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LifeStream Digest for February 27th

// February 27th, 2010 // View Comments // Lifestream

	Liked Oregon’s Exploding Whale – 1970 KATU (original report).
	"Here comes the Sun" [#]
	Posted Buzz by Bryan Lee from BryanSays.com.

LifeStream Digest for February 26th

// February 26th, 2010 // View Comments // Lifestream

	Shared Find Open Source Alternatives to commercial software | Open Source Alternative – osalt.com.
	Posted Buzz by Bryan Lee from BryanSays.com.
	Shared 2 links. ManageTwitter – Fast & Easy Unfollowing Down for everyone or just me?

LifeStream Digest for February 25th

// February 25th, 2010 // View Comments // Lifestream

	Wants 3 items.
	Shared Greg Rutter’s Definitive List of The 99 Things You Should Have Already Experienced On The Internet Unless You’re a Loser or Old or Something.

Tekken the Movie … Why?

// February 19th, 2010 // View Comments // Gaming, Movies

I don’t get it. Has Hollywood not learned from past failures in this genre that video game movie adaptations (VGMA) are a losing battle? I think the producers automatically think of the movies that did good like Lara Croft or Mortal Combat but those movies are few and far between. They forget about train wrecks like Double Dragon, Super Mario Brothers, and Doom.

For the fighting game genre of VGMA there are even fewer movies that made any money. The last one to come out was Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li which grossed a tiny $8Million in the box office. DOA:Dead or Alive was even smaller with $480K. My speculation is the movie studios know they can cast no name actors cheap for these types of movies and they have a built-in audience from the video games. The problem is the audience will only take so much of these piss poor representations of their beloved video games before they won’t go at all.

I for one will probably skip Tekken when it comes out. I wasn’t much of a fan of the video game. I was more into Street Fighter and Virtua Fighter growing up. If Tekken sounds good to you, check out the trailer below:

Here are some more preview articles for Tekken: io9 firstshowing

The Wired Tablet App: A Video Demonstration

// February 16th, 2010 // View Comments // Blog

iPad the Model For Others to Beat

// January 28th, 2010 // View Comments // Mobile

I’m sure everyone and their brother has seen the news of the new Apple iPad. Its touted as being a revolutionary product. Apple says its to fill void between a laptop and a smart phone. It runs off the iPhone 3.2 OS and as such has alot of the same features of the iPhone minus the phone of course. Here are the main features:

I’ve read alot of the commentary online about the advantages and disadvantages. How its just a bigger iphone/ipod touch. How there is no multi-tasking or camera. No Flash in Safari, just like the iPhone.

I believe the iPad is not a netbook but a really polished internet appliance. This is a media consumption device. If you need the features of a netbook, Apple has those features already in their macbook line. I believe apple wants a polished device for doing one thing, consuming media. I think if Apple added multi-tasking, flash, and other “computer” related function, you would get a lesser experience. I do agree that will give the Amazon Kindle a run for its money. At $499 if I had to choose between a Kindle or iPad for an e-book reader, I’d choose the iPad.

I think that now that the world has seen what this device can do, it will become a model for other manufacturers to strive to beat, a benchmark so to speak. The iPad’s launch is similar to when the iPod came out back in 2001. There were other MP3 players in the market but Apple thought “existing digital music players are ‘big and clunky or small and useless’ with user interfaces that were ‘unbelievably awful’.”

As Steve Jobs mentioned in his keynote announcing the iPad:

“Netbooks aren’t better at anything. They’re slow. They have low quality displays and they run clunky old PC software.”

Apple is again trying to build a product different from the rest of the pack that others will try to emulate or surpass. Only time will tell if Apple’s gamble will pay off in the tablet market.

Sources: [Wikipedia] [iPad Keynote]