Software Can Be An Expensive Service
August 8, 2009 by Jason Bean
Filed under Computers
Tonight I was reminded and informed that Evernote has a premium service available that expands the functionality and allows me to import any file type into my Evernote program. That would make my new little shortcut even more useful.
The idea of software as a service (SAAS) isn’t really new these days as more and more applications and services are delivered via the web and via a subscription model. Wikipedia defines SAAS as the following:
Software as a Service (SaaS, typically pronounced ’sass’) is a model of software deployment whereby a provider licenses an application to customers for use as a …read more
Palm Pre Running Wipeout XL
June 30, 2009 by Amy Tucker
Filed under Gaming
Using System Resources to Play Music
May 28, 2009 by Jason Bean
Filed under Computers
One of the things I almost always need when I’m working is music. Not sure what it is but there’s just something about silence when I need to be moving and doing or thinking and processing. It’s been that way since I was a little kid and was told to clean my room.
Normally when I’m working on my computer I’m listening to either my own music I’ve ripped to my hard drive or downloaded legally; or I’m streaming some great music from Pandora into my headphones.
The only challenge is that when I’m working I’ve also usually got a number of …read more
Mars-RPG with a lot of Killin’
April 19, 2009 by Amy Tucker
Filed under Gaming
Mars looks like one of those games that could be amazingly cool or an epic fail.
I’m attracted to it because it’s an RPG and I LOVE a good story. Also, the screenshots that I’ve found look pretty good and the gameplay [at the bottom] looks solid.
You can play the game as Seth, “an elite soldier with a dark past” or as Pandora, “an ambitious technomancer”.
From the press release:
In the destroyed world of Mars, two destinies mingle together. Two beings searching for their identity travel across a broken planet, constantly facing bloody political conflicts which tear the old colonies apart. Often …read more





