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Why did Microsoft go for a hard drive rather than flash in the Zune?
Why did Microsoft go for a hard drive rather than flash in the Zune?
Sometime in the distant future, there will be a Wii in the household I’m sure, and it will mostly be due to things like this:
Everything beautiful about the Nintendo Wii can be summed up in one embodiment: The Help Cat . Living deep within the Photo Channel, this is my 2007 vote for the greatest, weirdest, most terriblewonderful User Interface Design idea of all time — contextual help you have to catch.
I wish the graphics were better in general, but who doesn’t? That’s Nintendo.
Adobe’s Kuler makes picking a color palette so easy it’s pretty much cheating.
Ars Technica’s Ben Kuchera reviews the PS3:
The PS3 doesn’t have any grand ideas; Sony wanted something high-tech, so they started from scratch with the processor and GPU, but what does it get them? Very little so far. The controller is a mash-up of ideas from their old systems, the 360’s triggers, and the Wii’s motion-sensing capabilities, but once it has that tech it doesn’t really know what to do with it.
Kudos for summing it up so eloquently. Worth the full read.
What if you could only play five games for the rest of your life?
Did you know that it’s Festival Season at Lutsen Mountains? I did, because I had to build this.
This Wednesday (11/22) NBC will be airing Madonna’s Confessions Tour live from Wembley Stadium in London. This is the tour we saw in Vegas back in May, and I’m looking forward to seeing it yet again.
Matt Brett on Viva Pinata:
Underneath the layers upon layers of cuteness is a ridiculously fun and addictive game. It’s super easy for youngsters to pick up with step-by-step walkthroughs for everything accompanied by full voice-over instructions. But it’s not [so simple that] someone like myself, who is normally shooting people’s faces off will tire of it in an instant.
There you go. Viva Pinata is good fun even for people who are more into the “shooting peoples’ faces off” genre of games.
Updates! Get yer updates!
Lasse Gjertsen is somebody you should know. Watch that first vid, then be blown away by this one.
I wasn’t really sure what to make of Line Rider until I saw this and it all became clear. It’s cool and all, but I think I’m going to stick to Sand.
If you haven’t picked up Gears of War yet and you’re also in need of a Live membership, Best Buy has a $20 off deal when you buy both. Plus, you’ll get a $20 off coupon with the Live bundle for use on another game (Call of Duty 3, perhaps)!
There are so many reasons that Sony is terrible, and yet it’s still here (like Bush).
…the Zune counts a song as played when you begin to play it … Why? Because if it were at the end [like the iPod/iTunes], then I could listen to a whole song nearly to the end, and then skip to the next song, thus finding an easy workaround to the “3 plays or 3 days” limitation.
That’s not shady at all!
Ice cream sandwiches are the new cookies. No link, just saying.
No. Absolutely not.
The (Product)Red MOTORAZR V3m is now available through Sprint for the bargain price of $64.99 (a $15.00 premium over the standard gunmetal model). My next phone? We’ll see.
I voted today, for what that’s worth. But my ticket number was 1337, so maybe that’s a sign of (good) things to come.
Oh Xbox Live, you know I want to be one of the cool kids. Why do you torment me so?
I love graph paper. Fortunately, quad-ruled notebooks are easy to come by. Isometric graph paper (for 3-dimensional projects) isn’t so accessible. The solution? Print your own!
Got an Xbox 360? Got $4? You may be interested in Sneak King, “in which the King must use cunning stealth to sneak up behind unsuspecting people and bestow them with a delicious meal before they pass out from hunger.”
You guys can have your Wii launch. I’ll be waiting at Burger King.
Brand New, Brand New, Brand New, Brand New!
Rhymefest is awesome and Kanye’s still got it. A perfect hip-hop video.
My previous logo was a result of about five minutes of Illustrator work slapped inside of a box back in summer of 2004. In spite of this, it worked surprisingly well. Still, it suffered from a couple issues. Most importantly the A could get mistaken …
What’s great is that Alfa Romeo is saying the 8C is being produced and is heading for the US. What sucks is the $200K cost of entry.
Gears of War, arguably the biggest game yet for the Xbox 360, hits soon. Considering the content (think Halo), I wasn’t really expecting much as far as advertising. Boy was I wrong.