Wolfenstein 3D clone comes to WP and Win8

DIE NAZI! Seriously if you don’t know Wolfenstein 3D you need a history lesson. So classic. Well a port is available for free for Windows Phone and for Windows 8 (including ARM).  I can’t imagine this is going to be available for long but I did play it on my WP and it’s bringing back … Read more

Azure is back up

Microsoft’s Azure cloud service has been down because someone sucks at their job…ok an expired HTTPS certificate. Whatever. Wordament was down when I was trying to play before and that pissed me off a bit. I’m over it now. But it’s back up now.

How high do you need to be to buy a Chromebook Pixel?

Discuss amongst yourselves. I don’t care what the specs are. The OS can’t justify  $1300+. That’s why Ubantu isn’t flying off the shelves. This product makes no sense…you can’t mix high end  hardware with a low end OS. It’s like taking the engine from a Honda and putting it in a Porsche and trying to … Read more

Where are the apps you promised me? Microsoft’s cross-platform dreams aren’t reality

Every few months we hear (again) that Microsoft has aligned their code base and made it so easy for devs to write cross platform that any Windows 8 – Windows Phone dev will just be jumping at the opportunity to write for the platforms. And then that doesn’t actually work out because there’s still no … Read more

You did it–Maker’s Mark will not water down its whiskey

Congratulations internet – you won. Maker’s Mark had announced that because of high demand they were going to water down their whiskey from 45% to 42% in order to sell more bottles (yeah with less alcohol). Well there was some customer feedback of sorts and they’ve reversed course. That was close…

Nothing is more annoying than the incoming email notification on a WP while you’re on a call

There’s no effing way that Ballmer and Elop are using a Windows Phone to take calls. Seriously, you can’t be on a damn phone call when an email comes in because the notification will give you the shakes. It’s a series of three beeps but the last one is about ten times louder than the … Read more

The rumored iWatch is less watch and more iPhone

These iWatch rumors are nonsensical. It’s hard to imagine that Apple has 100 people working on a second screen to an iPhone. You know, like a Pebble built for an iPhone or an iPod Nano with more functionality. They’ve come close to that already and a mere second screen doesn’t seem ambitious enough for them. … Read more

Nokia releases Nokia Phone Recycler app

Nokia is calling this a game about recycling phone components. The description is a bit sloppy though referring to “Nokia Windows 8 mobile devices”. Here’s the description (which I am omitting the end as it’s verbatim duplicative of other sections): Do you want to know, what happens to a mobile phone when it has reached … Read more

Bing + Fox + State of the Union = Real time polling

Seems that Microsoft has learned a thing or two about real time polling. They’ve used Xbox during the elections to get real time audience stats and they’re extending this to the PC and TV now. When you watch the State of the Union tonight  you can also participate in real time polling and Fox is … Read more