I just waited 4.5 hours for Photoshop Elements to install. And what happens? It crawls to 100%, Adobe finishes the process, then announces: I didn’t install Photoshop Elements. I won’t tell you why. [So you can’t do anything about it]. But [if you’re really stupid, and] you want to try […]
Monthly Archives: October 2010
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On many sites, I can’t pay for things online any more, as Halifax/VISA has decided to make it even harder than ever. It used to be I could generate a new one-time password every time I bought something – now they require me to phone an expensive pay-by-the-second 0800 phone […]
For the handful of marketing people who still don’t understand why we don’t like seeing their ads spattered over the web like diarrhea: http://www.oliverwillis.com/2010/10/19/worst-ad-placement-ever/
Startup CEOs are often advised to do this, but few people explain how the heck to do that, and its far easier said than done. Ben’s got a great approach: actually do each of the jobs yourself, for real, before hiring people into them. This resonates with my own experience, […]
(…i.e. “many PR agencies know nothing about social media”) This miserable story of a crappy PR agency working for Nokia just came to light. I’d give it even odds whether the problem was one incompetent employee, or an overall incompetent agency. Read the blog post (and the comments – after […]
Do you use Skype? Are you WEIRD enough to own MORE THAN ONE computer? (or gullible enough to want to download the LATEST version of Skype?) Well … f***-off! Skype is desperate to prevent you using their service. Download … FAIL Try to download skype today, and you’ll get: It’s […]
Nicholas Lovell reveals all in Page 3 Special… His recent post about the top ten “doomed” games-industry projects/companies/things attracted a lot of attention … and some snide commentary. It was “traffic-chasing”, “doom-mongering”, “gutter-press”, “tabloid journalism”. Even if all the above were true and fair, it would still be wrong to […]
I’ve just started a new game project for iPad which I hope will end up with a commercial release. At Red Glasses, we’ve got comparitively few projects for the next couple of months. If anything comes in, I’m expecting one of the other coders can pick it up, and I […]
Frabjous: The court has denied Edge Games’ motion for injunction, citing that it believes that Langdell made fraudulent statements to the US Patent and Trademark Office and strongly believes that Langdell is “suspect,” and has been “trolling” the game industry for licensing opportunities. His actions could possibly warrant “criminal penalties.” […]