I wish it would have actually been bigger or at least stay the same size. I don’t see a need to keep making it smaller and thinner.

I would like to have seen a 128GB model. Considering the Touch is becoming, and for many already is, a mobile gaming platform it needs more storage space to accommodate the massive amount of games out there. There are so many great games that 64GB just isn’t going to be enough. At 128GB you can have plenty of space for music (20GB in my case), an entire season of TV shows at the ready (such as Burn Notice and True Blood) and 64GB+ available for games.

A bigger battery. This is why I want the device to be bigger. I’m using the device all the time and the battery just isn’t lasting long enough. I should be able to get several hours of game play and be able to watch a couple of TV episodes before I have to recharge. We aren’t quite there yet.

Those are my three big changes. And the device being bigger so it can accommodate a bigger battery goes together, so really two changes. I think those upgrades would have been pretty significant.

It’s an excellent game for $0.99 but for free it’s amazing! Jump to it and grab a copy!

Description

The FAAD GOLD app by FreeAppADay.com App introduces Veggie Samurai as Today’s Featured Free App.
It’s time to give veggies what they have had coming for years!!
Feel the power at your finger tips! Put your swordsman skills to the test as you use your fingers to slice and dice veggies of all shapes and sizes in Veggie Samurai.
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– 4 NEW GAME MODES!!
– New Training/Practice mode for kids & pets w/ unlimited play
– New background art
– Re-vamped and optimized effects
– Modified Poison Bottle mechanics in Samurai Mode
– New "veggie" –> Potato (with satisfying "potato thwump" sound)
– More – New – Secret Mega Veggies to be discovered for more Big Bonus Points
– 7 new OpenFeint achievements
– 3 new OpenFeint leaderboards
– Performance optimizations and game play speed optimizations
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Veggie Samurai is an addictive, pickup-and-play action game that puts you in the heart of all-out veggie carnage.
Distinct game modes to choose from, including:
— Samurai Mode – Rely on your instinct and training to avoid poison vials and deliver killing blows to each and every veggie that comes your way.
— Harmony Mode – Use your slicing and dicing skills to achieve the highest score within the time limit. No poison. No Lives. More Action. More Combos.
— Slicing AND Dicing allows you to cut up veggies multiple times (some veggies can be diced a surprising number of times…)
— Watch your score skyrocket as you perform Slice Combos, Multi-Dice Combos, Dice Chains, Pea Killers, Onion Blossoms, and more!
— Score big bonus points with Rare MEGA VEGGIES that can be triggered by figuring out the secret, in-game prerequisites
— Keep your eyes peeled and score big points with the rare bonus veggies!
— Fight for global bragging rights atop the Open Feint Leaderboards
— 32 Achievements and counting… (as if dicing veggies to bits wasn’t enough)
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Now go out and prove your worth as a VEGGIE SAMURAI…

iTunes 10 looks pretty interesting. The Ping option seems neat for those that plan to use it. I don’t use iTunes that way so not much for me there. The Apple TV looked pretty cool, and when you combine iTunes with Netflix, that is a whole lot of entertainment. That could be a pretty cool combination. Interesting that only Fox and ABC chose to sign up. On the surface it looks pretty interesting, will definitely have to get more details on how all of that is going to work. Content producers really need to get on board something like the Apple TV if they want to get more content into the hands of paying customers and move away from everyone downloading shows through torrents.

But anyway, pretty predictable stuff. Each one gets a few niceties so that’s not too bad. No new upgrades for me, but I like the new devices. I will have to check out the Apple TV, a combination of iTunes with Netflix could be a lot of really good programming.

However, once the new Touch 4 comes out, I’m seriously considering getting another iPod Touch, but a 64GB model. I think the price is going to drop nicely and it would be a good time to grab another one. One would be nothing but games. The other would be nothing but music. Perhaps that’s overkill, I’m not sure.

