December 2009
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Why the Droid(s) may never be the next iPhones
If you have ever produced work for the mobile industry, you know how frustrating it is to support the myriad of screen sizes and formats out there. Whether it’s applications, games or other media, the mobile market is a mess of non standards.
The reason why Apple may never relinquish their position as a smart phone leader is the fact that only they make and control the iPhone and the OS...
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Death of the Generalist
Simply Put: The days of presenting your many do-all talents to qualified clients has passed. Where once your multi-facet talent presented greater opportunity, it has; unbeknown to you, undermined your bottom line. Your financial value.
Expanded On: “If you can do all that, it must be easy and therefore cheap, right?”
While no one prospective client has ever said that verbatim, when...
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Chasing the PC Hardware performance envolope
I have a slew of PC’s in my office that do double duty. On one hand they aid in the chores of work and the other is entertainment. There was a time when both work and play were reasons to have the best built PC rigs.
Interesting enough for me the terms of work and play were very similar. Polygons, textures, and rendering of all types. The best CPU/GPU’s would cut the work in half and...
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Why I didn't buy the i7 920 and went with the i7...
If you’ve overclocked for any length of time (years), you learn that certain CPU’s are prime candidates for massive overclocking (OC). There is the low end and the high end chip and the costs are saved or spent are considerable.
I’ve read many forum posts on the 920’s excellent capacity to reach 4GHz and beyond. I’ll note that over the past couple of years I’ve...
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Using Steam - 1st Simple Tip - Transfer files
At some point you may for some reason or another want/need to move your gigabytes of Steam games from one PC to lets say, maybe a New faster PC. The last thing you should consider is to re-download all those games again.
Fortunately for you, your Steam folders are self contained. Meaning, you can literally copy and paste from one PC to another. The program and games will all transfer over.
Now...
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Dragon Age on Steam $37.49 arghh like I need...
80+ hours of game play in Dragon Age. I already have Mass Effect 2 on Pre-Order and I’m getting the impression that looks to be a whole lotta hours.
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The Decline of PC Gaming (as we know it) Part I
Notice the title doesn’t say the Death of PC gaming. The reason being is that if you were old enough to read PC gaming or enthusiast magazines in the early 90’s you would have read articles that covered the Death of PC gaming seemingly every other quarter. Yes, in what could now be considered the Golden Age of PC gaming, there were reasoned warnings noting the writings on the wall. The...