Zman's Diary - All Comments

re: 30+ years in the making - The ZMan (in association with Exato Games) presents GunCraft

Flapper_MK — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 15:11:15 GMT

looks good but even I've seen www.ace-spades.com before this...

re: 30+ years in the making - The ZMan (in association with Exato Games) presents GunCraft

Catalin ZZ — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 18:15:51 GMT

Awesome! The trailer looks really funny.

Good luck with the Kickstarter!

Can't wait to see how the game plays :)

re: How to use an Xbox Live Gold code if you have a family account

Cullen — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 07:06:00 GMT

You don't need to use a new account for this. If you use one of your existing accoutns, though, you have to wait 5 days in there.

Boot account B, wait 5 days, redeem the code on that account, and then add them back to the family.

There's a faq on xbox.com somewhere that has this, too

re: Wednesdays in the pub with Steve

Sally — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 14:48:30 GMT

Thank you for writing that wonderful piece. I went to school with Steve in UK & hewas such a nice, bright & smiley person even back in the 80's. There are a lot of us here who are shocked, horrified & stunned & our thoughts are very much with you all over there, the people who knew him so well.

xxxxx

re: Wednesdays in the pub with Steve

Laura Zeman — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 00:34:36 GMT

Love it Andy. What a tribute to the true person Steve was!

re: Wednesdays in the pub with Steve

CJ — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 23:14:57 GMT

Thanks Andy

re: Wednesdays in the pub with Steve

Andrew — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 16:09:57 GMT

I only knew Steve by his blog but I followed him for years from his days at Microsoft through his startup and on to Google and his short detour through Facebook. I realize I didn't know him at all but I do feel like I got a sense of his good humour (yes, I'm an ex-pat Brit as well) and passion through his writings. I'm very sorry for your loss.

re: Wednesdays in the pub with Steve

Melissa — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 14:46:40 GMT

I think I might have been there for video game night. I'm glad I got to meet Steve because of you Andy. He will always be a part of your quiz nights because I know you will never forget him.

re: Wednesdays in the pub with Steve

malia Karlinsky — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 14:03:02 GMT

thanks for sharing your insights about steve. it makes me smile to think of him having so much fun with his buddies.

re: Wednesdays in the pub with Steve

Nicole Wilson — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 06:58:42 GMT

What a wonderful thing to say about one of your friends. Anyone who can call you friend Andy must be a lucky person.

re: Wednesdays in the pub with Steve

Jennifer — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 06:42:30 GMT

So sorry for the loss of your friend, and such a wonderful member of our community. I lost my Father when I was 7...these stories, being captured, written down, will be priceless to Steve's kids. Never let them forget.

re: So Microsoft - you want me to use gmail now?

Ely — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 20:09:38 GMT

I use to use hotmail to host my domain email, but switched over to gmail and google apps about a year ago, and it has been great. The main reason I left hotmail was because they attached advertisements to my outgoing emails, and at the time I wasn't a fan of the gmail interface. However, after getting use to it, I find the gmail interface to be excellent, and I would rather use it now over Outlook.

I can't comment on how well gmail integrates with wp7, but I have an Android and it is pretty seamless. Email usually shows up on my phone even before it does on gmail, and contact and calendar syncs are almost immediate. I now use gmail contacts and calendar as my main sources for those types of programs.

It just seems much easier to have your phone constantly syncing to a cloud service of some type rather than syncing every once in awhile to your PC.

re: So Microsoft - you want me to use gmail now?

Steve Lacey — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 22:24:10 GMT

Lemme know is you need help setting up Google Apps ;-)

re: So Microsoft - you want me to use gmail now?

Peter — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 06:11:08 GMT

Yeah the Outlook thing is super painful. Even with hosted Exchange there are, for example, Android email clients that offer more functionality than the WP7 one (e.g. sync notes and tasks that the WP7 client doesn't)... But you can use hotmail but with your own domain if you want:

windowslive.com/.../25a5e8f4-6e5d-4c43-8e46-8576beab28bf

re: Community Charity work

PaulBlamire — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 16:04:50 GMT

Hi,

Sorry I'm really late to the party with this one but have you thought about self-publishing with say Lulu.com

www.lulu.com/.../books

It's a print on demand service and I'm fairly sure it's all at no cost to you. They handle all the order processing and fulfillment throught their website, only if you want to do you have to open it up to other retail channels.

Seems like it may address most of your issues around ebooks, pirating and commerce systems, plus those of us that don't really like ebooks can get our hands on a proper printed book.

They have a price calculator so you can work out the manufacturing cost per unit, so how much you think you can charge above that is up to you.

Maybe worth a quick look if you haven't seen it before

Kind regards,

Paul