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Digg Alpha Testing
Aug 12th
So the other day i was invited to digg alpha testing and i have to say im more then impressed.
besides the whole voting up issues that seem to be all over digg.com this new approach brings digg into the social age and makes the whole experience dramatically more social and personal. With so many new features its hard to figure out where to start.
Well lets see for starters the most useful feature i have so far is the *save* button that you will find under every post that is sent to your feed.
i find myself seeing an intresting article and just hitting save for later and moving on to skim for other articles to talk about on the website.
This little addition has to be the single most useful thing digg has ever had hands down. Your now able *like twitter* to pick from a list of top diggers to follow there diggs the latest diggs will show up on a side bar where you can quickly skimm
these diggers are separated in different categorizes so that you can tailer the news to only what your interested in
your diggs also show up as well as your close friends. Notice there are no names of the person who posted the article. i would think they did this to help stop the up voting that’s been destroying digg.com
every time i ask around even when asking who wants an invite to this alpha test the main thing people would say is *i don’t use digg anymore non of my articles make front page* with these changes i would think that networking would get your article out there for people to see other then relying on people who will digg you down just so there opinion can make front page.
im happy to see that kevin rose understands the issue and is actively trying to fix this issue.
so far the new features and the overall flow of *the new digg* is amazing and im excited to see this new and socially improved website take off so that when i ask if you use digg.com the response would most likely lead to *sure did you see the article i posted *
Contest time!!!!
i have one more invite left !! so if you would like an invite post a link to your digg profile and your pick of the best digg article you have ever come across on digg contest ends 8/15/2010 so hurry and get those links posted !!
Avoid EA
Aug 7th
Although i have multiple issues with ea itself the servers on the other hand is whats going to be the downfall of ea and the main reason why i no longer see this company as a viable source for good quality games. Sure the game developers drop the ball every now and then like making it a feature to be able to snipe someone with a shotgun from across the map.
but im sorry i can’t place them with the responsibility of fixing there servers. If its not a common fact gaming companies rent servers from other companies and for some reason across the board with every ea labeled game its a high chance there will be server issues to the point that you wont be able to log into your game!! Yea thats right a 60$ game sitting there not being able to be used due to crappy server issues. and almost like a mirror image to how xbox works ea refuses to acknowledge that there is even an issue and the eager little 10yr olds has gotten use to waiting on crapy service without complaining.
how ea managed to do this is beyond me but let this happen on playstation 3 and all hell will break out there will be picketing in front of ea and it will be on the news. The only conclusion i could come up with is there is a huge age difference between ps3 and xbox these days and ea is taking advantage of the situation 3 times over i will never buy another ea sponsored game ever its not worth my time and frustration and the remarkable thing is that im not alone everyone knows ea has crappy server issues and those who refuse to see this are more fanboys then i can even fatham *no no its down because there making the servers better…every weekend…..* it seems that there is a huge difference between games that come out on consoles via games on the pc in which pc games think for the future
what i mean is that they make a game and make it opensource so the community can expand on the sandbox world they have made expansions are more then always free and the longevity of the title is tripled due to *true modders* xbox modders dont count because there only worried about making themselves invincible *due to the main fact they sux at fps :/ *
Ea you have lost one customer and from what ive listened to im not going to be the only one to step down so please fix your cheap servers and get on the ball because im passing up metal of honor because its smeared with the ea name its bad…. reall bad
Epic wins for modders
Jul 28th
posted over at techland.com *links at the end of article* a land mark ruling has been made. Something i never thought would happen, Its now legal to jailbreak your iphone and to rip DVDS. It seems someone in the higher ups loves to torrent because this has thrown me for a loop
“exemptions to the Digital Millenium Copyright Act is what its being called and these exemptions are amazing! no longer are you tied down by apple and no longer can apple tell you what you can or cant do with a phone you paid for .
i wounder what other implications could be derived from this groundbreaking ruling ;D will it be easier to share movies throughout your home without having to worry about some crazy copywrite protection on your media player
Im excited where this may lead and i will be keeping my eye out for new developments but to catch the full story in detail check out this link
http://techland.com/2010/07/26/you-may-now-legally-jailbreak-your-iphone-and-rip-dvds/
Big Brother is watching you, everywere.
Apr 16th
So it is official now, the U.S. government is watching you on twitter, your tweets are no longer private. And it is legal.
Government officials say they are going to watch Twitter for people breaking the law (right?).
How can this be legal you ask? Who knows the government does whatever they want and there is nothing you can do about it.
What is worse on top of that is they are archving ALL previous tweets everymade, there is over 55 million tweets made everyday.
