A week (or two?) ago Engadget had a new ad for the Nokia N900, and they had a light tongue and cheek comment about the ad hinting toward mental illness. I had a different take on the ad. The whole aesthetic of the ad reminds me of the original matrix (crossed perhaps with the Australian show the hollowmen). I expected agent Smith to make the focus group participants lose their mouth of something

Last week I came across this video of the iControl Pad, a peripheral for jailbroken iPhones that gives you a joypad for your iPhone. This enables you use emulators to play all the great games of yesteryear.Despite the clunkyness, the control pad seems quite usable, and it appears to have a built-in battery to keep your iPhone charged while you game away! I never really thought of playing old games

I came across this funny infographic over at theNextWeb.com about Geek 1.0 and Geek 2.0. Essentially Geek 1.0 is Moss from the IT crowd. Geek 2.0 is something like Roy from the IT crowd, or a Mac Genius (if you are familiar with Apple's retail stores).Now, the big questions is what about Chuck? He seems to straddle the line between Geek 1.0 and Geek 2.0. Is he a 1.5 or is he a 3.0? Is it too geeky

Άσχετη ιστορία που σε κάνει να ξανασκεφτείς...Τις προάλλες ήμουν σε ένα από τα μαθήματα μου, γλωσσολογία για την ακρίβεια, και έκανα μια παρουσίαση για το θέμα του critical reading. Με λίγα λόγια να διαβάζεις ένα κείμενο και να κάνεις

Well, the season is almost upon us...not quite MacHeist season yet (they are usually available around christmas time), but the team over at MacHeist has suprised us yet again! Head over to MacHeist.com to get your free copies of 6 apps for your Mac. I already got the Twitterrific code (an app that I use every single day!), and I installed WriteRoom and Mariner Write - looking forward to taking them

I've been keeping an eye out for video-game to movie franchises and our good ol' prince has made it (or is making it) to the screen this coming summer.The trailer looks kind of generic, if I do say so myself. Don't get me wrong, I am going to go see this movie, but I am only going to see it as someone who's played a number of the classic (DOS and Amiga) and newer (PSP) Prince of Persia games. This

OK, every now and again I come across a story in my RSS feed that sounds completely and utterly ridiculous. Here's one of them "Is twitter replacing RSS readers?" which is a response to Robert Scoble's "why I don't use Google Reader anymore".Seriously? I think Scoble, in this post at least, is taking on the persona of cranky old man waving a cane at the young'ins.One of the crazy things mentioned

Engadget has some first hands-on videos of the Xperia X10 Android handset from SonyEricsson.I have to say that post P800 SE just seemed like a "m'eh" type of company, but with innovations coming through using Android and S60, I have to say that I am interested again! Now if only the really supported american 3G bands...Head over to Engadget for the full review.

I've been waiting to write this post until I had a few YouTube videos of my outing on Saturday but it seems that my iPhone won't upload them over 3G. So commentary now, videos later.This year I actually went out to see all the costumes and festivities at Halloween. When the darned holiday falls on a weekday I don't wantto go out after work and I don't want to stay up late. Anyway, the excursion was

This past week we've had many, many sites do exposes on Motorola's Droid. The ad campaign that Verizon is using is kind of weird in that it reminds me of the Sega campaigns "Genesis does what nintendon't"The other thing that is weird about this ad campaign is that it's not geared toward the average joe. What does the average joe know (or want to know) about open development? or widgets? or running