If you use iTunes as your music software player, there is a good plug-in for it. The main reason I use it is because it lets you passthrough the music through foobar, which in my opinion is superior in sound quality. I don’t use foobar because the interface sucks. With this plugin you can have the best of both. It allows you to do other things like skin iTunes. You can get it here:
Having completed Minish Cap on my Game Boy I started on a new game, Kingdom Hearts Chain of Memories. I’m a big fan of the first Kingdom Hearts game (having to work on it may lean my bias to it). And I’m really excited to play the second one coming out on PS2 at the end of this month. So I realize this GBA game is more than a rehash of the first game but rather something that bridges the story to the sequel. So I guess I better play it. So far it’s ok. Kinda skims over the old scenes from the previous game with a new setting. Seems pretty simple so far, even with all the cards and stuff.
I read Famitsu gave FF XII a 40/40. A first for any Final Fantasy game, and a first for any PS2 game. Only 5 other games have achieved this score: The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, Nintendogs, Vagrant Story, and Soul Calibur.
Last week, Microsoft released a tablet PC handheld that’s like a cross between a laptop and a PSP. It’s called the Origami and it will be able to do most anything a regular laptop can do, but can be carried around more easily. Electronics vendors will all have their own specs and design, so Microsoft itself will not be making and selling it directly. You can see a video here to get an idea.