Archive for May, 2010

Thoughts on piracy…

May 31st, 2010

Things come full circle. Here’s the game I developed, Dark Nova on a Warez board. I just found this while searching for our android code repo… a simple link on how you can download and install my game for free. My game is only 3 bucks. Yet, people are out making an effort to pirate [...]

iTunes broke my iPad -or- More Reasons Why I Hate iTunes

May 18th, 2010

I’ve had an iPad for over a week. I’m enjoying it. I always avoid iTunes on all of my devices. But… I had a need to sync the iPad to load some photos. iTunes was, in theory, the “easiest” way to do this. iTunes did sync the photos. But it broke my iPad in the [...]

Ipad Review –hmmm…

May 7th, 2010

With a lot of prodding from my buddy Scott, I broke down and bought a 16gb iPad. Part of the motivation is that we want to port Dark Nova to iPad. Also, I’m going on a trip and the idea of having something really light instead of my MBP 15 was attractive. But mainly I [...]

Message to Apple:

May 5th, 2010

Dear Apple, iTunes sucks. It has always sucked. It sucks even more now that I have to use it regularly in order to use my iPhone and iPad. It has to be updated at least twice a month. It’s cumbersome and slow even on a fast machine. It’s antiquated. I hate it very much and [...]