Twitter

I've been using Twitter a lot more lately. Originally i was only on twitter to enter competitions and able to easily retrieve my news from my favourite websites and then follow jailbreakers so i can follow how far they are through IOS 6 Jailbreak but since i've got google currents for all my tech news and it's all convient and it's much more easier to use if you're looking for news. Recently i've been using twitter to talk to celebritys and they've retweeted my tweets and they've favourited stuff.

Facebook is a pile of wank, pardon my language but facebook is really crap and it's full of 12 year old that think life is shit, All i want to do to them is slap them in the face and tell them 'To fucking shut up'. it's great for communication and keeping up with your friends life but i've found that since you've got facebook, you'd don't talk to them as much because you already know what their up to.

Overall i like facebook and both websites serve a purpose for each, Since a lot more people i know are on facebook and i can easily talk to them with a click of the mouse. Not a lot of people i know don't use twitter, they might have an account but they hardly go in.

P.S I really don't like on twitter where you're restricted to 140 characters. I can say what i really want to say and if i do, i've got to do it in mulitple tweets and start speaking in text speak and it's quite annoying. I wouldn't mind if they bumped it up to 300 characters

Thanks for reading

Blackberry Playbook with 3G

This might be a little late with the blog and i have talked about it on my Youtube channel so check it out if you haven't. Same name http://www.youtube.com/techguy276

with the failure of the playbook and a lot of carriers giving it away for free with phones and blackberry based devices because there's loads that hasn't been sold. You'd think that would have learnt by now that people don't want the playbook at all, my teacher picked up one for 50 quid, not even used it and not at a car boot sale at an actual retailer. I can't remember which retailer he actually said but it was a tech shop in wigan.

well guess what RIM have done and it's the title of this blog, they're bringing out the playbook with 3G and that's just the tip of the ice berg, they are bringing out a blackberry playbook for not $100, $200, $300. They're bringing it out with a price tag of $429. Really! not a lot of people will actually buy the playbook at $200 when they could easily spend a little more money and they've got themselves a Nexus 7 or a Kindle Fire HD. Seriously! I don't think RIM know what their doing at all. They've lost their market and then delaying their chance of bringing out the most hyped Mobile Operating System of all time and that's Blackberry 10.

I'm a little bit of a spektit when it comes to Blackberry 10. I personally think that when Blackberry 10 comes out there will be a lot of people buying it like tech bloggers and then a few people in the public but ultimatly not getting enough revenue to make it worth them bringing it out. They'll bring it out and they'll bounce once and then flop right to the ground again. With the likes of Windows Phone and iOS and android, they've got no chance. Thanks for reading guys :D i'll try to update more

Blackberry 10 L series Leak

What you see above is probably Research In Motion’s upcoming all-touch BlackBerry 10, mocked up in textured perfection. The company teased a brief look at the device the other day, but this is (almost) the whole kit and kaboodle.
Unfortunately, only a picture of the back has been shared, so we’re not quite getting the entire picture of what’ll probably be RIM’s first L-Series device. The image was allegedly extracted from the company’s most recent BlackBerry 10 Dev Alpha, so we aren’t going to really question its authenticity. With the BlackBerry 10 SDK going Gold, and the Jan. 30 launch of the company’s new OS looming, it’s high-time we start seeing more substantial leaks.

Updates for Android

I've done a blog in a while, and i've been meaning to but i've just not been able to find the time and plus i've really got into the audio blogs on youtube. It's www.youtube.com/techguy276 and you'll actually be able to hear my voice and my true opinions on new phones and tech news.

Get a couple of emails and questions every few weeks asking me when is the latest version of android coming out for my X phone and when will it be available to me. Well if you're running on a samsung galaxy S3 or HTC ONE X, you're going to have to wait for a bit until the latest version of android comes out for your phone. First google annouce the new OS (4.2) and the exact same day, that OS is sent to the developers and manufactuers so they can QA (quality assureance) make sure everything works and every feature that worked before, works again and espically when manufactuerers put skins on top of hte android OS, they've got to make sure that the Skin is backwards compatible with the latest OS and nothings broke. It may not sound like it takes long but it actually does, for each and every phone they've got to test the OS and make sure all the drivers work. Sometimes a phone that's a year old may not get the update because it requires a lot of man hours and money to ensure that it works. the manufactuers may not want to put all the man hours to a phone that wasn't very popular.

If you really want to be on the latest, buy a nexus Device, these devices are made by companies supervised by Google so they've got the orders and within days of 4.2 jellybean coming out the galaxy nexus got the update virtually straight away.

Thanks for reading and if you want more updates on my blogs, have a look at my youtube account and you can sit back and listen to my rants, podcasts and everything else

Apple tracking everything

What came to my attention the other day. Apple have just been awarded the patent for tracking everything that you do, From strokes of the finger on the screen or how many times people open a certain application to what people type into the application or to spotlight search. I'm being serious, everything that you can think of and everything that you can do with iOS, Apple with track it.

A couple of years ago apple awarded a patent to track desktop interfaces and mouse strokes and nobody ever noticed, and now they've just been awarded the patent for tracking mobile interfaces. 

I personally don't mind about Apple tracking stuff in order to get there interfaces better, I've been used to it for ages with the amount of google services i have running on a regular basis. my granddad doesn't use Gmail or any Google service that holds information about him,  Because Google can look at all of our emails and that's ok because it's all in the terms and conditions. 

Thanks for reading guys and instead of doing a blog everyday, i'm going to be doing ones if they really interest me or something that's caught my eye.

Page turning animation... PATENTED!!

Everybody out there with the kindle application or android book store. Do you love the fact when you turn the page you can see the animation right in front of you.

Nearly Every manufactuer with a book store or a book application has this animation. So what have apple done? well i'll tell you what they've done! They've patented the animation when you turn the page! something that everybody has. So everybody is going to get sued by apple for having this feature.

http://www.idownloadblog.com/2012/11/17/page-turn-patent/

Check out the link, it's fucking disgraceful for what apple have done! This is why they are winning so much, Because they wait until everybody has the feature and then sue the arses out of anyone who has the patent!

Samsung phone with 441 PPI! WTF

I know i haven't blogged in a while, since i've got a lot of work to do and the time i've been using to blogs, i've been using it to complete college work and train2game work and i've been updating my blog but it's not written blogs anymore, it's audio blogs on youtube and it's where i'm talking about technology, games and films.

Well there's one subject that i'd just liek to highlight here, it's come to my attention that samsung have or are going to bring out a device that has a PPI of 441. The human eye can't see past 300 pixels. Apple made a big deal back in 2010 when they brought out the iPhone 4 with amazing Display that was 326 pixels per inch. Making the pixels on screen being sharp and crisp as they can be.

