And then there was another iPad

I brought home another iPad last night. Sadly not an iPad 2, but an original 32GB WiFi model in excellent condition. A friend of mine went ahead and pulled the trigger on an upgrade. Then the iPad shuffle began. He gets the new model, which he bought using his iPhone on the way to back to his car after the Apple Store told him they didn’t have any in stock, his wife gets his older model, which has 3G and I ended up with hers. Well, my wife ends up with it since I already have one. I am trying to seduce her over to the dark side. She has been a Franklin Covey planner gal for years but I feel the might power of the iPad may be able to help her. The planner is big and bulky and where do you store them? I think apps like Appigo ToDo, Notebooks for iPad, Awesome Note, Chapters, Penultimate, Goodreader and […]

EA brings down the thunder with Origin

Electronic Arts is launching their own online game delivery service. Origin will allow players to the entire catalog of EA games which means you can play basketball and football until you’re blue in the face. I guess you could play Need for Speed for awhile too. Do they have any other games? I mean they bought up every game developer on the planet awhile back I thought they had 10,000 titles in their stable. And for the mobile gamer you can get Scrabble! Interestingly, EA lists multiple games on Steam, I wonder if this means they’ll be pulling their titles and making them exclusive to their own site? Bit of a David and Goliath story here isn’t it? Partnerships people, partnerships… EA launches Origin, takes aim at Steam

Sony hacked again. And again. And again…

I think the IT boys at Sony need a refresher course. Or perhaps they need to apologize since they done pissed someone off! Getting hacked once is a damn shame. Getting hacked multiple times over the course of a couple of weeks from different angles shows you might have a few vulnerabilities you need to patch. These guys aren’t using IE6 are they?