I bought my iMac at the Apple Store in Nashville and they said if I ever had any issues AppleCare would cover it and help me out. So I got suckered into buying this “extended warranty.” My screen decided to break so I called Apple and they told me to bring it to the Apple Store and they’d tell me if they could fix it. They also told me that if they could fix it, it could possibly take a week to repair. The problem? The nearest Apple Store is 4 hours away. So I decided to see if they would do it by mail. They said no.
Then I did what would be a big deal to Apple. I decided to ask for a supervisor. Try 1: 50 minute wait, no one ever answered. Try 2: 45 minute wait, no one ever answered. I believe they were not transferring me and they just had put me on hold. Try 3: I got through after a 30 minute wait.
So I got through! The first question from the supervisor was in a coky-ass attitude “Do you really live 4 hours away?” I told her yes. “No you don’t” Yes I do! Then she said “You damaged the screen yourself didn’t you? This stuff doesn’t develop on it’s own.” I assured her I did not, then she went on to say “Well Apple will not replace your iMac [with AppleCare] even if you take it to the store for something your friends did to your monitor” HA! That’s where I had her. In order for my friends to damage it I would have to have friends! I was also told that she could cancel my Apple Care to use the $160 to pay the $1000 dollars Apple wants to replace the screen. This computer’s price is 80% monitor? I don’t think so!
So end of story: Apple Care is a damn lie. Use the first 10 days if you have to buy your product from Apple to tell if anything is wrong. Oh and Apple says your a liar.
With the on going battle on “Why did Halo get a 10/10?” and IGN yelling at Gabe for not insulting them. I am going to write some tips on how to review games.
- If the game has “Friend Codes” (Nintendo DS and Wii) give it a 0/10. Don’t make me get friends who have money and just as much free time as me. Let me play with anyone! There is no excuse for friend codes, it does NOT protect children so don’t give me that.
- 0/10 is a bad game, 5/10 is average, 10/10 is the best game. Do not forget this. Stop making averages a 7/10. Use common since and stop letting other games tell you the game your reviewing isn’t fun.
- Just because a game is popular does not mean it is a 10/10. Just because a game isn’t Halo does not mean it sucks, for one most likely mean that is a good game.
- If a game is easy that doesn’t make it bad, it means the developers should have made a level of difficulty selection.
Now game reviewers aren’t the only people out there who need a little talkin’ to. Game developers have some stuff they gotta do.
- Don’t go into developing for the PS3, DS, or Wii with the girlish “OMG! MOTION SENSITIVE!” or “Look I can draw poop with it!” If that’s why your making a game stop go home. Go in to it maturely, even if your making a kids game. Mario doesn’t have stupid controls, neither should Tony Hawk or Sonic. Yes, the Wiimote is cool — that’s why I bought it, be big boys now.
- If Nintendo makes you use “friend codes”, tell them fine and make it for someone else. I love Nintendo but don’t get bullied into these 12-digit codes.
- Don’t release your games for the holidays. Don’t be a jerk, spread out your releases. Christmas can include stuff that has already been released and kids have more game-time during the Summer then they will in the middle of school. Also if your a little game your game will get no coverage during this time. I just found out that Fire Emblem and Soul Calibur Legends has been released.
- Platform Exclusives must go. You will make a load more money if you let everyone play. I know the Wii isn’t as powerful so if you can’t make it work for it don’t make it. Seriously, the Wii has way to many forced games and we don’t need your crap on our floor.
Now get out there and review some games and make some games!
So you just brought home that giant LCD or Plasma TV right? Think everything will look gorgeous? Think again. Unless all your doing is watching upscaled DVDs, high-definition DVDs, or high definition games you will most certainly be wrong.
Not all TV stations broadcast in HD and that means those stations will look worse then before.
That being said, I love my new TV… now if only there was something on this damned thing to watch besides an unscaled DVD of Lord of the Rings…
I’m going to pretend Apple didn’t replace the cool colors of the iPod Shuffle. I’m going to pretend they didn’t kill off the awesome iPod nanos for a fat ugly thing. I’m going to pretend Apple did not start calling the regular iPod a “classic”. I’m also going to pretend Apple did not flip off everyone who bought an iPhone by killing the 4GB iPhone and dropped the price of the 8GB by two-freaking-hundred dollars. I am also going to pretend Apple is not seriously going to charge people an extra dollar for ringtones.
Apple did not have a September 5th event, okay? Do you hear me? Nothing was announced today but wireless downloads for the iPhone and the phone-less iPhone, the iPod touch. But don’t you dare try to tell me that the iPod touch doesn’t have mail, Google Maps, or weather. Which is doesn’t, but don’t tell me that. I want to keep my picture of the perfect Apple, well, perfect. Oh and lets just tell ourself that the iTunes Wifi Store has Podcast support, it doesn’t, but it’d make me feel better.