Fast forward 2 years and we've got 1080p phone displays. It seems that people can't get that we need to advance the progression of battery life. Creating a new battery chemical other than lithium polymer so we can store more battery life into a smaller battery. 441 PPI is just too much on a device. obviously you have your own opinion and you could have more valid points that me but i honestly think that a device at 441 PPI is way too much for our battery's and CPU's and process.

Thanks for reading
http://www.technobuffalo.com/companies/samsung/samsung-to-introduce-4-99-inch-full-hd-amoled-display-with-441ppi-at-ces/
Article that got my inspiration.

Grand Theft Auto (GTA) 5 Features List!!

This is the list for Grand theft auto 5's features. If you can see there is a lot of things that are being introduced into the famous franchise. I recorded a podcast last night about the features of Grand theft auto without the features in front of me and there's a lot of features that i left out or couldn't remember. It's amazing how many features rockstar actually put into their games, Every new rockstar game has got new environments, new game mechanics.
if you can't be bothered reading this blog, just go over to my channel and you'll be able to listen to the features while you do something else.

• GTA 5 "evolves nearly every mechanic" found in previous games in the series.
• Features the biggest open world in the series' history - GTA 5's world is bigger than the worlds of Red Dead Redemption, San Andreas and GTA IV combined.
• Three playable characters who you can switch between "at nearly any time".
• Each character has their own specific abilities and story arc, with all three stories intertwined.
• Camera zooms out to a "Google Earth-style" perspective when switching characters.
• Character 1 - Michael, an ex-bank robber in his early 40s who retired after making a deal with the FIB. He has two teenage children and hates his wife Amanda. He's also the narrator of the original GTA 5 trailer.
• Character 2 - Trevor, a former war veteran and a "drugged out psychopath". An experienced pilot.
• Character 3 - Franklin, a repo man in his mid 20s described as a "young and ambitious hustler".
• Certain characters from GTA IV and Episodes From Liberty City will also make an appearance. Rockstar's Dan Houser says we'll never see characters from the PS2 era, though. "The five PS2 games are one universe, and this is the high definition universe, so they don't co-exist," he says.
• No major actors cast as any of the main characters.
• Focus on making more diverse missions.
• Heists and bank robberies are a big theme to the game.
• Characters will work together during missions, and you can switch between characters mid-mission to fulfill different roles. For example, during a chase sequence you can pilot the getaway helicopter as Trevor, snipe pursuing pilots as Franklin, or fire an assault rifle as Michael.
• Missions will have a "very different tone depending on who's on them, how many people are on them, and how much we're using switches", says Houser.
• Even when you're not controlling them, each character will still go about their own business across Los Santos. "You may be surprised by the situations they find themselves in should you switch back to check up on them," says Game Informer.
• Big advances to lighting and shader model. Greater draw distance.
• Improved vehicle handling and physics - "The cars hold to the ground better... It feels more like a racing game," Houser says.
• More vehicles than in any GTA to date, including BMXs, mountain bikes, road bikes, dirt bikes, cars, trucks, helicopters, planes, ATVs and Jet Skis, but vehicle manufacturers are still fictional.
• Fighter jets appear to be in. One screenshot shows a fighter equipped with missiles, as a helicopter explodes in the background.
• Improved shooting and melee combat. Melee combat "never going to be as big a deal as shooting," though, warns Houser.
• Pedestrians are fully mo-capped and more interactive.
• You can rappel down buildings, although it's not confirmed whether this is specific to certain missions.
• Los Santos is described as a "huge and diverse city", combining the best of Red Dead Redemption's "large open expanses" with GTA IV's "densely packed urban environment".
• Areas in the game world include beachfronts, mountains, the wilderness, a "Salton Sea" region, a military base and the suburbs.
• GTA: San Andreas was about gang culture. GTA 5 is about capturing the "contemporary culture of LA".
• There will be a "vibrant and fun" economy, but you won't be able to buy property.
• A variety of different side missions and "more sophisticated" minigames, including yoga, triathlons, Jet Skiing, base-jumping, tennis and golf. There's a full golf course in the game. You can go scuba diving along the coastline of Los Santos, or go to the gym on the seafront.
• Each character will have unique hobbies, including "one or two key minigame activities per character".
• San Andreas' RPG-like player customization is still absent, but you can customize the clothing of each character.
• GTA IV's romance feature has been removed.
• Like in GTA IV, players can make friends and hang out with certain NPCs, including Michael's wife Amanda and son Jimmy, Franklin's "crazy friend" Lamar, and Trevor's mate Ron.
• GTA IV's mobile phone returns, but a lot of its features have been altered. You can use it to access the internet.
• Dynamic missions - hidden missions dotted around the game world. "Going off-road in the desert, you may come across two parked cars and a sea of dead bodies around them... Investigate if you want."

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here's just an update. i'm also here to say sorry that i haven't written a blog in quite a bit, i've been concentrating on college work and train2game work and the only time i have to actually write a blog is when i'm suppose to be sleeping and i've virtually got no time to do one. at the moment, i'm doing nothing on my soap opera for college so i've decided to come onto the computer and just write a paragraph explainng my perdicment. Some of the blogs i've been uploading aren't my own and i've been copying and pasting from websites like technobuffalo and idownloadblog.

i've started getting into doing audio blogs where i basically talk about whatever is on my mind and what i've seen in the latest and greatest news.

The iPad mini and what it means for the iPod touch

As time has progressed of late, it has become increasingly clear that Apple will announce a new, smaller iPad at tomorrow’s press event. Dubbed the iPad mini, the new device is, we believe, going to offer much of the current iPad experience, but this time in a more diminutive form.

This iPad mini has been rumored for what feels like forever, with the tablet almost as fabled in Apple rumor circles as that Apple-branded television we are still waiting for. With less than twenty-four hours to go, it seems we need not wait much longer. But where does it sit in Apple’s product line?
If you’re not someone who wants to buy an iPhone, then the obvious choice right now is an iPod touch. If you don’t want something quite so large as an iPad, then the current choice is to plump for that same iPod touch, or something a little more Android-y. But what about post iPad mini? That’s a whole different story indeed…

See, that iPod touch is a marvelous piece of kit. Just looking at the latest, shiniest iPod touch has us enchanted. It’s truly gorgeous, but why would you buy one? The iPad mini is already expected to eat into iPad sales, so could the iPod touch suffer the same fate?

At its current price point, you’ll need to spend $300 to get hold of the latest, most iPhone-like iPod touch. That’s a little close to iPad territory for our liking and, more importantly, right around where the iPad mini is expected to debut. In fact, there’s the chance that Apple’s iPod touch may even be undercut by its larger, possibly more desirable sibling. An interesting position to be in. With the iPod touch arguably seeing its largest sales in the teenager/child market, we suspect the lure of an iPad will be too strong for many to resist. We know which we’d prefer, and that’s without ever laying our hands on a real life iPad mini.

