riiaan @ 09:20 23 February 2010
Review - Dirk Dagger
Some of the games on N-Gage are damn hard like Space Impact and Tetris. You really have to push your own boundaries to score all the achievements in those games. No so with Dirk Dagger.
Not too much skill involved in this game. You just have to solve a few puzzles to complete this game and the puzzles are not that hard.
It is still a fun game though. The comic book like graphics is excellent but the real strength of the game lies in the writing. The story, although short, is very funny.
The humorous story follows the misadventures of P.I. Dirk Dagger as he tries to solve a crime for a client and track down the person that murdered his partner.
A cool feature of the game is the use of the phone camera. You can turn on the phone’s camera, and when you move the phone the camera detects the motion and moves your character in the game.
Well that’s the idea, but it doesn’t really work, or I didn’t do it right. The in-game movements do not correspond well with the movement of the camera. Trying to move around in the game using just the camera is a chore and the novelty wears out very quickly.
The biggest problem with this game is the length. This game is very short and for that reason you should not buy it. You can complete the entire game in just two or three hours and earn all 1000 NGP.
Verdict – Don’t buy. (Rent it for 7 days).
To get an idea what the game is like go to:
http://www.dirkdagger.com/
HomeGrownHoney @ 09:20 22 February 2010
A lot has already been blogged about celebrities who try and define their lives in a 140 characters, but nothing about the ones who gave up according to their Twitter profiles.
Need an easier way to stalk your tweeting celebs? Why not try Celebritytweet.com.
The website is an aggregation of tweet by celebrities added by the site administrators as well as suggestions by fans. Every celeb page contains a summary of the activity on the profile.
- Tweets per day
- Reply rate
- Link posting
With over 200 listed celebrities they aren’t as active as I would have suspected. On average the site records 800 tweets per day, also giving front page stats on who was the most active and who received the most reply’s for their “insight”.
Holywood summed up in 140 characters.
barrmar @ 09:20 22 February 2010
When we bought a Tata Indica a number of years ago, we were supplied with a single remote control and a second one in a cable to override the immobilizer in an emergency.
Last year the panel beater lost the original remote control. We used the cable linked emergency one. This second device is not made for durability and started acting unreliably.
I contacted Tata to get a replacement remote control. This little device is sold for R615. The only problem is that there were no parts available. The emergency device showed signs of getting worse. On calling the parts department, I was promised a return call on price and availability. No call was forthcoming.
This morning I managed to get the car started and drove to a nearby centre. A few minutes later I could get no life out of the device. I was stranded. Another call to Tata revealed that there was a unit available in Pretoria.
I then spoke to one of the technical guys. If the override remote no longer works, then the entire immobiliser system has to be replaced. It will be cheaper to replace the system elsewhere. Much cheaper.
When all else had failed, the car was towed to my friendly local auto-electrical supplier. The owner says that he gets lots of people with Tatas when the remote has failed. He also gets to replace factory fitted immobilisers for Fords, Toyotas and other makes of vehicles.
The problem with a factory fitted immobiliser is that only the vehicle dealer networks are able to supply the remote - at a very high premium - if and when they have the stock.
My new immobiliser has a remote that can be replaced for R250 including encoding. I have a second (free) remote as backup and an override code. The cost is less than half of the proprietary brand.
