App of the week: I am T-Pain

I know that we're late to this party; but god damn this app is cool!

T-Pain has unleashed some of his auto-tune skills and placed them on the iPhone...that's right, YOU can sing in auto-tune.  I don't usually get this giddy about iPhone apps; but this really is such an enjoyable experience.  You've got simple kareoke start up, then you can expand to changing the auto-tune key and send small clips via email.  Smule always have a history of just encapsulating the most creative ideas, and now they've gone and found the coolest.  So cool, in fact, that it's been used on Obama...by Jimmy Kimmel but you get the point.



Check this one out!  £1.79 on itunes app store.  BARGIN!

Toy Story 3 The video game: Alright I'm excited.

Call it an insane addiction to the adventures of Woody and Buzz when I was a kid; but i really enjoyed the first two Toy Story titles (the first one being my favoured one).  Toy Story 3: The Video Game, after watching this trailer, shows some actual potential.  


Taking a fully customisable sandbox option a la LittleBigPlanet for a start, and the game itself just looks adorable!  I'd want to know what you guys think though.  Does Toy Story 3: The video game look like a promising title to you?

Plus Woody does the celebration dance at the end of the trailer, that he does when a level is completed on the original Megadrive game...Pure awesome!

Taking to my soapbox 3: Think before you act

Whenever a blurry photo or out of focus video of some upcoming gadget, it would be fair enough to say that alarm bells start ringing and the majority would be skeptical of it.  But each shot and video that gizmodo released has been meticulously researched by many a tech website, and the general consensus tells us that this...is the new iPhone.

But this isn't what's ground my gears, infact I think it's a great little point that the walled garden that is Apple does sometimes leave the gate ajar.  As you can see imposed onto the picture, Gizmodo secured this exclusive by buying it off the person who found it on a bar stool in Gourmet Haus Staudt, a german bar in Cupertino, for $5000. 

In Gizmodo's coverage of the iPhone 4G, they went out of their way to publish the name of the person who lost it.  I know they did it with good intentions, saying that he doesn't deserve to be fired for a simple mistake; but doing something such as that could prove destructive.  The site have put themselves in legal danger for a start, purchasing something that was lost/stolen.  But through announcing who the person was, they've placed the spotlight on one person in particular.  I believe in the write to be clear and honest with your writing, its what I do every day; but I wouldn't do something that puts somebody's career or wellbeing in danger.

Yakuza 3 review

With all factors weighed in, Sega made it difficult for me to love Yakuza 3. Again, we get an inferior version of the game, which has arrived much later than the original Japanese release. It looks dated, gameplay gets repetitive; the whole thing just doesn’t feel like the evolution that we all wanted…and yet I still enjoy it.

Green Zone movie review

This is the fourth time director Paul Greengrass and Matt Damon have worked together, and unfortunately the partnership has turned dull; producing a very average film in Green Zone when comparing it to The Bourne series.