August 2009

A rough introduction to Warmachine/Hordes.

August 20, 2009

Late last year, we jumped back into tabletop wargaming, and though we mentioned this pursuit earlier, we didn’t clarify what game in particular we opted to invest in. We’re still not at the point where we can field a solid (and finished) army, but we nonetheless find ourselves casually plowing through Warmachine/Hordes material, from the [...]

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iPhone as computer, revisited.

August 7, 2009

When the iPhone came out, we were one of the few who didn’t parade around the idea that it was the cell-phone Messiah. Heck, the iPhone didn’t do much that our Danger Sidekick didn’t, though the user experience was admittedly cleaner. But with iPhone OS 2.0 and the realization of an open AppStore (with some [...]

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Apple to advance iPhone gaming, not join console fray.

August 6, 2009

Despite Apple’s sordid foray into the video gaming market with the ill-fated Pippin, TUAW’s Mike Schramm believes that Apple is willing to give console gaming another go. His speculation is based in large part on a piece by Erik Sherman at BNET, in which Sherman notes various patents Apple filed, and various individuals Apple hired, [...]

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Dictionary censoring: Apple’s gone too far.

August 5, 2009

Look, we love Apple’s products, particularly the iPhone and the great achievements that Apple has wrought with the AppStore. And though we anticipated some problems with an AT&T/Apple-controlled app market, in which either company could brazenly ban an application for seemingly no reason, we’ve mostly been happy with the freedom that iPhone developers have had. [...]

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Point of the iTablet? Try these variants.

August 3, 2009

All this talk about the iTablet, and we’re still confused as to what the ultimate point is. Not about the talk itself, but about the reasoning to release an iTablet in the first place, novelty factor aside. The iPhone Blog was keen on pointing out the OS possibilities for the rumoured iTablet, and that consideration [...]

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