Cogs on Sale at Steam

Steam is having one of their many sales and this time the venerable Cogs is one sale. Get all the Steampunk puzzle goodness for 50% off the regular price. That includes the new Mac edition. For $4.99 you get 50 levels of cog turning, steam whistling fun. I have this for the iPad and love it. At this price I’m tempted to get it for my desktop machine as well. Update I just found Cogs for sale on Direct2Drive for $3.95. It’s a savings of only a dollar, bit that’s enough to buy a game at the App Store. But a sale is a sale so pick your price and get to it. Cogs on sale at Direct2Drive Cogs – available on Steam

The iPad is an excellent reader

I’ve been doing a lot reading on the iPad lately using the Kindle app, the Nook app and Goodreader and I have to say working with the iPad is so much easier than paper. For example, one of the books I’m working with is for Exchange Server 2010 and it’s a hefty tome of over 1200 pages. Just think of the paper I’ve saved, not to mention the weight I’m not carrying around, by having an electronic copy. The real book is massively large and heavy. Let’s not forget the companion book which is for Outlook 2010 and is an equal 1100 pages. To carry both of those around could actually kill a man. I could be tipped off balance and suffer some major back injury lugging these things around. But the other cool part is that using the different readers I never forget what page I’m on, I can adjust the font size for readability, I don’t have books […]

The iPad is my mobile workstation

So the iPad has become my mobile workstation complete with Apple wireless keyboard (a must have I think). I’m reading my Exchange books in Goodreader, I’m connected to friends through my IMO.im chat client, I have email at the ready, my Atomic Web browser for full multi-tabbed browsing, my games for break time and Notebooks for iPad for copying down important snippets. I tell you what the iPad is pretty damn impressive. Are we really going to stick with the idea that this isn’t a desktop replacement? Anyway, having the iPad definitely makes using the couch as an office a lot easier.

Working on my golf game

On the iPad that is. I finished the first book on Exchange 2010 so I’m taking a break to play “Let’s Golf” on the iPad. I completed the Scotland course with a pretty respectable score. I will in no way admit that I may have restarted a few of those holes, once, maybe twice before I was satisfied with the lie. Excellent game though, if you don’t have a copy I would suggest grabbing the iPad version. Bobblehead golf is all the rage!