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Some further thoughts on the 360: The "achievements" feature is just amazing. It adds a whole new dimension to gaming. Even single-player games are transformed into multiplayer games, because you can compare your achievements to those of your friends. I can check out my Hexic HD badges compared...
I've been thinking about the Windows Vista versus OSX debate, and one thing occurred to me last night. In the very early previews of Vista at PDC 2003, Microsoft demonstrated VisiCalc (one of the first applications ever to run on a PC) running on their new OS. VisiCalc is 20 years old - a spreadsheet...
From the blog of Geoff Appleby comes this little quiz . See if you can guess which names are Web 2.0 sites, and which are characters from the Star Wars saga. My score: 37. And yet, I really don't live in my parents' basement!...
Some random thoughts after a day and a bit with the Xbox 360. Setting it up was ridiculously easy. I plugged in all the cables, shot out to the garage to make sure my network point was patched correctly, then turned it on. It came up nicely and presented me with the initial setup screen. Hoping that...
Depite what people assumed, I wasn't waiting in line at midnight Wednedsay night to pick up a pre-ordered Xbox 360. In fact, I didn't get one 'til yesterday. I almost didn't though, and here's why: The Xbox 360 in Australia comes with an official adapter to connect the unit to a TV using SCART . SCART...
I promised Pete I'd give him some link love if he posted his thoughts on this, so here goes. Over on BrownBot there is a tirade about how Microsoft have "ripped off" the features from Apple's OSX in Vista. Now, I can go point-by-point and completely debunk some of those myths. For example...
Sick of listening to PodCasts? Tired of being tied to your desk while you watch ScreenCasts? From Crucible and Mabster comes the Next Big Thing in information dissemination: PaperCasting That's right! Download our new PaperCast (coming soon*), print it, and ... read it in your own time!!! It's...
On the drive home this afternoon I listened to this week's episode of Hanselminutes , which was all about Microsoft's new command-shell (code-named Monad ). It was a great episode (they all are), but one thing that Scott said towards the start of the show struck me as quite odd/funny. He was...
Oh, man - this is a real gotcha. If you're using Visual C# Express to create an application, and deploying it using ClickOnce, you need to be aware of this. You probably realise that when you build your application, Visual Studio creates two folders underneath the "bin" folder: "debug" and "release"...
Fellow Mad Props blogger Crucible recently discovered the enhanced security provided by using a passphrase rather than a simple password. A passphrase is a sentence or phrase that you use as a password - it's much longer than your average password and thus much, much harder to crack. So he has changed...