Friday, March 30, 2012

Android Devs Turned Off By Fragmentation

Android's momentum in the developer community has reversed course, according to poll.

Source: http://feeds.informationweek.com/click.phdo?i=348429ef4f1287cd730e8f20b367175f

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Survival Lab is a fun pixelated game where dying doesn't matter

Survival Lab
In most games, dying is a bad thing. You have to start all over again, or at least revert to the last save point and lose some progress. Not so in Survival Lab: in this pixelated gem you play as a lone individual pitted against ruthless weapons in a sealed chamber. You have to run, jump and duck, collecting little yellow things (I have no idea what they're called).

For each donut-like yellow thing you pick up, you gain a bit of experience. If you manage to collect several in a row without getting hit, this counts as a combo. You can see my mad combo skills in the screenshot, of course. Collecting combos is a good thing, because a ten-point combo gives you for more experience than just collecting ten dounts one by one (getting hit in-between).

Having experience is useful, because once you die, you get to a screen where you can upgrade your skills. You can learn to run faster, double-jump (and then double-jump higher), and duck. You can also gain more armour so that getting hit won't kill you so quickly.

What makes this simple game so addictive is that when you die, your experience doesn't reset. You just go back to the same level, or another level of your choosing, and keep accumulating more and more experience. Lots of fun, especially if you're into the whole retro-gaming thing.

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Thursday, March 29, 2012

Review: 7 password managers for Windows, Mac OS X, iOS, and Android

I hate passwords. I hate coming up with them. I hate remembering them. I hate mistyping them four times in a row. And I hate getting locked out of whatever I'm trying to log into in the process.

That said, I hate being hacked only slightly more, so I've done my part to use passwords that aren't "password123" or something equally foolish. The hard part is keeping them straight, which I could do by writing them down -- but isn't that a security hole all over again? Heck, I've known that since I was a kid. I saw "WarGames."

Source: http://images.infoworld.com/d/security/review-7-password-managers-windows-mac-os-x-ios-and-android-189597?source=rss_mobile_technology

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We're Done With Kickstarter [Rant]

I'm done. Over it. Completely fed up. Kickstarter is ruining the world I live in. I used to love crazy gadgets, because I had some measure of confidence that, behind the idea, was some reasonably competent team or plan or, like, anything. More »


Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/xFggc3rSmwU/were-done-with-kickstarter

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Sprint, Cisco Offering Cloud-Based Unified Communications Platform

Sprint and Cisco are launching a cloud-based unified communications bundle for large enterprises. It's the first of several cloud initiatives Sprint will launch this year. - Sprint, with
partner Cisco Systems, is launching its first major cloud initiative and the
first of several cloud-based services the carrier says it has planned for this
year. Powered by Cisco's Hosted Collaboration Solution (HCS)
platform, Sprint Complete Collaboration is a hosted, fully managed...


Source: http://feeds.ziffdavisenterprise.com/~r/RSS/eweek_voip/~3/R0I1p1cgXTM/

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Personal Tech Live with Rob Pegoraro

Rob Pegoraro answers your questions on recent gadget reviews, technology news and provides personal tech buying and fixing advice.


Source: http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/click.phdo?i=35fe8492fe327193e981fabd7879a31c

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