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GIVING AWAY DROID ERIS ONCE I GET 5,000 VIEWS ON THIS VIDEO!

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I’ve played OnLive for close to a week now… And Steam for a few years…

Graphics:

Now this is the killer of OnLive… I could suck up a few of the OnLive problems if the graphics weren’t so crappy. When I saw the Demo for OnLive the graphics were crisp and really nice… But instead… This is just what the menu looks like and this is what you exspect from the demos Can’t see the difference? Take a closer look (when it’s full screened you can really see the difference) What I see(non full screen): View… In the demo (looks like full screen): View… … Now they can’t even make the text crisp… You can image how bad this plays out when playing a game…. As for Steam, it is the full graphiced game that you would buy in the store… You can change the dimension video setting and other things. As for OnLive you cannot.

Price for the games:

They both cost about the same which in itself is about $10 cheaper than retail in a store such as GameStop. But if you buy through OnLive you only get the game for 3 years and if you stop paying the $14.95 monthly then you cannot play the games you bought.

I will say the price is the same between Steam and OnLive BUT for OnLIve you get the game for 3 years… Now that is a nice length but at the same time I’ve gone back to a game on steam in later years and for me to have to repay FULL price for the game when I could have bought the game forever seems a little sketchy.

How long it takes to actually play the game (Downloading):

I really don’t mind personally waiting an half an hour to an hour for a game to download on average 1.2 mbps while I go do something or go play another game on Steam (though sometimes the download will stop if you start playing another Steam game while a game is downloading.) But it is nice to instantly play a game on OnLive. No downloading. No waiting. Just hit enter and play. So I will give this one to OnLive for how quickly you can Play the Game.

Accessory Support:

Now for me I’m on a mac and I am using an IntelliMouse Explorer 4 which is somehow not supported in OnLive… and if I may speak for a lot of gamers… To play a shooter without a mouse and/or using a trackpad is really not something I like. And they have updated the client and still haven’t supported my mouse.. Now I’m sure my mouse isn’t the only one but it is kind of odd. My mouse works fine in the menu but once I get into a game my mouse just doesn’t work. As for Steam anything your computer can recognize so can steam. Steam doesn’t in and of itself stop you from using any accessory that is supported in the game

Hack-Proof:

OnLive says their product is really hard to hack, and I’ve found that it is. So good for them, though I guess anything’s possible. As for Steam of course it has been out longer but it has been hacked and mod’d (so far that I know of) that kind of give the OnLive an advantage for them as far as they can’t really lose money by people stealing games. I mean, if everything is on another server running on their computers, and then your account is hooked up to another server with all of the data of what you own and information, then again it is not impossible. I think it might just be a while before there is a hack for OnLive.

Demo:

Now this is something that is really nice. Since OnLive is instant playing you can do a 30 minute demo of most games (but not all). As for Steam, you can watch a trailer… Look up some gameplay… Or wait for a free weekend of the game… Even so, there are hardly any demos if any for Steam.

Community:

In January 2010 Valve (Steam) claimed that it had surpassed 25 million active user accounts. As for OnLive it hasn’t been out that long so there aren’t really numbers yet but I don’t think it’s that close to Steam. And I don’t think it ever will be. There isn’t much of a “Community” in OnLive…Yeah, you can watch other people show off their cool movies and send people/friends messages, but in Steam you have Clans, Friends, Live chats, Voice Chat and other “Community”- like things.

Now this is what really matters… How many games does each have?

There are over 1,100 games available through Steam and 11 games on OnLive now I know this isn’t completely fair for OnLive but I will say OnLive will never surpass the amount of Games Steam has. When a game comes out for OnLive it either was already on Steam or is coming out for Steam… Plus it’s going to take a while for OnLive to get to that number if they last that long.

Online Games:

Most games on Steam are online… It is really great to be able to play in hundreds of servers around the world with hardly any lag talking to people and playing games with them. As for Onlive there aren’t any really “play with other people” games which is kind of annoying. So I will of course have to give Steam this one for online games which is really something that is important.

