I’ve written before, elsewhere, about cloud computing as the latest trend (though that’s not to say it’s new, just that it is trending.. again). At the time I laid out pros and cons from the point of view of putting the entire computing experience into the cloud. But of course, that’s only one way to […]
Yahoo is hurting. It’s been hurting for some time now. It’s growth has been stunted, in fact seeing ad revenue shrink, particularly in the face of fierce competition from Google and subsequently Facebook. According to the Wall Street Journal, an insider source reports the company is willing to consider selling to the right bidder. Taken […]
Techcrunch got their hands on a test version of the new Kindle and based on their report, it seems to give a glimpse of how a worthy competitor to the iPad might be fashioned. Taken as a whole, it’s like most any other Android tablet. The form factor is an improvement and we’ll have to […]
The Guardian is reporting that a lawsuit was filed last Wednesday claiming Microsoft is tracking users of Windows Phone 7 devices even in situations when location information was purportedly disabled. In the article, and in the ensuing discussion about the case, Apple’s name was inevitably dragged into the fray, focusing on the hubbub that was brought […]
If you play a game online these days, there is a more than even chance that you can obtain “things” in the game which can be found, earned, bought with in-game currency or traded for. Because any of these methods involve an investment of time, you, like many others, have probably wondered if perhaps you […]
Techcrunch is reporting that Gardner and IDC predict a 20 percent market share for Windows Phone 7 by 2015. Said to be a conservative estimate, it appears to be based on several factors: HP dropping webOS, leaving potential developers to jump ship to another mobile platform Microsoft pushing new product in Europe Microsoft marketing to […]
I still receive traffic looking for some of my older projects including the Terminal Here Plugin. For those who don’t know, Terminal Here Plugin was a contextual menu plugin for the Finder which allowed you to control/right-click a folder in Finder and use that to open a Terminal window in that location. As of Snow […]
So you think you may have become infected with malware (that is, a virus, a trojan, a keylogger, a rootkit or any other number of bits of malevolent software). First off, realize that many types of malware can be cleanly removed. The counterpoint to that is that not only are other types extremely hard to […]
You’ve finished your masterpiece. Your testers are happy with your game and so are you. Everyone who has seen it has fallen in love with it. It’s ready to go up on the app store. So now what? Well, if you’re like me, you start scrambling to learn everything you can about how to market […]
I’ve been in the midst of game development for the last few months. I’m working on the third game and all three are iPhone/iPad games. I suppose there’s nothing keeping me from porting them to OS X. Alternative ports though, to Windows or Android for example, are unlikely at this point. I’ve recently been handed […]
