The Commodore Amiga computer turned 25 years old yesterday, the original Amiga 1000 having been released to rave reviews on July 24, 1985. Those were heady times for home computing enthusiasts, when programming was still largely in the hands of individuals or small teams and the wide assimilation of gaming into corporate monoculture (I’m looking [...]
Ever since Apple’s announcement of their new iPad device, there have been a plethora of critical articles and blog posts about how it’s a device that doesn’t measure up. It doesn’t multitask. It doesn’t let you openly install apps. It doesn’t have a USB port or an SD card slot. It doesn’t even run Flash! [...]
My favorite online game at the moment is a website called Conquer Club. It’s free to play, and you can upgrade to a paid membership for more benefits and privileges (mainly, more simultaneous games allowed and prettier medals). Basically, the game is just like Risk, but because it’s online and computerized, it has many different [...]
Facebook seems pretty simple on the surface, but there are actually a lot of options underneath the hood, and I’ll readily admit that as a new user, I don’t completely understand them all. I’m especially interested in the privacy options available to users, but those are some of the most esoteric settings. Here’s a great [...]
I love cool little gadgets, and this one seems to do everything you’d want a boss button to do. Foot-controlled, it purports to be completely user-selectable as to what to erase (not just minimize) and what to bring to the front to make it look like you’re not playing games at work. Perfect for any [...]
It’s official: Duke Nuke ‘em For Never Kinda figured this announcement was coming…about 7 or 8 years ago. When you look in the dictionary under “vaporware”, this is what you see. What’s sad is that 3D Realms kept drawing it out, seeding little sprinkles of hope now and then, but I ask you: did [...]
Good article today at Amog, titled Ready Your Shift Key: 30 Classic PC Games That Still Rule. The first 4 (actually 8, since each of the top 4 consists of the original and its sequel) are favorites of mine, and I would have shifted Half-Life up to the top. But minor preferences aside, this is [...]
Recently, a couple of friends of mine at work suddenly lost hard drives to disaster. I helped coach them through the recovery process in a public thread on our work’s “Fun” mailing list, and I received a lot of positive feedback from others who were interested in the same subject, so I thought I would [...]
At least Steve Jobs, unlike the vast majority of corporate heads, does a good job of listening: To all iPhone customers That’s cool. But I maintain it would have been cooler to wait more than two months before executing such a significant price drop. He says, and this has been mirrored by many other people [...]
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