June 2009

Creating a player-based vendor system.

June 30, 2009

While wrong about Aion’s lack of an auction house, Tobold raised an interesting point concerning player-run shops in MMOGs. Namely, that in games where players can “set up” shops, the marketplace becomes unnavigable, because there are simply too many vendors to go through in order to find gear that one wants. That’s in great part [...]

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It’s time for non-headset bluetooth iPhone accessories.

June 24, 2009
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Now that iPhone OS 3.0 is out, with better support for bluetooth accessory access, it’s time we start seeing some nice accessories to make our iPhone-using experience even better. Sure, we already have a slew of standard bluetooth headsets to choose from, and now we even have A2DP stereo headsets, but that’s not what we’re [...]

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Turn-by-turn iPhone apps pathetic, so far.

June 23, 2009
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AT&T, known for gouging people due to what we can assume is only pure greed, just released AT&T Navigator, a turn-by-turn GPS app that we can describe as pathetic at best. Never mind that the application is free to download, because it relies on a monthly subscription of $9.99 to actually work. The sadness doesn’t [...]

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iPhone 3G S: wonder toy.

June 22, 2009
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What’s most interesting about the iPhone feature chart posted earlier today by The iPhone Blog isn’t the evolution of the iPhone since 2007, but that the chart makes the 3G S stand out over the other models by its evolutionary leap. That’s not to say that we think the 3G S is hugely innovative, but [...]

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Little reason left for jailbreaking.

June 18, 2009
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When jailbreaking first began on the iPhone, allowing users to install third-party applications, there were definitive advantages for going through with the somewhat tedious procedure, which is why some sources claim that at least ten percent of iPhone owners had done the deed. We did it, unlocked our iPhone, and have been happy using our [...]

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mendax.iphone 2.0.

June 17, 2009

As we hadn’t updated our recommended iPhone apps compilation in some time, we thought that a quick refresh was in order, especially with iPhone OS 3.0 out, and a new iPhone just days away. With the iPhone 3G now a mere $99 (albeit with a two-year contract), many holdouts will undoubtedly be giving up their [...]

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