The Story So Far In the first part of this three-part story, I discussed the circumstances for the search for my new smartphone. But it was not an easy search, and quite a few different devices were investigated before making the difficult decision. The Investigation As I mentioned before, I had considered some different options [...]
August 2008
A Little Bit: Peak Products, a third party game peripheral company is announcing their upcoming release in about two (2) weeks of the Starpex line of PS2/PS3 game controllers for Guitar Hero and Rock Band. The Starpex controllers are full-sized wood guitar controllers that will retail from about $180 and up, depending on the specific [...]
True to their word, the Mozilla folks have made good on their threat to broadcast the Firefox 3.0.1 upgrade to current Firefox 2.0.0.16 users: If you haven’t seen the modal dialog pop up on top of your Firefox 2.0.0.16 browser screens yet, you’re going to, especially if you have the auto-update checking on. This is [...]
That old saying about being married being healthier than being single is apparently just that: an old saying. According to recent studies, while single women seem to do about the same as their married counterparts, modern single men are “catching up” to happily married men in healthiness, while less-than-happily married men, separated men, and divorcees continue [...]
Hot on the tail (tales?) of Apple’s [AAPL] latest news of iPhone connectivity problems and App Store concerns, the Palm [PALM] Treo Pro was announced yesterday, followed today by the RIM [RIMM] BlackBerry Bold. Huh? The Apple iPhone 3G The iPhone 3G has been out the longest, and it has been steadily gaining developer acceptance [...]
With all of the talk on Javamancy about the Apple [AAPL] iPhone, several of you have asked, “Steve, what phone are you using these days?” This story is a somewhat long-ish one, and it starts several years ago but has reached an interesting twist recently, up until today, even. Let’s start this three-part story with [...]
Several weeks ago, the fun videos hosted at Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog were unfortunately pulled, and only available on iTunes. Now, however, the three-part series is available via Hulu link on the blog as one (1) large-ish video. Fun times are here (sorta) again!
Apple [AAPL] has released a firmware update for its popular iPhone 3G smartphone. Both CNET and Reuters articles have mentioned that the update is a bit mysterious about what is being addressed by the update, other than bug fixes. But a lot of iPhone users are reporting that they have observed a significant improvement in [...]
A Little Bit: 1UP has an interview with Bill Roper, co-founder of Flagship Studios, the dissolved game development shop behind Hellgate: London. Some discussion is spent on the events that led to the fall, and the terms surrounding the outcome, as well as some of the players in the corporate drama, including Namco Bandai.
