By Platy on
8/26/2009 8:24 PM
I have played quite a few games on my iPhone, especially after I upgraded to a more powerful (and battery hungry) 3GS. none of the games was as addictive as Tower Madness. I had to actually remove the game from my device to stop playing with it and I’m not a gamer (or hadn’t been for at least 10 years). Today I was wondering why did I enjoy it so much. the reason is a combination of these facts: - I love RTS games.
- it has the correct amount of controls for a small screen with no “right clicks”
- it’s simple and smooth.
the thing I haven’t been able to figure out is, why did I engage in hours and hours of killing un-armed aliens who will parade in front of my laser guns and won’t even defend themselves and their only crime is their desire to s ...
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By Platy on
3/29/2009 7:56 PM
As I am signed up for the apple iPhone developer thingy, I got the chance to test drive the new yet to come OS 3.0. here is what I think about it: The good: The best thing about the new OS 3.0 is, it does some of the things that 2.2 does after jail breaking. to be honest, the copy/paste is done beautifully. It is giving me A2DP and the ipod application has some nice controls for audio books (which is my main concern in regards to ipod app). I could not make the tethering work (maybe because my phone is an unlocked Telstra phone, connected to 3, but I doubt it) regardless of what I did. I spent a whole 4 hours on it, and decided to trust other people: it works (apparently). I really like the phone-wide search and how it’s implemented, also I really liked the simple fact that installing a new app doesn’t result in putting the app in the firs ...
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By Platy on
3/16/2009 7:43 PM
I had been looking for a good and preferably open source GTD add on for outlook. I happened to find Jello Dashboard 5 and I’m loving it. apart from occasional java script problem that goes away by pressing F5 thus refreshing the page, I have had no problems with it. everything is inside my outlook and exchange. I can even use OWA and search or filter by the tags.
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By Platy on
10/30/2008 9:13 PM
I have been attending a SharePoint training course whole week and can't feel my forehead. Whoever designed this abomination should stand trial.
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By Platy on
10/25/2008 12:05 AM
I've been very busy lately, so I didn't get to write or update the website. here is a list of things to come in the next weeks: - new blog posts about my talk on ASP.Net MVC framework.
- new blog posts about the future of Scheherazade s60.
- news about Scheherazade for Windows mobile.
- plans on Scheherazade for iPhone (this one may have to be limited to jail broken iPhones, due to restrictions imposed by Apple)
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By Platy on
5/3/2008 1:12 PM
A couple of weeks ago I finally convinced myself that I have to buy an IRex Iliad. I started using it with a lot of doubt. for example, I was wondering if paper is easer to read because of the black and white contrast as opposed to the slightly darker background colour of an e-ink display. I'm so used to my Iliad that I don't go anywhere without in now. But before you fall in love with yours, you have to activate shell scripts on it, just go to IRex web site and request it, they push it to your Iliad. after that you can start hacking your Linux based book reader and the fun starts. better pdf reader, more formats including chm and many more. I will write about my hacks later.
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By Platy on
4/15/2008 8:08 AM
As much as I think the new feature in Vista that each application has an independent volume level is cool, the very same feature is NOT cool at all on your mobile phone! Symbian (or at least the only flavour I ever used, S60) has this concept of each application having it's own volume level and I couldn't find a master volume. the result of that is you think your phone is silent and it starts announcing the weather in the middle of a meeting... very embarrassing...
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By Platy on
4/1/2008 8:05 AM
I had a great morning today. It's not everyday that you get to talk to someone who shares your passion for software. Today I got to meet Don Worthley of IT Crossing. Long story short, I decided to use windows live writer to write my blogs and since I use DNN, I found his product MetaPost; then I had some problems with my settings as I'm very new to DNN. The support I got from IT Crossing as a user of their free community product was so impressive that I'm a happy customer of their professional version now. I will recommend their service to anyone I know.
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