A copy of EGM hit my mailbox today and the following caught my eye. Is it an April Fool’s Day joke? You decide. It looks like it’s being developed by Square Enix and is slated for 2008. For the full scoop, go buy yourself a copy of the April EGM and support their well-done scoop, [...]
Hawk Wings has a fantastic Mail.app tip that sped up my install dramatically. It’s definitely worth checking out. I have a massive and ancient mail archive, so my improvement was dramatic. Your milage may vary. Just make sure you do a backup first.
File under general nerdery: My friend Tom send this to me and I felt the need to share. One part NES + one part guitar = NES Paul
For anyone who thinks I’ve been overly critical, take a look at what Time Magazine had to say about Windows Vista: The fact that it took Microsoft over five years and $6 billion dollars to create Vista is — and I mean this quite seriously — an embarrassment to the good name of American innovation, [...]
Shouldn’t the new version of an OS run better than the five year old version? Techgage decided to do a comparison of game performance for Vista and XP and it looks like Vista runs games slower than XP does. In many cases, it’s a dramatic downgrade. The short of it? If you’re a PC gamer, [...]
If you thought the iPhone multi-touch screen was impressive, take a look into the future of interaction courtesy of Jeff Han at NYU. Make sure you play the video on the right side of the linked page.
I did pretty well with my tech predictions for 2006, so I figured I’d have some fun and take a guess at both Macworld tomorrow and the year ahead. Blu-ray will officially take the lead over HD-DVD. How? Every PS3 sold supports Blu-ray. Every Xbox 360 requires an additional purchase to support HD-DVD and, quite [...]
Tivo is compelling for two reasons. You get to watch programs when you want. You get to skip commercials. And yet Tivo, the company, is clearly doing everything in it’s power to shove more commercials into your day. Tivo subscribers pay a monthly fee to skip commercials. I can’t imagine they’ll take kindly to having [...]
Walmart’s video download service will fall on it’s face for all the obvious reasons. They have no momentum in this space nor a reputation in retail that nutures a leap of this sort from retail to digital. Just as with it’s music service, it will waste an incredible amount of money trying to succeed and [...]
It seemed like a little math would be helpful to see where all the consoles stand going into this holiday season. Wii Xbox 360 PS3 Console $250 $400 $600 2nd Controller $60 $50 $50 Game included $60 $60 WiFi included $100 included Online Gaming included $50 included Classic Controller $20 n/a n/a Total $330 $660 [...]
