Last week seemed to be the week of the PS Vita as it was discussed on pretty much every single podcast I listen to (and some I don't listen to!) The main thing that the tech people discussed was not the capability of the device (because it seems to be quite capable) but rather the relevancy of the device. In a world were iPhones, iPads and Android devices (and now Microsoft with Windows Phone

  Well, since MobileMe is inching closer and closer to its inevitable death, I decided today to update my iPhone 3GS to iOS5, and move my data to iCloud. I attempted at jailbreaking my iPhone, but since it was jailbroken the update process eluded me in the short time frame that I had to update, so I decided to just go with stock iOS. My iPad hasn't been jailbroken, and iOS5 is not bad on it,

I had almost forgotten about this series, until I saw Timebomb on Being Human The series is called No Heroics, a sit-com following people who have some sort of super human ability, and they all want to be the next big super hero...but it isn't quite happening for them.  This really needed a second series :-)

This past week I finished watching Star Trek: Deep Space Nine on Netflix.  I had originally watched some of the series when it was originally on television, but I had missed the first couple of seasons by virtue of being out of the country (and watching them in summer re-runs made little sense).  In any case, since netflix had the entire series on streaming I decided to watch it from

Another one bites the dust, eh?  Bellow is an email I got from amplify the other day announcing closure of their service.  I have to say that this is something that doesn't really affect me.  I noticed that a number of people that I follow on my professional (outward facing) twitter account had amplify accounts so I decided to give it a try.  Used it for a couple of stories

Last Friday I got my new iMac at work (yay!) and I was busy transferring stuff from my old iMac that I have to give back to my old department soon. Due to this setup I didn't spend much time looking into what came withy iMac, in other words what came in the box.When I looked more closely yesterday I saw that the recovery disc was missing, or rather a recovery disk was not included. A quick web search

Εντάξη, έχουμε ακόμα δυο μέρες εώς το τέλος του μήνα αλλά μπορούμε να πούμε πως πέρασε ήδη, στο κάτω κάτω έτσι όπως πάει αυτός ο χρόνος μέχρι τώρα θα ερείπια ο Δεκέμβρης και δεν θα το πάρουμε χαμπάρι :-)Ο Μάρτης σίγουρα θα είναι

With the announcement of Mac OS X Mountain Lion (10.8 for those keeping score) there is another list coming out of supported machines.  Even though I haven't updated my Mac Mini (mid-2007) to Lion yet, I was wondering if it would run Mountain Lion.  It seems like my mid-2007 Mac Mini will no longer supported by this new OS, but that is quite OK in my book.  Even two operating systems

Classic Syndicate This past week I came across a mention of the game Syndicate for the xbox 360 (and PS3 and PC obviously).  Back in the day,  I remember playing the original on my friend's Amiga (and not liking it much), but as soon as I got my own computer (a Performa running System 7.5.3) and I got over the learning curve of the game I went on to complete it.  As far as

I was reading Rebecca's post the other day about file dis-organization and her journey to figure out what to do with a problem that plagues most academics that I know: that of finding interesting articles, downloading them for potential future reading, and then losing track of things (or not knowing where things are).  I have to say that I've struggled with the same problem as well over the past