Now those still wanting an iPhone-like experience without the contract will still go for the iPod touch, but as of very soon there will be something else to take into consideration. Something that, at least on paper, will be a compelling product. Something that, assuming you’re going to use it as more than a music player, will probably be the better device. If you’ve room for around 8-inches in your bag, the iPad mini may well be the better choice.

Having spent some time with the Nexus 7 and Kindle Fire, we’d argue that the iPad mini form factor may be the way to go even for those looking at the “proper” iPad. Even if you take the enhanced portability out of the equation, many will agree that the iPad is “just” a little too big. Not a lot, but just enough. The iPad mini may be the sweet spot, especially if it hits the right price point too.
Apple could avoid all this, of course, by reducing the price of that lovely iPod touch. At $300, it’s expensive as things are. With a small iPad costing around the same amount of cash, that little iPod seems all the more pricey.

After the Buzz - Pocketnow

Most new-device launches go the same way: usually the press gets review units before they're widely available, and we get to use them for a few days -or a week if we're lucky- as we work on our review.

Then press day arrives. The embargo on media coverage lifts, and everyone posts their reviews and videos at the same time. It's a huge frenzy, commenters go nuts, and it's a giant explosion of frantic opinion-sharing activity.

For about ... a day. And then it all goes away. Sure, there's followup coverage as people find bugs and hidden features, but after that initial blast, not many people revisit the device to see how it feels a few weeks or months later, because everyone's already focused on the next big deal coming down the pipe.

I recommend you watching after the buzz on youtube. they take a device like the nexus 7 or the samsung galaxy S3 and look at it after a few weeks of use.

Microsoft's Surface pricing

Microsoft recently announced its Surface tablet pricing and, after a day it went on sale, the 32GB model is already on back-order for 2-3 weeks. It certainly seems like consumers are flocking to the tablet already, but at least one analyst is worried that Microsoft may have priced its tablets too high.

“Our view on this is mixed. On one hand, this should give breathing room for its hardware partners to price more aggressively,” Sterne Agee analyst Shaw Wu said in a note Thursday. “But we believe a key risk is that Surface’s high pricing could prove to be a fatal mistake and relegate it to be a niche No. 4 or No. 5 player. We believe Nexus 7 and Kindle Fire HD will likely see considerably higher volume given their low $199 price points and stronger ecosystems with iPad retaining its commanding No. 1 position.”

“We believe a key risk for Microsoft is that pricing for its Surface tablet could end up being a fatal mistake with the delta too significant, particularly against Google and Amazon,” Wu continued. “As we have said before, we believe MSFT needs to price aggressively to give it a fighting chance in the highly competitive tablet market. We believe $299 including the cover-keyboard would have been much more compelling.”

We agree somewhat, especially since Microsoft’s Surface RT tablets are unproven, and since it’s now going to go head-to-head with Apple. Still, its early sales already seem to suggest there’s initial success for the tablet.

Comex Fired from apple

While iOS hackers are often a thorn in Apple’s side, sometimes the Cupertino company acknowledges that their expertise could actually be of value, and it offers them a job. That’s what happened to 20-year-old Brown University student Nicholas Allegra, better known as legendary iPhone jailbreaker Comex, last August.

After a year with Apple, however, Comex no longer works for the company. The reason for his departure? He forgot to reply to an email.

In messages posted to Twitter, Comex explained: “So… no point in delaying. As of last week, after about a year, I’m no longer associated with Apple.” He continued: “As for why? Because I forgot to reply to an email.”

That email was offering Comex the opportunity to extend his employment with Apple as a remote intern — and he forgot to reply to it. And at Apple, offer letters are taken seriously, Comex explained to Forbes, and the company doesn’t like them to be ignored. Needless to say the offer was rescinded.

“I wasn’t too happy about it, but it didn’t seem like I was able to fix it,” Comex said. “So that’s what it is.”

Comex did note, however, that his departure from Apple was “more complicated” than just that forgotten email. He insisted it “wasn’t a bad ending,” and that he enjoyed his time in Cupertino, but he chose not to disclose any more information. He also wouldn’t reveal what he worked on during his time with the company, but that’s to be expected given Apple’s strict non disclosure agreements.

Comex was the mastermind behind the hugely popular jailbreaking tool JailbreakMe, which allowed iOS users to hack their devices simply by visiting a link in the built-in Safari web browser. One security researcher, Charlie Miller, said Comex was “years ahead” of other iOS hackers.

But when Comex decided to switch sides and join Apple, he waved goodbye to iOS jailbreaking for good. Despite no longer working for the company, he believes his contract with Apple prevents him from any future work on reverse engineering its products.

“I don’t know whether or not it’s against the terms, but it probably is,” Comex said.

Nintendo's development of the gameboy

I've recently acquired a gameboy advance SP, see i made an intro for my friend "mrretrocity" (have a look at his work on youtube) and he wanted to repay me for creating the introduction for him and since he goes to a lot of car boot sales, he was able to pick up a gameboy advance SP for 4 pound with the charger and so me and him came up with a compromise to work on both sides. Since i had a lot of gameboy advance games without a DS/GBA to play them on. i thought the logical choice would just get the gameboy advance and now, it was definitely worth doing the introduction for him. I've recaptured all of my childhood memories with Crash XS and Banjo kazooie's grunty's revenge and mario kart super circuit. 

here's why i'm talking about the gameboy advance SP. it astounds me that up to the gameboy advance SP, nintendo didn't realise that people wanted to play their gameboy at night especially little kid when they really want to play the gameboy when they got sent to bed. even all the years that nintendo were producing gameboy's you'd think that they would have caught on that that. it might have not been ideal for the battery life since it had to power the back light. i can see why nintendo didn't include but things like peripheral's being added onto the gameboy that was also there for wasting the battery.

I think nintendo should have decided to have a lithium polymer battery soon with the previous gameboy advance. and as always thanks for listening.

update

sorry i've not been able to update my blog, i've been focusing on my college work and plus i'm in blackpool this weekend. I've already got the blog written at home but i've forgot to upload it onto the blogger. i was outside blackpool sand castle and i was going through my google currents news feed and there was virtually nothing there that really caught my eye or was that interesting.

SO yeah and also thanks for reading

Roundup update

I won't be doing a blog tomorrow with the roundup of the tech news of the week since i've got too much at college to do. I've got to edit my mini podcasts and plus we've just gone into production for the soap opera.
i've not done movie reviews in quite a bit and i really want to do the little mini reviews, where i just explain the plot of the story, my thoughts about certain scenes and depending on the special effects. i will be analying the special effects as well. instead of doing written blogs on blogspot while i've been walking home. I've pulled out my phone and talked to it and explaining my thoughts like an idiot with all the cars and people looking at me.