I was all prepared to post pictures of the awesome new announcements, but remember: there was no announcements.
Oh and Steve, if your listening, check this out.
Most geeks hate that dreadful day when they have to go on vacation. You back up your laptop, your cell phone, the chargers of both. Then you get to the airport and you have to unpack everything and take off your shoes, bend over and grab your ankles. I’ve even had them through my laptop, needless to say I wasn’t happy. This trip however I decided I would take only my iPhone and live off it for five days. Why? Because a laptop needs wifi and that is not always easy to find. The iPhone has both wifi and EDGE support, which is not as bad as reviewers have said. What would I be doing on the laptop if I did bring it? Using the Internet to check my email and read Digg on Google Reader. All that works flawless on the iPhone.
The only issues I had was when trying to load a simple e-mail with one picture in the Mail application. Loading would only work once, if that, and from that point on it would give me the error: “Message is not downloaded.” I could always surf over to my Gmail but that defeats the purpose of having an e-mail client.
The new iMac is recyclable, thin, black, and just all out pretty. The sad part about it is the big black border around the screen which just hits me as ugly. The pro is that this thing can hold 4GB of RAM and 1 TB of hard drive space. Awesome.
Apple’s iMac page
…Or rely on Verizon to have common sense.
I’ve had a Motorola Q since January 18th 2007 and ever since then I have loved it over previous phones. I mean you can install free applications on it! But running your own applications on a phone is only cool if it works as a phone.
The first issue with my Motorola Q was that when I hung up on someone the phone would freeze and then I would have to pop out the battery. The issue with my replacement Motorola Q is that it will not ring when someone calls.
I’m getting my third Motorola Q this Friday because Verizon says “I have to test these features so they can find the bugs and fix them.” So this means I am their guinea pig? I pay to be a beta tester now is that it? Forget that! They also told me I could not get a Palm Treo 700p unless I pay $620 after I’ve already paid $150 for a phone that doesn’t work. After this, I asked how much it would cost to cancel the account. To this they said it would be $165 dollars.
I called back later and told them to place the replacement order and they told me I could get a different phone if this one didn’t work out. I suspect I will be calling them back next week for some technical errors.
In closing: If I have to pay $600 for a phone, it will be the iPhone and I will be on Cingulars network where the crooks have Apple products.
Netflix finally did it, they made their DVD collection viewable over the web. This YouTube like serivice is very neat. You download a small application, Windows only, and you can play a movie instantly on your computer.
When I decided to try this it took me about 15 minutes to find a movie I wanted to watch. Their selection is very limited, not all movies in their catalog are watchable. There is no search for watchable-movies only, so I had to go through by hand to find a movie.
I settled on watching Larry The Cable Guy, and after 10 minutes of buffering, to assure no pause in play, I began watching the movie. The quality was great, but a little blocky sometimes, but for what I’m paying it’s getting the job done correctly! I outputted the video and sound to my TV and watched it full screen without any issues.
For a beta product, I love it. I just wish it had more movies! Maybe some TV-shows on DVD like Family Guy or Pee-Wee’s Playhouse? That would be awesome.
Apple snuck in this new product at MacWorld, and right away it sparked some interest to me, more then their other products… I have Verzion, not Cingular darn it! Anywho, anger aside! Apple announced a new router which is a huge improvement from their old UFO-thing they tried to sell.
Why am I excited about this product? It has an Apple logo. It also has a USB port on the back for connecting a USB hub, hard drive, flash drive, and printer.
Published at January 14, 2007
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Okay the other day I was in a bad mood (iPhone only for Cingular!!!) and really bored so I went out and bought Elebits for the Nintendo Wii. This game is awesome. As you know I loved LocoRoco, the cute little tilt-the-world game. This is the cute little grab/lift/throw around-the-world.
I often get told I suck at ‘Hide and go Seek’. This game confirms that. There are numerous missions and they grade you like in school. You ‘capture’ Elebits and these little things bring electricity (in volts). Some missions get very specific like ‘don’t make noise over 60 dBs!’ and then you can also pick stuff up. Everything in a level can eventually be picked up by powering up your ‘capture gun’. It’s actually well put together.
My only complaint is that when you throw something in your way on accident and you can’t walk can get very annoying. I just got stuck under a ladder and I couldn’t get out. But I should also say this happens very rarely 9 times out of 10 you can move the object out of the way.
Overall: I love it. I’m not much of a First-Person-Shooter person so you can take this how you want.
