Cowboys and Aliens

Cowboys and Aliens This is what happens when you let your 8 year old come up with a movie plot. I mean seriously, what kid hasn’t had aliens fighting with cowboys? As a matter fact, is this the same plot for the open sequence of Toy Story and Toy Story 3? Isn’t Woody doing battle with some forcefield wielding aliens?? It’s no award winner but it wasn’t bad. It’s kind of hard to describe what’s going on with this one, but aliens come to earth and start stealing the good citizens of the Old West. And of course there is a lone escapee with the power to undo their evil plot. It’s pretty ridiculous, but if you’re looking to waste a couple of hours you can do a lot worse than this one. I didn’t hate it so take that for what’s it worth. Hey, at least it’s not a sequel to a movie that should never have been made […]

70% off Sid Meier’s Pirates!

It’s just been converted to the iPad, but you can get the original PC version for just as cheap. Sid Meier’s Pirates! is now only $2.99 at GreenManGaming.com. Better hurry though, I believe this sale is for today only. 70% off Sid Meier’s Pirates!

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 […]