Future of technology

in college, we've got to write a script for a radio drama and i had plenty of different storylines i could take, an action thriller, an action comedy, detective drama and a sci-fi drama. I experimented with the different storylines and trying to realise the full potenial of each of the storylines and the ones that stuck out from me was the sci-fi drama. The storyline for the sci-fi drama was going to be a every day guy just working on his normal radio show but then the power goes out and causes a big disruption in the building. while johnny (main character) is trying to find his bang, he stumbles upon a time portal  and it would transport him to the year 2022 and i'll just leave it there. Once i've got the recorded and edited all together, i'll be putting it onto youtube for everybody to listen. while i was experiemeniong with the different quotes and the inspiration i've got, i got steal some of the famous quotes that come from those films like back to the future 2.

by now you've probably realised that i like technology and i like to talk about technology with a passion well since it's my radio drama and it's set in the future i thought 'Concepts in technology such as Google Glasses and the progression of voice recognition until it works perfectly with everybody. The natural progression of technology like we will end up stop carrying round Phones/devices in our pockets, they’ll be on our faces as described from the Google Glasses Prototype.'
that's a quote from my proposal.

The whole main reason i'm talking about this is the idea of the future in ten years and how will technology triumph us. I don't think we'll have robots or flying cars, or even hoverboards. I know that according to the back to the future 2, where they got transported to the year 2015. like seriously do you think we will actually have all the things that they advertised in back to the future.
How far will google glasses come? will everybody have them and will we get turned into Wall-E characters were we are just all blinded by screens?

this is a different blog to the one that i created this morning. it was on about the gameboy advance SP backlight but i forgot to add it to the blog ready for posting and as always thanks for reading

Ultrabooks vs Hardware and software

With the introduction to a new line of laptops called ultrabooks, What are ultrabooks?

Ultrabooks are just basically a laptop with a higher specification than normal laptops and they either use the i3, i5 or the i7 processor from intel and that's basically it, there's no new internal way of making a laptop to make it a lot faster, it's just basically a naming convention that laptop manufactures have gave laptops to make laptops popular again. I don't currently own a ultrabook but from what i've read about them and from what i've seen, it's just basically a laptop with a new name and a maybe a beter processor. We aren't going to refer to them in everyday use and call them ultrabooks. They are and fundamentally laptops with a better spec.

I was going to create another blog for this but since my rant on ultrabooks is small, i thought i'd talk about it here. Nobody really cares about the hardware, they only really care about the software and when i say hardware i don't mean what the internals have got such as how much ram it has or what speed the processor rans at, i'm talking about what the keyboard feels like, the trackpad, the materials that it's made from and how they've been put together. I'm not really fused about what laptop i get, all i'm concentrating on, the specifications of the laptop, is it up to speed with today's CPU's and GPU's, will it be comfortable to type on for long periods of time and how well it sits on my desk or lap, has it got a good fan to keep it cool whilst i've got it on my lap. Sure it's nice to have a good looking laptop such as a macbook but really all i care about is the user experience, the internal hardware and is it comfortable.

Sorry if this is a bit late, we were actually filming our soap opera today (the one that we've been planning for a bit now). i've not actually been on a computer today to update my blog and as always

Thanks for reading my rants

Nightly roms

I said i was going to talk about apple's advertiseing technique and how apple can really create a technique that you're instantly friendly with, but as i was writing it, there isn't that much that i can write about really without digressing. here's the short version. I was watching TV the other day and an advert came on and instantly thought 'i bet it's an apple product' why? well it had narration by an unknown person. Second the white background, with any Apple advert background, they're normally white, not sure if it's to produce the effect of heavenly how that's just how the cookie crumbles and the third one ius the framing on the advert. The ears were in the middle and stayed in the middle, so i thought, it's got something to do with the ears and let alone enough it was the Earpods advert, advertising the way that earphones should be produced and how they should be worn.

you can probably guess from the title that i'm going to talk about nightly roms and no it's not something that you say goodnight to or anything on those lines. I'm not even sure why they are called nightly roms at all, each version could be released during the night or maybe it's an underground thing. Roms are just basically Images of the operating systems and these images are compiled together to we can easily install them with a recovery image and that recovery image is Clockwork Mod (CWM). <that's just roms in basic terms.

Nightly roms are Android OS's such as Jellybean and Ice cream sandwich. CM10 is an operating system based on the design and architecture of the Jellybean android OS, Some phones out there haven't got their official release yet of jellybean and people who have no idea just wait for the official release (if it get released) and then you get the other people that can't wait at all to upgrade to the latest OS, so they install a rom by rooting it. For some phones don't get up getting the Official build of, let's say CM10 and they've got to settle for nightly rom, Nightly roms are pretty good because you know you will be a new update every if not every other day. Now it's good that you get updated roughly everyday but why don't they just update the nightly rom every week so you can see the changes more and plus you don't have to keep updating everyday. Sometimes if you're updating everyday, you'll hardly see the changes unless it's a massive feature. If they keep producing great roms and still put the same amount of work in but only release an updated version every weekend. you wouldn't have to mess around as much and plus you've got a better OS for one that you had last week.

Hopefully you get what i'm saying with this blog and hopefully you'll agree with me. and as always thanks for reading.

Apple's advertising technique

i was at my aunties at the weekend watching x factor and a new advert came on television during that time there was something that struck me. The new amazon advert, everything that was seen on the advert, obviously apple insprised, here's some digression here.

apple have been known for their advertising from a very young stage. remember the 1984 commercial advertising the macintosh. Well that advert had great praise to it's cinematic design and tension. i'll be posting the link at the bottom. Most of the commercials that apple have done recently are normally painted in white and normally showing off the elegance of their design. There's one advert that i can't help but listen to all the time when i'm down, which is rare for me, It's The Crazy ones narrated by steve jobs not by richard dreyfuss. The steve jobs one just attracts more attention to him and pulls all the focus away from Apple which steve actually said when he was listening the advert back that it was pulling more attention towards steve's life than apple's progression.

Anyway i've digressed and that's the digression, Amazon's new advert is the spitting image of the recent apple's commercial. everything even down to the acoustic guitar playing in the background and i'm waiting for apple to get their class action lawsuit and sue amazon. Obviously i'm exxagtering but that's for effect. and how did they end the advert, they ended it on the amazon logo, and that's just sticking two fingers up at the marketing crew at apple.

For tomorrow, i should be talking about apple earpods advert and how their style of advertising is quite obvious even when they're aren't showing the product.

thanks for reading 

Apple rant

All i want to do at this very moment and laugh at apple. Couple of reasons why. they failed to make the iPhone the iPhone 5 and advertise it like it's two previous interations. I've said this before and i'll say it again, iOS 6 is boring and iOS 5 had a couple of new features like notification centre that was in android years before but iOS 5 set it self apart due to the fact it had the best experience on the iPhone 4S and you know what was on the 4S… Siri. Yes Siri was the main reason why many people actually bought the 4S (other than the fact they wanted the latest and greatest iPhone) The iPhone 5 did set it self apart from an engineering standpoint but other than it, there wasn't that big of a leap between the iphone 4S and iPhone 5. Specs wise it's massively different. the iPhone 5 has a great processor and here's why. If you're playing a high spec game like the ones running tegra 3 on the android side, apple have engineered the processor to overclock at certain speeds to give the user a better experience and if you're using the Facebook app or just safari, it will underclock it to about 512mhz and surprising this is very useful and it save battery.

