I gave up using Windows on my home machines not long after I stopped being a PC gamer. I owned a copy of Windows XP that required help to operate on any recent machine since it was missing the necessary SP3 to make it functional. When I built a new PC some 3 years ago [...]
Archive for the ‘Technology’ category
May 20 2009
OnLive – A New Gaming Paradigm
The gaming arena is in constant flux with innovations on all fronts to produce games that are visually captivating and reach a large base of gamers. Having been a gamer for nearly two decades now, I remember the days of games arriving on 360K floppy disks to the more rigid 1.44MB 3.5″ floppy disks. Apart [...]
Apr 10 2009
One Billion iTunes Apps Contest
The success of the iPhone and iPod Touch is unprecedented and nothing exemplifies that like a counter of the number of applications downloaded to these two devices. Apple, recently announced that nearly 25,000 applications were hosted on the App Store, and now with nearly one billion of those apps have been downloaded. To commemorate this [...]
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Jan 17 2009
Windows 7 Beta
Microsoft decided to unleash their Beta of Windows 7, the successor to the abysmal Windows Vista last week. After the initial hoopla caused by the arbitrary download limit of 2.5 million which cause the servers to crash, Microsoft wisely decided to remove the limit and allow one and all to download the Beta. I grabbed [...]
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Dec 31 2008
My iPhone 3G
My iPhone 3G is finally here and I’m having a blast using it. I was able to move the SIM card from my previous Nokia phone into the iPhone and get going immediately. Cheers
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Aug 28 2008
Android Market
There’s been a lot of hoopla about the Apple App Store which allows you to download free and paid applications to extend the functionality of your iPhone. With jailbroken phones you get the additional benefit of Cydia to install a larger variety of applications not screened by Apple. Android has slowly been taking shape to [...]
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Jul 31 2008
UP
Pixar has always made excellent movies. From the first Toy Story to Ratatouille (I haven’t had a chance to see Wall-E yet) the stories and characters have been very memorable. This teaser for their next movie UP continues that fine tradition in an approx. 45 second video. Enjoy Cheers
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Jul 28 2008
Not So Cuil
I read about Cuil (pronounced as Cool) this morning and decided to see what it can do. It was created by former Google employees with the hopes of upstaging Google with it’s search prowess. However, a few simple search in Cuil yielded no useful results at all. I searched for the string “linux usb hardy” [...]
Feb 15 2008
Death of HD DVD
The battle of the next-gen format between HD-DVD and Blu-Ray might be finally coming to an end. My XBOX 360 has the optional HD-DVD accessory and I chose not to get it for the fact that I don’t own that many movies and it sure would be a shame to buy either system until the [...]
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