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Re: Single Post

Dave M. — Sat, 24 Jun 2017 10:48:23 -0000

I'm a little confused here. I take it I can't actually download the Alpha yet. So is signing up for the newsletter the same as "Signing up for the Alpha" to get an Alpha key? Just want to make sure I'm good to go here.

Edit: Ok, I'm an idiot. I got another email after confirming the newsletter subscription that had the download link. One of these days I'll learn to be more patient.

Re: Watch Defying Gravity (2009) free online | Free movies online

Dave M. — Fri, 17 Mar 2017 05:00:12 -0000

Any chance we can get a version of Defying Gravity that can be downloaded?

Re: NMSLauncher - Multiple profiles, settings, and saved games - No Man's Sky Mods

Dave M. — Sun, 28 Aug 2016 05:42:07 -0000

Thanks Taiselyou! I actually saw that a few hours after I posted the question looking through the other mods. I left the question in for the folks that might not have caught the reference.

Re: NMSLauncher - Multiple profiles, settings, and saved games - No Man's Sky Mods

Dave M. — Sat, 27 Aug 2016 09:35:25 -0000

Also, question: What does "Enable No Man's Sky Extender" do in the Settings Menu?

Re: NMSLauncher - Multiple profiles, settings, and saved games - No Man's Sky Mods

Dave M. — Sat, 27 Aug 2016 09:11:50 -0000

I Second 'pymai'. Some indication of which profile is selected would help out a lot.

Re: We Rule. Now Available Worldwide.

Dave M. — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 12:40:55 -0000

It's buggy, but at least it's still playable. The servers are getting hammered now since they went international / world-wide.

Still, I'm able to do the things I need to do in my kingdom when needed. It only takes a few minutes so I don't see too many issues when I am in the game for that short of a period of time.

It's mostly when I travel to other kingdoms to try to initiate trade with them.

Re: We Rule. Now Available Worldwide.

Dave M. — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 17:09:35 -0000

I've been playing We Rule for about 2 weeks now thanks to an article about creating accounts in iTunes that are not from where you live.

It's clear that ngmoco:) opens their games up to Canada only to start with so that they can do a sort of closed beta to make sure it's ready for prime time. Unfortunately, the game wasn't quite ready yet. The We Rule servers have been down since this morning.

There are other in-game issues like farms that say they are bad when they are really ready to harvest. Memory issues with iPhone 3G's at least and occasional crashes.

They have updated the game once, but clearly there is still a need for more updates. However, the game mostly plays well.

We Rule is a great game for playing for about 10 minutes, then setting it down for a period of time so that your crops and other items can grow/accumulate/etc... This game is pretty easy to play without having to spend a dime. However, if you want to gain levels very quickly, you can buy vials of "Mojo" to complete tasks very quickly. As I said, I have been playing for about 2 weeks and have managed to get to level 15 without spending a penny. (I couldn't since I don't have an iTunes account that can spend money)

I personally love ngmoco:)'s "fremium" game model. It allows folks on a limited budget to play some amazing games that would otherwise cost them more than they might be able to afford.

GodFinger, ngmoco:)'s other new title, came out in Canada a couple of days after We Rule did, so I suspect that the rest of the world will see GodFinger arriving shortly.

Re: Apple Approves Blatant Doodle Jump Ripoff, Doodle Jumper

Dave M. — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 09:16:23 -0000

As soon as I saw this in AppShopper.com, I sent off an email to Lima Sky telling them about the app. Hopefully, they will get Apple to remove the app ASAP. It's really sad that Apple's Review staff can't be bothered to not allow apps like these but reject apps like Opera and Google Voice because they match the functionality of original iPhone apps.

Re: http://davebc.com/post/440173836

Dave M. — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:56:03 -0000

I didn't realize that this was a blog post (vesperdem on twitter).

I was pretty much saying what 'ipodrulz' said. Microsoft doesn't put full descriptions of any of their applications anymore since they believe that everyone on the planet knows what their apps do.

I don't agree with this behavior at all. There are always newcomers to a product. Yet Microsoft as well as just about every other large software house does this. Not to mention just about every software house period. Look at all the open-source software out there. Much of it assumes you know what the product is, so they don't have a page that describes it or has screen shots.

If you ask me, this is a formula for loss of sales. It takes very little effort to put at least a single paragraph describing what the product does. Veterans can simply skip over that paragraph and newcomers can read the extra paragraph and know what they are looking at.

