We don’t do many post-mortem posts at mendax.org, but perhaps we should start. We say that because things are usually clearer in hindsight, and understanding historical events is a boon to future decision making. That’s why when we commented on the World of Warcraft (WoW) miniatures game the other day, we thought about the interesting [...]
We bought Rock Band 2 a week after it was released, and after getting our groove on, we hopped online and ordered the ION Premium Drums, having sold out Rock Band drums months earlier. We held off on a pre-order because of the price, but who can resist the allure of a more customizable drum [...]
A couple weeks ago we came across WowMatrix, an addon manager for World of Warcraft. The program is very similar to WoWAceUpdater, the OS X version of which which we utilize in conjunction with mendax.wow. WowMatrix has picked up some steam since it was revealed at the WoWAce fora, and has recently been promoted by [...]
So Microsoft decided to promote their love of World of Warcraft (WoW) by releasing AddOn Studio, based on their Visual Studio application. The tool in question makes developing WoW addons much easier, as developers now have a visual markup system to make such development much less tedious. Of course, with the many new quality addons [...]
Don’t get me wrong, I love Apple. When they do things right, they really do things right. That doesn’t excuse them for being shortsighted, or perhaps more correctly, intentionally limiting, however. For example, the restriction users face from playing downloaded iTunes songs on anything but an iPod, or in the case of what prompted this [...]