Recent Comments:
iPhone giveaway reminder {Engadget}
Jul 1st 2007 9:56AM Throwing my hat in to the ring. Please pick me!
VC Monday: it's Kart time! {Nintendo Wii Fanboy}
Jan 30th 2007 11:54AM @William
As far as I can tell, there's no way to just seamlessly plug in an SD card and have it act as a memory expansion for your Wii. However, I ran a test yesterday: I copied a VC game (Bonk's Adventure) on to an SD card, and then *erased* it from my Wii. There's no way to run the game off of the card, but you can copy it back on to the Wii from the card, and then it will work just fine.
So I think that when we hit our system memory limits (which will definitely happen, so long as the VC keeps to its release schedule), we'll have to swap games off and on to our system via an SD card. Then again, I presume Nintendo will have a memory expansion available by then.
Another test I ran yesterday: multiplayer MK64 works with a combination of GC controllers and Classic Controllers. Just plug a GC controllers in to ports 2, 3, and 4 whilst your Wiimote/Classic Controller functions as player 1.
WRUP: so close we can taste it edition {Nintendo Wii Fanboy}
Jan 12th 2007 12:13PM I'm super psyched for this. I love all WarioWare games (even Touched...which a lot of people seem to view as a let-down).
I'll be playing Harmony of Dissonance on my Game Boy Micro this weekend to tide me over. The Castlevania Double Pack for GBA is so awesome...
How far did you get? [update 1] {Nintendo Wii Fanboy}
Jan 12th 2007 12:09PM I don't understand how everybody dislikes the dungeons (or at least favors side-quests). My ONLY interest in ANY Zelda game is the dungeons. They're self-contained, well-designed, rewarding, and engrossing. My idea Zelda game has no overworld, no side quests, no towns. All of the effort and resources should go towards giving me and linear succession of 20 to 25 dungeons of TP quality (all of which reward you with one item, and all of which require all of the previous items to complete). The rest of the game can be on rails or in cutscenes, as far as I'm concerned. I know that puts me in a miniscule minority, but oh well.
NY Times says Wii succeeds {Nintendo Wii Fanboy}
Nov 29th 2006 1:15PM It's pretty much a circular question these days to ask whether a hardcore gamer can be satisfied with only Nintendo-style gaming. The reason why is because the PC gaming paradigm is so pervasive...the hardcore gamer seems to be defined *precisely as* "one who likes gritty FPSs and cares a lot about tech specs." Of course Wii would have to be a "secondary console" for such a person.
But the point is, I (and many many others) will never be one of those people. A simple, endlessly-playable game which relies on precise controls and rewarding gameplay (such as most Nintendo first-party games, along with others like Katamari, Castlevania, Ouendan, Gran Turismo) will always be more satisfying to me.
Apple updates iPods, now 30 and 80 gigs {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Sep 12th 2006 4:14PM So how long will we have to wait for a widescreen/touchscreen iPod now? Because if it's a long time, I'll probably just buy a 5g now.
First MacBook take-apart {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
May 17th 2006 8:55PM that's a beautifully designed interior. as much as i hate to say it, it's much nicer than the innards of the MBP (I took mine apart last week to reapply thermal paste)
Apple recalling MacBook Pro batteries {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
May 3rd 2006 3:55PM Hi,
I have a W8608 MacBook (very early...preordered a week after macworld), and have NONE of the problems that everybody is complaining about. I'm a switcher, so I consider myself as having been MORE meticulously attentitive to my new computer than your average mac-lover.
My previous computer was a Vaio, and it was much hotter, MUCH noisier (I've only heard the fan on my MBP once, and if the slight hum that i hear is the "whine" that everybody posts about, they have no idea how lucky they are that their lappy isn't making the much higher amount of noise common to other brands), and has had zero battery problems. Admittedly, I have no way of fairly testing its Airport reception, but I've never lost the signal in my apartment, nor on my campus or free wifi spots (in fact, I'm in a Panera right now, way in the corner of the restuarant, with full signal strength)
I'm not saying that they're perfect, and as somebody who's been screwed by products in the past, I understand how vocal the critics are and should be, but you're only hearing from them, because everybody who doesn't have a screwed up MBP is busy enjoying it rather than refuting the detractors.
Boot Camp users: We're stuck in Windows {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Apr 14th 2006 1:27PM several people have already danced around this point, but i'll just say it a little more explicitly:
I'm a computer scientist, and some of my work has dabbled in information security/best practices, etc. If this Eric fellow is savvy enough to be throwing around acronyms such as PMU, why isn't he smart enough to NOT eff with his mission-critical, dollar-valued data by installing beta software which messes with the system at one of it's most primary levels? It's hard to fault apple for releasing software which is VERY explicitly labeled as beta and unsupported (at least the Windows side)...rather than faulting the user who blows up his computer messing around with it before proper precautions have been taken.
Tips for Boot Campers {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Apr 13th 2006 8:00AM OpenOffice is not UB yet, but it runs on my MacBook (in limited capacity). I think anything that's java-related doesn't work. Don't depend on it solving all your problems.
Thankfully, OS X comes with TextEdit, which is pretty well comparable to WordPad (not Notepad) on Windows. It allows you to use standard fonts and has formatting, etc. No spreadsheets or macros or anything, but it'll get you through the occassional letter.
I'm keeping my eyes out for a UB version of NeoOffice, the OpenOffice which doesn't rely on X11. Seems cleaner to me. People seem to like it more. Opinions?
