Hey, if you are reading this….thanks and why?

Months have gone by, many months. No Rock Band news or rants. No updates on my gadget obsessions. No shameless plugs for online deals to support our sponsors. Nuthin! So what gives?

Our first four years were very active (2007-2010), with multiple writers and sometimes many articles per day. (Remember, we run this site pro bono, make gilch, for free). Well not entirely true. It cost us money to keep it running. We do on a very rare occasion make a coin or two if you check out our sponsor links or buy from one of our Amazon links.

2011 had a turn (not for the worse, no one died or anything), just a turn. Shawn started a side-project in the smartphone security space (of course MyGGGo was already a side-project). He also started another side-project developing technical training courses. And finally started another side-project playing drums in a couple bands. Oops…I think that’s 3 too many side-projects.

Where are all the other writers from MyGGGo? They have faded into their lives, and we haven’t worked at replacing them. Our bad.

MyGGGo has suffered. I can’t say 2012 will return us to previous levels, but here’s a first ditch effort. Coming this week, will be our new feature, known as App-A-Day.

Since we have literally hundreds of apps (from business to games to time wasters) for many platforms, We are bringing (sexy) back all three G’s to MyGGGo (Gadget, Game, and Gizmo Obsession) with this new feature. We will have a standard format for App-A-Day and will walk through the details of an app, the good, the bad, the malicious, the free, the ridiculously expensive.

Get ready for stuff from the Android Market, iOS App Store, Mac App Store, Chrome Apps, Xbox 360 games, Xbox 360 Dashboard apps, BlackBerry apps, Wii games. We will go all over the map. Why the whole map, well we actually use them all.

Join us later this week for the first real blast-o-news for 2012 with App-A-Day. If you have any preference of platform, type of app, or a specific app you’d like us to highlight on App-A-Day, drop us a line below.

You are sure to find a classic that you love now, or grew up loving. Check out this deal at Amazon today. It’s a no brainer if you are on this site.

I’ve setup a link from the post (hint, hint: it helps me pays the bills to keep this site running).

I’m off to pick it up now, and I bet you are too.

It’s on NOW! Amazon just started a Lightning Deal of the Rock Band 3 MIDI PRO Adapter for only $25. These are the adaptors which allow real electronic drum kits, real keyboards, and the Fender Squier (designed for Rock Band 3) to be connected to your console for your rocking pleasure.
Here’s the link. Go now, get yourself some PRO adapters and rock out.

Rock Band 3 MIDI PRO Adapter

Original Tweet from Amazon: “Morning all…at 10am PST, get the Rock Band 3 Midi PRO-Adapter (all platforms) for just $25.”

This is the second update this week. This time 17 more Rock Band 3 DLC songs are added.

Get ready for some Johnny Cash, Linkin Park, and Stone Sour added to the Rock Band station. With this update, all available (Rock Band proper) DLC through January 25, 2011 is on the station.  Enjoy!

INCLUDES ALL SONGS THRU 1/25/2011.

NEW:

Johnny Cash - Johnny Cash 01 pack

Linkin Park - Linkin Park 01 pack

Stone Sour - Stone Sour 01 pack

Direct link to Rock Band Station on Slacker.com

Check this out. Use Rock Band mics to player a shoot-em-up Xbox Indie game. YouTube link below says it all.

Original article here:
http://www.siliconera.com/2011/04/04/this-xbox-live-shoot-em-up-is-controlled-using-a-microphone/

I will keep this simple. After four months, I got off my butt and added a bunch of Rock Band 3 DLC songs to the Slacker Radio Rock Band station.  More than 40 songs were added in this update. With this update, all available (Rock Band proper) DLC through January 1, 2011 is on the station.  Enjoy!

INCLUDES ALL SONGS THRU 12/28/2010.

NEW:

John Lennon - Imagine album
38 Special – “Hold On Loosely“
Bad Company – “Can’t Get Enough“
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Lynyrd Skynyrd 01 pack
Queen - Queen Extravaganza Pack 01
Billy Joel - Billy Joel: The Hits: Rock Band Edition pack
John & Yoko, The Plastic Ono Band – “Happy Xmas (War Is Over)”
Anaïs Croze – “Peut-Être une Angine”
BB Brunes – “Dis-Moi”
BAP – “Verdamp Lang Her”
Wir sind Helden – “Nur ein Wort”
Linea 77 – “Fantasma”
Litfiba – “Proibito”
Skizoo – “Dame Aire”
Caesars – “Jerk It Out“
Paul McCartney - Celebrating Band on the Run pack
Inhabited – “Open My Eyes”
Siouxsie and The Banshees – “Cities in Dust“

Direct link to Rock Band Station on Slacker.com

The RIM press release today had a bit of info that has me now very interested in a PlayBook (which I already was interested).

They confirmed the Java VM on the PlayBook will be the same that’s on Android devices allowing Android apps to somewhat natively run on one PlayBook. I wonder if this will create a patch war like Apple and Palm had when the Palm WebOS had native iTunes support and Apple continually updated iTunes to break the support.

The PlayBook will also have native C/C++, HTML5, Flash, and AIR dev environments.

The dev potentials are quite large. I’m interested to see how it competes in the crowded tablet market.

This past weekend at PAX East in Boston, MA, we had the opportunity to connect with several of our industry friends from Harmonix, independent Rock Band Network (RBN) authors, popular blogs authors, and the likes.  From discussions we had over the weekend, we pieced together an interesting picture of the future of the Rock Band DLC franchise.  In the wake of recent layoffs at Harmonix and the Activision announcement to shelve Guitar Hero, our source tells us, “The times, they are a changing.”

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Unless you have been under a rock this month, you know the illustrious iPhone 4 will be heading to Verizon on February 10. This will be the first time, since the original release of the iPhone in 2007, that the phone has been made available on a CDMA carrier (Verizon and Sprint are both CDMA carriers in the U.S.) This will also be the first time that an iPhone will get 3G data speeds outside of AT&T, in the U.S. (T-Mobile users have been able to use unlocked iPhones, but unable to get 3G speeds).

There is a lot of rumbling that many people unhappy with AT&T’s service issues (that’s phone/data service, not customer service), will likely jump ship from AT&T for the greener grass of Verizon. If you are one of those people, there are a few major considerations you should be aware of before you make the big move.

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