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Infinity Blade II

Infinity Blade has made users on other platform than iOS envious. It has been claimed to have the best graphics of all mobile gaming platform. I agree but the gameplay is short and lack of full real time combat style. In essence, it’s real time combat but the characters just stay in one position. After an hour of game time, I believe that some of us would be bored as we would have fought all types of enemies in the game. I made myself a mission which is to use and master all weapons available. It took me a couple of days to do so but after than, Infinity Blade sits inside a folder called “Finished Game”.

Infinity Blade II starts where Infinity Blade ends. The graphic doesn’t look any better than Infinity Blade and it’s already outstanding. The battle style is still the same except that there are more weapons to choose from. Certain types of weapons do not work with shield. In other words, you can’t block but dodge and attack. Each of the weapons can also be paired with gems found in the game. Gems when paired with weapons enhance certain ability.

There are now more chests and gold bags in Infinity Blade II. However, most chests requires Small, Medium or Large keys. So far, I find that small keys can be easily obtain. I managed to get a Medium key by beating one of the enemies. Not to worry though, gems and keys can be bought in the store using money earn from winning against the enemies or collecting gold bags.

Infinity Blade II seems to offer a few more alternative paths compared to two in the first Infinity Blade. I have yet to explore all available routes as most paths will only be unlocked after a few rounds.

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HP Touchpad

On 18th August 2011, HP announced that it will discontinue it’s mobile devices line. It includes the new HP Touchpad and Palm phones. You would probably know about it already since it was quite a big news in the tech world. But what has captured the interest of gadget lovers is not the decision to discontinue those products and they are probably even less interested in the future of HP tablets and mobile phones. The fire sale is the headline. Everyone is waiting for their local retailers to slash the prices; from £479 to £115 for the 32GB model and from £399 to £89 for the 16GB model. For that price, anyone is interested and that includes me. At first, I doubt that UK would follow the trend when US first announced that there will be some sort of fire sale. But it is true now and as soon as HP Touchpad is selling in fire sale mode, it’s sold out.

Right now, I wish that I should have bought it at full price and then wait for HP to announce a refund of the differences. That’s quite a huge risk to take though. Anyway, the time has passed and I should move on. I have indeed moved on and I found myself checking Argos stock on HP Touchpad every now and then. I am not obsessed with HP Touchpad since I already have an iPad2. The deal is just too good to pass.

I am thinking, if I had a HP Touchpad right now, what will I do with it.

Digital Photo Frame and Clock

This is a nice though. A 9.7-inch digital photo frame plus clock would be great. I have been dying to get myself one but most of the digital photo frame plus clocks in the market rely on main power supply. HP Touchpad could easily hold its charge at least 7 hours. Well, there will be a few with its own battery but they certainly can’t do more than HP Touchpad.

Android

Everything is possible nowadays. Getting HP Touchpad to run on Android is not rocket science. Imagine the possibilities that will be opened up by having Android on board on a HP Touchpad? Endless! A good quality 9.7-inch 16GB Android tablet priced at £89 is almost impossible to get.

Use it as it is

I am a gadget lover but I am not an extensive user of gadgets. Take iPad2 for example, I only use it for games, e-mails and internet. I did try to use it as a secondary screen using Air Display but it still needs some improvements in terms of speed and usability. Accessing Twitter, Facebook and e-mails is quick and easy. I believe HP Touchpad could do the same too.

Finally…

Until I get my hands on one, it is still quite a mystery device to me. To be honest, I am most likely to retain WebOS rather than install Android or any other possible tablet OS that will be compatible or made compatible with HP Touchpad. WebOS will be obsolete if no one take up the challenge to revive it from HP. I kind of like the idea of owning it since HP Touchpad is probably the first and the last tablet to run WebOS.

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110mb Web Hosting Service

I finally had enough! In the last couple of days, I have theoretically left 110mb web hosting service. One of my blogs, My Ideas 4 You is still on 110mb but I have backup all the data and I can have it running on my new web hosting in just a few clicks away. Yes, it feels great though I am moving away from free web hosting to paid web hosting. However, I don’t think I will regret it.

In the beginning

Web space is getting cheap. 110mb got its name because it was offering 110mb free to anyone who sign up. By the time I became 110mb customer, it was already offering 5GB free web space. Great deal, I thought to myself! I never use it all, not even near 110mb. Besides that, it offered 100GB bandwidth and many 1-click application. However, mySQL doesn’t come free, so, I have to choose a blogging platform other than the popular WordPress. Flatpress was what I found. Everything was great about Flatpress. It’s lightweight, easy to manage and tons of plugins. Everything was great with 110mb too. Practically no downtime and it was quick when transferring data.

Charges

My Ideas 4 You started to grow and I realised that email is important. Comments were pouring in as well, hence, I needed to know whenever someone left a comment. But in order to get email to work, I have to pay for the service. It’s only an one-off payment, so I didn’t really mind. Payment was quick and within 12 hours, I received a confirmation saying that the email was good to go.

Later on

Soon enough, I decided to start up another blog, All My Reviews, which is this blog. Well, same but different. This blog is currently hosted under my new web hosting service. All the previous posts are still on 110mb but I am not sure whether I will be able to see them again. I will explain that later on. On 110mb term, My Ideas 4 You and All My Reviews are on different servers. That didn’t bother me as the servers are still managed by 110mb and at that time, I still thought they offered the best free web hosting service. I planned on a third blog but I hardly did anything to it.

Troubles

Older servers tend to be more stable from what I have gather from the support forum. A year or two after I became 110mb customer, my blogs started experiencing downtime. At first, things were solved easily. Then, the downtime became quite regular especially weekends. As I said, older servers tend to be more stable and thus, All My Reviews is the less stable one. In my opinion, a not-so-regular-downtime-period is still acceptable for me since 110mb is offering free web hosting service. Soon, my paid email service is unstable. I don’t get notifications on comments that have been posted on my blogs. I logged several support calls but I receive no replies. Once in a blue moon, I do get a few notifications but that’s not good enough.

At the moment, my old All My Reviews site is down. And it has been down for about three months now. Seems like everyone has forgot about that server. Everything about 110mb is just so wrong at the moment. The forum is not accessible now and I can’t even login to my blogs control panel other than FTP.

Finally…

I can’t imagine what will happen if I paid for 110mb premium hosting package. Anyway, I am glad that I am out of 110mb. As much as I liked them in the past, they just can’t keep up. I have to start all over again for All My Reviews blog but that doesn’t matter. I can only hope that my new web hosting service lives up to its reputation.

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