertip away.

“Searching on the iPhone is extremely limited and especially frustrating for older email and attachments,” said Christopher Walton, vice president of products and strategy at X1 Technologies. “X1 Desktop Search on the PC has, for years, allowed users to instantly locate, examine, and act on data, regardless of that data’s location. Now, with X1 Mobile Search, that same fast-as-you-type™ instant search can be had on the iPhone, regardless of the user’s physical location. Imagine being able to instantly find important, but 2-year-old customer correspondence while waiting in line for lunch, or being able to find and respond to requests for comments on important but dated information while on vacation at the beach, all from your iPhone.”

X1 Mobile Search for iPhone works by creating a secure connection with X1 Professional Desktop Search running on a user’s computer. As with the desktop application, X1 Mobile Search features fast-as-you-type instant search where results are presented as you type. Once the corresponding email, attachment, or document is found, X1 Mobile Search retrieves it from the desktop and delivers it securely to the iPhone, iPad, or iPod. Users can then perform a number of mobile specific, in context actions, such as viewing, sharing, and editing content. Additionally, documents found with X1 Mobile Search can be securely stored on the device, enabling users to view or edit them even when offline and disconnected from any network.

Pricing and Availability:

X1 Mobile Search for iPhone will be available for purchase later this month from iTunes and the App Store for $9.99. It requires X1 Professional Desktop Search.

X1 Technologies, an innovator in email and desktop search solutions, was founded in 2003 with the vision of providing a single user-interface capable of quickly finding, viewing, and acting upon data regardless of where it resides. X1’s patented search technology scales from a single desktop to tens of thousands of PCs. Innovations pioneered by X1 include fast-as-you-type™ searching along with unified, actionable search. Headquartered in Pasadena, California, X1 is an operating company of Idea lab.

Saving Private Sheep puts the player in control of a Sheep commander as he tries to reclaim their grazing lands from the nefarious Wolves. The game has a nice sense of humor and presents the characters in a great way with the Sheep general offering some insight to the game and the happenings in the Sheep-Wolf war. Featuring some very easy controls, pick-up-and-play mechanics, and a quirky storyline, it’s very apparent that the game was made with casual audiences in mind. Hardcore puzzle fans might balk at the game’s relative ease, there is still some fun to be had here.

While game features a quirky premise that involves a war between sheep and wolves with an overt WWII setting, the gameplay is a pretty straightforward puzzle experience. You have to get your Sheep, represented by a pentagon, to the platform below without having them fall off into Wolf territory. You do this by clearing away blocks and other objects that separate your Sheep and the platform, tapping on them in order to destroy them. The puzzles unfold in real-time with your piece falling to the platform right as you clear pieces out of your way.

At the end of each stage, your performance is ranked, with a Bronze through Gold rating issued for solving the puzzle with a higher ranking being netted for removing fewer pieces and completing the mission in less time.

The game throws a few elements in the mix to keep the missions interesting. Some missions will give you a Wolf pentagon piece instead of a Sheep, forcing you to get them to fall off the platform instead of land on it. Additionally, there are things like metal pieces that will block your way and cannot be destroyed – only worked around, and a few other changes and challenges thrown into the missions.

Saving Private Sheep has dirt-simple controls, requiring you to touch the on-screen objects that you want to destroy in order to take them out. The game itself is not terribly challenging, and most of the puzzles can easily be completed through simple trial-and-error. The only difficulty that the game possesses comes from trying to better your score by taking away fewer pieces more quickly, thus getting you a better ranking.

Saving Private Sheep is an interesting take on the genre, offering up a fun premise and some personality. However, the gameplay itself is very simplistic, and puzzle fans looking for more of a challenge will want to look elsewhere. That said, if you are a casual gamer looking for something quick and easy to play on your iPhone, then you could definitely do worse with your three bucks.