Accessibility:

I will give each a check because: 1) onlive opens instantly and you don’t have to wait for a game to download but at the same time you can’t play anywhere… for steam you can play offline but you do have to download the games… and update the games as well as take the time to open the client.

Price (for the software):

Steam is free; there is no monthly fee for having the software or any extra cost for the game. In fact a lot of the games are cheaper than you would have to pay if you bought them in real life. But you do have to use their software to play the game which isn’t always a bad thing. As for OnLive it is a $14.95 a month (I like to say $15 a month) and you don’t get all the games for free you still have to buy the games you want. Which is kind of a bummer. But they did do a 1 year trial if you registered before it came out so most people have the first year free but after that it’s a $14.99 a month. So if you stop paying you can’t play the games you bought!

Length of purchase…

Like I said steam you keep the game forever… as for onlive not so much plus on average they are the same price… As far as online goes… Now there is always the problem of steam closing making you not able to play the game anymore.. or if steam is nice just not online but you can have them offline.. as for OnLive… if onlive closes you can never play the game again as well as there is no way to get the game.. But for both of these they have there faults compaired to paying 10 extra bucks to get a CD and have the game forever.

Impact on how people will play games:

Playing games is a huge part of getting a video game as I’m sure you can imagine. As as far as that OnLive has the edge on that. To be able to instantly play a brag clip of someone playing it, then you demoing it for 30 minutes, and then you instantly playing it seems pretty awesome. As opposed to Steam where you can watch a trailer about the game, then buy it, then wait about an hour for it to download, and then play the game. If OnLive had the Quality of Steam I think it could really be something great.

Impact on how people will buy games:

They both have their impacts in different ways… As for OnLive, you hit the Buy button, accept, and you’re in the game… For steam a few more steps but the same rule you buy the game if you have a credit card on file like OnLive you just purchase and DOWNLOAD which OnLive you do not have to do.

Breakthrough in the market:

Now I love how OnLive works. You find the game you want… You hit it then you play… No downloading, no nothing. Instantly streaming it, which is really a nice thing rather than waiting an hour to download a game and then playing it.

Summery

I think OnLive is a great idea, but the technology and the internet speed just isn’t there yet. Like a lot of new things it has a lot of problems I am sure they will fix later on. But Steam has been out there for a while and they got everything done. Sure every now and then a minor bug will come out but they already have a brand, a service, and they’re doing a great job. First impressions really matter and I think OnLive didn’t really pull it off. As far as computer gaming goes I will still have to go with Steam. Maybe someday they will partner up or something and have a monthly fee for Steam if you want to use there “OnLive” service but for now I think you can take your chances with OnLive and hope for the best and suffer through the next hopefully only few months of bad bugs and bad graphics and hardware problems and I’m sure many other things. Or you can sit back and use Steam which has a lot of the big issues taken care of and let OnLive hopefully get fixed while you playing a full game with best graphics, and hardware supported.

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Using a Macbook Pro 15″ (3rd Gen), 3.06ghz, 500gig HDD 7,200rpm, NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT, 1440×900. (Running Snow Leopard 10.6.3)

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As a lot of you might knew 2.1 is coming out tomorrow (May 9th, 2010). I know plenty of times have I given dates that have been held back but is this one for real?

Even Verizon says on there Droid Eris Support “Software Update: DROID Eris by HTC
Coming Soon!” Now who can be that excited about something coming any sooner then tomorrow?! With all of these hints it must be soon if not tomorrow…

Now I know what most of you on this website are thinking. “DUDE I JUST UPDATED MY PHONE TO 2.1 LEAK WILL I GET THE OTA!” and Honestly I cannot tell you for sure you will or won’t. But I can say with confidence on this logic. The 2.1L has a version such as my Software number is: 2.26…. and Baseband version is: 2.41…… Assuming that those have changed in upgrading then it can only let me believe that if HTC released lets say Software and Baseband number higher then what we already have we “SHOULD” get the update. If not then we have a less of a chance. The OTA might look at our phone say to high and move on. Now don’t worry this won’t be forever if we don’t get the OTA. There should be a downgrade soon which we can update to the Rooted 2.1 and possibly from 1.5 upgrade to the OTA 2.1.

