Technically, also iPhone apps. But I digress. iPod/iPhone Applications you NEED.
What follows is a summary of my favourite applications on my iPod, as well as why. I strongly recommend you have a least a FEW of these apps on your iPod Touch or iPhone - in fact, most of you probably already do. Hit the more button to have a look see at my pick ‘o the litter.
Oh come on. This is just brilliant. There’s a link to the mp4 for those geeks among you who want this on your iPods (I know I do!).
Rainbow Six Vegas 2 had a few bugs in it. Specifically, some people just couldn’t run the game - kept asking for a disk. So Ubisoft released a patch, as you expect software companies to do. However, here is a segment of the code from the update.
That little underlined bit? Reloaded, a well known cracking group. Ubisoft, using someone elses crack to crack your own game?
There was a thread about this for a while on Ubisoft’s official forums, which is now closed:
I’d say this discussion has run its course, as such it is now locked.
The file was removed from the site over a week ago now and the matter is being thoroughly investigated by senior tech support managers here at Ubisoft.
Needless to say we do not support or condone copy protection circumvention methods like this and this particular incident is in direct conflict with Ubisoft’s policies.
Tut tut, Ubisoft. Remember kids, Piracy funds Terrorism!
Sourced from http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/
Hello there, internet. Haven’t seen you in a while. Sorry, been playing a little too much TF2, but I’m alive again now. Joy.
As the title suggests, this is just a rant. Specifically, it’s a rant against pretty much everything that’s annoyed me. And less of a rant than it is a list.
The iPhone’s low battery life and the lack of bluetooth. - Apple, you fools. That device of yours has worse battery life than my 10 year old RC car. Honestly. And it has bluetooth, but only for headsets. That’s…not that useful. Yes I KNOW you can turn off functions to improve battery life, but why should you need to impair features to make it last a little longer?
The idiots who called Google Chrome a Windows Killer. - Chrome is a WEB BROWSER. Not an operating system. There is no such thing as a web operating system. Sorry about that, but you NEED an OS to run Chrome. Also, Chrome not only draws from other software packages, but is entirely open source, even the new javascript engine they wrote. If MS so desired, they could nick the good bits and pop them into IE8 (or 9, if the Beta is too far ahead. And on that note…)
Beta’s which aren’t betas. - When you release a public beta with such a high level of fanfare as, say, Microsoft did with IE8, it’s not a beta anymore. It’s a buggy release which you will fix as you go along and remove the beta stamp from when you think it’s right. Time was when a beta was a private function, and products and services weren’t released on a large scale until they were done (or at least, not without a damn huge label saying BETA). It’s not just MS, Google’s done it too with Chrome. I can understand WHY they do it (data collection and all), but a widescale release is just DANGEROUS. Chrome’s carpet bomb vulerability, the fact early IE8 Beta’s killed some other programs. You need bigger disclaimers.
Fanboys - I may be mildly guilty of this, but at least I’m LOGICAL. People, when someone points out a flaw in your console/game/music/obbsession of choice, accept it or, if the flaw is incorrect, explain why. Do NOT rant at them (like I am doing now) or ignore them. PS3 fanboys are the worst case of this, especially when you point out that their console is a tad overpriced. “But it’s the most graphically powerful!” Shut up, my PC kicks your PS3’s ass. Yes it cost double, true. But I can do more than quadruple than what your console can. See? Logical.
People who call manga or anime Cartoon/Japanese porn - Seriously guys and gals, grow up. It’s a cartoon. Well done, have a biscuit. Yes, there is porn in that style (it’s called hentai). So? There’s porn videos done with a camera instead of an animating studio. Are all filmed movies porn now? Especially hate it when you say it REALLY LOUDLY to try and get everyone to look. I will just hit you, you know.
DRM - Yeah, it’s a long standing peeve. iTunes is guilty, but at least Plus gives an option to remove it now for the same price. Take Spore for example; it installs SecuRom on your machine - assuming you are a pirate before you even play, which checks the disk when you start the game. No big deal, but I don’t like being Guilty before being proven Innocent. Also, EA - 3 Activations? What the hell guys. What the hell.
Mozilla Weave - Doesn’t work. Ever. I have an account, can I login? No. It’s alpha, so it’s entirely understandable, but still annoys me. This one is just something that bugs me, no blame on anyone.
WEP Keys - Just…stop using them, people. They aren’t safe, ok? On an active network - that is to say, one in use when I’m looking at it - It’ll take me about 40 mins to have enough data for my “needs”, if not less time. If I could figure out injection, it’d take me 10 mins. And once I have the data? Takes me less than 10 seconds to get the code, and I don’t even have to be on site at that point. Use WPA, or stronger. On a similar note…
“Open” networks with a redirect - Stuff like Starbucks, Airports, you know what I mean. You can connect, but then you need to pay before you can do anything other than look at their front page. MUCHOS ANNOYING. Convenient for many, irritating when my iPod auto-connects to it and can’t do anything.
Smug gits with better results than me - You did better than me in my exams. Big suprise, I’m the biggest slacker ever. All the teachers know me, even if they’ve never seen me before, so what makes you think I care that you got better marks? I passed all of them, and did pretty well. So shut it.