I've noticed i'm not getting a lot of views anymore, ever since i started my views have been going up and up and the maximum i've got is 3,200 in a month and i used to hit at least 100 views a day and sometimes i'd even hit the 250 mark once every week but now i'm actually struggling to even reach 100 views. i know my content has just a little bit and i've started ranting about stuff that's been on my mind (technology wise) and i've stopped talking about the day news that i see on technobuffalo or idownloadblog.

Plus i know i have a rant about Apple and how shit the iPhone 5 but the iPhone and apple have inspired many people all round the globe to invent stuff and steve jobs has been a great inspriration for that adventure to invent the latest and greatest product.

Thanks for reading

Roundup Update

There's not been that much news in the technology industry that i can really highlight on with one day of blogging like everything that i've been looking at recently hasn't really caught my attention or it's been interesting enough to actually write about. i know this blog is a bit late and it's going to be a bit late roughly every friday since i see my family now on a friday and it's very hard to fit that in with my social life and my blogging life. i haven't stopped doing the roundup of tech news of the week. It's just throughout the week i would write some details down of what to highlight on the end of the week roundup but since there hasn't really been anything that really caught my attention, there has been no point. And another note i'd like to add that i'm getting my sync cable today that i left at my sister's and i only see her once every week so that's why i'm only getting the sync cable a week from when i left it at hers.

Those are just my general thoughts and i've also noticed with my recent blogs that i've started doing blogs about ranting and not about the general news. as soon as i get my work done for college. See this week i've had to write a 15 page script for the soap opera that were doing in college and i successfully gave it in yesterday…finally but i've got more work i need to do, i've got to write a radio drama script that's due in on tuesday and i haven't started it yet and the script in duration has to be 10 minutes long and i'm actually unsure i'll get it finished in time. 

So this is just a little update blog on what i'm doing and most of you won't actually care but that's why i haven't been doing blog that are up to my usual standards.

thanks for reading anyway

Downgrading to ICS

Hello world, i've just talk about this bluntly on my Audio podcast, which i'll give you the link at the bottom. I'm downgrading to Ice cream sandwich from jellybean and well i've got a couple of reasons why. Jellybean is the fastest operating system i've ever played with and it's much better than their froyo days, i'll tell you that. but i've got a few problems which are mainly the roms fault.

First there's no camera app, the Gallery app is there with all the pictures that i've taken with the previous roms i've had. I was at John bishop's Tour on thursday night (famous english scows comedian, Very funny) and i was going to take a picture of the event and post it on Facebook, just because i'm that sad and i was looking through the apps and i couldn't find the app at all. So then i was laughing my head off thinking how could they include an OS with no camera app and plus there was no camera drivers installed so even if i downloaded a camera app from the play store, i couldn't possibly get it to work. so i installed a new version of Jellybean but a different rom and i checked the rom was there which it was but when i installed the Gapps Zip file, the camera app just disappeared again and it turns out people have had the same problem when installing the gapps and they've been able to fix it. I'm not going to go into details but the nesscessary APK file that i needed wasn't there.

Second reason was, there was a lot of apps in the play store that weren't compatible with the device, Facebook and Twitter worked but games like Bad piggies or Jetpack joyride didn't. sure i can live without bad piggies and jetpack joyride but it's just that i want those apps and yet i'm so close to having them.

The third reason, it's the decrease in battery life, i used to get about 3 days worth of battery life with ICS but when i updated to Jellybean rom1, i'd get about 36 hours of battery life and when i tried to run the same OS but different rom, i got about 18 hours and i would have to charge it up at night to ensure i didn't run out of battery the second day.

One more reason is, when i got a text message, the phone wouldn't buzz at all. i would have to have the pulse notification lights to see if i got a message, sure i could just unlock the phone and it's effort to actually see if you've got a text. I would get vibration if i got a phone call.

Thank for reading

Bad Piggies (Creators of Angry birds) Review

A few days ago, a game released and it was said to be a nothing but a spin off and just be a small chapter. I think we are all farmilar with how crap and low minded angry birds is for that trial and error gameplay mechanic. That game has virtually taken over the world and not just in the mobile world. you can buy angry bird themed, IPod Docks, Hats, Board games and many more. It's a fad that has a taken over the world by storm. Now something that isn't low-minded or crap at all is GANGNAM STYLE now that has taken over the world! I don't mean to be a hipster but i watched it before it was famous like when it had under 5 million views.

Back to my original point, the Game that was suppose to be a spin off was Bad piggies and i actually talked about it in a previous blog, how the trailer looked promising, well personally Bad piggies has certainly rejoiced the reputation of Rovio (Creators of angry birds) seriously i was on Bad piggies for about 4 hours without noticing and i ended up being late to meet my friends. It's got the same trial and error format with angry birds but you have so many more opprutintys to be creative, design your own course and create any vehicle you can think of. It might be a car, plane, boat, air balloon, low rider, anything you can think of.

I love this game! no i'm not a angry birds faggot, sure angry birds was a good game but then it got way to repitiive way too quick and yet you could replay the levels on bag piggies, not just because you want to get 3 stars but just because you can and start achieving different outcomes with your little bad piggy.

I recommend it to all and thanks for reading

Tri-band microphones

I did have a blog planned for today about the new bad piggies game for android and iOS Devices but i forgot to post it so it was ready for posting today so instead of skipping a day in blogging, i thought i'd touch a subject that i knew i wanted to cover. I've got a few blogs that i've written in case i won't have time to write a blog due to E.g upcoming deadlines that might be approaching or i've got to get concentrated on Writing the rest of my script instead of technology. If i talk about something that i love, i can really type fast and it's amazing that i can write stuff off the top of my head and it'll make sense but if i talk about something that i have roughly no interest, i will be writing dead slow and it won't be as creative as my other pieces of writing.

Something that struck me that wasn't really a problem is the quality of the phone calls we've been taken for years now. sure there's distortion but i thought that was just because of the network's problem and it realivity couldn't be improved. I'm sure the iPhone 5 wasn't the first phone to have this implemented into their design and i'm going to guess that they aren't the last phone either. Apple might have implemented the Tri-band Microphones into their design and apple being apple are going to patent it to prevent everybody else having it in their design. This is true words, since apple haven't really invented rounded rectangle design for their iPad but they have patented it. It's just the same thing with the patent 'Seeing a number and clicking it and the device will start automattically ringing that number' Yes this is the patent that caused many HTC devices being banned in the USA because of one little patent. That patent is just how the whole world of devices should operate. It's just the cardial progression of technology.

