I have been always wondering about how Valve could create such an interesting games? Especially Half Life series. It turned out, a secret of first Half Life was simple – just a good story.
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Applying Dan Harmon’s circle to Half Life 2 story
April 10 2013, 
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Tags: Game, Half Life 2, Research, Story
iWatch or why Apple will never release a rumor device
March 4 2013, Retweet ,
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When a lot of people have been discussing and pointing out why Apple really should release iWatch I had a feeling that all these ideas about iWatch are pointless. Because, just in case, Apple always has a strong reason to release something new.
In 2001 that was a vision how music player should look and function. Player as you can remember had a purpose too — play music as easy as possible. Then was iPhone and again no tangents. Only reasonable things: it’s a phone, it’s a player and it’s a web communicator. All products made by Apple have a specific purpose and that’s why I really wondering why people still get caught by this fake iWatch rumor?
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What is YotaPhone?
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If you not really familiar with the subject I suggest you to read a very good article by The Verge (or just look throw pics). But if you interested in my humble opinion or seeking for a nice phrase about this phone here is a quote of mine:
YotaPhone is unique and many-sided in different ways, cause this is crazy and a pretty strange alloy of russian ambitions and foreign innovations. Black and white displays made by Taiwanian Eink company, main display – Japan Display (joint manufacture by Toshiba, Sony and Hitachi), microprocessor supplied by american Qualcomm and Yota reached an agreement with big asian produced in assembling. But it has russian soul and roots.
There’s more than one way to take pictures
December 21 2012, Retweet ,
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Way which Instagram is going might be discussed endlessly and forever, but pointlessly. Every web-service want to live and to continue exist. Still how obvious does that sound service needs money for that. Practically every new idea tried to be monetized, still some facing a hardship. Now in Instagram decided in a very tricky way to earn money on ads but not selling photos of users. I have my own vision what business model a service like Instagram might use and I want to share it.
Yet another Apple event and how to live it
October 23 2012, Retweet ,
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Honestly speaking I am sick of all Apple presentations. There is no useful impact in the society from that company. For several decades they have been developing only computers, phones and tablets, well and music players. So, I decided not to watch the presentation. However, I have changed my mind immediately when recalled about time traveling. So, unhesitatingly my friend with bow-tie and I went to 23 of October 09:00 San Jose and now I will tell you what I saw.
Maps from perfectionists
October 5 2012, Retweet ,
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I am now finishing Steve Jobs biography (again) and looking at what is going on with iMaps for iOS. The thing is, that maps aren’t that bad actually: vector with possibility use it offline, great 3D view, really powerful and understandable navigation and insanely cool design. Apple was, is (and will be, I believe) a compony where most of the job is done by perfectionists.
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Trap with NFC business card
September 29 2012, Retweet ,
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I was thinking about several things connected with this NFC business card idea, mentioned in the Verge. First was about: shall new business men have one? Second was is it just cool or technologically indispensable?
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Tags: business card, design
How I wish iMessages could be improved
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I would like to share some thoughts about how iMessages could be improved. The problem with this amazing service is notifications: they become really annoying when you having a long conversation. To turn off the volume/notifications every time when I am going to chat is not a solution. So less words, more pictures.
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Moscow Metro museum
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Not long ago I was in Moscow. If you go there you will lost one day from your life, for sure. So I decided to use it wisely and put a check in my wish-list – visit Moscow metro museum. So, man said, man done. Honestly, to find this museum is not that easy. So, metro station “Sportivnaya”.
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ListBook review
March 15 2012, Retweet ,
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Reading time: 3 min
I have already had some experiense of using noIdentity apps. To be honest my favorite financial app is MoneyBook. I haven’t found better app yet. Also I have been using ListBook before iOS 5 and Reminders app were released. So, when guys from noIdentity shown the new version of ListBook I was intrigued: is the new ListBook better then Reminders? And two week gave an answer to this question.
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