Archive for 2010

Android phones heterogeneity

Written by alejo on December 23rd, 2010
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A year has gone by since I got my Android phone. Now, it’s time to get a new one. Taking into account that we are on Christmas, I assumed there would be a lot of wonderful mobile phones on the market. Poor me. For some unknown reason, noone has thought of making a single “complete” [...]

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Humble Indie Bundle

Written by alejo on December 18th, 2010
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A group of game developers have released a pack of 5 games, called Hummble Indie Bundle 2, for the reasonable  price of “whatever you want”. Though I’m still downloading them, a couple of friends have already told me about them. Though they may not be the best games ever published, they grant you a nice [...]

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Losing from the very beginning

Written by alejo on November 22nd, 2010
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For some reason, games played during the last months have proved me right: my fuseki is awful. The worst I’m at fuseki, the more I have to fight during middle game. The last 20 games have been all-in tsumegos, with the result of the game as a price. Though I’m able to remember the basic [...]

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Big moves at yose

Written by alejo on October 6th, 2010
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While yose moves are usually small and mainly consist on winning a few points while keeping sente, sometimes we happen to find big moves during the latest phase of the game. It doesn’t really matter whether it’s because of a shortenning of liberties or due to the presence of some aji-loaded stones. In this case we’ll [...]

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Wii-berrations

Written by alejo on September 21st, 2010
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Wii-berration: game adapted for Wii in a way that turns enjoyable classic games into a morally painful experience Since Wii hype was derived from its motion-based controllers, some games have been modified in order to be able to use Wii’s main virtue. During the last months I’ve tried some Wii versions of classical videogames… with [...]

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Physical Go Server – Igolocal

Written by alejo on September 15th, 2010
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A few days ago I came across this site while checking Lifein19x19. The purpose of this site is to help Go players to find each other on real life rather than on virtual servers. Though registering only takes one minute, I’d say it’s usefulness relies on the amount of players on your area. In my case, since [...]

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