Here's a game I "finished" this month.  I was curious about this game as it was an iOS Arcade exclusive for a while and the free three month trial of Apple Arcade was like a siren call... In the end, I skipped the mobile experience and decided to buy this on sale on Steam some time over the summer (or was it in the spring?)By "finished" I mean that I earned all Steam achievements, I finished the

OQO Model e2Alright!Here is the LAST of my 2019 tech backlog!  At least from the things I chose to save and write about.Today's blog post is dedicated to the OQO PC.  This is one of those devices that seemed to signal the future of computing to me back in those days.  The OQO Model 1 was released in 2004, and the final model (the e2) was released in 2007.  There was a subsequent

Here's another from the 2019 backlog...This time it's a device that's not all that well known: The IXI Ogo. I remember when Cingular (now AT&T) was selling these internet communicators in 2004.  The device was a little too late in the market, or perhaps it was a device that innovated in one way, while smartphones were innovating in other ways that ultimately surpassed the need for this kind

Original N-GageHere's another one from the "drafts" pile from 2019 that I wanted to do a little write-up about, but...well it got lost in the blogging shuffle 😂. My original intent with this series of looking back at older tech was to talk a bit about the specs and the general reception, but since there are enough blogs, wikis, and YouTubers who already do that, why add to the chorus?  So,

I am not a huge fan of mobile games. Every so often some things like Pokemon GO, or Assassin's Creed Pirates will catch my attention, but trying to emulate controllers on a slab of glass just doesn't do it for me.  I was going to pass on The Division Resurgence, but I am coming off a high brought on by Division 1, and it's likely I'll be starting to play The Division 2 soon...so...I guess I might

I don't often pay attention to dev-conferences these days, but every so often something catches my eye.  This time around it was Google's annual I/O event where new devices were announced.  The Pixel 7a looks interesting. It looks like a solid replacement for my aging Moto Z3, but it's still a slab of glass.  It seems like a lot of the cool stuff for this phone is under the hood in Android

 The other day Windows Central published a look at Microsoft's canceled mobile operating system, codenamed Andromeda. This was going to be the next iteration of Windows Mobile, which bit the dust.  It's too bad, because I think that Microsoft had something there with the whole Metro UI, and they could have bankrolled the OS until it caught on, but the janky transition from WM7 to WM8 to WM10

 Well, that's an end of an era!  Old Blackberry devices no longer function as of yesterday!  I remember the Blackberry craze well.  At the time (circa 2004-2005) the Blackberry craze was pretty strong on my campus with everyone of any "importance" on campus having one (subsidized by the campus of course). Lots of IT folks had one, and so did many managers.  Blackberry messenger

Dusting off this old post from April 2020! I had started to write this up back then, but then it got stuck in my drafts.  Anywho...here's another game that I've reached the end-game! huzzah! (sarcasm).So, what is Star Trek Timelines?  Star Trek Timelines is a mobile free-to-play game that takes place in the Star Trek Universe. I first started playing this on my old iPad 2 (back when that

LOL, I am not sure why I am writing about the mobile companion app...but I am (so...deal with it? :p).  Anyway, yesterday the final side-mission of the companion app cleared and I got all my little lovely check marks across the map of Paris.   In this companion app you recruit Assassins from across Paris, and as you send them away on missions to control different locations in Paris