Intel Germany CEO Hannes Schwaderer announced that Apple would be using the relatively new Intel Atom processor in a future iPhone release. The new model reportedly would feature a larger display, correlating with past rumors about a mini-tablet (720×480) device to be coming from Apple.
English translation:
As part of an Intel event for the 40th birthday of the semiconductor company at Munich’s BMW World, Germany managing director Hannes Schwaderer confirmed today what has long been a rumor on the Internet: namely, that there is an iPhone with Intel’s new Atom chip. The device is slightly larger than the current version, Schwaderer said. That is not, however, because of the Intel chip, but because of the larger display used in the new iPhone.
While Schwaderer refers to the device as a larger “version of the iPhone”, it could easily be referring to the rumored mini-tablet device, that some have suggested would be introduced at WWDC.
If Apple does release any product akin to a tablet or mini-tablet computer, I would buy one in 14.3 seconds flat. Though I might spend a little more time weighing the purchase if the the price is higher than $999, or if the specs are incredibly weak.
Are you an avid fan of Electronic Gaming Monthly? Are you a rabid Nintendo fanboy? Do you have too much disposable income?
If you answered yes to any of these questions, have I got a deal for you. I’m currently eBaying all 12 collectable covers from EGM’s February issue. These covers feature 12 characters from the cast of Super Smash Bros Brawl, and are a must have for any serious collector. I’m shipping worldwide, so come one come all and take advantage of this once in a lifetime opportunity!
Why am I posting this on Hijinks? Well, apart from the shameless self promotion and the Google traffic, these magazines are just part of a larger story that has yet to be told. Stay tuned for that.
So I haven’t posted in a while. No, I don’t blame this on the Wii, but more so on the fact that I still haven’t jail..break…ed (broke, broken?) my iPod Touch yet. In fact I surprised myself with how little I’ve been playing my new toy. The system I bought came with four games not counting Wii Sports, and I had bought Smash Bros Brawl right after I made my original purchase. I’ll break down my experience game by game.
Super Smash Bros Brawl
Probably my biggest mistake was playing this first. I loved the original Smash Bros on the N64, and I have many great memories of playing with three buddies hurling insults at each other as our little sprites hurled punches. Great time. I fired Brawl up only to realize that I had to play through the Subspace Emissary campaign to unlock the other half of the cast (not unexpected). Playing through the single player campaign was fun at first, then it got old, then it got boring, and now I just want to finish the freakin’ thing so I can unlock all the characters. Yeah, there’s a metric crap-ton of fan service in there, but 90% of it I don’t get and don’t care about. Just give me the full cast so I can not play it again until I have people to play it with.
Guitar Hero 3 Wii
I picked up the guitar, figured out how to secure the Wii Remote in the guitar, and fired up a song. Afterwhich I prompted shut it off. It’s fine, it’s Guitar Hero, and it’s nothing I haven’t played before.
Monster 4×4 World Tour This is a game in which you race monster trucks. That is what we term as a given. Seemingly the only reason why you would want to play this game is to be able to experience the glorious feeling of controlling your monster truck by twisting and turning the Wii Remote. Coincidentally enough, this experience is neither glorious nor a reason to play the game. I promptly put it up on eBay.
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 08 I read 1up’s review before I played the game, and they gave it a good score, mentioning that it was the best golf experience on Wii. Either I suck at golf games or the Wii has set a low bar of what is considered “the best”. Obviously I don’t suck at golf (I was the master at Microsoft Golf for Windows 95), so this game must not be any good. That’s what I’m telling myself anyway. Tiger joined the monster trucks on eBay.
Super Mario Galaxy If I could do it over I would have played this game first and not even tried the other games. I’m only 8 stars in, and this is definitely the reason I was looking for to justify my purchase. I love it, its amazing, I’ll be enjoying it for a long time.
So in a narrow victory, Super Mario Galaxy saves me from throwing the whole thing back on eBay for a ridicules profit. Hurray for Mario!
[7] whois
It’s a handy way to quickly track down registration/contact information about domain ownership. Simply enter whois domainnamehere.com.
[8] defaults write com.apple.screencapture type jpg
If you use the screen shot function, you may at times want to change the format it stores the images in. Where jpg is in the code you can change it to whatever format you want, png, bmp, gif, etc. You will need to restart for the changes to take effect.
[9] defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-others -array-add '{ "tile-data" = { "list-type" = 1; }; "tile-type" = "recents-tile"; }'
This command creates a new stack in your dock so you can view recently used Applications. A quick killall Dock command is required for the change to take effect.
Continuing from where my last post left off, here are a few more Terminal commands.
[4] defaults write com.apple.dashboard mcx-disabled -boolean YES
Deactivates Dashboard. Requires the dock to be relaunched to take effect, so remember to type killall Dock and press enter. Replace YES with NO to enable again.
[5] say ______
Not very useful, but kinda fun. Typing say followed by whatever you want, results in your computer speaking the inputted text to you.
[6] ifconfig
Shows you all sorts of useful information about your network connection, including IP and MAC address. You can even access connection specific information by adding en0 (ethernet card), or en1 (airport) to the end (ie. ipconfig en1). Or if you’d like to disable a connection, try something like ifconfig en1 down (replacing down with up will bring the connection back online).
I’ve got to be honest, any reviews or opinions on media coming from me are almost always going to be a bit, shall we say, tardy? I could be talking about old, but hardly nostalgic GameCube games - being behind the times by years, or, as with this post, late only by a matter of weeks. Lest you think my tardiness is due to me being a lazy procrastinator (I am!), this is actually greatly related to my mendicant lifestyle. Feel free to ask me about it sometime!
But you’re not here to listen (er, read) to me talk (uh, write) about me - you’re here about the first hot movie of the summer cinema season, Iron Man! Alas, being tardy, the other Dave has already given you his opinion on the movie, which you can read here. Back? As I finally saw the movie yesterday, I’ll just second Dave that it’s AWESOME.
So what’s left, then? Follow me, please.
Today well look at the roots of comic book movies, comic books. Did you know you can check them out at the library now? Me neither! How do they stack up? Check it after the jump.
I don’t know if anyone still plays this game, I just downloaded it because I was bored last week. And since I really suck at video games I occasionally (read: all the time) turn to cheat codes.
There are tons of cheats available for the Windows version of Hitman: Contracts, but no where could I find any for the OS X version. Well, as it turns out it’s a Cider port, so it technically includes all the Windows files and by association the cheats. The problem is you can’t directly edit HitmanContracts.ini to enable the cheats like in the Windows version… or can you?
Terminal is a fantastic way to customize random little settings in OS X, but it’s hard for new Mac users to know what commands do what. So over the next few days I’ll be posting random Terminal commands that I’ve found useful.
[1] defaults write com.apple.dashboard devmode YES
This will allow you to drag widgets out of Dashboard and onto the desktop. In order for it to take effect, the dock to be relaunched, so next you’ll type killall Dock and press enter. Now, if you click and hold on a widget in the dashboard and press F12 to return to the desktop, the widget won’t disappear with the rest. To reverse, change YES to NO.
[2] defaults write com.apple.CrashReporter DialogType none
Disables the application unexpectedly quit dialog that usually appears when an application crashes. Replace none with prompt to enable again.
[3] defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE
Shows hidden files in the finder. Replace TRUE with FALSE to hide hidden files again.
