Guardian Force UK

This is a fun one guys, The sci-fi channel have release an Adobe Air app that turns files and folders on your PC into Asteroids. Wooo!

It’s loads of fun and handles nearly as crap as the original asteroids did! It’s kind of cool blasting through your “music” folder but whatever works for you, download it here.

http://www.scifi.co.uk/desktop_blaster/

Asteroids will always be one of the best retro games, it’s simple but difficult, fun but annoying and pretty addictive. Well done Sci-fi for bringing us a faithful version with a bit of a twist ^.^

Hey Guys,

I know this is an old one but I saw it again the other day and it really made me laugh. It’s the inspirational tape cover of Snoop Dogg’s “Gin and Juice”, perfect for relaxing to after a hard day of playing bitches and smoking weed or you know just funny to anyone else.

With E3′s announcement of “Mario Galaxy 2” which I’m sure will have most people, Onimi included, and Wii fanboys getting the tissues at the ready, Nintendo have released the first look at remake of a classic.

New Super Mario Wii is not only Mario in it’s purest (and best) form, 2D, but includes 4 player Simultaneous play! Yes!

Co-operative or Competitive depending on the group, New Super Mario Wii looks as Mario should.

Enough chatter, here’s the vids.

Firstly, a stage demo at E3 from G4TV

Now a closer look…

So typically GFUK are not an Apple friendly guild, mainly because we can’t play real games on Macs. Don’t get me wrong, they are nice looking machines and there are some really powerful ones but at the end of the day, it’s not as simple as using Windows and just getting on with it.

What we can’t deny is how cool and useful the iPhone really is. Before none of us got one because the price was retarded, seems now we have even lost that excuse. Check out the GFUK summary of the iPhone updates from the latest Apple speech at the Development Conference.

What’s new in 3.0…

Seems they added a lot of stuff that maybe should have been in the 1.0 phone but never mind

• Cut, Copy, Paste
• SMS in Landscape
• Picture messaging
• Still O2 only
• iTunes access
• Tethering (Internet connection sharing from MAC or PC, **Contract Only**, I think you wanted this Docta J?)
• Improved Java and HTTP streaming
• Autofill for website user name\passwords
• Track a lost or remotely wipe a stolen phone (Seems this may cost £60 a year though, could be wrong)
• Can also remotely force the phone to make a noise even on silent, if you misplace it around the house
• This, and I promise this is an actual quote “Free apps remain free. In App purchase is only for paid apps”
• Peer-to-Peer connection
• Ability to communicate to 3rd party hardware
• Iceburg, a book buying\viewing app like the Amazon one
• Tom Tom! :D  (Can get car holder and lighter charger, want, but will NOT be looking forward to the price of this)
• Another one for Docta – guitar tuner and effects box

And the new phone…

• 2 times faster for all apps, including things like opening SMS
• 3MP auto focus camera, touch screen zoom is nice
• 30 fps video recording
• Voice control (“Call Home” “What song is playing?” “Play songs by Bon Jovi”)
• Built in compass (NOT great but useful with gps to rotate street maps to the way you’re facing)
• Increased battery life
• $200 for 16 gig + $30 a month data (Min 24 months) (£440 inc 12 months data from O2)
• $300 for 32 gig + $30 a month data (Min 24 months)  (£540 inc 12 months data from O2)
• 2nd Gen will be $100+ $30 a month data (Min 24 months) (£340 from O2)
• Black and White, No lime green as rumoured :)
• Out by August, might even be in a couple of weeks

So lots of good stuff, I really am convinced now. I will never live this down at work.

Big props to Jesta for writing up the bullets from the Keynotes speech for this one.

Additional note:-

Thanks to engadget.com for their excellent almost live coverage of the 2009 Apple WWDC.

Check out these suppliers as this phone is released in the UK on the 19th June 2009!

Apple Store

O2

Carphone Warehouse

E-mail for the “Google Generation”?

Not really much to say in the post, this video has to be watched to be believed.