Time but no Time

Its shocking its already the end of June

BlackBerry “touch” Vs iPhone 4

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iPad, A step in the wrong direction?

We all have our own thoughts on the new Apple device but I think we are going down a slippery slope into technological stagnation.

I think the iPhone has shown us in the last few year the damage that apple can do and not always for the better.

ok the iPhone is a good piece of kit and has shown how 3rd party apps can greatly improve a sub standard device but it also caused a wave of bad touch screen phones to flood the market. If you look at the a time line of mobile device advancement you can see that it hit a brick wall when the iPhone was released.

With the amazing work going on at Microsoft and HTC we might see a step forward soon but unfortunately even the likes of RIM have made major mistakes in the wake of the iPhone.

Now if we look at iPad it has the potential to cause some seriously bad damage that might take years to recover from.

The reason for this is we will soon see a flood of iPad clones flooding the market all with function free operating systems, which will as useful as a paperweight. It doesn

The Last Story

I been holding off on this for a while now but Now is a good as time as any.

The Last Story is a co-developed project by Mistwalker and Nintendo (design by Mistwalker and code by Nintendo I assume)

Currently there is no solid information on the game but we do know is going to be a fantasy RPG on the Wii with a possible battle system similar to the likes of Chrono Trigger/ Tales of x.

http://www.nintendo.co.jp/wii/slsj/

As you can see it has a certain Final Fantasy feel about the logo and even the title rings like Final (Last) Fantasy (Story).

The music is currently been done by an unknown party but odds are on Nobuo since he has close involvement on most of Mistwalkers projects.

I assume this is the theme tune to the game

This is the second piece

And the third piece of music is an extended version of the theme tune which can be heard on the web sites news page.

http://www.nintendo.co.jp/wii/slsj/column/

so lets get on with the Concept are montage then shall we.

They have a certain Lost Odyssey/Chrono Trigger/FF12 feel about them and maybe a dash of Fable II as well (but that probably cause it a European style town)

judging by the quality of the concept art a lot of design work has gone into this and it could possibly be the RPG of the decade but I feel its down fall will be the Wii terrible motion controls. Though the op
tion to use a GC pad or the classic pad would make it an instant win for me.

Ascended into the Clouds

I think the time is upon me where I look into putting my computing world into the cloud. I want to move as much as possible into online storage as possible since my computing hardware library is expanding beyond the point of management.

Reason for this is I hate laptops there great for on the go but next to useless for doing any work so therefore I don

Awaiting Content

Damn this blog is looking really bare these days

Iphone Dev Abandoned

I tried i honestly did but enough is enough but i give up on the iPhone apple have just locked it all down far to much to make it even worth my time and effort.

This also isn’t coming from the fact I can’t stand macs I actually have several valid reasons.

first is a major reason.

Xcode

This is the only IDE you can use to develop applications for apple related products (there are ways round this but its not worth it). why is this IDE a problem? well its simple really notepad++ or psPad has more features than this “Superior IDE”

There are no feature, copy and paste it broken, search is crap, no auto complete, no way to edit the layout, no real debug features, no help, no api reference, no advanced settings for projects I could go on but i really don’t care.

looks at all those features… oh wait I can build… and emm open a file.

next is the complete lack of an application with a set window…

also the interface builder isn’t supported in leopard anymore so its really buggy! my version of the OS isn’t even 6 months old yet and they’ve dropped all support!

Apple

First its there terrible os that doesn’t work with none apple hardware I mean ok its hard to write code to support every form of keyboard and mouse but I dont know let me pick which button becomes my modifier key alt is not a modifier key!

also memory management, bad software, no paint! no easy way to take a screenshot. it spams my network with .dsStore files. incompatible with everything!

also apple documentation is a joke no real API reference its just them talking about the same facts over and over like oh guess what no multitasking is a great thing! you get to use all the iphone to yourself but u must manage your own states when the user closes the app because we dont give a shit.

ok rant over mac and ipod are going on ebay so lets never speak of this again.

Never ending

Looks like the Christmas todo list is going to have to wait until Easter I only have 3 weeks to get 3 massive projects completed!

first is a project which I will not be discussing in this blog entry but lets just say this has been pushed to the bottom of the pile far to many times and now it must be finished asap

next are projects for work that never got finished but I