Category: Otaku

Set Your PVR For July 6!

July 3, 2007

Doctor Who starts again this Friday (July 6) here in America. Sci-fi will run back-to-back The Runaway Bride (2006 Christmas special) and Smith And Jones (Season 3 episode 1) from 8:00-10:30, so be sure to set your PVR’s if you’re in America!

Naturally I am excited, since I don’t doubt it will entertain as much as the previous seasons. I got a little bored of Rose as well, so I’m looking forward to the new companion.

Unfortunately, I buy Doctor Who magazine. Whilst it’s a very good magazine, the editorial is also ahead of the American schedule. So, despite my best efforts, it’s almost impossible to avoid spoilers unless I simply put the issues aside for a few months.

So, for instance, I know what ??? ???? ?o s,?oq ?s?1 sp?o? o? ??? ?o??op ???, and I know who this guy is:

< Not the new companion And I also know the above dude is not You-know-who, since he doesn’t turn up until the third last episode of the season…

Promises to be a doozy 😉

Galactus

July 3, 2007

So apparently the recent Fantastic Four sequel did not include Galactus, which is kind of crap because that was one of the reasons I was interested in the film (which we ended up not seeing). Not that I have any interest in Galactus, or American comics as a whole, it’s just that I figured it would have been a spectacle.

No worries though, because I came upon this image of what he may have looked like, taken from the Marvel Ultimate Alliance game. As far as I am concerned, this shows truly outstanding character design:

< Galactus

Plus, it almost looks a bit like Andrew Eldritch don’t you think?

DS Browser

June 30, 2007

A few weeks back Nintendo released the DS Web Browser and I naturally had to pick it up.

The image on the right shows it in action, viewing this very blog. In the mode shown, the webpage appears on the bottom and a zoomed version appears on the top. You can move the page around via the stylus on the bottom screen. A touch of a bottom swaps the two screens (allowing you to click on a link, for instance). A second mode displays webpages in a very different manner which is optimized for the DS. This displays the page over both screens, and omits most graphics and background material. For sites you are familiar with this is the best mode as they load faster and are quicker to navigate.

The broswer comes with a memory expansion cartridge (fits in the GBA slot of the DS) but even so suffers from memory limitations. It’s not as fast as it could be, and struggles with large or graphically-intensive webpages. It also offers no Java/Flash support.

That said, I actually prefer the DS browser to (for instance) the PSP browser because it’s much easier to navigate. Furthermore, if you restrict yourself to using mobile sites such as Google Mobile, then this is a perfectly acceptable product.

But, who would ever use this? Who brings their DS with them and intends to use it as a web device at a wi-fi hotspot? Not me, that’s for sure. In that respect this is little more than a toy, or even a tech demo.

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