December 31st, 2011 / No Comments » / by Ryan
Well here it is, the last day of 2011 and I haven’t posted all year. Lots of big changes happened this year, which I may or may not write about later. What I wanted to write about now was that, contrary to some previous years, 2011 produced some great music. So here’s my list of the best songs of the year (in no particular order):
Bush – “The Sound of Winter”
Blink-182 – “Up All Night“, “After Midnight”
Jane’s Addiction – “Irresistible Force”
Foster the People – “Helena Beat“, “Don’t Stop (Color On the Walls)”
Cage the Elephant – “Aberdeen”
The Joy Formidable – “Whirring”
AWOLNATION – “Sail“, “Not Your Fault”
Foo Fighters – “Rope“, “Walk”
Grouplove – “Colours”
There were also a few songs that were technically released in 2010, but I didn’t hear them until 2011 so I’ll include them here as well:
Young the Giant – “Cough Syrup”
The Naked and Famous – “Punching In a Dream”
Middle Class Rut – “New Low”
Here’s hoping to more great music in 2012!
Posted in: Music
September 10th, 2010 / No Comments » / by Ryan
Twitter recently changed the way they authenticate users and it caused my Twitter feed on this site to stop updating. All is well now and my most recent tweets are showing so you can catch up on what you missed. Apologies for any inconvenience 
Posted in: Site News
July 14th, 2010 / No Comments » / by Ryan
I had a semi-long post written up about about running iOS4 on an iPhone 3G, talking about the new features that are both present and missing from the 3G model and other performance related issues. However, after spending a few weeks running it I think it’s safe to save myself all the effort and you all the reading and just say that it sucks.
If Apple removes certain features for performance related reasons, I totally believe and support them in doing so because everyone knows they are all about the user experience. If adding a wallpaper to the home screen placed so much of a strain on the hardware that the feature was removed (which is was) then my opinion is that the OS itself is probably too much for the hardware to handle. I have to say that my personal experience confirms this. I’ve loved my 3G from the beginning, but the last few weeks since the upgrade have been nothing but frustration. Everything has a delay, sometimes a LONG delay like 30 seconds or more. Sometimes it just seems to freeze up completely. You thought Notes was bad before? Trying to tweet when you get interrupted by a text message pop-up? Good luck with that. As I said earlier, Apple is all about user experience, and I’m honestly surprised that they approved iOS4 for the 3G because it’s just terrible. I imagine they did it just to avoid the backlash from the angry masses if they hadn’t.
My official conclusion is that I cannot recommend iOS4 in it’s current state (v4.0) for 3G hardware. I think the OS looks great and has tons of welcome new features, but 3G just doesn’t have the guts to run it. I know that the 3G is hardly the target device for iOS4, but hopefully one of the next iterations will include some performance enhancements that will help improve the experience on the 3G.
Posted in: Technology
Tags: iPhone