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Archives for November 2011

The Walkie Talkie Dead

November 8, 2011 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

I’m way behind in my Walking Dead and so this was a very slight spoiler to me. It’s worth it though, easily. Here we find Mario trying to talk to Rick Grimes. They both have walkie talkies, it should be easy, Rick wants to communicate and – oh boy – so does Mario.

Filed Under: TV Tagged With: humour, the walking dead

Is there a virus in the latest Raptr update?

November 8, 2011 by Andrew Girdwood 2 Comments

Raptr is more than a chat client for games. The software sits on your PC and monitors the games you play, recording your game selections and sharing that with the community. In fact, the whole Raptr platform plugs into your Xbox Live and PlayStation Network profile too. The result? It’s able to connect you to […]

Filed Under: PC

Paizo will host PaizoCon2012 to celebrate 10 years

November 7, 2011 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Next year, Paizo will have been going for 10 years and their Pathfinder RPG will celebrate its 5th anniversary. PaizoCon, held at the Marriot Redmond Town Center in Redmond, will run from July 6th to July 8th in 2012. PaizoCon 2012 will have three days of workshops, games, panels and special guests. Registration is open […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Paizo Publishing, paizocon, pathfinder

Australia takes the cloak off new superhero car license plates

November 7, 2011 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Do you have a personalised license plate for your car? If so then you’re two steps further on than this blogger who doesn’t even drive. Australia has just gone and upped the geek game. It’ll soon be possible to get some DC Comic superhero license plates. Drive forward Batman, Wonder Woman, Superman, Supergirl, Green Lantern […]

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: batman, dc comics, Flash, green lantern, Supergirl, Superman, Wonder Woman

Spotify coming to Windows Phone 7.5

November 7, 2011 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Good news for music lovers – especially here in Europe – who want to give the new Nokia Lumia phones a shot. In fact, this is good news for anyone tempted by the alternative smartphone OS; Windows Phone 7. Spotify and Microsoft today announced that they’ll shortly providing a Spotify app for Windows Phone 7.5. […]

Filed Under: Cool Tech Tagged With: mobile phone, Windows Phone 7

Fullware hacking with Xperia

November 7, 2011 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

You could tell that the Kinect was going to be a success when the community started to hack it and evolve its use beyond that of the Xbox. I cite the Kinect as an example of fullware hacking – not just messing around with code but with devices that consume the code. It’s worth keeping […]

Filed Under: Cool Tech Tagged With: kinect, sony, sony ericsson, xbox, Xperia

More than a war on graymail; secret agents too

November 7, 2011 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

This blogger is based in Edinburgh and is very busy with his day job. As a result, I never get to go to blogger events hosted in London – but I do sometimes get sent photos of what I missed. Microsoft’s “roleplaying event” to highlight the latest upgrade to Hotmail is one such example. Mind […]

Filed Under: Cool Tech Tagged With: blogging, microsoft

Dead Space musical is foobar

November 6, 2011 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

“Hell hath no fury like a woman who isn’t there.” That’s the only description Random Encounters Ent put up for this crazy and somewhat musical version of Dead Space. It’s a song about Nicole.

Filed Under: Music Tagged With: humour

Motorola launches more Android Tablets in the UK

November 6, 2011 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

There’s a shortage of good Android Tablets. As a result there is a shortage of good Android Tablet apps. As a result there’s a shortage in demand for Android Tablets. Do you know what happens next? That encourages the shortage of good Android Tablets. Now that Google’s bought Motorola (even if they claim to be […]

Filed Under: Cool Tech Tagged With: android, google, tablet

Captain Nemo review

November 6, 2011 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Kevin J Anderson is a prolific author who’s written a huge number of great books. Geek Native readers may recall from our interview with the writer that Captain Nemo is one of his favourite efforts. Unfortunately, that’s not the case for this blogger. Captain Nemo is not one of my favourites. The book is a […]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: Jules Verne

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