January 2011
18 posts
Drop iTunes. Use Rdio!
I’m all about streaming media from the internet. That includes music. For a long time I was depending mostly on Pandora + iTunes. But Rdio is better and reason enough to drop iTunes (and Pandora) as your primary hub for tunes.
It syncs and streams like a boss
Rdio streams music to your desktop (via browser) and to your Blackberry, Android and iPhone. Grooveshark and Pandora does this...
Call of Duty: Black Ops and Lag Compensation
Lag compensation?
Go read this forum discussion. It’s a lot to take in. But I found out that lag compensation will actually dumb down the host connection so that players with slower connections can play on a somewhat level field. The following excerpt from the forum discussion explains it better.
Its a latency-based system which uses algorithms to adjust hit registrations according to...
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Apple Does Not Own Bezels and Rounded Corners
The above tweet passed through my twitter timeline as a retweet. Everything about that tweet put me off a little bit. It speaks to a kind of blind perception that Apple owns their aesthetic and on many levels, they really do. No one does products with metal, glass, rounded corners and bezels better than Apple. I think we can all agree with that. However, that doesn’t mean no one should...
“Romantic films are known to ruin relationships as they give unrealistic...”
– Someone on Facebook
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No, I will not "thumbs up" your content
This stems mostly from youtubers who insist on asking me to thumbs up their videos. But I believe this behavior transcends the entire internet as well.
What does that mean for you, the content producer? If your content is great, then I will like it, love it or some other positive gesture. Asking me to do such things before I consume the content not only makes you sound like a desperate fool, but...
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