Category: iPad

  • iPad 3G Data Usage for July

    I’m a little late getting this posted, but I’ve been busy painting the new office.

    At any rate, my data usage is down quite a bit from last month, only used 22.4GB for July.

    I don’t expect to use much data in August either, as I’ll be out of town on vacation for a week and I tend to only use excessive amounts of bandwidth for work related things.

  • Hijinks Reviews: Helsing’s Fire

    Publisher: Clickgamer Technologies Ltd
    Platform: iPhone, iPod touch, iPad
    Cost: $0.99 [iTunes Link]
    Released: Jul 10, 2010
    Version Reviewed: 1.0

    I purchased Helsing’s Fire on the recommendation of my friend, Bob Sacamano (I told you about him in my last iPod game review). We were sitting around, shooting the breeze, and he mentioned this new game he was interested in trying. So we both downloaded it and gave it a whirl, and both came away with the same reaction, we’ll get into it a bit after the jump. (more…)

  • Hijinks Reviews: Space Station: Frontier HD

    Hijinks Reviews: Space Station: Frontier HD

    Publisher: Origin8 Technologies Ltd.
    Platform: iPhone, iPod touch, iPad
    Cost: $4.99 [iTunes Link]
    Version Reviewed: 1.1.0

    Space Station: Frontier HD is the love child of a tower defense game and a real time strategy game. Understandably, SS:FHD grew up with some issues. It had upgradable towers, but not the selection of a true tower defense game. It had resource management and RTS-like mission objectives, but lacked that second layer of micromanagment that true strategy games have.  So, SS:FHD grew up with something missing, something it couldn’t put its finger on. When it made the jump to the iPad there was hope SS:FHD would mature a little bit; perhaps grow out of all the genre confusion. Unfortunately, all it did was get the standard iPad “graphical enlargement” surgery. While increasing SS:FHD’s confidence, it did nothing to improve his game.

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  • Entry Level Xcode: Hello World for iPad

    Entry Level Xcode: Hello World for iPad

    This tutorial starts at square one and walks you through writing your very own Hello World app, the one prerequisite  is that you have at least Xcode 3.2 installed on your Mac. You can grab the latest version of Xcode from Apple’s Developer website.

    Xcode can be fairly daunting to the average user, even though it’s one of the friendlier programming environments out there. My goal is through this sporadic series of Xcode tutorials to try and reduce that intimidation factor.

    Ready to get started? (more…)

  • What I’m Playing: Episode 2

    What I’m Playing: Episode 2

    On the iPad:

    On the iPhone:

    On the PS3:

    On the PC: