1/2 a whole wheat pita, sliced roast beef, some white American cheese and some Salt Lick barbecue sauce. Sold.
Author Archives: Ryan Markel
The Cloud Backup Recommendation Thread
I am currently looking for a solution to back up my photos and other important files somewhere off site. I am already working on a good solution for here at home but would like a solid recommendation for a service that gives me an option in case that backup somehow fails or if the house burns down or something similar.
Points to consider for me:
- Please have used it if you’re going to recommend it. 🙂
- Pricing isn’t everything, but it’s something.
- It needs to be easy to use and somewhat fire-and-forget. I need to trust that’s it’s got my back without needing to look over my shoulder.
- I’d prefer a recommendation for a company that has at least some confidence level in that they will be around for a while. I don’t want to have to switch unless I have to.
Comments are GO.
VidRhythm
If you read what I write, you are no doubt familiar with the fact that I very much like the work Harmonix does.
VidRhythm is their newest release on iOS, and it’s a fun little toy. Here’s a clip I made in the car earlier today with the kids:
And another I made just now with the two older ones:
It’s two bucks on the App Store. This app needs more Automattician-made videos.
Liara Figure FAIL
Even now that the afterglow of having finished my first ME2 playthrough has faded (at least as much as it’s ever going to), the Lair of the Shadow Broker DLC remains one of my favorite parts of the game. Liara is an awesome, competent, not-sexualized female character who has her own agenda – which is exactly what I have been asking for by writing this blog. I can’t emphasize how important the not-sexualized aspect of that is, either.
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So what happened? Were your male fans upset that Liara wasn’t sexy enough? Because I just don’t understand this blatant pandering. Even after you said that FemShep would only be on the collector’s edition cover of ME3, I was still encouraged and elated that you were making such a step at all. You’ve been talking with your fans this time around – letting us choose the FemShep we wanted on the cover, promising a FemShep trailer… It made me think that you were maybe, finally turning over a new leaf.
Agreed 100%. After Bioware somehow managed to transform the “oh, I’m so naĂŻve and lacking confidence and need a big strong Shepard Skywalker to rescue me” Liara from ME1 into a strong, moderately complex and mysterious badass, making this figure is a mistake.
1Password Moves to the Mac App Store
1Password, which is a great app that many of my colleagues and I use to manage logins, has recently transitioned to the Mac App Store.
This is significant if you use it because all future versions will be sold only on the App Store. From the Agilebits blog post:
How much does the Mac App Store version cost, and what about 1Password 4.0?
For 1Password’s debute in the Mac App Store, we decided to introduce it with a 50% off sale price in order to celebrate, offer a great upgrade path for our existing customers, and of course make a big splash for our new customers.
Plus, 1Password’s $20 price in the Mac App Store is cheaper than our upgrade price from 2.x when we released 1Password 3 over two years ago. Now, we’re not the type of company to charge for a mid-version point upgrade, but we have to charge something in the Mac App Store, right? So check this out: Because 1Password 4.0 will be a Mac App Store-only upgrade, you can get into the Mac App Store now at 50% off 1Password’s usual price, $5 less than our previous upgrade price, and get 1Password 4.0 as a free upgrade.
This means that—because of how the Mac App Store works—if you want upgrade pricing to version 4, you have to buy it while it’s on sale, or you’ll be paying full price.
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