I’m still waiting for my chance to strike on an iPad. The long shipping times and complete lack of availability seems to be at an end. I’d really like to have one before Thanksgiving and all the holiday time away from work.

But before I make any decisions, let’s see what this Apple event has in store for us.

Game of Life – $0.99
Monopoly – $0.99
Monopoly Here & Now – $0.99
Yahtzee – $0.99
Risk – $1.99

Not a bad list of games. Risk has the biggest drop, coming down from $4.99…

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First up is Index Your Files. This app builds an index then searches for any and all files that match your criteria. It’s somewhat similar to Copernic but it doesn’t look inside the files, it just makes a note of the filename. And that’s actually pretty cool. Type in any part of a filename and Index Your Files will show you every file on every drive that matches.

And the index is very quick too. It takes about 1 minute to process 100,000 files. Just for fun, I tried it out at home across multiple terabytes and it took 8 minutes to catalog all my drives. But now I have an index of every single file on my machine. It doesn’t care what the file type, it just makes a list. This is extremely cool for locating that "sales" doc or that application receipt. It’s very neat and it’s free.

To get some Copernic like features you can install DocFetcher. It actually indexes the content of your files such as .doc, .xls, .txt, .pdf so you can search for keywords. This is much slower on first run to build that index, but it’s very useful for finding files based on their contents. I gave it a test run on my work machine and was able to dig up plenty of files based on my searches. It only works with certain files types (although the most popular are represented) and it won’t look in emails, but for the price tag of free you really can’t complain.

Copernic Desktop Search Professional is my choice for home use because of the interface, the way it separates groups of files, and it’s integration. However, with these two apps, I’ve gotten pretty darn close to that some functionality at work. And considering the pricing, these are great choices!

Need to get a handle on searching for your files? Check out some of these other apps.

5 Freeware Apps for Searching Thy Desktop Awesomely

Microsoft easily spent over a billion dollars over three years to develop and launch the now-defunct Kin phones.

I’d say it’s safe to say we’re easily at or over $1 billion at this point. Microsoft made $62.5 billion in fiscal 2010. One of the company’s biggest black eyes at this point is its lack of a credible and coherent answer to the iPhone and Android.  A billion dollars would be a small price to pay to achieve this.

This does take into account salaries and other things, but that is still money being spent on this project. And the part that kills me is this after they spend a billion on the Kin which was a complete flop. Sure, MS made $60 billion but a billion dollars is still a lot of money to throw at a failed project. Plus, this is a billion for this year, the phone isn’t even out yet. They have a TON of phones to sell to make up for that investment.

And the problem is, the iPhone 4 is out, a new Touch is coming out (for games and Wifi/Skype), multiple revs of the Droid are out. These people have made an investment in hardware and data plans. Microsoft is pretty bold in thinking that these people will just toss them aside and jump to their new phone.

And let’s not forget, Microsoft is spending a billion in the Xbox arena with Natal, and even more billions trying to catch up on search. I’m tellin’ ya, these billions are starting to add up. Are they making enough headway to justify this kind of spending?

Has yet another billion been spent on making a tablet? I wouldn’t be surprised when all is said and done.

A billion to launch Windows Phone 7? I bet Microsoft is paying a lot more

And if you’re a company who claims they can’t upgrade because of legacy applications that depend on IE6, then we shouldn’t be doing business with you. That is a tragic excuse. IE6 is tragically slow and feature deficient compared to browsers today. To say you’re dependent on IE6 to carry out business function makes me question who you are and what you do. I’m sure my data and property is perfectly safe with you…

Are you sure you’re Y2K compliant?

I clear the temp folders, cache and cookies off my work machine every day, and clearly I need to start doing that with my personal machines. Who knows what kind of rubbish I have hiding in the corners of those folders.

As an aside, if you want to get your own copy of Internet Privacy Pro (I used quite a few of these apps and this seems to really clean out a lot) click here and use the coupon code: NEW25 to save 25% off your purchase.

As a free choice, give CCleaner a try.