Shiny

I don’t normally post feedback without permission, but I got a real kick out of this, and I’m assuming the person who sent it won’t mind me posting an extract here.

… I would love to try Drivey, but I use a Mac. And I have a feeling, as simple as Drivey may (or may not) be, it isn’t based on OpenGL or anything easily ported to that platform. But I love it anyway. It is an imaginary love, since I have no idea how it actually is, other than the screenshots; but I project a lot of wishful thinking on Drivey …

Best feedback in ages :) I think I need to make some time to work on Drivey again…

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I likes:

My iPod nano, which is just the right size for me in both physical and logical dimensions. And it only scratches as much as you would expect a shiny plastic thing to. There’s a cute thing you can do in photo mode where panorama sequences can be played/swivelled using the thumbwheel– it’s way cool, and I highly recommend trying it. Also I think it would be nice is to have a screen flip mode + external lens fitting, so I could watch a slideshow on the wall at night (these little screens are ridiculously bright, and once your eyes have adjusted for a darkened room I reckon a 20" projection would be quite doable– I speak as one who has wasted countless hours rigging up impractical home made tv projection systems.)… iPod nano, you rock!

I don’t likes:

Telecom NZ. Their wifi hotspots are shit, and to use them you have to log in using three separate four digit fields + a four digit password. So basically they give you a sixteen digit number which is for no obvious reason is broken into a retarded set of form entries which are tedious as hell to enter, and when your login fails it does not appear to make any distinction between a technical failure (which happens lots because apparently they can’t keep their authorization server up) and expired credit. Brilliant… Telecom NZ, you suck!