Still helplessly holding onto any hope that Steve Jobs would relent and let Flash on the iPhone platform? Just give it up now. It’s not ever going to happen. This is of course based off of an official “Fireside chat” of sorts put out by Steve himself. Truth be told, it’s not as vindictive and cut throat as I thought a letter concerning such a matter would be. It is very straight to the point, bulleted list type of affair laying out how it’s...
What a way to start off the GDC today, with some of the biggest news in gaming history! Yesterday Valve announced, (which is completely out of left field, lol) that they are in fact porting Steam to us Mac fanboys. After all the teaser posters we saw last week, it is finally happening! It looks that the first release will be Portal 2, which will be released to both Mac and Windows computers, and then it is on to their more popular titles this Spring. Not only will the games...
Okay, I love my Mac, I wouldn’t dare to ever by a Windows machine, over 20 years and counting to not owning one…But, I do have Windows running under Boot Camp on my Mac, the reason for this is…Counter Strike:Source running under Steam(Valve). I love this game, and it has forced me to run an inferior product. I have been involved in countless marital spats because of this game, and soon, hopefully, I’ll be in a hell of a lot more. A post over at the...
The App Store is for mobile devices what iTunes was for mp3 players. Apple’s 180 on native applications after first announcing web apps were the way to do back in 2007 was a shock to many and welcomed by most. Since the App Store’s launch however, numerous complaints have been made and even websites created to highlight Apple’s draconian and sometimes senseless decisions concerning the App Store and polices within. It is that negative image and bad press...
Flash is the latest craze these days. The iPhone, among others are constantly knocked for not including flash. The few phones that brag of their flash content don’t do all that well in handling it because flash isn’t built for mobile browsers. This means that often flash content won’t scale appropriately as well choppy playback because flash is pretty CPU intensive. There is another option. Animation and 3D support in CSS! And guess what, the...
