Daily Archives: September 20, 2008

Rock Band 2

Jo, Tim, Trewr, and Codex all came over to play Rock Band 2. They are supposed to come over tomorrow as well. I’m pretty impressed with it, but it seems that they changed a lot regarding how the drums work. The notes were completely different than anything I had seen on the original, even on songs that were supposed to be “warmup” or “easy”. Be interesting to get into it more and see if I could get the hang of it.

I do enjoy quite a few songs that were picked for Rock Band 2. I mean, there are always going to be some ridiculously hard songs in these kinds of games, but there is a very large selection of songs to choose from now. That is when you consider that you can transfer all the songs (I know except for 3) from the original Rock Band on to the hard drive and play those while you are playing Rock Band 2.

I took some pictures of them with the camera on my phone. I’m not sure I like how they came out, and I think I’m going to have to play with the phone a bit to get the pictures to look better.

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Learning About Phones

I believe the correct terminology for what I have now is a Pocket PC. I know that this isn’t entirely accurate, but the difference I see from a Smartphone to a Pocket PC is that the Pocket PC has a touch screen, but there are apparently Smartphones that have touch screens as well, so I’m not very clear on the distinction. What ever you want to call it I am still delving into all I can do with it.

I’ve already installed two software packages that will utilize the GPS. One is more suited for turn by turn directions. I will start using that immediately and some day I might never have to worry about getting lost. The other one is for the track log I want to make when I take the bike rides.

Then Jo got involved and now I have about a dozen more programs. I have tinytwitter, so that I can twitter from my phone more easily. If you aren’t already you should really check it out, it’s kind of a micro blog and IM rolled into one.

I have the Mundu messenger, and if I opt to pay the $11 I can have that for longer than five days. It works on both data and SMS, so if I ever decide that I don’t want to carry the data plan any longer I can switch to the unlimited SMS and still use this program.

I have a program that located where I am using the GPS and then shows the constellations I should be able to see from where I am.

I installed Opera and the flash plugin for that, because apparently it makes browsing a lot easier than using mobile IE.

There is so much to play with and I haven’t even had a chance to really delve into it all and play with it yet.