They Get It
PSP Go and PS3 Slim
21/08/09 09:17
This one’s a bit of a double whammy for Sony. First off, the PSP go. Pricing has been released for the tiny handheld in Australia and the news is not good. $450 for the PSP Go. No that is not a typo, $450. I think that’s disgusting. Australians pay through the nose for gaming, but this latest round of price gouging is ridiculous... Read More...
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Synchronicity II
08/01/09 18:32
Right, well the final Macworld is upon us, and Phil Schiller gave the keynote from Apple. And a nice little surprise came down the pipe. DRM free music on the itunes store. That brings a big ole smile to my face. Knowing that for one, I can pay an extra 30 cents per song to upgrade all my DRM’d music. What’s big about this for me is that I’ve been starting to get into ORB. And of course, if there’s DRM on a song, Orb won’t play it. So upgrading my library means that I can serve out and share my library with my family and friends. I can only hope that some day the video side of things will follow suit... Read More...
End Of An Era
17/12/08 18:34
In 1999, I had my first taste of how cool the internet could be. In 1999, there was no Facebook, YouTube, or MySpace. Instead, people relied on GeoCities to pronounce their love of Dean Cain. Google was just a search engine. And for me, a diehard Apple fanatic, I was able to watch a live streaming event of Steve Jobs’ keynote address at MacWorld. It was at this MacWorld that Apple unveiled the Blue & White G3 tower. A form factor that has influenced every tower that Apple has made since... Read More...
Synchronicity
03/12/08 14:06
So the “New Xbox Experience”(NXE) dropped last month. And at first I was a little lukewarm in my reception to it. Mostly because it is such a departure from the last Xbox(experience?!?!). That and I really think avatars are such a “me too” gimmick, trying to copy what Nintendo did with Mii’s. But now that I’ve had some serious time with it, I’m beginning to really like my time with this new incarnation of the Xbox GUI... Read More...