And after so long the tweets are going to be posted on a government website that anyone can acess.
On top of all that, they are monitering our Facebooks and Myspaces too, and many other social networking sites.
So remember, next time you joke on Twitter that you just killed a hooker, the FBI might bust down you front door.
And as always, never forget that:
Why you should hold off on impulse buying the Ipad
Apr 8th
If i were to give you any advice this would be it, do not buy the ipad. At the very least go to a apple store near you and check out the ipad for yourself before running out on just hype alone. Personally im starting to lose what little apple fanaticism i was starting to have and coming to my senses. Ipad isn’t something you need its something you want and unlike the iphone i don’t think its going to have the same effect as it did in the mobile world. Here are some of the faults i find with the ipad that has me waiting for Microsoft’s version instead.
Stylus
The ability to write out Or Draw things on the ipad is missing instead they lure you in with the ability to multitouch just like you do on the iphone. But what good is that for productivity? Suuure they add an the ability to connect to the ipad with bluetooth devices like a keyboard but i know light weight tablet laptops that can do much more and still come complete with a stylus. Not making the ipad stylus friendly in my opinion was a big loss for apple in my opinion see as a large amount of people i know only look at apple laptops for video and photo editing capabilities.
Size
I don’t care what anyone says size matters. Closer look at the ipad reveals it’s awkwardly smaller then the ipad displayed in their commercials. Also theres a thick black border around the entire device giving the illusion its bigger then it really is. Most people love this boarding saying that its something to hold on to … but if this was ment for your lap and built to work as such why would there need to be a boarder? even if u had to grab it i feel it would be aesthetically pleasing to continue the video screen to the edge and not the touch sensors so that you could still grip the ends without setting off an event but then again i guess it will take a rocket scientist to figure this out
Flash or lack there of
With html5 on it’s way flash seems to not even be as much of an issue as everyone is making it out to be. Although i think that flash is not the issue it’s just the poster boy for what really is everyone’s gripe about apple in general. does the word neo nazis ring a bell? yea i know thats a little extreme but with apple’s ever showing will to keep there product locked down tighter then the fat patrol on guard the day kevin smith decided he wanted to fly south by south west there is little room for innovation. Its not the fact that they wont let flash on the iphone it’s how they went about it as if the iphone was a privilege not a right. You get what they give you and you will like it.
Implement the costumer’s wishes
You would thing that with all the crying about forward facing camera apple would get it but alas this concept has evaded them like splinter cell. The concept of the forward facing camera was video chat for some reason the ceos think that video chat means nothing. Has phreadz.com teached them anything what about seesmic.tv? at the very least stickam as much as they where charging for an over grown iphone you would think that they would add a camera somewhere but were left with a downgraded version of the iphone stretched out just a little to create the ipad.
i was hoping for something more the i7 mobile cpu is in the market now and mobile gpu graphics cards are getting better take for example
mx11 from alienware it’s just not feasible to be an early adopter for ipad specialy when you cant even figure out what to use it for. When you have to ask yourself why is this worth it usually it isn’t worth it at all.
If anything look at the tablet from microsoft named courier. If the ipad was half of what this can do i would already own it and this is what i believe a tablet should be like. But who knows who will come out on top for the first time though im putting my money on microsoft.
Keep an eye out for Otoy!!!
Apr 5th
LiveSpace
I remember when news slipped about Live Space what an exciting idea which seemed to already be 98% polished and complete and ready for the market. But that was almost two years ago and we haven’t heard anything since. Here is a link to the original post made two years ago http://blog.modtv1337.com/2008/08/live-space-the-holy-grail-of-mmo/
All that was known was David greenspan co founder of myspace was working on a massive open world where you could live your social life online ( video in the link above )
OnLive
Then there was news of a company called OnLive using similar technology, running high end graphics via the high end server then streaming the content to your handheld or pc. With this method they too are able to run games that would other wise require high end hardware.
Everything would run server side, no need for high end hardware they said and when looking at the information that slipped for live space tech crunch also discovered the company backing live space was Otoy. Two years ago if you looked at the site it was just being built now you can see that they’ve been developing the backing end for this exciting technology all along.
Otoy
Otoy makes it possible for you to play crysis on your iphone O.o
Altho it’s exciting to know you no longer need to have the latest gpu to enjoy good games, i feel that bus speed will always be faster. No matter what they say lag will be inherent and if not i would be very curious as to how they got over this historical hurtle. Otoy’s proposition is exciting but i doubt it will kill the already too popular xbox as i said before and what i will say again only time will tell but what’s good news for all you mac fanboys out there you can now game your little heart out without having to use some third party application and if anything this is a windows killer now that there is a nice fast easy way to play games in the browser i dont think anyone will be interested in windows anymore when there are far more exciting operation systems out there like linux. you heard it here first
Otoy the Microsoft Windows killer.
