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Microsoft App Store; I Smell Fail

11. March 2009

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Like a guy who finishes a marathon last, the crew at Microsoft came up with a brilliant plan: An App Store. The plans were announced last month at the Mobile World Congress (sounds so official) and the store is set to debut in the 4th quarter of this year following the launch of Windows Mobile 6.5. [...]

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Want Your Legs Broken? Use iPhone Card Counting App

16. February 2009

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The Associated Press published a story today from the Las Vegas Review Journal regarding casinos being alerted to the use of an iPhone application that can help blackjack players count cards. Neither article mentions which card counting application was being used but CrunchGear has a great write up on the PRO Series of iPhone [...]

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G.I. JOE: The Video Game

11. February 2009

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EA and Hasbro have launched a website for the G.I. Joe Video Game that ties to the upcoming full length film, G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra. Little details about the game are know but here is what the site has to say:  Pick up the action where the blockbuster movie leaves off. Assemble an elite JOE team [...]

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The Life Of A Student Has Drastically Changed In The Last Thirty Years

2. February 2009

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My father is a Civil Engineer. When I was a child, he was already using big huge calculators to aid him in his designs. My older brothers most likely even saw him use slide rules to resolve his complex engineering problems. By the time I was in college Texas Instrument calculators had been king for at least a decade; my TI flavor [...]

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Nintendo Wants You To Walk In A Video Game

28. January 2009

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Yes you ready that title correctly, a video game that simply wants you to walk and record your steps to unlock mini games and trivia. Walk With Me encourages gamers (I use that term loosely here), to get off the couch and get to walking. Electronic pedometers will measure the amount of players steps and you will [...]

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