Any questions comments concerns please feel free to ask in a comment below and others and I will try to any them.

Cross your fingers for tomorrow.

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The iPad is claimed as the Kindle Killer with its new eBook reader, 
and its amazing 3D transition it really is a great experience for 
reading a children’s book. However, let’s face it a Kindle and an iPad are very different screen wise. The screen of the Kindle looks like a piece of paper with its E-Ink screen, as appose to the iPhone with its glossy screen and glare the screen has a huge impact on how to read a book. If you have ever been on a computer a lot playing a video game or 
reading an article your eyes, get dried out. Eyestrain is often caused by 
excessively bright light coming in from outside and excessively bright 
light inside. As you can imagine the Kindle is MADE to read books. The 
screen looks like paper and doesn’t use LED’s to “brighten” and “color” 
the screen. It looks just like paper solving the problem of your eye’s 
getting strained. Eye dryness can cause much permanent damage to your eye and when you’re reading a book your eyes are very focused to the screen and if the screen is causing you not to blink as much as 10+ hours a day you might be actually in risk of a health issue by just reading on the iPad. With its bright display and fancy 3d display is it really worth it? 

Apple really likes making money with over 65billion dollars in the bank, 
they really don’t need to worry but like most companies they love to make 
more. They have year after year not released a camera on the front of 
their iTouch, iPhone, and now even more of a reason than ever the iPad. 
Why not? The only answer is that they want people to buy version 2.0 of iPad…Version 4 of the iPhone… etc… They talk about how great the iPad is surfing the web and being on the internet, and they’re taking away 
the privilege they really started with their iChat video chat. It’s kinda 
silly for them to waste that long, and the excuse of the internet being 
too slow or any of that they have plenty of apps that do half the job. 
Fring does video chats, but again they don’t put a camera on the front, 
there is also QIK and USTREAM which are also live streaming video that 
could easily be used for video chat, even if it wasn’t the clearest thing 
in the world, you can see the person, and it would put them ahead of the 
game. 

Not only is the iPad WiFi ($500-$992.00) (with all of the little gadgets that 
you know you will get) iPad 3g ($629-$1,221.) You’re paying close to 1,000$ by the end of the day and you still have to have a computer? They could 
have easily made the iPad its own full computer, such as a netbook but they 
choose to make it so you have to have a computer. And lets face it the 
people that buy Apple stuff have a Mac. I don’t know 1 person that 
bought an iPad that didn’t have a Mac or 3 different Spple products. So if you don’t have a Mac and you walk in wanting the best because you don’t want to buy a new computer in a while you get a Mac Pro, costing close to $3,000 and your in a spending mood and then they start convincing you oh for $500 you can get a nice portable iPad that you can take on the go to do your emails… have over 120,000 apps… yatta yatta yatta there is absolutely no way you will turn that offer down right? With there happy smile taking your money away… The iPad could be something so amazing! You spend 1,000$ the price of there low end MacBook and you don’t get a Camera, Printing feature and features that a computer should have! It really is just a huge iPod Touch. It would be nice if it was a full featured Snow Leopard that would run App Store Apps rather than only running apps. It can 
easily do that as well. Just as a comparison the Nexus One, pretty much 
1 fourth the size of the iPad, Qualcomm QSD 8250 Snapdragon 1Ghz 
Processor, 512MB RAM, and the iPad: A4 runs at 1GHz and 256 mb of ram! 
The iPad is so much bigger and it is not any better and in some clases 
someways worst specs then the Nexus One by Google. It doesn’t make 
sense! Why would they do that? Money? Probably, if they came out with a 
3GHz 4gig ram iPad (which I wouldn’t be surprised, could be out by now) 
with a camera, OLED screen, they would make no money in the future. 
Apple is so good at making 3 versions of the same product and the person 
that bought version 1 buys version 3, and the person that buy version 2 
buys version 3, and the person that buys version 3 buys every accessory 
possible. It just there little way of maximizing there profit. They 
don’t come out with the best thing they could so they can make version 
2.. 3.. of the iPad. They know what the problem of the device is before 
they release it and they make sure it’s just good enough to sell perfectly. 

