March 2, 2009 7:20 PM PST
Buy an iPhone game and donate to charity
In the ShiveringKittens iPhone game players rescue kittens from freezing in the winter by arranging blocks.
(Credit: GiantCrayon Games)An iPhone app developer is donating to a nonprofit for each sale made, in what is believed to be a first.
Appropriately, the app is called ShiveringKittens and the charity is the ASPCA, which works to protect cruelty to animals.
For every sale of the $2.99 app during March and April the developer, GiantCrayon Games, will donate $1 to the ASPCA.
In the game, players arrange falling blocks to rescue animated kittens who are stuck in a Minnesota winter and win points. A video preview is on YouTube.
If only rescuing real kittens were that simple.
Elinor Mills covers Internet security and privacy. She joined CNET News in 2005 after working as a foreign correspondent for Reuters in Portugal and writing for The Industry Standard, the IDG News Service, and the Associated Press. E-mail Elinor. 
There's no real way to prove that the money is actually donated, I guess, but at least in the Android apps' cases, they're generally only $0.99 (and this iPhone app is $2.99), so you don't really have that much to lose.
- by jwissick March 5, 2009 11:09 PM PST
- ASPCA is a scam. They operate NO shelters. They care for ZERO animals. They are a far left group that has been taken over by people the likes of PETA.
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