Mudkipz - NO I DO NOT LIKE THEM. LEAVE ME ALONE.
The hinted release of a new iPod Touch - Oh com’on guys! I only just upgraded! That’s really, really unfair.
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Ok, I’m spent. On another note, I plan on doing some podcasts / video reviews of technology and games. I’m fairly sure this place is visited by about 5 people or less, but…YOU FIVE. WHAT YOU THINK?
Feel free to argue against my rant, I appreciate the competition.
Nintendo launched the WiiWare section of the Wii Shop a few days ago. For those who don’t know, this means that you can now buy ORIGINAL titles via the Wii Shop, rather than just old stuff.
The current list of titles available is here
The highlight of the available titles at the moment I think is “Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a King”, which is a mix of RPG and Strategy game, for 1500 Wii Points. I must get that. 
As I rightly predicted, Mirrors Edge (see an earlier post for an outstanding video) is indeed being released on the 3 “graphical” formats - PS3, 360 and PC. Shine on EA, you predictable bastards.
The game, incidentally, has a release date of Nov 11 this year. Something to look forward to. I hope it releases on Steam, personally, but EA and Valve…ehhhh…
I’ve been pretty good with Vista - no major issues, except one - my tablet hasn’t worked since SP1 was introduced, and there’s no fix at all for it - trust me I’ve tried.
Now, that was ok, I can accept that some things get broken. However, I was testing my virtualization software today, and I didn’t really fancy putting in my product key on my vista disk (knowing M$, it’d invalidate my install - I think you need two copies to virtualize legally) so I opted for the 30-day trial of Vista to have a poke about.
It gave me a list of options - as it was an Ultimate install disk, I was presented with all the possible 32-bit installs of Vista, including Windows Vista Starter. Now I hadn’t seen Starter before, so I booted it into the Starter install, and came back 10 mins later.
Starter, it turns out, is a cheap build of Windows for certain technologically developing countries, where Vista is more likely to be pirated than bought. It is pretty poor, allowing only 1 gig of RAM to be used, 120 gig’s of HD space, and no GPU as far as I could tell. Apparantly you can only have 3 programs with a GUI running at the same time too, but I didn’t test that. All well and good, but here’s the thing.
It responded to my tablet perfectly, pressure sensitivity and all.
STARTER works, and Ultimate SP1 doesn’t? I’m gonna try and steal the sys files for the tablet from Starter, and if that failed, goodbye SP1. I’ve had enough.
EDIT: It appears that SP1 won’t uninstall. The uninstall option on other upgrades is lacking here. I know it’s possible to clean it out, but I sure as hell haven’t done that. I’m not that thick. Crap. Format?
Came across this beautiful trailer for a game in development by Edge (a company sadly owned by EA - ah well, at least it gives them a good budget).
Now, I’m naturally distrustful of first-looks like this, but if their claim at the start of the video is true, it’s games like this that will help the PS3 claw its way back up the ranks of the console market.
It had better come out on PC is all I can say - and given Edge and EA’s history, that’s fairly likely. Ah, we shall see.
If you have a PS3, or if you will have one when this game comes out, this is definitely something to look forward to - assuming EA don’t mess it up.
An FPS with built-in live Parkour? Yessssss.
EDIT: He says he was talking about 1 to 1 motion mapping on the game, which may well be a different matter. It’s 8:1 in that case. Ehhh. Still a cool screenshot.
Basically to prove a friend wrong, here is a lovely little except from Force Unleashed on the Wii.
You looking at that, Dave? 1:1 Lightsaber battles in Force Unleashed on the Wii. Which is pretty damn awesome, I must say.
Ha.
Yeah, I’m not abusing my website AT ALL.
Edit: So it turns out, this was a rogue Anon who created this - specifically someone who wanted to distract from the war on Co$. Anonymous hacked the account who made it and published a response in the video comment (bit rude for here, but feel free to visit by clicking the video down below).
Ah well. I still dislike Virgin for this.
Anonymous releases its statements on it’s newest campaign.Project: Virgins vs Virgin
http://digg.com/world_news/Message_to…Keep Virgin from destroying the internet…
The new CEO of Virgin Media, Neil Berkett, has openly stated in an interview that they think net neutrality is “a load of bollocks” and claimed they’re already doing deals to deliver some people’s content faster than others. They would then put websites and services that don’t pay Virgin in the “slow lane”, meaning those sites would load slowly and cause most users to give up using them, feeling forced to use whatever Virgin wants to push through their network.
This is not the first time an internet provider infringes upon net neutrality, but it is the first time that an ISP so brutally states that they simply plan to limit internet access to a television-like system in which the access provider completely regulates the content you have access to.
Virgin Media has over 3.5 million customers in the UK and the real danger is that when they start applying this system to their network, all major internet providers around the globe will soon follow the trend. Because this is exactly what major ISP’s have been wanting to do for years.
But we can stop it.
If the masses of the internet react against this, we will set an example of what happens when one provider tries to take away our freedom. We will make it very clear that any ISP who tries to infringe upon net neutrality will see its popularity go down the drain because the users don’t accept it. And we’ll see to it that only the providers who care about safeguarding our internet freedom have our support.
We are Anonymous. We are Legion. We do not Forgive. We do not Forget. Expect us.