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iPhone Games
If you’re looking for more information on my iPhone games, head over to my other blog, Hijinks Inc.
Second iPhone Game - Decipher
Thanks to the fact that I took over a week to announce that our first game, Fall Down Forever, had been released, our second game is already live! Decipher is based off the classic puzzle game Mastermind, the objective of the game is to guess the color pattern hidden at the top of the screen.
I’m giving away a free copy to the next person who follows me on Twitter and sends me tweet with a link back to this post.
First iPhone Game - Fall Down Forever
Yes, the day you’ve all been waiting for is finally here. Not only am I updating this long forsaken blog, but it’s with actual news!
Fall Down Forever is now available for download from the iTunes App Store! It’s the first of hopefully many games to be released for the iPhone/iPod touch. Please check it out and leave me some feedback.
Life Without a Computer is Boring
Posted by Aaron Nelsen on Oct 23, 2008 in Aaron Nelsen
A couple days ago my MacBook Pro was taken out of the backseat of my car, along with my iPhone dock, AC charger for the iPhone, and a copy of Windows XP Pro (with COA).
As you might have gathered from the title of this post, life has not been the same without my computer, I still have a laptop, but it’s an Eee PC 1000H so its limited processing power / tiny keyboard don’t make for a very productive afternoon. And of course, it runs Windows, so 90% of the programs I need to run can’t even be installed on the Eee.
Now its pretty much a waiting game, I’ve filed a police report and an insurance claim (thank goodness for Renters Insurance), and now must wait for the insurance paperwork to arrive and the claim to process. The guy I spoke to at State Farm said it would likely take 1-2 weeks to process my claim.
The next two weeks are going to be incredible long and boring I’m afraid.
New Website Launched
Posted by Aaron Nelsen on Oct 6, 2008 in Aaron Nelsen, Linkage
If any of you have every played the card game Munchkin, you know how open to interpretation some of the rules are, and with that in mind, my friends and I have just launched MunchLaw.com.
Feel free to check the site out, feedback is absolutely welcome.
For more information on MunchLaw.com, please refer to this post.
Sweetest System Ever (That I’ve Built)
I have a client who has been with me since the very beginning, and every few years he passes his current desktop down to one of his children and upgrades.
This year he told me he had a budget of $2,000 to spend, most excellent!
For a total of $1,700 this is what he’s getting:
Windows Vista Home Premium
Microsoft Office 2003 Pro
1TB Storage Space (2x 500GB Hard Drive)
8GB DDR2 800 RAM
2.4GHz Quad Core Processor (9.6GHz total processing power)
512MB GeForce 9600 GT Graphics Card
20x DVD-RW Drive (He declined getting a Blu-Ray drive)
19″ Widescreen Monitor
Wireless Bluetooth keyboard and laser mouse
Draft-N Wireless Card
40 Watts 2.1 Speaker System
It saddens me greatly that he wants me to install Windows Vista on it, but I’ll live.
iPhone SDK
Posted by Aaron Nelsen on Aug 2, 2008 in Aaron Nelsen, iPhone
Now that the App Store has gone live and had some of its glitches worked out (that and I actually have an iPhone again), I’ve decided to take another crack at the iPhone SDK.
I’ve got a client who’s interested in deploying an order management/inventory system using the iPhone, now I’ve already set them up with the backend system that’s accessible through Mobile Safari, but both he and I would like to use an application layer on the phone to speed things up and offer more robust functionality.
Temporal Disconnect
All of my domains are currently suffering from a slight case of temporal jet lag and are floating around in domain limbo…
Fun times indeed.
So I’ve just finished moving 976MB of MySQL data from one server to another, that sucked royally. Apparntly 1&1 only allows you to upload SQL files that are less than 8,192kb, which is a major pain. I ended up having to move most of it over manually.
I’d been considering the move to 1&1 for awhile now, but didn’t like the fact that each MySQL database had a 100MB limit. Last week however, I sat down and wrote some code for both the Wordpress and SMF platforms that allows them to run using multiple databases for storage. This of course can lead to some considerable slowdown if it has to switch back and forth, but I think I’ve optimized it so it doesn’t have to switch very often.
Please let me know if you notice any slowdowns in performance.
Thinking About a Scooter
Posted by Aaron Nelsen on Jun 22, 2008 in Aaron Nelsen, Random
As unexciting as it sounds, I’m thinking about purchasing a scooter. Mainly for my girlfriend to use, as currently she just steals my car all the time. I figure it’d be a decent investment considering a basic scooter gets 3x the MPG of my car, and the yearly operating costs would be significantly less than that of a second car.
The main drawback would be that you can’t drive it year round, but seeing as my business is usually slower in the fall/winter months it shouldn’t be too difficult to pull off sharing a car at that point.
I’m currently looking at the Schwinn Newport 150 (150cc engine), it gets 85MPG and has a top speed of 53MPH, which is looking pretty good considering the price of $1999.99 (msrp).
I had been looking at the Honda Metropolitan (retails for $1899.99), but I’m not sure about it since it’s only a 49cc engine, which is rather slow.
Anyone out there have any recommendations for a good scooter in the $2500 range?
Sweet Deal
I just picked up an Acer Extensa EX5620-4025 laptop for $399.99 over at Newegg, regularly $499.99.
It really is a fantastic deal considering the specs:
Operating System: Windows Vista Home Premium
CPU: Intel Pentium dual-core T2370(1.73GHz)
Screen: 15.4″ WXGA
RAM: 1GB DDR2
Hard Disk: 120GB
Optical Drive: DVD Super Multi
Graphics Card: Intel GMA X3100
And for an extra $30 I ordered another GB of RAM for it. I’ve purchased a few of these in the past for clients and they’ve had great reviews. Even in the stock configuration I was impressed at the speed it runs Windows Vista.
Acer also provides XP drivers for their Extensa series of laptops, major bonus.
The discount requires a promo code which only works if you’re subscribed to Newegg’s newsletter. At any rate the promo code is: EMCAGBKAH.