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Photoshop on the iPad: Does it change anything?

April 1, 2011April 2, 2011 Danny X Adobe, Apple, iOS, iPad, iPad 2, Photoshop for iPad, Photoshop Lite2 Comments

Am I getting an iPad? Well that’s a fairly loaded question, filled with doubts and questions as to the practicality of such a purchase. I mean, it’s not a phone, and it’s not a laptop, and given that my day job means I spend a lot of time in teh photoshopz, the iPad doesn’t really fill a productivity niche for me, short of the ability to present concepts and materials to a small group in a quiet room. But that doesn’t mean I don’t want one.

Acer Iconia Touchbook laptop up for pre-order

March 29, 2011March 31, 2011 Doug Groves 6120, Acer, Acer Iconia, Laptop, multitouch, Touchbook, Windows 71 Comment

The Acer Iconia Touchbook certainly raised some eyebrows when it first made an appearance at CES this year, gett. The 14″ multitouch laptop ditches a physical keyboard in favour of a second LCD panel with a full-screen keyboard application, as well as a whole suite of applications designed specifically with the form factor in mind.

Xperia Play and Arc hands on (video)

March 28, 2011March 29, 2011 Doug Groves hands-on, mobile gaming, Playstation, Playstation Phone, SCE, Sony Ericsson, video, Xperia Arc, Xperia Play4 Comments

After months of leaked prototypes and endless speculation on the name, Sony Ericsson finally unveiled their gaming smartphone earlier this year with the Xperia Play. Both the Play and the more traditional slate style Xperia Arc will be coming to Rogers this spring. The two devices, while sharing much in the way of innards, are definitely aimed at different mobile market segments.

Computing Featured Science

Saturday Morning Science 008

March 26, 2011March 28, 2011 Pete Chapman Darwin, Miller-Urey Experiments, Saturday Morning Science0 comment

“…a warm little pond” That simple image of a lukewarm puddle comes from a letter that Charles Darwin wrote to botanist Joseph Hooker in 1871, wherein he speculated on the possible, purely chemical origins of life. It is often said that all the conditions for the first production of a living organism are present, which could ever have been present. But if (and Oh! what a big if!) we could conceive in some warm little pond, with all sorts of ammonia and phosphoric salts, light, heat, electricity, etc., present, that…

Homefront: Thanks for playing our demo

March 24, 2011March 26, 2011 Wesley Fok Dear Game Diary, Homefront, PC gaming, PS3, review, THQ, Xbox 3602 Comments

Spoiler warning: Plot spoilers for Homefront. All four hours of it. Though I would love to expect a higher level of emotional engagement with my video games, when it comes to military-style first-person shooters, I don’t ask for much—probably because they almost always fail to deliver. You run through a bunch of corridors, shoot a bunch of dudes, pick up some new guns with one of seventeen different scopes, hit a slow-motion sequence, feel like a bad-ass. I’ve just distilled the essence of every modern Call of Duty game into…

Windows Phone 7 Day to Day

March 22, 2011March 23, 2011 Doug Groves LG, LG Optimus 7, LG Quantum, Live, review, smartphone, Windows Phone, Windows Phone 7, WP7, Xbox Live4 Comments

Just a week or two before the launch of Windows Phone 7, my old phone did a nosedive onto a tiled floor. Not just a drop mind you, but a slow motion flung through the air and land screen first about 10 feet away from me drop. Though I had to cover the screen with cellophane to avoid dislodging glass shards, it wasn’t a permanent solution. That’s when I decided to give Windows Phone 7 a try…

Acer Liquid mt (Metal) on Rogers review

March 15, 2011March 19, 2011 Doug Groves Acer, Android, Android 2.2, Breeze UI, google, Liquid Metal, Liquid mt, review, Roger, smartphone0 comment

Over the past couple of years, Android has managed to not only grow, but thrive. Google’s phone OS is now the best selling smartphone OS in the US, and shows no signs of slowing down. With this growth, it’s not surprising that manufacturers of all stripes are trying to establish a name in the smartphone market, as the category shows nothing but growth for the foreseeable future. This is where Acer comes in.

Dragon Age 2: Dragon Harder

March 14, 2011March 15, 2011 Wesley Fok Bioware, Dragon Age 2, EA, PC gaming, PS3, review, Xbox 3601 Comment

I’ve poured almost thirty hours into Dragon Age 2 since its release less than a week ago, and in that time I’ve been slowly getting a handle on what exactly I like and don’t like about the game. Narrative concerns I will probably leave for another day, but there were a few things I noticed:

Killzone 3 review: Another Take

March 11, 2011March 12, 2011 David Doel Guerilla Games, Helghast, Killzone 3, multiplayer, PS3, PSN, review, Sony1 Comment

The instant I triggered Killzone 3’s ending cinematic I literally said “Thank ****ing GAWD” out loud. Killzone 3 is like an abusive loved one with deep-seeded issues. There are those moments where you’re having fun with them, moments where you feel sorry for them, and then moments where they make you so angry that you just want to hit them over the head with a baseball bat.

The Great Canadian Appathon runs this weekend

March 10, 2011March 11, 2011 Doug Groves contest, game jam, Great Canadian Appathon, KPMG, Microsoft, mobile gaming, National Post, Telus, Windows Phone 7, XMG Studio0 comment

This weekend marks the Great Canadian Appathon, a competition to code a mobile game from scratch to completion in 48 hours. XMG Studio and The National Post are sponsoring the mobile game coding marathon, which starts at 5pm on Friday March 11th. The competition is open to university and college students, working either solo or in teams of up to four people, with the goal to make the best Windows Phone 7 game possible from scratch. Teams will meet up at one of six different locations across the country to start the marathon coding…

SteelSeries Siberia V2 USB headset review

March 10, 2011March 10, 2011 Doug Groves audio, headset, mic, review, Siberia V2, Steelseries3 Comments

When the SteelSeries Siberia V2 headset arrived at the studio, I was looking forward to seeing what changes they had made, as I was already using the original Sibera as my PC gaming headset of choice. Fortunately, there were very few major changes, but the one big update to the line was most welcome.

Windows Phone 7 NoDo update delayed until late March

March 10, 2011 Doug Groves copy paste, Microsoft, NoDo, update, Windows Phone 71 Comment

The long awaited NoDo update for Windows Phone 7 has been delayed until late March. Originally rumoured to be coming out in January, Microsoft never mentioned a specific timeframe until Mobile World Congress, when Steve Ballmer said early March with an expectation that it would roll out March 8th.