I don't really get mad at Microsoft much anymore, because honestly it's not worth the trouble, but...
You take an Xbox 360, and a Windows machine with Windows Media Player 11, and you can share media from your computer to your Xbox. Music, movies, and so forth, and you're pretty good so long as the 360 can recognize the file format. And a kudos to Microsoft, because in one of the more recent Dashboard updates, they gave the Xbox the ability to play .mp4 files, which can be used for HD quality! Alright!
Oh but hey, Windows Media Player CAN'T! So since Windows Media Player is sharing your .mp4 files, it can't share what it can't recognize! Fantastic!
But ok! Supposedly Zune software can do it. So, I download! I install! I try!
FAIL!
Hell, Zune software can't share anything! Not even the .avi files I was sharing with WMP11. Oh yea, that worked great. So, back to Google. I search, and with luck, I find another answer. And I try it, and hey! it works! By a small tweak, Windows Media Player is able to share .mp4s to my Xbox. And how, you ask, is this possible?
FILE.mp4 => (rename!) => FILE.wmv
Bloody fantastic Microsoft. Great job.
Saturday, February 21, 2009
Saturday, February 14, 2009
Deep and Pretty Things
By now, most serious gamers have at least HEARD about a game called Flower. It's just under $10 on the PlayStation Store and I must say it has got to be the best $9.99 I have spent in a while, much like the LittleBigPlanet MGS Level pack was the best spent $5.99 and Linger In Shadows was the best spent $2.99.
The basic jist of the game is you're a flower petal blowing in the wind. I know, it sounds a tad lame. The fact of the matter however is this is one of the most deeply impactful games I have played. It is relaxing and surprisingly engaging. There is a however a hitch. Flower has a twist, and giving it away ruins the effect.
While Linger in Shadows is fun experience, but more fun to share with other people, Flower is the exact opposite. It is a little too involved and personal to simply hand the controller over to some one and watch. I can't write the words DEEP and PERSONAL enough times in this post. Oh yeah, and PROFOUND.
With Nobi Nobi Boy, and some other really promising releases on the verge for PSN, Sony is looking like a much stronger contender in 2009 than 2008.
On the one hand, what took you so fuqing long Sony? On the other, I'm glad Sony and it's third parties are finally ready to start representing. Welcome aboard.
Flower is not a technically mind blowing game. It has excellent graphics and a great sound track, but the underlying mechanic is so remarkably simple that one might wonder why in the world it took so long for the game to come out. It has been in production since at least before TGS in 2007.
The reason is, Flower's merits lie in a carefully crafted experience. Like writing a truly profound book, these things take time.
I cannot emphasize enough the importance for getting this game it you have a PS3. Granted, there are going to be some people that are terribly unimpressed with it, but for the most part these are people with some level of severe brain damage and a two digit IQ.
PS. WHY THE HELL IS BLOGGER DELETING MY PERIODS?
The basic jist of the game is you're a flower petal blowing in the wind. I know, it sounds a tad lame. The fact of the matter however is this is one of the most deeply impactful games I have played. It is relaxing and surprisingly engaging. There is a however a hitch. Flower has a twist, and giving it away ruins the effect.
While Linger in Shadows is fun experience, but more fun to share with other people, Flower is the exact opposite. It is a little too involved and personal to simply hand the controller over to some one and watch. I can't write the words DEEP and PERSONAL enough times in this post. Oh yeah, and PROFOUND.
With Nobi Nobi Boy, and some other really promising releases on the verge for PSN, Sony is looking like a much stronger contender in 2009 than 2008.
On the one hand, what took you so fuqing long Sony? On the other, I'm glad Sony and it's third parties are finally ready to start representing. Welcome aboard.
Flower is not a technically mind blowing game. It has excellent graphics and a great sound track, but the underlying mechanic is so remarkably simple that one might wonder why in the world it took so long for the game to come out. It has been in production since at least before TGS in 2007.
The reason is, Flower's merits lie in a carefully crafted experience. Like writing a truly profound book, these things take time.
I cannot emphasize enough the importance for getting this game it you have a PS3. Granted, there are going to be some people that are terribly unimpressed with it, but for the most part these are people with some level of severe brain damage and a two digit IQ.
PS. WHY THE HELL IS BLOGGER DELETING MY PERIODS?
Saturday, February 7, 2009
World of Ubercraft
When they're not busy saving the world many White Mages love to sit back, relax, and perhaps dabble in the creative arts. Crafts are not only a good way to relieve (or sometimes relive) stress, but they can be lucrative too.
Whether your goal is recreational, or sensational there is a craft out there for you. Crafts can be practical. They can also be works of art.
A special shout out goes to Geek Central Station, for inspiring this post.
Whether your goal is recreational, or sensational there is a craft out there for you. Crafts can be practical. They can also be works of art.
A special shout out goes to Geek Central Station, for inspiring this post.
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Reasons to hate Adobe
Yes, ladies and gentlemen, Adobe! The only software company on this earth that can create a program that has the following issue:
Alright! Congratuations Adobe. You managed to make a piece of software that potentially screws up when a user's clock goes back an hour. And to make it better, it doesn't crash until you highlight text/code!
Yea, that's right. A clock change causes a crash when you highlight text. I don't think the stupidity of it can really hit you until you actually try it. So go on, try it, highlight this sentence... no, I'll wait... There, see? You would have just crashe
Alright! Congratuations Adobe. You managed to make a piece of software that potentially screws up when a user's clock goes back an hour. And to make it better, it doesn't crash until you highlight text/code!
Yea, that's right. A clock change causes a crash when you highlight text. I don't think the stupidity of it can really hit you until you actually try it. So go on, try it, highlight this sentence... no, I'll wait... There, see? You would have just crashe
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