Wario Land: Shake It
Have you seen this youtube Wario Land page yet? Damn that’s pretty sweet… had me smiling like a total goofball when I pulled it up. Some nice effects coding.
Can’t slap a picture up but here is the linky.
iPhone 3G Power Adapter Recall – What’s Next?
Things just keep getting worse for Apple.
Not only was I one of the stupid ones that waited in line for this phone that has honestly had nothing but issues. From the numerous firmware updates (3 of them to date) of which NONE have made any improvements on my battery life.
Now they have a recall on the Power Adapter that shipped with the iPhone 3G as apparently the metal prongs can break off and get stuck in the electrical outlet creating a risk for electric shock. Gee don’t you think that would have been thoroughly tested by the company that made them?
In my opinion Apple is so greedy that its willing to ship a product that ‘they know has issues’ just to get their revenue pumping and then deal with the issues as the customers complain.
They should spend less money on advertising and more money on their QA department.
Now I have to wait 3 weeks for a replacement adapter and am urged to use a USB cable to charge my phone, so this is another inconvenience for me… Way to go Apple.. A 1st time customer with nothing but bad things to say about your product!! Woo Hoo!!
iPhone 3G – 2.1 update
As highly anticipated this release was, some of the main fixes focused on:
- Significantly better battery life for most users
- Decrease in call setup failures and dropped calls
- Reduced time to backup to iTunes
- Improved performance in text messaging
- Faster loading and searching of contacts
- Genius playlist creation
My opinion and actual results for so:
- Its even worse, with 3G enabled my battery is 3/4 of the way drained with no phone calls in less than 6 hours since being unplugged from the charger
- Lost 4 calls alone yesterday with full signal strength in the 3G area
- Yea thats better
- This is the biggest improvement so far for me
- Still a little laggy for me, could be better
- Genius… Pandora is still better and should have worked after the 2.1 update instead of having to sync the phone again
I am honestly NOT impressed with Apple and their progress on these updates. My battery life absolutely sucks ass and is far from acceptable… Why should I have to turn off 3G, Push etc just to make it through the day. Just fix the damn problem!!
They keep delaying things people want and where basically promised in the 2.1 release. Maybe we’ll have to wait for 3.0 for us to get everything we want…. but then they will probably make us pay for the update!!
My good ole Samsung Blackjack maybe coming out of retirement if this shit keeps up!!
Office Complainers
A couple weeks ago we moved from our suburb office back to our previous downtown office.
The move itself I didn’t mind, the only drawback is paying for parking… other than that I have no problems working downtown as it has some perks like actually walking to lunch, seeing the waterfront, watching bums in the park, whatever… but there are some stubborn coworkers that refuse to accept the fact this is where they will be working for a long time.
These few people honestly have nothing better to do than to find the smallest things to complain about, like:
- how they actually have to walk an entire block from the parking ramp to the office
- my umbrella turned inside out, like it never happened before
- It took me 10 minutes to park my car
- I miss going to the mall to go shopping during lunch
- the printer is too far away
My answers are:
- most of you need the exercise
- buy a real umbrella, not the tiny one that fits in your purse
- learn to park better,faster
- shop online as the mall downtown doesn’t have much to offer
- don’t use the printer, write it out by hand and the exercise won’t hurt
My complaints to them:
- you talk to loud and the cigarettes make your voice even more annoying
- who cares about your boyfriend/girlfriend/transient
- where some quiet shoes, I swear you can strike oil wearing them
- do you job and shut up
- DO NOT USE THE SPEAKER PHONE TO CHECK VOICEMAIL
This topic has been slightly mentioned in one of my previous posts, but it needed some more attention.