Re: Whiten Yellow Teeth (waste your money) With This New iPhone App

Dave M. — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 09:40:08 -0000

Isn't this about as close to a scam application as one can get? I mean talk about an app that doesn't benefit anything at all other that the developers wallet.

Ya gotta wonder what Apple's reviewers are thinking when they approve such apps.

Re: Monday Morning App HQ

Dave M. — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 09:06:27 -0000

A comment on ads... Look, I understand that developing games takes a lot of time and with the AppStore, a HUGE risk. However, it's hard to say that there are "unobtrusive" ads in mobile devices. There is so little screen space on mobile devices that a "small" ad anywhere on the screen along with the game takes away too much space from the game itself. If we are talking about an ad that appears before the game does, then we are talking about time wasted before playing a 5 minute session of a casual game.

Now if the developer wants to put an ad on the same page as the game menu or start screen, that could be considered "unobtrusive". It doesn't get in the way of the actual game and the user is going to be seeing that screen each time they go in to play it. I could live with that form of "unobtrusive".

Otherwise, I would gladly pay extra for a game that doesn't have ads in it. As for the piracy issue, Apple needs to get off their duffs and fix this very large problem. Microsoft and Sony (XBox 360 and Playstation 3) have already dealt with the issue and I don't believe they have the issues with piracy that Apple is seeing on the iPhone.

I personally wouldn't mind seeing jailbreaking go away, but I know that there are many others that feel it's their right to be able to jailbreak their device. Fine. However, applications developed for the iPhone/iPod touch shouldn't be able to run on jailbroken devices unless they have been paid for and downloaded via the only legal method, through iTunes.

Look, the price of the applications have nothing to do with piracy on the iPhone/iPod touch. Even 99¢ applications are being pirated. There just isn't any possible excuse for pirating iPhone/iPod touch software. They are extremely affordable, packed with more content than anyone would expect for a $10 game (considering the time and risk spent developing them) and couldn't be easier to get installed on the iPhone/iPod touch.

If piracy doesn't stop on iPhone/iPod touch's, I can see a day when a game that would sell for $9.99 will be priced at $49.99. For no other reason than to attempt to recoup the money spent developing the software.

Re: Getting Your Drunk Ass Home – DrinkTracker Receives An Update [$25 iTunes giveaway]

Dave M. — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:37:47 -0000

Retweet of a twitter posting.

Re: 1FPS (I have never and will never purchase an app from...)

Dave M. — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:46:45 -0000

It always makes me chuckle when I read about people not willing to pay a few bucks for an application that runs on a device that cost them $200-$300 plus the 2 year contract with AT&T or $200-$400 for the iPod touch.

When all the hub-bub was going on about the Tweetie 2.0 update costing $2.99, there was a guy that was complaining that he couldn't afford it. I just don't get that logic at all.

These developers are killing themselves putting out some amazing pieces of software for next to nothing at all. Yet there are people out there that seem to think that $2.99 is too much money. Worse yet, they are willing to pirate a $0.99 app rather than pay for it.

What really cracked me up was his instistance on posting to the developers blog that he thought that charging for the upgrade was wrong and that he couldn't afford it. No one was twisting his arm to buy the upgrade. Tweetie 1.x is a fine piece of software for the iPhone/iPod touch, so I don't understand why the guy was all indignant about the upgrade anyway.

Re: Finer Things in iPhone - Starting in iPhone OS 3.1 (I think), the charging...

Dave M. — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 09:36:19 -0000

I have OS 3.1 and my battery icon image shows up in the center like the "old" half of the image above. When the iPod controls are displayed, the very bottom of the iPod controls are just above the battery image and when a song is playing, the album art shows up covering the whole screen, getting rid of the battery image entirely. I suppose if I don't have album art the battery would still be there.

Re: Better Than A Stack Of Pancakes – BOOB STACK (aka EA Sucks!)

Dave M. — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 04:24:21 -0000

Funny thing, I saw this app pop into the AppStore and thought of KRAPPS.com immediately. :)

Interesting that Ninjaword has issues with words in it's dictionary and yet, the same words in app titles are a-ok. Typical AppStore reviewer hypocrisy!

Thanks for adding this *GREAT* app to your list of KRAPP-tastic apps!

Re: Time lapse of the demolition

Dave M. — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 03:26:58 -0000

That was some amazing camera work (meaning positioning). Did you have to leave the camera unattended in an open area to get some of those angles? I would have been worried about losing the camera.

Still great work!

Re: Feedback I just submitted to Apple over the Eucalyptus fiasco

Dave M. — Thu, 21 May 2009 21:33:30 -0000

I just added my voice to the choir! Actually, there are other apps that will get you porn pictures on the phone. They access Flickr and Flickr's rather abundant porn photos.

