Feedly: my verdict

So I've been using Feedly for a few months now to help me organise my news sources and save time. And today they had a DDOS attack, so I had to go back to checking several websites every day. And it wasn't nice. I like how feedly organises my news. I don't wanna have to visit multiple websites -- I want all my news aggregated. And Feedly does a great job at that. I also have an extension installed which notifies me of any updates to my RSS feeds, so that's useful as well.

In short, Feedly just makes everything simpler for me.

Nintendo @ E3: My verdict

So I watched Nintendo E3 digital event yesterday. Now that I've seen some of the demos and have thought about the games shown, here's my verdict.

Amiibo: Looks cool, but I hope they won't be a necessity for any games and I hope they won't be too expensive. I have faith that Nintendo will use them well rather than try to make as much money as possible out of them.

Miis in Smash Bros: That's a good idea. I like it. 

Yoshi's wooly world: Looks gorgeous. I'm really looking forward to this.

Captain toad: Looks cool, but I hope it's an eShop title, as I'm not gonna pay full price for it.

Zelda Wii U: Amazing. Beautiful. [Insert positive adjective here]

Pokemon: Nothing too special, just a re-release.

Bayonetta 2: Looks cool I guess. 

Hyrule Warriors: Looks amazing. Can't wait to play it.

Kirby Wii U: Looks good. Looking forward to this.

Xenoblade X: Looks amazing. I'm hyped for this.

Mario Maker: I guess this is cool. It's nice to see Nintendo trying to change Mario a little bit.

Splatoon: Looks amazing. Should be great fun in multiplayer, and it's bringing innovation to a genre which sorely lacks it. 

Chrome OS update

So I heard about the recent Chrome OS update which enables offline Google Play Movies. That can't be a bad thing. People are always complaining about how Chromebooks still have a dependency to be online, so it's nice that Google is trying to rectify that. Personally, I'm loving my Chromebook and frankly I couldn't go back to a normal laptop again. I don't really mind the fact that you can't get programs on it.

But either way, it looks like Chromebooks have a bright future ahead of them. Sales certainly aren't slowing down, and if Microsoft doesn't play their game right Google could do very well in the computer market in the next few years.

Google's "End-to-end" email extension

So today I read that Google is working on an extension to further encrypt emails.

I like that idea. Most people won't want to spend time installing a program using some complex method, so it's nice that Google is trying to make the technology widely available. Hopefully this will make more people secure in light of the NSA revelations, which can't be a bad thing. I look forward to its release.

Chrome remote desktop

So I just used Chrome Remote Desktop to fix a computer.

Consider my mind blown. It's really awesome. Especially if you activate remote access.

I would recommend this to anyone who tends to have to fix computers a lot or needs to access a computer from afar.

Mario Kart 8!

Yeah, so Mario Kart 8 is pretty damn good. And it looks like it could revive Nintendo's fortunes.

In the U.K, it was second only to Watchdogs. And it's worth bearing in mind that it only had one day to do that, whereas Watchdogs had two. So it's pretty impressive.

But it looks like it should help the Wii U. Wii U sales have increased by 666%, and the game has sold over 1.2 million copies, which makes it the second best selling Mario Kart launch ever.

Also I can confirm that it is indeed amazing and is the best thing ever to have happened to the Wii U.