The SkyTV iOS app is free, and I rarely use it, but on occasion is is very handy. The application is mostly a TV Guide – since SkyTV refuses to let anyone else have their listings, but they do have all the free-to-air channels, it’s clearly the best guide. However, I don’t really have much [...]
Posts Tagged ‘review’
11 Nov
PyPad
PyPad is a Python interpreter for iOS. This sounds incredibly exciting, right – finally I can do proper development and run Python programs on iOS! Unfortunately, that’s not really the case (mostly due to Apple’s restrictions). PyPad lets you create multiple modules and execute each of them. However, only a subset of the standard library [...]
9 Nov
Quarrel Deluxe
Quarrel Deluxe (Quarrel DX in Springboard) is a cross between Scrabble (which I don’t love, although I did, like many people, play Words with Friends for quite a while) and Risk (which I do love, but rarely play non-digital because of a lack of people to play against), and may well be better than either. [...]
15 Mar
Graceling (Kristin Cashore)
Olyvia purchased this on my behalf – I had been given a voucher for Dymocks, which is a terrible choice, because there are so few Dymocks stores, and they are so far away from anywhere I go. Time passed, and eventually reached the point where I one day to spend the voucher or lose it [...]
15 Mar
Foxmask (Juliet Marillier)
This is the sequel to Wolfskin – to understand the relationships that underlay the characters, it would certainly be best to have read Wolfskin first, although this is a standalone story, not part two of two (or three), which is certainly refreshing. I purchased this at the same time as Wolfskin, so I wasn’t then [...]
15 Mar
Wolfskin (Juliet Marillier)
The main reason that I bought Wolfskin was because I noticed that Marillier was a New Zealander (or at least was born here, although she lives in Australia now), and there’s not really very many NZ sci-fi/fantasy authors or books, and I’d like to support the locals as much as possible. (As an aside, my [...]
15 Mar
Fallout (Kevin J. Anderson & Doug Deason)
I quite enjoyed this (a lot more than I enjoyed Resurrection Inc.). This is really a pretty straight-forward action/adventure style story (the same sort of story as, e.g., 24). I read a few stories along these general lines (e.g. the Dan Brown books) over the second half of 2008, and they were a nice break [...]
15 Mar
Resurrection Inc. (Kevin J. Anderson)
For some time, I was posting my mini-reviews on Pownce, which seemed to suit the short format . I’ve mostly switched to using Twitter instead of Pownce now, but 140 characters is a bit too short. I don’t really want to create a new account somewhere else, so I guess they can go here for [...]
4 Jun
Tekzilla
As suggested by Veronica Belmont herself, I checked out Tekzilla over the last week. In short: I’ve unsubscribed to the combined feed, but subscribed to the daily tips. The show seems a lot like something you’d see on TV (or you would if NZ TV had any tech shows). I don’t enjoy watching those, so [...]
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