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Heavy Rain PS3 impressions

March 2nd, 2010

Not having a Playstation 3, I wandered into Public in Syntagma and saw a familiar control scheme and started playing, Heavy Rain, the new game from Quantic Dream.
2 hours later, the shop was closing and I had to leave.
All I can say was, after playing through David Cage’s previous game Fahrenheit, he has really got [...]

New iTunes update to 9.0.3, and with it and iPod update, and, unsurprisingly, another dead iPod, much like last time…
Again, the solution was the same, use the Windows 7 partition to fix it, and it did finally.
I can’t imagine what would happen when people’s iPads begin to fail like this…

Avatar / New PC built

January 12th, 2010

So, I finally went to see the movie, all in nice 3D at the Village Max cinema in Faliro. Overall, it was good.
I wouldn’t state excellent, as there were a few problems with pacing, I would have liked to see more of Jake trying to fit in with his Avatar when learning the Na’vi [...]

UK frozen over

January 8th, 2010

Just like in the film The Day After Tomorrow. Picture taken by NASA.

You know, for all the stick Microsoft gets, illegal bundling of IE with Windows to abuse the monopoly position, huge numbers of patches and problems, they do help people with many solutions to fix things.
Well, Apple, famous for their line ‘”It just works”, simply didn’t.
I bought the version 3 firmware from them, tried to [...]

New header banner

December 10th, 2009

Decided to change from the original orange banner. Image was taken by my Nikon Coolpix L16 of my EEEPC 1000HE keyboard and manipulated in GIMP.

Great bargain today!

December 9th, 2009

Bought a Samsung Story 1Tb external hard drive, looks lush, doesn’t it?
 

Review here – 90%
All this for just €77 from Kotsovolos (think Dixons in Greece), a rare bargain from them, given they ten to rip people off.

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