You know what? The battery life on the iPod touch isn't very good -- except if you're only using it to play music with minimal amount of cover flow usage. Playing the first level of Fieldrunners to wave 100 used about 40 - 50% of my freshly charged battery with brightness at about 40%. YouTube seems to drain it like a mother too since it's using wi-fi as well as playing video.
I hear the iPhone's battery life is even worse. I don't know if 3G possibly drains the battery more than wi-fi or if it's the calling ability that's the culprit, but I think it's clear that what's included in both devices just doesn't cut it. If there were a removable battery, that would help things, but of course Apple chose to go style over function in this regard (see also: new 17" MacBook Pro). The best you can do is get a third-party battery pack I guess. Or you could be as anal about scrobbling tracks to last.fm as I am by syncing your device about once a day...
But I guess that's enough bitching... (Where are you free energy?)
As for Fieldrunners, I think that it along with PixelJunk Monsters and Desktop Tower Defense are the best tower defense games available. The graphics are pretty nice for an iPhone game and the interface works exactly like it should. If it where more than $5, I would say it wasn't worth it, but $3 - 5 is about right. The thing about it though is that each level makes you develop different strategies since you'll find that the one you used to complete the last level doesn't work for squat in the next. I guess the same could be said about Desktop Tower Defense's difficulty levels. Personally, I like the simplicity of easy mode with only one line of advancing enemies. A game you can only half-way pay attention to, you know?
Switching to the realm of music, I'm geeked out that last.fm is finally going forward with the first phase of cleaning all that incorrect metadata that's floating around. As a stickler for this sort of thing (thank you MusicBrainz!), I'm glad to see this finally start to roll out. I'm super excited for the next phase of the project too, which will finally merge artists who have different variations on their name. For example, Arcade Fire versus the Arcade Fire. Whereas the 'the' is needed for a group like the Smashing Pumpkins because 'smashing' is an adjective and not a verb, in the case of the Arcade Fire the 'the' is optional. Both are right since the band themselves seem to use both (although both their MySpace page and their official website simply use "Arcade Fire").
Also, this alleviates my mind since I have a friend who's ID3 tags are so fucked up and incorrect that I'd gladly pay him to sit at his computer all day and correct them. Do I have a problem? ... Yeah, I think so. Editing ID3 tags = fun? Something's wrong with me, I'm sure of it.
I hear the iPhone's battery life is even worse. I don't know if 3G possibly drains the battery more than wi-fi or if it's the calling ability that's the culprit, but I think it's clear that what's included in both devices just doesn't cut it. If there were a removable battery, that would help things, but of course Apple chose to go style over function in this regard (see also: new 17" MacBook Pro). The best you can do is get a third-party battery pack I guess. Or you could be as anal about scrobbling tracks to last.fm as I am by syncing your device about once a day...
But I guess that's enough bitching... (Where are you free energy?)
As for Fieldrunners, I think that it along with PixelJunk Monsters and Desktop Tower Defense are the best tower defense games available. The graphics are pretty nice for an iPhone game and the interface works exactly like it should. If it where more than $5, I would say it wasn't worth it, but $3 - 5 is about right. The thing about it though is that each level makes you develop different strategies since you'll find that the one you used to complete the last level doesn't work for squat in the next. I guess the same could be said about Desktop Tower Defense's difficulty levels. Personally, I like the simplicity of easy mode with only one line of advancing enemies. A game you can only half-way pay attention to, you know?
Switching to the realm of music, I'm geeked out that last.fm is finally going forward with the first phase of cleaning all that incorrect metadata that's floating around. As a stickler for this sort of thing (thank you MusicBrainz!), I'm glad to see this finally start to roll out. I'm super excited for the next phase of the project too, which will finally merge artists who have different variations on their name. For example, Arcade Fire versus the Arcade Fire. Whereas the 'the' is needed for a group like the Smashing Pumpkins because 'smashing' is an adjective and not a verb, in the case of the Arcade Fire the 'the' is optional. Both are right since the band themselves seem to use both (although both their MySpace page and their official website simply use "Arcade Fire").
Also, this alleviates my mind since I have a friend who's ID3 tags are so fucked up and incorrect that I'd gladly pay him to sit at his computer all day and correct them. Do I have a problem? ... Yeah, I think so. Editing ID3 tags = fun? Something's wrong with me, I'm sure of it.
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