My Thoughts On “FrankenGarnet”

No Comments »December 29th, 2005

As a long time Palm user I’ve come to know the Palm OS intimately. It has been my workhorse platform since the Palm III, and I still gladly remain a Palm user in preference to its elegant design and usability. And yet, like most enthusiasts, I have bore witness to a general slide in the once legendary and now mythical stability and reliability the Palm experience was known for. To be fair, crashes are not uncommon to any mobile platform. Even my old Symbian-powered Nokia cell phone would lock up on the odd occasion for no apparent reason other than to frustrate me. PDAs and Smartphones are complex devices running complex code, compared to dumb devices like feature phones. But Palm OS, for all its shortcomings, has had until recent years, a near untarnished reputation for being bulletproof and insanely reliable. That is no longer the case.
(more…)

Starship Exeter

No Comments »December 6th, 2005

Cyberspace…the final frontier. These are the voyages of the Starship Exeter. It’s mission…to pick up where the original series left off. To employ amateur actors in various classic Star Trek plot recreations. To boldly go where no campy homemade sci-fi film has gone before! Ok, so it’s not Leanord Nimoy and William Shatner at the helm of the Enterprise, but if you can look beyond the hammy community theater style acting, believe it or not, Starship Exeter is actually quite impressive. In fact, the first piece in the series, entitled “The Tressaurian Intersection”, looks and feels so authentic, visually, it could almost be mistaken for an original Desilu production…I kid you not. The sets are especially impressive. The bridge and starship corridors are exact duplicates of the original sets designed by Matt Jeffries from the early series. The CGI-based U.S.S Exeter looks just like the real McCoy…uh, excuse the pun.

Episodes from the series are available free for download from the studio’s site. Transer them onto your video iPod or PDA for viewing on the go. As I said, the acting is very amateurish…but what do expect from a group of Star Trek enthusiasts with limited acting skills on a low budget?

Link