Why MobileMe Will Struggle

Yesterday I was speaking with Eric about my impressions of MobileMe.  If you follow my Twitter feed, you’ll know I wasn’t impressed by it and already cancelled my trial account.  The reason is because Apple has yet to perfect the platform, while they’ve mastered the art of the Brand<tm>.
MobileMe is in direct competition with Google [...]

Analog Game Design

Today I got an email from my little brother, a dedicated Metal Gear Solid fan, about this sequence from MGS4.  He explained to me how powerful the scene was due to the split nature of the cinematic on top and how you had control of Snake below.  He said it amplified his emotional attachment and [...]

MacWorld 2008 thoughts

Well, the internet has once again been crushed under the mass of Apple fans waiting to listen to Steve Jobs’ latest pronouncements. I think the fans should ask for their money back, frankly.
Steve started off talking about Time Capsule, an appliance to consolidate all of your Macs backups in one 500GB or 1TB box. Here’s [...]

iPhone!

Believe it or not, with only a couple of weeks exception, my Dell is still running Mac OS X. It runs like a champ. It’s been absolutely flawless in daily use. I wish it was more like a laptop, but then again this guy was not built for unpowered use. The [...]

Dell Macbook Pro XPS

Every now and then, as you see from my past blogposts, I get it in my head to try some alternative OS. While I appreciate Windows‘ utility, I don’t particularly care for its lack of stability or ease of use. Ubuntu is the most polished of the Linux distros at this point, but [...]

New year, new toys

It’s 2007. Last year was a good one, hopefully this year will be better. I could go on and on with how the year was a good one, but why bore you? Hell, it bores me sometimes. Of course, with a new year comes new gizmos and doohickeys coming out.
I’ve got [...]

Another win for Microsoft’s Xbox?

It looks like Microsoft is again charging out ahead of the other consoles when it comes to their community policies. Microsoft has been winning with their Xbox Live service, perfected in the Xbox 360 to be more of a universal gaming/media/community service than just a matchmaking service from the original Xbox. Now, Microsoft [...]

New toy

Monday I took the penultimate step with regards to my iPod. I bought the bluetooth transmitter to work with my Motorola HT820 headphones. I searched for months to find exactly what I was looking for. I have the 5G iPod Video (60GB version), so I wanted something that looked like it belonged [...]

One Long Night

You can’t win every night. I tried the latest beta build of Vista, and finally there was the OS I was promised. It was smoothing, functional, worked brilliantly, and looked gorgeous. Everything worked great…until I got to work and plugged it into the network. It would not gain an IP. [...]

How does Vista suck

You would think with five years of development, that Vista Beta 2 would be in the same shape that XP Beta 2 was. I used that until XP’s official launch without major headaches. The same cannot be said for Vista.
The first problem I had was setting up a network connection. I’m an [...]