Why are there no more Nintendo DS reviews?
I sold my Nintendo DS Lite and all the games I had for it in order to take my girlfriend out on a date before I left for my university. I will still be making my PC video game reviews and maybe I might review some of the great applications I find online on the blog and in the student campus newspaper.
We shall see what happens in the future times but for now, The Random Robo Profile is back in action with the loss of a great friend. R.I.P Nintendo DS Lite. We will miss you.
Sunday, November 29, 2009
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Apple: Bias against competition creates competition
Apple is one of the leading providers in multimedia. They’ve created some of the sleekest and most powerful laptops and desktops. They’ve developed such gadgetry as Apple TV and the numerous versions of iPods.
The iPod Touch and iPhone has allowed developers to create applications that change the way we view reality and live our daily lives. Developers can create almost anything on the little devices such as social networking apps like Facebook, MySpace, Bump, and Twitterrific or video games like Peggle, Madden 10, Drop 7, and Karmastar. It allows users to manage their lives in the palm of their hands.
Recently, Apple has been denying some apps. It has been questioned by most gadget enthusiasts, and it appears that Apple may be biased towards competition.
Google voice, one of the many apps Google has created, allows users to make phones calls through a generated number. Google tried to release a version of the app onto the iPhone, but was shot down by Apple, who decides what applications go onto their iTunes App Store. Every app has to go through Apple’s screening process before being approved or denied. Apple not only denied the application, but pulled other already approved apps like it. This disapproval of the app could lean heavily on the fact that the app would have been competition against the main functionality of the iPhone.
Apple also rejected a dictionary application, Ninjawords, for not meeting the required rating settings, which required the app to have a 17+ rating. Apple has some fault in this because they were not clear about the rules and regulations about their censorship and rating policies.
Apple has denied applications which do not coincide with their own application functionality or accidentally went past their policies, even when it is partially their fault. Apple will, however, release a number of fart-emulating applications and apps with almost naked women in them, such as “Attack of the Zombie Bikini Babes from Outer Space” or “Asian Boobs”.
As Apple denies other companies’ apps from their devices, the companies are either looking at other spaces to place their virtual products or even making their own platforms. Research In Motion has their Blackberry App World for Blackberry users. Palm is working on their own app pool for developers to swim through. Windows is also producing an app store of their own inside Windows Mobile. They are even attempting to capture iPhone users by gaining popular iPhone apps onto their own platform.
Apple will still stay around the top and it probably won’t lose a massive amount of customers. Apple has, however, not only given incentive for current users to switch to another platform to find their app needs, it also put itself on the same playing field as other top media companies like Microsoft, Palm, and RIM.
Varity has become a bigger name in the app industry and everybody is working to give you, the customer, just about anything.
The iPod Touch and iPhone has allowed developers to create applications that change the way we view reality and live our daily lives. Developers can create almost anything on the little devices such as social networking apps like Facebook, MySpace, Bump, and Twitterrific or video games like Peggle, Madden 10, Drop 7, and Karmastar. It allows users to manage their lives in the palm of their hands.
Recently, Apple has been denying some apps. It has been questioned by most gadget enthusiasts, and it appears that Apple may be biased towards competition.
Google voice, one of the many apps Google has created, allows users to make phones calls through a generated number. Google tried to release a version of the app onto the iPhone, but was shot down by Apple, who decides what applications go onto their iTunes App Store. Every app has to go through Apple’s screening process before being approved or denied. Apple not only denied the application, but pulled other already approved apps like it. This disapproval of the app could lean heavily on the fact that the app would have been competition against the main functionality of the iPhone.
Apple also rejected a dictionary application, Ninjawords, for not meeting the required rating settings, which required the app to have a 17+ rating. Apple has some fault in this because they were not clear about the rules and regulations about their censorship and rating policies.
Apple has denied applications which do not coincide with their own application functionality or accidentally went past their policies, even when it is partially their fault. Apple will, however, release a number of fart-emulating applications and apps with almost naked women in them, such as “Attack of the Zombie Bikini Babes from Outer Space” or “Asian Boobs”.
As Apple denies other companies’ apps from their devices, the companies are either looking at other spaces to place their virtual products or even making their own platforms. Research In Motion has their Blackberry App World for Blackberry users. Palm is working on their own app pool for developers to swim through. Windows is also producing an app store of their own inside Windows Mobile. They are even attempting to capture iPhone users by gaining popular iPhone apps onto their own platform.