I hope this works. I'm really getting sick and tired of hearing about apps being rejected because of the content that they can bring up.

Thanks for spreading the word on Craig's idea!

Re: 1FPS, Amazon opened up its Kindle blog subscription...

Dave M. — Thu, 14 May 2009 10:28:36 -0000

I just added my blog and it looks pretty darn good. It must be Tumblr or your theme that is the issue. I'm using my main blog (http://www.metzener.com/swi... and just published it, for what it's worth. I don't suspect I'll see a penny from it, but what the heck.

Re: Private: App Store Piracy: The Good, The Bad and the Ugly

Dave M. — Fri, 08 May 2009 23:11:01 -0000

I wonder what your stats would have been if you had offered a "Free"/"Lite" version of the game?

Does your system let you know if the people who pirated the app are continuing to play the game or if they stopped? I'm wondering if they "pirated" the app to see it in action for free to decide if they wanted to shell out the money for the real version.

Re: 1FPS, Apple Support: How to find the security code on a credit card

Dave M. — Tue, 05 May 2009 12:02:24 -0000

Remember, Macintosh is the computer for "the rest of us". So I guess that they figure that the people using their computers are not very bright. ;)

Re: A round up of clients for Tumblr

Dave M. — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 14:31:13 -0000

How about Tumblr for the iPhone by Tumblr, Inc. Seems like a big one to miss.

Re: Shake Baby Until It Dies Update

Dave M. — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 08:28:24 -0000

I just want to say that I am what you would call an "Apple Fanboy". Well, not as much as some, but still. When I heard about this app this morning, I just couldn't believe what I heard.

I don't know how many people Apple has "screening" the apps before they are released, and how much education they have. However, Baby Shaker is clearly an app that should never have seen the light of day. Of course, there are hundreds if not thousands of other apps that also should not be in the AppStore right now, but it appears that Apple doesn't seem to mind them being there.

As someone currently developing an app for the store myself, I see all too often applications out there that probably took the developer all of 5 minutes to write and are out there in the store attempting to sell for $1 and on rare occasions $1,000. When I see the $1000 apps, I report them to Apple right away. I don't care what their content is, the app had better be worth $1000 if they are selling it for $1000. Don't show me a single screenshot of a title screen and not have a website backing the software up. Otherwise I'm calling SCAM.

Anyway, I don't know if it was your site or someone close to your site that first brought this app to Apple's attention, but good for you for doing so, who ever did it! As fans of Apple and the iPhone/iPod touch, we need to make sure that Apple does the right thing with situations like these.

Re: Quantum of Solace's writing, editing, and cinematography are spectacular

Dave M. — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 17:21:41 -0000

I have to say that I too was very impressed with both Quantum and Casino Royal. They reminded me of Indiana Jones but darker and more intense.

The fight scenes are amazing and hard to keep up with. I really hope they keep this level of quality up with the future Bond films. I'll be paying way more attention to them if they do.

Re: TMUP 120:There will be Macs

Dave M. — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 05:01:37 -0000

After re-reading my comment, I came off sounding a little pompous. I sure didn't mean to make it sound like your choice of iClip made you a bad person or anything like that.

I purchased iClip way back and had it running for quite sometime after I purchased it. I just found that I never used it due to the UI issues.

I just found iClip's UI to be way over the top for what it did and because of that, it was very hard to determine what was in each of the clipping. Savvy Clipboard is very straightforward in it's presentation. I now use it quite frequently, even when programming.

One bad think I have noticed about the clipboard in general when using TextExpander, since TextExpander uses the clipboard to do it's thing, I find that the multiple clipboard entries in Savvy Clipboard are duplicated due to use of TextExpander. It almost makes using multiple clipboard programs useless. That's really a shame. I wonder if it would be prudent to suggest a change to TextExpander so that it doesn't continue to have this side effect? Hmm...

Re: TMUP 120:There will be Macs

Dave M. — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 09:37:06 -0000

Victor, I can't believe that you think that iClip is the best "multiple" clipboard program for the Mac. I found that program to be way to complicated for me to use and I'm a programmer and very tech savvy user. Oh sure, I could use it, but I would never suggest a program like iClip to my parents who are by no means tech savvy.

I just found and purchased the program "Savvy Clipboard" by BlitzClick Software (http://blitzclicksoft.com/). It's very simple to use but still quite powerful. I found out about it via MacZOT.com.

Give it a peek if you haven't already seen it. I think you might just agree with me. ;)