Reeder for iphone (RSS) and the wordpress app

So just to make things clear and easy, this is an rss feed reader on iphone, i use this all the time for my favourite feeds, its about £1.79 i think, or it was. basically i use this and attach it to my gmail account so that whenever i subscribe to a feed when browsing the internet i keep informed whenever i check the app. It doesn’t seem to do push notifications though, atleast not on my ipod with os 3. whatever. But check it out http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/reeder/id325502379?mt=8

To subscribe on GrigOrig.com you have the option of the full feed or if you are on one of the category pages you should be able to subscribe just to that category.

It’s reeder with a double ee if searching on the app store from the iphone, and its by Silvio Rizzi.

In recent months it’s added readability function with a little R button in the top right that tries to grab the main text and display it withing the app at a readable size, this is in preference to going straight to the site and the text being small, the app does link the post to the sites though if you wanted.

The wordpess app on the iphone can be a bit buggy, but what i think is the official one is by automatic. So you can approve comments, and blog form your iphone using this app http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/wordpress/id335703880?mt=8

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Re-Spawny Gits…

So, a year on, and what’s happening with Respawn, the Phoenix comp created by Call of Duty creators and former Infinity Ward-proteges Jason West and Vince Zampella?

Precisely zip. They have a website, which still consists of just the above two lines, and no games, no news, no releases. And why is this important?

Because Black Ops is sucking my gamers. With the First Strike map pack just released for the lame-fest that is Treyarch’s abysmal imitation, the lobbies of Modern Warfare 2 have been draining fast – leaving only the hardcore who are continually whupping my ass… (not that it’s stopped me getting 1.17 ktd, eh lartens?!)

So unless West and Zampella get their act in gear and publish a non-Treyarch COD replacement pretty soon, we’re gonna have only two choices: carry on getting whupped just to play the beautiful MW2, or play Halo Reach.

And no one wants that.

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The SNES Zelda Challenge Starts Here!

So even though I’m only part way through Twilight Princess, I’ve gone and got the bug for completing SNES Zelda… It actually started from completing MW2 and thinking how i hardly ever bother to actually complete games. And, true enough, even though it’s one of the most classic ever beauts, I never did finish SNES Zelda. SO, first I’m gonna buy that sucka, and that starts today!

But in the meantime, check out this awesome Zelda-modded SNES that I found while looking for pics of the game…

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Mending the old guitar hero pedal…

So after staring at the freaking pedal for half an hour and not finding any screws and giving up, i finally turned to trusty youtube.


found the screws, but what this guy doesn’t say is how you have to rip all the glue and padding and stuff to get there… see how his lovely video makes it look easy? anyone got any superglue?

anyhoo, project fixclumsymizza starts today…

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Interesting things i saw on joystiq

Theres too numerous things to single post about so i’ll lump them together, needles to say that there are a few moslty in respect to activision about cutting jobs and dropping franchises.

cutting jobs
Dropping Guitar Hero

Oh and how about this game and watch thing to spend some nintendo points on, just as we went to that shop in brighton today where last time they had the game and watch mario bros game my brother had, though i didn’t see it today, but then i’d ebay that beaut anyway. Game and Watch Ball
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Bite Me. Live action zombie thing at machinima.com

So here’s the zombie short series thing i was saying about, i found it on the machinima channel on youtube, it’s not finished yet, or atleast that’s what i’m assuming by the “to be continued” ending, there should be 5 short episodes at time of writing, i found them to  be amuzing as a gamer culture thing. Its nicely produced and acted well. So Check it out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuJmEfO2yNI

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Handy plugin called simply exclude (by Paul Menard)

So i found this helpful plugin for wordpress that allows categories or posts to be excluded from the front page, feeds, search, and archives. It can achieve this by either including categories by checking them, or excluding categories by checking them. same applies for pages, and tags. I personally used the tags feature, so now i have tags such as exclude-post, exclude-front, and exclude-feed. this gives me the best control over where a post may end up, say this one, i want it to appear in my list, and also under tech, but not on the main page, where as a nother day i may want a tech category post to appear on the front page, so by not excluding the tech category altogether i can still have really intersesting posts be shared.

so for furture reference to myself, this is how i have the settings:

exclude categories: front, archive, search, feed are all set to exclude, and the categories excluded are none at this stage.

exclude tags: front, archive, search, feed are all set to exclude and the exclude-post tag has front and feed checked, exclude-front has front checked, and exclude-feed has feed checked.

That’s it for my settings. obviously the many other different options are useful depending on the needs of yourself or your client. so well done to the author of this handy plugin

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New Fightpad

New fightpad for xbox not by Madcatz so there may be hope. Still obviously not as good as the Saturn pad. Not even sure if its got a proper d-pad – looks and sounds like its got something weird so it’s obviously gonna suck. Glad to have given up hope and gotten a stick. Still can’t post web addresses as links. Good times.

http://shoryuken.com/content/pdp-s-marvel-edition-versus-fighting-pad-3540/

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Back to the future goodness

Bit late as news, but as i bought this on steam the other day i must say i’m lovin’ it, cheeky humour, iconic audio treats, in a nicely drawn point and click little shindig.

Anyway the news is that it’s coming to the US PSN on February 15th for $20. Apparently we may expect it in Europe shortly after but haven’t found any info on that.

It’s my understanding that the price includes the 4 other monthly episodes, which is good news as it was about £16.99 on steam and I wasn’t sure if i’d be paying more. wether or not PSN Europe gets the 20% discount is anybodys guess, but i reckon price tag steam had is worth it for all 5, if just for the blend of new and nostalga alone.

Apparently the co creator and writer of the original trilogy Bob Gale had some input to the game, listed on IMDB.com as supervising writer of episode 1.

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Sega Rally Online confirmed!

http://www.computerandvideogames.com/286439/news/sega-rally-online-arcade-revealed-screenshots/

Woo hoo! Not that it’s the original – bah!

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