The iPhone 5 has a microphone on the top of the device, a microphone on the bottom which is obvious for the actual phone call microphone and then there's one more microphone on the back of the device which is quiet clever as it listens in on the background noise of the phone call and then converts them hertz and kilohertz to eliminate those sound waves from the initial phone call. Hopefully everybody else can catch onto this idea, even the carriers as they've got to improve the bandwidth on the network towers to with stand the extra data going through.

Thanks for reading

Mac Apps Plead!

Hey i've started blogging everyday on Youtube, over the months i've been doing, Blogging is a dead platform for on website Blogger where they are normally text driven. So i've decided to do my own Information download series on Youtube where i talk about the days events and just something that's on my mind. I've been wanting to do for it ages but the software that i had just wasn't up to scraps. So i've decided to re-work it and do it solely from the top of my head. There's digression and jokes and just you will see the inside of my head. I'll put a link at the bottom.

I actually talked about this on today's audio blog (monday) I've got many things to talk about the macintosh and OSX but today it's only one subject. why do many MAC apps not exist in the mac App store? I don't know if it's distribution or it's just developers don't want their apps on the app store so that apple don't get any money from the apps. For many people they might just think the app doesn't exist and the developers haven't put time in to develop for the mac platform. I know for a fact that VLC player is on the mac but when i searched it in on the Mac app store, i got no results found. So i went on safari and downloaded the Mac version of VLC Player.

It just takes a lot of time in comparison to what time it could take to download the same app if it was in the app store. why do i have to go to the external source to download an app when i could easily go the app store and download it from there. There's another thing as well is that… well i'll tell you the story first. I downloaded Google drive for my mac so i can have all my documents be synced with my college work and PC stuff all in one place but i had to download the app from an external source which is OK because it's a google app and they don't really want to put their apps on the Mac app store so that's understandable but every time my Mac boots up, a little prompt indicating me that Google drive needs to be allowed or ignore and every time i click on Always Allow and yet it still comes up every time, I don't know if it's a bug in the program or that's just how it works.

Thanks for reading and Give me some feedback on my blogs on youtube.

Native OS Vs Skins

Technobuffalo's Jon rettinger talked about something that i thought 'why has nobody ever said something like this before' i just found it stupid how nobody in the amount of years we've had HTC sense and many people complaining that we haven't really asked this question. Sure you've got the ability to root your phone and you can put any Build onto your device. It's just amazing and it's a really good idea too, if you want to the Native OS without Rooting or buying a Google Device like the Galaxy Nexus or the Nexus 7, Or you could boot up into the skin that HTC or Motorola is trying to push on us.

I think i've come up with a compramise and it might not be the greatest deal of difference to the end user because their only buying a phone basing it off the looks and design and that's about it, all they care about is how does it work out of the box and for the average teen. Can it send messages and access facebook? and sadly i'm in this generation of consumerism and it's quite bad because when people look at me on my phone writing a blog or a random thought of the day that i have, they assume that i'm texting somebody or on facebook.

Sorry i'm getting off topic. here's the compromise, if HTC ripped out their skin and just had the native OS and had exclusive features/apps that no other manfacturer could develop or get close to. because let's face it the average consumer isn't going to really care about the skin that they are using, they just want to know if the phone is working. It would be the same for all companies, Rip out their skin and subsitute for the native OS and have exclusive apps.

This reminds me a lot of the Nokia Lumia 800 how they were one of the first people to have windows phone 7.5 mango and instead of putting a skin over it and destroy a great looking OS like windows phone, they gave their line-up of phone exclusive apps like Nokia drive and nokia music, Etc

I've been doing a lot of rants lately and i really like it because most of these are just coming out off the top of my head and it's really easy to write down. I probably won't be doing a roundup of tech news tomorrow since i'm busy seeing my family and plus i've got to finish writing my script for the soap opera that were doing in college so yeh. Thanks for reading

Unbelievable Apple!

me and my uncles go back and forth all the time about technology and he recommended me to have a look at the link on 9To5mac or Mac rumors, i can't remember but it was a apple fanboy dedicated news website and with the iPhone 5 coming out, The most obvious thing that most of all tech bloggers do is play with it, get a feel and have a review ready for it to be published in the tech world, but something that they've started doing in the last 10 months is test the benchmark of the device.

What's a benchmark? well i'll tell you, A benchmark is pushing something or someone until they can't run anymore or perform those tasks anymore, Well in technology terms this means, pushing the CPU/CPU to it's highest potential to see what it's capable of. A few months ago they started comparing Benchmarks with the HTC One X and the Galaxy nexus and many other android phone.

Obviously for months the HTC one X beat every phone/tablet due to it's Quad-Core Tegra 3 chip set and then like everything else in technology, something else comes out that destroys the competition, The Galaxy S3 was that something, Samsung recieved a Quad core Exynos Chip and absolutely blew the HTC one x out of the water. Well as the years go by and technology gets forever smaller and better then arrives the iPhone 5 with an A6 chip. First thing is that the A6 chip is only dual core and you might be thinking it's rubbish since it doesn't fit with today's criteria of chip sets. Well that's where you're wrong, the iPhone 5 beat the benchmark of the Galaxy S3! a Quad core phone got beaten by a Dual core.

Ever since i've been interested in technology, i've always said for Desktops and laptops, Specifications matter but when it comes to phones and tablets, they don't need a very powerful chip to run. All you need is a Great ecosystem where the CPU/GPU can live harmously with the operating system and this is where apple has got it right.

Thanks for reading

Experience with a Mac

Normally with any device that i have, i can't help but tweak it and make it my own. Such as iPhones they have to be as a requirement to be jailbreakon, Android smartphones have to be rooted so i can have the best native operatings system and plus i don't have to abide by stupid skins that manufactueres put on like HTC and Motorola. I personally don't like HTC sense 4.0.3, The multi-tasking on the HTC One series is awful, it trys to replicate a webos style of multi-tasking but it appears slugglish and not well thought out. I'll be doing a blog about When you first boot up your phone should you get an option to boot up into HTC sense or Native OS. Don't worry i've got a lot of things to cover on that.

I've digressed, every device, even laptops, i like to tweak like dual booting it into Lixux or Mac (if it's a windows laptop) roughly everything on my windows laptop has been tweaked in some way shape or form. It's nothing like it was when it first arrived at my door. With the Macbook Pro that i recieved for my birthday, which was a complete surprise, my family worked together to get me a Macbook pro and i'm happy that they did because between the wars of the Desktop OS, the obvious winner is Mac OSX by a long shot.

