June 2011
18 posts
“I feel like nothing online is safe anymore and am damned glad that I have...”
– Ben Brooks on online security. I’d agree with him, except I feel he’s using the wrong verb tense. It’s not so much “nothing online is safe anymore” as “nothing online has ever been safe”. Many of the hacks over the past few months have demonstrated that the...
Densha de Go! is a train simulator series that has been around since 1996, but as of a few weeks ago, is also available on iOS devices via the Japanese App Store. DenGO! Yamanote Line is a universal (iPhone/iPad) app that features the Yamanote Line’s current rolling stock, with two other trains (the 103 and the 205 series) available as in-app purchases. I picked it up on my iPhone 4 and ran...
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Fifteen years ago, I met a time traveler.
We lived in the countryside out by a lake. It was close enough to the city to go to the hardware store every other weekend and play house in the model kitchens and bathrooms, but remote enough for none of my friends to even know how to get there to come over and play. People who drove by were either from the surrounding houses or got lost, so you can...
iTunes Plus Upgrades Are Dead
If you bought DRM’d music from the iTunes Store before the launch of iTunes Plus (256k AAC, non-DRM tracks), you are now able to upgrade to higher quality, non-DRM’d versions of those tracks via the Purchased section of iTunes for free.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I have some FPM tracks to redownload.
Financial Times replaces their iPad app with a... →
Looks pretty decent. And not really surprising.
In-Depth Analysis of This Year's E3 Announcements
Microsoft
YOU ARE THE CONTROLLER
YOU ARE THE CONTROLLER
YOOOUUU ARRREEE THEEEE CONTRRROOOOLLLLEEEERRRR
halo 4
Sony
For the next part of this demo, please put on your glasses
Move your ass to the store and buy a PlayStation Move
NGP now rebranded to make it sound like an energy drink
Nintendo
Glasses-free 3D has REVOLUTIONIZED GAMING [citation needed]
Here is a system with crazy...
Tyler Brulé on iPad Editions of Print Publications →
“On a recent visit to Paris I heard some fresh murmurs and figures from global brands about their surprise and disappointment by the low subscription and download numbers for various iPad editions of magazines and newspapers. In a lobby of one hotel a buyer of media commented on the low return on investment and the fact no publisher has come up with a viable business model to make it work....
“We are getting to the place that we should be able to warn you,” Jha said....”
– from Motorola CEO: Open Android Store Leads to Quality Issues on BusinessWeek. Guess what battery-hogging crap probably won’t be getting that warning? MotoBlur.
