Wednesday, May 6th, 2009
Capsuleer is now at version 2.0 and is much improved over its initial release. The pilot information screen familiar to users of version 1.0 is still present, detailing the skill being learnt and its completion date and time, your skill point total, and the ISK balance of your wallet, ...
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Wednesday, January 28th, 2009
When I play music on my iPod Touch I really miss the album shuffle mode available on my old third generation iPod. When I got the Touch I didn't realise it was missing a feature that I used extensively and when I saw it was missing I didn't think ...
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Tuesday, January 13th, 2009
The new certificate system and planner in EVE Online offers a far more interactive and engaging method of character progression than the basic character sheet skill interface. The character sheet is still there and remains the tool for selecting which skills to train but the certificate system and planner ...
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Monday, November 3rd, 2008
When listening to music I generally listen to whole albums, played start to finish, rather than individual tracks. I find that, unlike for some other media, a great deal of satisfaction in listening to music comes from the expectation and gratification of knowing what is to come, so while ...
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Sunday, October 19th, 2008
In my overview of portable EVE Online skil tracking last week I mentioned how I wasn't able to get Capsuleer running, only trying EVE Tracker as a result. I will point out again that it was only because I had shut down my computer and didn't want to power ...
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Wednesday, October 15th, 2008
I recently downloaded EVE Tracker to my iPod Touch to be able to keep track of my character's skill training in EVE Online on the portable device. I'm not entirely sure of the application's utility, because if I'm not near a computer when the training completes there is little ...
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Thursday, September 11th, 2008
Whilst casually browsing the iPod Touch applications on the iTMS the other day I found a piece of software of interest, EVE Tracker by Saggysoft. It's a simple application that allows you to keep track of your skill training in EVE Online on your iPod Touch or iPhone. ...
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Wednesday, August 6th, 2008
I don't play CDs that often any more, instead generally listening to my old third generation iPod, plugged in to my A/V system, playing all of my music on random album play. It is nice to be able to interrupt the iPod's playlist without losing its place by using ...
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Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
I poked around the new application store for the iPhone and iPod Touch when it was opened a couple of weeks ago. Apart from getting the Remote application, which allows my iPod Touch to control iTunes on my desktop machine over the wireless network, nothing really grabbed me as ...
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Monday, July 14th, 2008
I didn't sleep terribly well this weekend. I had two nightmares Saturday night, both waking me up and one causing me to try to scream in my sleep, which wasn't pleasant. This left me feeling a bit tired on Sunday, although it was mostly a pleasantly relaxing day. ...
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