I've have no tempation to alter the Mac in any way, It just works as Steve Jobs says. it's the best Computer experience i've had, Sure there were a few hiccups when the keyboard and one of the fans stopped working but everything is fixed now and it works as advertised. I've also had more of a tendency to be creative in my writing, my video effects, Music development and many other things. I've created a few beats in Garageband, they may not be good but i'm still learning to mix all the notes, and beats together to create a harminous sound.

Thanks for reading

The iPhone 5 Review

It's time for it the iPhone 5 blog, i didn't really feel like i had to rush to do a iPhone 5 blog but now it's been out for about 4 days now and enough tech bloggers have got their hands on it and they've figured out the problems and their opinions and it's kind of hard for me since i've got to base my tech reviews of other tech bloggers reviews, sure i've got my own opinions but if i don't get an actual hands-on, i can't really have an truly honest opinon about the tech

We are all aware of the new features with the iPhone but i'll give you a basic rundown of it, 4 inch display but still keeping the same width as the previous generation iPhones so you're able to reach your finger from top to bottom just like you used to. Roughly every component of the iPhone 5 has been shrunk down by at least 30%, which is just amazing from an engineering stand point. it's amazing what apple has accomplished with Johnny Ive and their whole engineering team.

There were no drastic changes to the iPhone 5 in terms of like Siri for the iPhone 4S or the retina display and new design of the iPhone 4. The only thing that is changed is the screen and the specifications. i can't really say much about the iPhone that hasn't already been said.

I honestly think at this point that iOS 6 has got really really boring. it's just not satisfying anymore but i'm not saying apple have created an awful operating system but it's got rather boring for me ever since i've started using Webos and Android. iOS has just been the same thing every year, they've not even added widgets yet (only in the notification centre). Apple can create a great ecosystem for their Operating system and i'll be talking about the Mac and it's awesomeness in tomorrow's blog.

you might have noticed that in the internet world, people have been taking the piss out of iPhone 5, like creating pictures like iPhone 305 or iPhone 20, I get these pictures, but after 1 picture, it's just not funny anymore, sure you can see why the people created them but it's just not funny and another thing that's in the internet world is iOS 6 Maps. iOS 6 maps might not be as good as advertised, i'll show you a picture and you can judge for yourself.

Thanks for reading
Update: Apple announced that they sold their 5 millionth iPhone today, in just under 3 days, they've been able to sell 5 million units of the iPhone 5 and ever since wednesday and there is now 100 million devices running iOS 6.

I've updated to Jellybean!!

I've said on my roundup of tech news on friday that i'll be talking about the iPhone 5 but i've recently upgraded to Jellybean on my samsung I9000 and it's my first user experience with Jellybean so i thought i'd make monday's blog about Jellybean because basically everybody knows what the iPhone is and if you read my blog, you're bound to check out people's reviews on Youtube or Tech websites, so why talk about something that everybody knows or just talk about my experience with jellybean first hand

I've just updated to Jellybean, and to be honest, i didn't really have to make a day of it. All i did was wipe the dalvik cache and wipe the partition, install the rom and that was it. Dalvik cache, i learnt of what it was from the android power user over on youtube.com/pocketnow

You should check him out, he explains everything in so much depth and yet keeping it very simple of keeping track of where he is.

There were a few hiccups when installing Jellybean. First there was backing it up so in case anything was messed up, i could still go back to that state in time. Installing the Rom was a bit confusing, first i thought i missed out a step. I clicked on installing the rom and it did it's normal procedure but then my Samsung i9000 rebooted and came up with a loading screen and it was like that for about 20 minutes until finally, i decided to take the battery out and try to install it again but i couldn't get it into Clockworkmod (CWM) so i kept trying and trying until i got into CWM and thank goodness that i got back into it or otherwise my phone would have been stuck in booting up mode or Powered off. i went through the normal steps of installing a new rom and it went successfully. So after that long procedure i've now got jelly bean on my Phone.

Google Now is fantastic and much more responsive and better looking than siri. 

everything that i throw at google now has worked in a way that it feels futuristic. Offline voice typing might not be there yet but i've still got to download another zip file so i can gain access to offline voice typing. Google have really improved on the android OS. I honestly think that they were fine with ICS but with every major operating system, it needs to be updated annually. Jellybean is the best android operating system to date and probably Google will probably blow us away next year with kiwi lime pie or whatever the next android Code name is.

Here comes the main attraction - Project Butter. Project butter is so slickly smooth. It's super fast, Animations start straight away as soon as you touch the screen. Google have really done a number on the android OS in the past couple of years and they've been focusing more on user experience. ICS was just the building ground of what they could achieve with jellybean and they've really improved. Sorry if i'm repeating my words but jellybean is worth the excitement and hype unlike Hunger games like my movie reviews.

Thanks for reading my opinion on Jellybean, if you've got a device that can accept Jellybean, speaking on that every phone can accept Jellybean, the worlds first android phone the T-mobile G1 has got Jellybean so if a developer out there has ported Jellybean over to your device, i kindly recommend you get it immeditially.

Roundup of tech news 21st september.

Hey, i know i said i won't be doing a roundup of tech news but it seems that i've got a little extra time to do it so here it goes.

We all know Apple released their iPhone 5 today but i'll be saving that for monday's blog. Some of you might have already got it, It's iOS 6 and it was released on the 19th featuring 3D maps with flyover, a better integrated siri, for launching apps and finding out who one the football game last night. Facebook integration, you can post your pictures directly to Facebook and you can post your status right from the notification centre. The only reason why i'm downloading iOS 6 onto my iPhone 3GS is to see if it actually fixes the battery problem i've had with it and hopefully i can throw away my iPhone 3G (it's an iPOD) and start using my iPhone 3GS as an iPod. Well it just 24 hours of iOS 6 being released, it's already on 15% of iOS devices. That's just phenomal isn't it! It's got to be the biggest launch of any Software upgrade ever, Apple announced at the iPhone 5 conference that they just sold their 400 millionth iOS device. Right now picture 15% of that! i lot of people won't actually know that it's come out yet and they might be still stuck on iOS 4, Just like my Dad.

Here's another thing about Apple tech news. iMessage was down a couple of days ago and causing a widespread of complains on twitter and the forums on Apple's support. This was due to the fact that Apple had an Uproar of people upgrading and there was that many people using it and it was detained to crash.

Google aquried snapseed this week. Now i will be honest, i have no idea what this company is. i think it's a rival of Instagram, It's slightly the same thing, taking a picture and then adding a filter , uploading it to Facebook and letting the world know what you're having for tea. Honestly i hate these people because they are taking up bandwidth that the internet desperately needs.  The reason behind google buying snapseed and i think Google are going to integrate into Google + and try to get more users actually using google +. Also 2 weeks ago Google announced that it had over 400 million members signed up to google plus and you know what the sad thing is, is that Only 100 million people actually go back on it at least once a month.

