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I saw this in MacWorld this month and thought it looked quite cool, I initially thought they must have found a way to upload photos inside the mouse which will change when you move the mouse but alas no...it transpires you just sort of fold a picture inside the shell! This seems like an almighty letdown and not quite right in todays high tech world.
I traded in Assassins Creed as it was a huge disappointment and frankly couldn't be bothered struggling through to the end as the gameplay was too samey. In its place came Mass Effect which had been widely tipped as a "must have" and had been on the horizon for a long time. I should have taken heed from the reviews which compared it loosely to a game that I tried on the original xbox but couldn't get into at all, Knights of The Old Republic, but didn't.
Boy, what another huge disappointment. I know that Mass Effect has gone down fantastically well with gamers but it just wasn't for me. Firstly, I hate squad based games and have no time for all that ordering squad members to go there or over here or whatever. I just like to get on with it myself. Secondly, I thought the action bits were a bit stilted and the gane I had suffered from frame rate issues. Thirdly, I'm not keen on the RPG aspect of it. So, that went back as well. That was two duffo games in a row for me so I was determined to pick something I knew I would like, was single player and was not squad based.
Enter TimeShift which I had previously tried out on a demo disc. I just fancied something that was going to be fairly simple and more of a shoot 'em up style. The reviews for the game which I read were mixed, nobody slated it but at the same time no-one said it was brilliant. It just got "okay" marks. So far, I'm enjoying it for what it is which is basically a bit of a no-nonsense romp. Graphically it is good, frame rate is very smooth and the character's time-shifting abilities make light work of disposing of enemies. The premise is far from original and the story is so so but it's good fun. Some shooters I have played over the past year or so have been a bit lightweight in the sense they have been too easy but this one is quite challenging. You have to get your tactics right and use the correct time-shifting skills or else you will be mowed down.
John Lewis are advertising the treo 750v for £299 online which is the cheapest I have seen in the UK for a new one. Not only that but you also get a "free" 2 year guarantee, the first year via Palm and the second via the retailer.
These seem to be the WM5 version but that's a small price to pay for a decent saving as the WM6 is available free of charge and is super easy to install.
The chaps over at WMExperts seem very confident about the appearance of the treo 800w, not only that but they reckon it will be a top notch device. Let's face it, it's going to have to be to compete in the very crowded windows mobile marketplace. This is going to have to have wifi built in for all those power speccers and all the trimmings on top.
There is a "photo" of it, some kind of mock up or photoshopped picture...I don't know... and it doesn't look very exciting. In fact, it looks exactly like a treo with a slightly bigger screen which the win mob version desperately desperately needs. I'm not even sure this could tempt me away from the iPhone, especially as it won't be out until later next year, by which time I'll be enjoying some sooper dooper 3rd party apps on the latter. Still, the 750v is a decent device and if the 800w takes what is good about the 750v and adds some spec improvements then it could be rather good. Personally, if I'm ever going to go back to windows mobile it will only be to a palm device simply because Palm still know how to make a device easier to use and do it better than anybody else.
I'd still really really like to get a laptop but it has sort of slipped off the radar the past few months for various reasons, one of which is the constant rumour mongering on mac sites about the possibility of new MacBooks coming out. With the Mac January doo dah coming up in that would seem the perfect opportunity to announce a new one then.
To be honest, I have been thinking instead of getting the low end MacBook Pro as the screen is bigger and I like the look of it a lot more. Sure, it's more expensive but I have banked my ebay gadget sale money over the past month or so and it is still sitting there just waiting to be spent. I can then use that at home and give the 4 year old imac to my son for his room. I've promised him a decent computer for ages and this seems like a sensible idea....not sure though the wife will be as impressed by my logic. Mind you, I'm not sure it is "logic" or some convoluted and devious way of getting myself a new computer. Hmmmmm...
PodWorks has been called an essential iPod accessory and you can see why:
PodWorks is a Mac OS X application that compensates for the iPod's only downside: Apple only allows you to copy songs to your iPod. If you have two Macs and want to use your iPod to transfer music from one to the other, or you only store your music and videos on your iPod and need to copy them back onto your hard drive after a disk failure, you are out of luck!
This is where PodWorks comes in: it allows you to copy songs and videos from any iPod or iPhone to any Mac running OS X 10.4 or higher. Its important features include:
I'm shutting up shop until the 27th but would like to wish everyone a Merry Xmas and to thank you for reading the site over the past 12 months.
It has been a very interesting year for gadgets, I have gone from windows mobile back to palm and then the same again and now, thanks to the iPhone launch here in the UK, have finally found an easy to use device that is a joy to live with.
I wonder what 2008 will hold in store on the smartphone front?
well well well...this will come as a downer for Tilt users. It seems that when it comes to browsing 3g is not in fact your gateway to super fast downloading but rather processing power is King.
IntoMobile tested a few devices and found that the much derided Edge connection on the iPhone actually generally downloads pages faster than the 3g Tilt as the former has a more efficient and powerful processor. How funny is that? Very funny actually.
From a purely objective standpoint, the iPhone is an incredibly competent web-browsing device - especially given its EDGE-only limitations. The AT&T Tilt is most definitely the faster web-surfer, but only marginally so (the load-time gap is more pronounced for image- and javascript-intense webpages such as IntoMobile.com). Interestingly, the iPhone beat out the Tilt in loading the ShopBop.com webpage
What a great night for the Reds last night. A 4-0 humping of a rather cocky-before-the-match FC Copenhagen has pushed us, unbelievably, into the next round of the UEFA Cup. It was 4 going on 6 in the second half as the expensively assembled Danes fell to pieces despite claiming before the match that they would win "because we are a better team"...oops. Might want to think about that again...
Our "reward" for our best performance in Europe for more than 20 years is a match up next round with the pre-tournament favourites, Bayern Munich who, apparantly, are some big team from Germany. I was hoping we would get them as it should ensure a big pay day for Aberdeen.
My uncle spent ages researching the family tree and ended up finding out a whole lot of stuff he probably wished he hadn't...there you go.
This is a shareware application for the mac.
About MacFamilyTree
Offers an entirely new GUI a highly modern, graphical user interface that is individually configurable to your needs. By the use of Apple’s revolutionary Core Data technology it is possible to easily sift through huge databases. These may consist of information about thousands of individuals, including digitized photographic images, sound files and movies. To achieve this, MacFamilyTree 5 has been completely rewritten with the use of the most recent development technique.