Apple will still stay around the top and it probably won’t lose a massive amount of customers. Apple has, however, not only given incentive for current users to switch to another platform to find their app needs, it also put itself on the same playing field as other top media companies like Microsoft, Palm, and RIM.
Varity has become a bigger name in the app industry and everybody is working to give you, the customer, just about anything.
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
The Key is within your Heart: Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days Review
How would you feel if you found out you’re secretly a mirror image of a person with a mind full of memories that are not yours? Roxas, one of the main characters in Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days, has to live with that reality every minute of his eventful life.
This new installment in the Kingdom Hearts timeline has you playing as Roxas, a copy of Sora, the main character within all of the Kingdom Hearts games before 385/2 Days, who is trying to find out about himself while unraveling the intent of Organization XIII and the search for Kingdom Hearts, which are the key to the Organization’s plan.
Game play is just like the Playstation 2 versions of Kingdom Hearts 1 and 2. The controls are pretty solid: you move with the directional pad while attacking with A, jumping with Y, and navigating the menus with X. You control the camera with the R and L buttons. Touch screen integration is almost non-existent. There is nothing new to the game play, but for fans that enjoyed the style of controls in Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories, you will be pretty content with these.
There are some new features in Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days, such as the new panel system. Before, the player would have to go into different menus to equip abilities, magic, and equipment. Now, players use panels for everything. These panels have slots where you put items and abilities you earn through missions. These slots are filled with abilities like fire, blizzard or thunder or roll, dodge and block. Items such as potions and elixers can be added. The successfulness of the mission depends on how well you’ve fitted your panels and with what skills you’ve given yourself.
The missions are the meat of the game. You continue the story through missions which the Organization gives you as days go by. There are a variety of ways to play these missions, like search and destroy or sneak around town to grab intel before the civilians spot you. The game play in this title is enough to keep a hard core fan satisfied while keeping new comers a little confused.
The graphics are pretty decent for a DS title. They are, at times, muddy in appearance, but overall moderate. The cut scenes themselves look like they came out of the PS2 titles and they also include voiceover which was something of a surprise.
The bond that drives the story is between Roxas, Axel, and Xion. The whole timeline between Kingdom Hearts and Kingdom Hearts 2 has been pretty unclear so far, but now its revealed what occurs to the fourteenth member of Organization XIII and Roxas, along with his relationship with Axel.
A person’s heart is what makes them a person, without it they are nobody. Kingdom Hearts 385/2 Days is a game about nobodies who are looking for a heart, while some are looking for a purpose. Kingdom Hearts fans who are looking for a deeper look at what really happened inside of Organization XIII and also want to see what happened between Kingdom Hearts, Kingdom Hearts 2 and Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories will find a great experience in 358/2 Days.
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
2 web browers recieve secruity updates today.
The web browsers Opera and Firefox both recieved updates earlier today.
The updates boost secruity and fix a couple of performance issues.
Opera moved to version 10.1 while Firefox upgraded to 3.5.4.
The updates boost secruity and fix a couple of performance issues.
Sunday, October 25, 2009
Sega is lighting up!
These Sega Saturn and Sega Genesis themed lighters are available only through pre-order from Zippo till November 6. They are worth 10500 yen, which is $114 USD.
Star Wars wedding cake makes my stomach feel wrong.
This post on Gizmodo really made me want to send some bodily fluids their way, but I made it through all the pictures of this Star Wars themed wedding cake.
Monday, October 19, 2009
Will Apple approve Mozilla's secret iPhone app?
Mozilla is releasing a new, secret iPhone application in a few weeks.
Om Malik of gigaom.com interviewed John Lilly, CEO of Mozilla, at the Play conference, a discussion organized by the students of Haas School of Business at the university of Berkeley. Lilly told Malik about a new app that Mozilla is working on for the iPhone. “Mozilla will release an app to the iPhone App Store in the next few weeks," Lilly said, “It’ll surprise people.”
He also talked with Mozilla's Vice President of Mobile Jay Sullivan who, along with Lilly, hinted at the app being Weave, a project Mozilla started a few years ago that was created for users who want to store their history and bookmarks in Mozilla's servers.
Apple has a reputation for denying any apps that compete with its own. Weave would be stepping on the toes of MobileMe, another "cloud" system that Apple uses to share media through their hardware.
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