The iPad does everything except the things they know it should do. 
iWork Really? not only are you spending 1000$ on an iPad with no 10$ 
card to iTunes store or iWork for free but you end up spending 10$ per 
app of there iWork apps, Pages, Keynote, Numbers. Every dollar they can 
juice out of you they will. I mean yah the new Pages for the iPad looks 
amazing so does the Keynote (and I don’t use Numbers but it looks nice.) 
They make points directly relating to how college kids can use it and of 
course there going to get Pages, and so everyone on an iPad is going to 
get Pages, thats 10xNumber of iPads sold (350,000 iPad sold since April 9th) plus maybe even 30$ depending on the person. When you walk into an Apple store and look at the iPad and how they treat you with how is your day, look at our shiny shit, really think, do you really need this? or is it just pretty and yah you guess yal use it now since you have it. Apple makes you believe that this is what you need to be cool, cutting edge, modern. Its a false sense of being powerful when in fact Apple owns you in the long run. 

The first thing I saw from the iPad was just the gaps from the Apps. 
They literally just put the iPhone os on it, and changed background. 
Sure the apps work on a bigger screen but really those apps are so far 
apart! I don’t need a thumb space between each one of the apps. If 
people were fine with big fingers on the iphone there isn’t a point to 
have such big gaps? So maybe its to make it look like each app is 
special, and you have more. Sure they could fit like 6 by 6 and have a 6 
app dock but they aren’t going to do that. 

As a final conclusion. They just pay millions if not billions of 
dollars paying people to figure out every little nick, trend, best time 
to do everything. Apple knows what they are doing. And to be honest I’m 
going to wait in line for the iPhone 4G and then in another year get the 
new iPhone 4G 2.0 with all of the problem fixed that they knew they the iPhone 4G
1.0 had before they even released it. Even after how much I hate how 
Apple works, what they make is unique and its something to look at and 
show off to your friends, even though everyone has a Mac now, it a 
pretty computer that has style and a nice UI. And I applaud Apple for 
what they are and what they make. But I wish they would be less greedy 
and release the TOP NOTCH thing rather then the things that came out a 
year ago put a nice metal case on them and sell it with there logo. 

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Hey everyone, sorry I haven’t made a post in awhile, I went on vacation. Anyways this is just a short post letting you guys know what I am planning. First of all I have decided to un-post the website development posts, I don’t feel like it was that important to you guy, but probably in a month or so I might repost it and follow thru with all 6 posts. Anyways what to expect coming. For all you iPhone users I am sure you have heard of iPhone OS 4.0. I am going to outline some of it’s new features, what it does, and how it will be somewhat replacing jail breaking. Also we have many new features planned for the site, so expect to see a lot of improvements in the next few weeks.

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Here is a really cool screen test on the iPhone, Droid Eris, Motorola Droid, Nexus One, Pre, Storm 2. It really amazed me on some of the results. Tell me what you think about it in the comments.

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Simple video on how to make your computer a WiFi Hotspot. Example for use: In the car on a long road trip your friend all have there computers you got your amazing Android and or iPhone and they want your sweet internet but you thought you could only tether to just your computer! Well think again now you can setup your computer to allow as many computers to connect through your computers tether from your phone! Depending on the computer you might be limited to a number of connection. So basically you can turn your computer into a MiFi without paying anything extra

Don’t know how to tether for your Android Phone? Watch how here!

Don’t know how to setup a tether for the iPhone?

Download

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