Thanks for reading and that's been the tech news of this week. Sorry if this Blog seems rushed but it slightly is and it also might not make sense but if you've been reading my blogs ever since the start, you'll notice that i never make sense haha

Respect to windows phone

I was having a look at the windows phone 7, and as i'm testing out what each button does, Holding down the home button, activates a voice search screen, like Siri or google voice, and i'll be having a blog about that in the upcoming weeks. Holding down the Back button, reveals something that i'm not sure what it is, could it be a multi-tasking UI screen, or could it just be a recent apps screen, I'm not apple to close the apps, such as swiping them up like Webos or holding the app down, so i get a new menu screen.  it's not going to be a big blog, since it's just a pondering question and could anybody else who's got a windows powered smartphone, could they enlighten me. I'm just curious of what it is. 

As i was using the Nokia lumia, it was very intrusive and not so laid back as iOS. windows Phone features live tiles, If you're screen is hovering over the people app, it goes through the pictures in your in your contacts and displays them little segments. It's the same thing with the Facebook application, the Facebook Icon has Live tile enabled features. The messages application is very good how it's white on black giving a greater perception on the eyes. I don't know if my eyes are funny or it's just what everybody is like but i find reading Black writing on a white screen, very hard to read and hard to scan through it but if i invert the colours and read white writing on a black screen, It's much better for my eyes and it's much Much easier to read. I love the contrast on the screen. The HTC titan has a 4" inch screen at a resolution of 480x800 and that just brings everything closer to your eyes and with all the colourful textures that are found in the windows Phone environment, everything just stands out.

Personally, i quite love the simple user interface and the live tiles on Windows phone but the only restriction is apps when compared to android and iOS. Most of the people say that when they moved over to a windows phone, The applications that they regularly used, we supported or supported by the manufacture.

Thanks for reading. Sorry it's been a late blog and there might no be a roundup of tech news since i'm quite busy this friday night.

Batteries in smartphones today

why haven't we seen a device that can charge up whilst powered off. my phone has normally never reached the point of it turning off by itself, usually i get around 4% and then i plug it in to charge it so i never actually see it off when it's got a dead battery inside. Using a ICS Rom, i get about 3 days battery life out of it and that's moderate use of the internet and texting all day long. I don't play on games that much but when i do i play minecraft or plants vs zombies. Something that can occupy my time with thinking and not just playing the repitiive game of angry birds. I've got the Jelly bean rom on my phone ready to install but in order to install it, i've got to format it and then wipe the cache and other stuff just to install and i want to make sure when i've got enough time one day i'll do it.

Back to my original, Why can't phones especially smartphone charge up while being powered off. Laptops and other technology devices like a DS or a gameboy have had this technology for years but for our phones can't even do that. Why is this? Is it something to do with the internals of every smartphone that's preventing us to charge our phone while turned off or are companies doing it on purpose?

I'm not actually sure by this. 

My phone recently ran out of battery and i had to charge it up and for some reason, it wasn't booting up properly so i put into clockwork mod and let it gain enough battery before i unplugged it from the wall and then turned the device on and then plugged it in back into the wall so it could charge normally. There's not really a reason behind this blog, i just thought how it's strange that we've advanced so far in technology and yet we still can't come up with a way to charge up our technology without it being turned on.

First of all, i might be wrong. I'm talking smartphones, not Dumbphones/stupidphones as they are now known as. Some smartphones out there might be able to charge without the need of it being on. And as always Thanks for reading.

Bad Piggies, Angry birds spin off!

The people at rovio are known for creating the angry birds franchise that has taken our smartphones by storm and roughly everybody without fail has angry birds on their phone. Resulting in millions and millions of sales across all platforms. They've been bringing out constant updates so that all the fans are able to get their angry birds on.

Angry birds, in my opinion isn't that good and personally i think it's over-rated. All the game is taking care of is casual gamers that just want a quick 5 minute fix where they can play the game without getting stuck. it takes advantage of the trial and error format. If you fail, you try again and again and again until you complete the level and achieve 3 stars. 

Rovio have tried to keep us entertained with Angry birds seasons, every festival like halloween and valentines day is covered in the world of angry birds with different themed levels to suit the approatiate holiday season.

Angry birds Space is the newest edition that takes to outer space with new gameplay mechanics. Planets have surrounding orbit and that controls your birds has they fly across through space. affecting the planets and killing pigs as usual with the angry birds franchise.

There's a new game on the horizon that reverses the gameplay. you know play as the piggies instead and you might be thinking ' Oh that's original' but if you have a look at the gameplay, it's entirely new gameplay concept. you can create your own vechiles using the materials and object provided and using your head you can create a plane or a flying car, jet powered boat, anything is possible and you guide your little piggy through the level.

Here's the link so you can get a little taste of the action.

I'm honestly looking forward to this game, it's the biggest change in the angry birds franchise. honestly i don't know i like the new game mechanics or i'm just relieved that Rovio have decided to move forward with their company and franchises

Thanks for reading

Have apple reached their top or have they got room to grow

With the iPhone 5 being released today, what do you think apple could do to up their game next year and the year after that and so on and so forth. I'm not sure where apple will go now, The iPhone 5 has had two million pre-orders, That double the sales of the iPhone 4S on the first day. There are two sides to this.

The iPhone 4S was only a small upgrade from the iPhone 4 to give a little lead in the competition against other smartphones and not many people bought it since their two year contract with the iPhone 4 has one year left and loads of people didn't really see the point in upgrading to the iPhone 4S since it only had one extra feature and that was siri. The voice assistant that helps you out on day to day tasks and makes you life easier but that's the only feature that really sold the iPhone 4S to many people.

The sales of the iPhone 5 on the other hand is a massive upgrade, sure you've got greatest specifications but you've also got the biggest change since the original iPhone. The screen, Apple have made the iPhone taller by giving it a 4 inch display and getting rid of the 3.5inch screen to fit with the forever growing mobile market. So to justify the iPhone 5 sales can just be down to a lot of people who were ending their contract on the iPhone 4 and they wanted the upgrade and then theres apple fanboys who upgrade every year who want the latest and greatest iPhone, and then you get new comers that instead of getting the older version of the iPhone and being instantly out of date will just go for the newest version.

I'm not actually sure if Apple have reached the top of their game, is that it from apple. A lot of people said this when the original iPod nano came out. A lot of people were saying why bring out a new product that does something that we already have but smaller. This is where all the idea of technology has gone, Every so often new technology comes out like the invention of the microchip and shrinks down a processor and yet makes it more powerful.

I'm not sure where apple can go from here, Tim cook have always left the stage saying "that's only the start"
Has he been working on a new product that will not only change the face of technology but change the way we think about what technology. Like the iPhone, iPod and the iPad.

Thanks for reading.

Surprising technobuffalo wrote this blog hours after i wrote this. That's the true story. http://www.technobuffalo.com/companies/apple/confessions-of-a-former-apple-fanboy/