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  • Five Things iOS Could Learn from Android

    Previously I featured a list of five things Android could learn from iOS, to be fair and balanced, here’s my list of five things iOS could learn from Android.
    Again, this is a randomly ordered list.

    1. Notifications. iOS has a terrible notification system, they could learn a lot from Android on this one.

    2. Toggles. Quick toggles for turning Wifi, Bluetooth, and GPS on and off without having to opening the settings. How hard is that?

    3. Widgets. For the love of all things pure and holy, please add some widgets! At least to the home screen.

    4. Cloud syncing. Sure a MobileMe account let’s you sync your Calendar/Contacts/etc, but $99 a year is a joke. Go free, or go home.

    5. App store queuing. I buy an app on iOS and it takes me out of the app store and to one of my homescreens, I want to buy another app I have to go back into the app store. Huh?

  • Link: AlternativeTo.net

    For those of us with a (sometimes forced) toleration for multiple platforms, there’s always the times when you realize your favorite program isn’t available for [fill in the blank].

    Say bye-bye to searching all over the world for alternatives, AlternativeTo.net should suit your needs in one place.

  • Hijinks Reviews: Madden 11

    Hey sports fans! I apologize I haven’t given Madden the attention that it deserves. We got such an overwhelming response to our NCAA 11 coverage I really should have churned this out right away, but I got incredibly busy (coaching real life football, who woulda thunk!) and now we are almost 2 months past release date… I’m ashamed. However, you are still here reading, so without further delay, we’ll jump into what’s good and bad about this years edition.

    The big changes in this year’s game are four-fold: dual analog stick control, more intuitive blocking, Strategy Pad, and GameFlow. In some cases the upgrades were a home run, some surprised me. I’ll get into the details after the jump. (more…)

  • Hijinks Inc. Minecraft Server Updated

    I just updated our server with a few sweet new features.

    Enter any of these commands from the chat window.

    Player List
    – Type /playerlist for a list of players currently online

    Warp Zones
    – /warp [zone name] to quickly jump to a location
    – You should also be able to create your own warp zones by entering /setwarp new zone name from the location you’d like to set a warp zone to.

    Here are the current warp zones:

    /warp tower – Top of the highest tower

    /warp fred – The First Church of Fred

    /warp town – Our currently being developed town

    /warp unionhall – Miners Union Hall

    /warp unionmine – Union Mine

    /warp docks – Boat docks (boats are in the chest)

    /calvin – Calvin’s Beach House

  • Week In Review: October 3rd – 9th

    Top 5 posts for the week:

    Peak number of RSS feed subscribers: 101

    Number of Facebook Fans: 63

    Busiest day: October 4th, with 877 unique visitors.

    Top browser: Firefox with 31.20% market share.

    Top operating system: Windows with 64.55% market share.