A week after my pc build
Mar 16th
A week after i finished my build and it’s been amazing first off as a gamer let me just say that
xbox ….. contrary to what everrrryone is saying xbox has nothing on a high end pc, textures pop and the details far surpasses what xbox or playstation can do. A high end gaming rig lends more room for tweaking what ever game while still staying in the middle of all your social interactions like games for windows with a built in xbl from xbox so that you can still chat with friends with xbox360
No hang time!!
the xbl does not lag O.O omfg its amazing there is no hang time what so ever when a game starts up and you want to pull up the xbl to start sending a message. non at all 
and oh the power!!! i have so much power under my belt that it’s hard for me to figure out what to do with it
so ive been making videos …. lots of videos
Using a program called Fraps http://www.fraps.com/ combined with Adobe Premire Pro http://www.adobe.com/products/premiere/ i am able to make dynamic videos without my computer even making a hiccup
Fast and snappy
If i was going to name my experience so far i would say “fast and snappy” everything just snaps so much i have become accustom to the instant response to what ever i want. Be it video editing,photoshop cs4, or Gaming everything just snaps. And with minimal clutter inside the case i don’t even need any high end cooling unit or water cooling with an over clocked graphics card aka “Gpu“. Once you know what your results could be from building your own computer you will never again look to buying a computer again from any major retailer ie Dell,Hp ect. don’t get me wrong they have there purpose in this world for those who don’t want to hassle themselves with building there own computer but will take a huge hit with the price to quality ratio.
In other words your computer will be highly over priced example my final build came up to $1200. If you go out and even look in i7′s direction be prepared to spend far more then that
Way over priced o.o
Being that this is really my first high end build im going to use this as a reference point im seeing performance far surpassing everyone else’s rig. Snappy!!!
Yea i know im tooting my own horn here but it just amazes me what time,saving, patiences, and some time on google,newegg, and tigerdirect can do for you. If in doubt trust in google thats what i always say.
i can go all day about whats in the computer all the different specs and the benchmarks i have without even overclocking the i7 from 2.6 but thats not going to help anyone. What i am going to say is that research is important!
Educate yourself!!
The more you know about what a cpu does or what the propose of a graphics card is in your computer the better off you are Suuuuree im a geek but it’s not like ive been doing this my whole life…. to tell you the truth i’ve been slowly upgrading a 1994 computer for years. As long as it runs i was ok but what i didn’t know i didn’t worry about its 2010 there are far more things a computer can do without breaking the bank save save save that can not be stressed enough. You will want to have the fastest computer there is. If your going to spend money future proof so that its an investment you will only have to make once every 5-6 years. Its like a car in alot of ways to take a car into the dealership to get fixed is more expensive to buy one from the dealership is expensive so what do you do?
Thats right you go to a side dealership to buy your new ride well how cheap do you think it will be if you build it yourself? And it’s not hard if you know how to play with legos you can put a computer together and with operation system disks these days “os” for short after the build is done and everything is complete you pop the cd in and it does the rest of the work for you without a problem. If in doubt there are plenty of websites that take you through step by step how to build and put computers together so i figure why should i be another one of those people instead im going to show you the benefits to building your own computer and why it will be well worth it no matter what profession you are in.
It so important there trying to pass a bill that will bring internet to the whole of america stretching from west to east coast in a blanket of wifi that just has me excited. Don’t be fooled information is power how do you think google which lets all be reminded is a Indexing company is now buried in tons of money!! the most successful websites i have seen are those that flow with updated information every hour ….(which i can not keep up with) so the best i can do is share my experience and now that i have a powerful computer i am now able to do that!
And from what im seeing your going to want an update computer i did it for school and education but the main benefit will be the increase in bandwidth with all these law being passed it will behoove you to get your computer in order to take advantage of all the high definition content being streamed these days over the web instant access to powerful tools. That will help you grow and be more productive it’s not longer a criteria that you have to be interested in High end gaming or photoshop ect to need a powerful computer and i feel that its no longer a accessory to the house it’s more then ever a necessity essential to your ongoing education and those who you love closely
Computers are Educational also there Social!! connecting millions of people everyday via webcam bringing them closer where any other way they would be distant nothing beats a video chat as opposed to a phone call. sometimes you need to see there facial expressions only that person can make which brings comfort i can go on and on about this all but this is dragging out till next time
Keep a look out for more indepth look into my certain build.
