PS3 Video Service for 2008! Just not for PAL…

Posted by Vaughan on Jul 20, 2008 in Movies, PS3 | 0 comments

The PS3 Video Service is to be launched in 2008, worldwide.  But if you are in a PAL region, you are going to have to wait until 2009.  With a video download service being a lure for Blue-Ray seekers, a delay of 12 months is going to push more of the market to competing services, or torrents.

Mirror’s Edge E3 Trailer

Posted by Vaughan on Jul 15, 2008 in Games | 0 comments

I am very eager to get my hands on Mirror’s Edge.  My hope is that it will be a nice fresh immersive experience, that has only happened a few times in the last few years with titles of the likes of Portal.

Check out the E3 trailer below…

And that music track is haunting… where is it from?

DVD Review: Futurama – The Beast With a Billion Backs

Posted by Vaughan on Jul 8, 2008 in Review | 0 comments

Mission excuse, mission, big alien, breading, heaven, robot armies, bang bang, the end.  If you like Futurama, expect the Simpson’s Movie Syndrome to set in at around 28 minutes, however you will come away loving it.  If you don’t like Futurama, or have never watched Futurama, don’t touch it.

Site Review: Simply Noise

Posted by Vaughan on Jul 8, 2008 in Review, Website | 1 comment

Having problems sleeping?  Simply Noise is … simply that.  Focus on tasks, or in my case, simply fall asleep.  Try it out, I’m interested to see if anyone uses it in an office environment.

Adobe Makes Flash Crawlable

Posted by Vaughan on Jul 2, 2008 in Flash | 0 comments

SEO takes a step up in the domain of Flash applications, with Adobe announcing that rich media search will be available for Yahoo! and Google.  With RIAs becoming more common on the web, it has often been the decision to step away from Flash when SEO was a priority.

So who benefits?  I can see anyone with a Flash site full of data jumping up and down with glee!  But if your Flash application is heavy on data, it is likely to be pulling relevant data on demand from remote back-ends, and if this is the case, Adobe’s new initiative will not be improving SEO for you.  Where it will help is for the more monolithic Flash sites.  Big bang flash sites where all the static content is screaming out to be found by the search engine crawlers.  For those sites, this is a tasty SEO burger.