Archive for December, 2009

Dec
30
2009

Mr. Mobile – #50 – Supplementing the iPhones lame battery with Mophie’s Juice Pack Air

Mophie’s Juice Pack Air battery case heals the iPhone’s Achilles heel. Well, heal may be overstating; it’s more of a tourniquet to stop the battery bleeding out too soon. The point holds though; with this great iPhone case, you can just about double the life of your erstwhile anemic iPhone battery.

Download this video now:
 Quicktime
 Windows Media
 iPhone/iPod

Dec
19
2009

AWAD: Pother

‘Ma was all a-pother. Someone done run off with someone else. Honest to God I couldn’t keep it all straight. She was blatherin’ away on our weekly phone call, conversating up a storm. One of my aunts maybe. Or a cousin. Next week it’d be the same story only with different relations playin’ the parts. [...]

Dec
16
2009

Mr. Mobile – #49 – Mobile holiday gift guide

Jay Goldman, AKA Mr. Mobile, busts out a few of his favorite mobile goodies for the holiday season. From a fantastic set of mobile phone earbuds with in-line mic to a festive iPhone boosting battery pack and even an app to expand your Christmas carolling song catalog.

Download this video now:
 Quicktime
 Windows Media
 iPhone/iPod

Dec
16
2009

AWAD: Avoirdupois

Tara’s a weigher. Her internal balance beam analyzes life and assigns importance: physical, emotional, spiritual calculations performed in snap, permanent judgements.
Tara boards the bus. She eyes up the driver as she drops her fare. Heavy, balding, runny eyes. Not to be trusted. She abandons the deposited change — “Oh! Wrong bus. Silly me!” — [...]

Dec
15
2009

AWAD: Simulacrum

The O’Connor twins. Objects of intense teenage lust. Keepers of the fantasticaly ludicrous twin sister fantasy flame. Bearers of an uncanny familial resemblance and near mythical aura of sexuality, capable of rendering even the most devout into quivering puddles.
The stuff of legends, at least in Smith Falls. Left for bigger and better. Pictured on billboards, [...]

Dec
14
2009

AWAD: anomie

Smart post-conflict governments invest heavily in rebuilding infrastructure. Thomas was in full professor mode, lecturing to everyone in the room. In his head. Really he was waiting in the waiting room of his doctor’s shabby office. Infrastructure requires a lot of construction, which requires a lot of manpower, which is generally provided by young men. [...]

Dec
9
2009

Mr. Mobile – #48 – Asteroids hits the iPhone with Meteor Blitz

Mr. Mobile, also known by his unassuming, nine-to-fiving, commuting alias of Jay Goldman, brings Asteroids style action to the iPhone with Meteor Blitz. This game uses a simple and intuitive control scheme and classic Asteroids gameplay and brings it into the new age. The result? An addictive top-down shooter and a hearty recommendation from Mr. Mobile.

Download this video now:
 Quicktime
 Windows Media
 iPhone/iPod

Dec
8
2009

AWAD: Periphrastic

Sam was getting used to things flying at his head. There were many perks to having a crazy, passionate, Spanish girlfriend but this was not one of them. He’d learned that the bigger things were easier to duck or deflect, like the frying pan that had just whistled past his head as he walked in [...]

Dec
4
2009

AWAD: Savoir-faire

It took a certain savoir-faire to climb the ranks. A delicate knowledge that couldn’t be so much taught as observed, intuited rather than instructed. An ability to emphasize no matter your personal beliefs and proclivities. Joe had paid his dues early, starting out in the lower east and gradually moving up and west as his [...]

Dec
4
2009

AWAD: Chef-d’ouevre

It took the promise of a total lunar eclipse to finally drag Tramble from his cave. His increasing hermitage matched the composition of his chef-d’ouevre, a now 900-page treatise that meandered back and forth over the fiction/non border with an ease Tramble wished his own life possessed. That no one would ever read the book [...]