- I was pointed to this little gem of an independant game by Quarter to Three, a board I’ve taken to visiting recently. Mount & Blade is a fairly addiciting medieval combat game at the moment.
You create your character, the usuall stats type system, but the game also has a really robust face [...]
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Gates vs. Jobs
The NY Times has an excellent article on the Apple/Microsoft showdown in the digital music realm. The IPod versus whatever Microsoft cooks up as a solution. Go Apple.
Firefox 1.0
Mozilla’s Firefox browser has now reached version 1.0! What does this mean to you? Simply this, a more satisfying browsing experience, a more secure browsing experience, and also a browsing experience that you are able to customize easily and quickly.
Seriously, if you havn’t tried it yet, it’s worth a download. You’ll be [...]
Random Links – Again!
- A history of Mario Sprites, from his Donkey Kong roots to his more ugly pixelated recent Mario vs. Donkey Kong game. Some good commentary, but just fun to see all the different versions of our favorite plumber.
- SpaceShipOne made it up and back safely. This is great to watch. Their next [...]
Copy Protection
I found an excellent article summing up software copy protection. It’s written by Brian Hook, who’s site has a number of well written articles that I may cover later. But onto copy protection.
Like most of us, I love digital technology. The possibilities that it presents for the future are amazing, and the [...]
Links again.
- Curmudgeon Gamer has posted the final article in their series covering the Midway Arcade Treasures Vol. 1. The author has gone and covered in depth each of the games in the collection, and presents relevent strategy.
- As if India’s software growth continuing wasn’t completely obvious.
- Apperently Intel think’s the the Interweb is dying [...]
Stupid Site Registrations
After being frustrated at the fact that if I want to read The New York Times online I must register to actually read any article. They say it’s because they are tracking for ads and targeting ads at different user bases. The thing is, I’m not the only one who doesn’t truthfully answer [...]
BBS Documentary
BBS – The Documentary. I cannot wait. In much the same way that I had to purchase Mindcandy (the PC Demo DVD), this is a must purchase item. It represents a big chunk of my childhood, and a big chunk of my learning about how computers worked.
Looking through the site, I see [...]
eBooks Editorial
While browsing Gizmodo, I came accross a good write up about eBooks, and their future and when or if it might come about.
The article makes some comparisons to the iPod and it’s penetration into the industry, but then says it similarities stop at the fact that the eBook changes the fundamental way in which the [...]
Nintendo DS – Very Nice
The final look of the Nintendo DS has been announced and pictures are out there. My, my, this is a pretty gaming machine. Nintendo really took to heart comments about the DS that they got from E3 and made the system sleeker and shiny, and made sure it had all it could need [...]
Where did it go?
While making some routine searches this morning, I found I was getting error messages from Google and it was an odd sensation. When you are used to using a tool and having it be reliable and quick, when it’s broke you arn’t quite sure what to do at first. I eventually gave up, [...]
Where’s the goods PC games?
I was pointed to this article on JoeUser.com from the creator of Galactic Civilizations and other stratagy games. It’s a typical blast of the PC gaming industry and it’s habits of releasing buggy, incomplete games, and then patching them later.
He goes into the history of his company, Stardock and how over the years they [...]
RSS Fiendish?
I found this article on RSS while reading Slashdot.
In it Chad Dickerson, of InfoWorld, talks of the growing pains of RSS (Really-Simple-Syndication) as the number of users of feeds go up, and the clients that they use are not “smart”. He likens the hits InfoWorld gets at the top of every hour to a [...]
Fourth Gen iPods
With the annoucement of the fourth generation iPods, I’m thinking the day I get one is approaching more quickly. Now it’s sleeker, cheaper, and still retains that sexy look. The 20GB model is coming down to $299, and that will just be right in my price point range. Should be a nice [...]
Linky linky
- Cnet has a great article on how the iPod is undermining Microsoft’s efforts at being the DRM king (DRM = Digital Rights Management). With iPods being the hip new accessory these days, people are complaining that the Microsoft encoded files included on some newer releases, won’t play on their iPod. When consumers [...]
