Posted November 29th, 2013 @ 04:44pm by Erik J. Barzeski
2016 turns out to be an interesting year coming up, a kind of watershed for online and mobile gaming. Almost 80% of the gamers worldwide are playing as mobile customers. Mobile gaming, with its large surge of players in 2013, a surge that is expected to continue, will double its growth by 2016.
What we find particularly interesting (even more than the demographic stuff like age ranges or gender or behaviours of gamers) is how popular tablet gaming is becoming. Can you guess the expected growth rate for tablets in particular?
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Posted November 28th, 2013 @ 02:51pm by Erik J. Barzeski
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Posted November 27th, 2013 @ 08:06am by Erik J. Barzeski
Remember what I said yesterday? Well…
Read these Haribo Sugarless Gummy Bears Reviews. I dare you not to start crying from laughing so hard. I might not have laughed harder in the last year than I did last night reading these.
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Posted November 26th, 2013 @ 08:05am by Erik J. Barzeski
Just read these. It's funny how people can collectively join in on something…
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Posted November 25th, 2013 @ 08:03am by Erik J. Barzeski
Not fewer, less!
More here: Typo iPhone Keyboard Case. 🙂
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Posted November 24th, 2013 @ 12:10pm by Erik J. Barzeski
I thought that the inclusion of iTunes Match would bump up the accuracy of another of iTunes' features - "Complete My Album." However, that does not seem to have happened.
A good example is the track "The Lifting" by R.E.M. from their album Reveal. This is a track I originally bought on the CD, ripped to iTunes myself, and which was later matched by iTunes Match.
Yet…

iTunes knows I have this track. It's in its own Match database. Yet it asks me to buy it - and every other track on the album - to "complete my album"?
And it does this for a hundred other albums as well, making "Complete My Album" not only a joke, but one that can have you purchasing duplicate song and wasting your money if you are too lazy to check whether you actually own the song already.
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Posted November 23rd, 2013 @ 06:49pm by Erik J. Barzeski
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Posted November 22nd, 2013 @ 06:47pm by Erik J. Barzeski

Plus tax!
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Posted November 21st, 2013 @ 06:46pm by Erik J. Barzeski
None of their listed awards were for "Great Spelling."

The tacos were great, but the desserts were a bit dry…
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Posted November 20th, 2013 @ 11:31am by Erik J. Barzeski
With ribbons!
I might play once in the snow (in the Ice Bowl). Twice would be a stretch…
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Posted November 19th, 2013 @ 04:25pm by Erik J. Barzeski
I'm going to start figuring out how to make my own Deep Dish pizza. Real Deep Dish .com looks like a promising start… as does the Chicago Style sub-forum at pizzamaking.com.
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Posted November 18th, 2013 @ 02:50pm by Erik J. Barzeski
Shirt Pocket Watch - Mavericks
For the tl;dr crowd out there, SuperDuper! 2.7.1 backs up Mavericks just fine, so we've got you covered, day-and-date, with backups.
In addition, I'm happy to announce that we will, have an even better Mavericks-compatible release 2.7.2 available shortly.
Unfortunately that post is over a month old, and 2.7.1 hasn't been updated in over a year.
… BUT, it still works fine. I just get nervous now and then when tools I rely on daily go a long time without updates. And then when their updates are blog posts that are a month old…
But I'm sure this will be fine. I look forward to the 2.7.2 update.
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Posted November 17th, 2013 @ 01:48pm by Erik J. Barzeski
A strong man did this when I was in high school. Who knew it was more a magic trick than a demonstration of strength? I didn't.
P.S. I've done this, now, and it works exactly as described.n
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Posted November 16th, 2013 @ 10:16am by Erik J. Barzeski
Could it be any paler? Gee whiz. I'm all for readability of the actual events, but I should be able to tell, at a glance, where "today" sits on the calendar. My eyes should be attracted to it when I'm looking for it specifically. The pale pink barely stands out at all.
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Posted November 15th, 2013 @ 03:09pm by Erik J. Barzeski
Knock on wood, but Safari 7.0.1 (in beta currently) seems to eliminate the crashes in the RTE.
Knock on wood.
P.S. A hardware problem this is not.
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