Friday, February 5th, 2010
Donut Games produces some quality iPhone games. They have some of the best free games, usually puzzle based with good replay value. Below is a link to their website along with three of my favorite free games I downloaded from them.
Jungle Crash Land
Traffic Rush
Rat On The Run
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Wednesday, December 9th, 2009
Below are the 10 Web trends to watch in 2010 as reported by Pete Cashmore in an article on CNN Tech. The most interesting trend was the last one about fame abundance and privacy scarcity. He said “We’re all reality stars now, on Facebook, Twitter and all the myriad online outlets where we hone our personal brands.” I never thought about social networks from that perspective, but that is a big draw for a lot of people with websites like Facebook and Twitter. You know the type, people that update their status on an almost hourly basis mostly with a five or six words about what they are doing. I’m sorry, but seeing someone is “bored and watching TV” is not the reason I’m on these sites. These people either don’t know how to use social networks properly or love the fact that they are updating their “adoring followers” with the minutia of their day to day lives. Reality TV has really messed up the way a lot of people think of the world. It makes you think that you could be on TV and be a celebrity when in reality nobody cares.
1. Real-time ramps up
2. Location, location, location
3. Augmented reality
4. Content ‘curation’
5. Cloud computing
6. Internet TV and movies
7. Convergence conundrum
8. Social gaming
9. Mobile payments
10. Fame abundance, privacy scarcity
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Tuesday, October 6th, 2009
It looks like Microsoft is trying to steal some of the mobile phone market share away from the iPhone. They released their new mobile OS and are trying to mimic some of the things the iPhone does such as it’s App Store (Windows Marketplace). When did Microsoft change from a trailblazer to a tailgater? They seem to only put out products based on ones already developed and successful. Examples include the Xbox (PlayStation), Vista (Apple’s OSX), and Zune (iPod). I’m all for competition in the tech industry, but I feel like Microsoft is making the moves of a company much smaller. They should be pumping money into research and development to come up with the next wave of cool gizmos and programs instead of playing catch up. It makes you wonder if Microsoft has fallen because of the departure of Bill Gates and in turn if Apple will be able to sustain their momentum once Steve Jobs is gone. My guess is that in 10 years Google will overtake both of them and we’ll all be running Chrome on our computers and using the new release of Android on our phones.
Microsoft’s Windows phones hit the market
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Friday, September 25th, 2009
It’s official! AT&T has finally released the update to allow MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service) on the iPhone! All iPhone users with the 3G or 3Gs models can send pictures and video via text til your their heart’s content. Click on the link below for instructions on how to update. Now if only AT&T would allow tethering…
AT&T’s iPhone MMS Carrier Update Is Live
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