Top mendax.org posts from Jan, 2009.

by WyldKard on February 1, 2009

Haven’t been regularly reading mendax.org? In case you missed them, here’s a quick digest of the top posts from last month:
  • Blogo needs work.
    Posted on Thursday, January 1st, 2009 in Technocracy – Views: (150)
    After reading Apple Gazette’s fairly positive overview of Blogo 1.2, we decided to give the stand-alone blogging application a try. (We tried out ecto and MarsEdit in the past, and ecto still stands as our victor.) From Blogo’s screenshots, we were hopeful that the application could seriously stand against ecto, as it looks quite polished, with a nice feature-set and much better-looking UI than ecto, albeit one that could still use some polish.
  • Comcast’s DVR is unbelievable shit.
    Posted on Wednesday, January 7th, 2009 in Two Minute Hate – Views: (296)
    It’s bloody amazing that though TiVo has been around for almost a decade, no one else has managed to duplicate TiVo’s experience. This leads us to many more questions, such as how, not long ago, was TiVo considered a company that almost went under? Let’s ignore that historical anecdote, however, and instead focus on the crux of the matter: TiVo is not only better than competing DVR products, but is light-years ahead of them.
  • Gamers agree: Fallout 3 > Fable 2.
    Posted on Saturday, January 3rd, 2009 in Prolefeed – Views: (225)
    We didn’t like Fable 2, and as far as RPGs are concerned, we totally thought Fallout 3 trumped Fable 2 in every possible way.While our tastes are understandably subjective, we acknowledge that some people may actually like playing a game where the Sims meets fantasy, and where hack’n slash combat is practically mandatory to succeed. Still, we’re happy that the overall theme in the gaming blogosphere is that Fable 2 is not worthy of top honours, and is consistently pushed behind Bethesda’s Fallout 3 by reviewers.
  • How Blizzard can fund a longer leveling game.
    Posted on Monday, January 19th, 2009 in Newthink – Views: (150)
    Earlier this month, syncaine at Hardcore Casual suggested that because World of Warcraft (WoW) is a well-regarded PvE game, that Blizzard should have increased the level max beyond 80. The argument is that since the leveling game is where people tend to have the most fun because of questing options, and since characters at the level cap are forced to grind away for gear by running the same content over and over again, that a longer leveling game would make sense.
  • Portability alone does not a laptop make.
    Posted on Sunday, January 11th, 2009 in Technocracy – Views: (144)
    Asus has prototyped a future laptop design that sports a trackpad that also acts as a screen. The idea is great, as it allows users to display widget-like information on the trackpad instead of taking up valuable screen real-estate. Interestingly, this is exactly the idea behind the OLO netbook and our own proposed iPhone-driven netbook.Adding a “data” screen is a natural evolution for notebooks, especially if it the screen doesn’t add bulk and is instead integrated into an existing component – in this case, the trackpad.
  • Stand-alone web applications on the iPhone? Yes, please.
    Posted on Friday, January 16th, 2009 in Newthink – Views: (171)
    With Apple’s market growth, everyone’s talking about what the company will do next. Daniel Eran Dilger makes his own predictions over at Roughly Drafted, and while we’re skeptical as to some of his points, we can’t help but be excited as to their prospects. From Bonjour discovery for mobile Safari (to control a variety of devices from the iPhone), to self-contained web apps, we love the idea of these possibilities.
  • The Aliph Jawbone’s critical failure.
    Posted on Friday, January 2nd, 2009 in Technocracy – Views: (361)
    Back in July, we bitched about our Motorola H700 bluetooth headset dying. So frustrated were we with Motorola’s track record, we swore off buying another Motorola bluetooth product, and instead picked up the highly recommended Aliph Jawbone 2.Touted as one of the best headsets due to its noise reduction technology, the Jawbone 2 differs from its predecessor primarily in regards to size.
  • The Mac Mini needs to eat the AppleTV, and shoot up with TiVo.
    Posted on Saturday, January 17th, 2009 in Newthink – Views: (164)
    At the end of an article at TUAW talking about the possibility of the Mac Mini and AppleTV both transitioning over to Nvidia’s Ion platform, Robert Palmer asks the same question we’ve been musing over: But what if the next-generation Apple TV and Mac mini were one in the same?Since the AppleTV is considered an Apple “hobby” product, without Apple’s full weight behind it, it stands to reason that the product is little more than a proof-of-concept with the need for forward movement.
  • There won’t be a Mac App Store.
    Posted on Monday, January 5th, 2009 in Technocracy – Views: (164)
    At TUAW, Mike Schramm muses over the idea of a Mac App store, akin to the App Store most iPhone users are tied to. The idea is that Apple could create a section in the iTunes store for OS X apps for desktop use, just as they have a section for iPhone software. While the idea is a nice one, it’s not about to happen.
  • Why delete articles from Wikipedia?
    Posted on Sunday, January 11th, 2009 in Two Minute Hate – Views: (186)
    A number of people in the MMOG blogosphere talked about the deletion of MUD articles in Wikipedia this past week, after folks like Richard Bartle and Raph Koster voiced their complaints on their respective soap boxes. We quite agree with the two of them that deleting these kinds of articles, despite arguments about citation, do nothing but deplete the public record of a huge part of online gaming history.
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