Grant Robertson
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Grant Robertson is a born geek. Having worked in nearly every facet of the IT and software industry at one point or another, Grant has served as Lead Blogger for Download Squad since the departure of Jordan Running in February 2007. He has appeared on several NPR radio talk programs, been quoted in several national publications, and he still gets a tiny thrill every time he sees software he wrote in action.
Filed under: OS Updates, Google, Android
If you've been waiting for all the goodies in the Android 1.5 release (titled Cupcake), wait no longer. According to the T-Mobile forums, the rollout officially began a few days ago.Filed under: Finance, Security, Web services, Op-Ed
Early morning Tuesday a software malfunction caused a security breach at Rudder, a web based financial management service Download Squad has covered in the past. Filed under: Web services
If you're shaking your moneymaker (quite literally) via Craigslist, you've only got 7 more days before your advertisements meet with closer scrutiny. In -- yet another -- agreement with a state Attorney General (this time, Connecticut) Craigslist will remove the Erotic Services category. Filed under: Internet, Web services
Filed under: Features, E-mail, Productivity, Web services, sxsw
I don't want to sound like a grizzled old Lou Grant smoking a cigar and tossing back belts of the scotch I keep in my desk for the days the news doesn't go so good (which is, incidentally, every day.) but there are some stories you just toss in the wait and watch pile. Earlier today the word on the street was that if you even opened your browser on the Android mobile phone in your pocket, you had ...
We'd all agree, the Internet is awesome. But, who is teh awesomest? Urlesque's 2008 Urlies took the time to rate, evaluate and rank the best of what kept us distracted online this year, and it's an impressive list. What would the internet be without cats, Rick Astley, link bait and flash memes? Boring, that's what. Face it, without the constant stream of distractions -- cute kids, celebrities on ...
We meet a lot of interesting people in the course of running Download Squad; Developers, designers, engineers, entrepreneurs, executives. Thinkers. Far and away the best part of this job are the connections made and ideas shared with people on the bleeding edge of the web and software. Too often, we only get to share a tiny slice of those conversations and off-topic bits. Starting today we're ...
I have an absolute weakness for physics games, and while Civiballs isn't the strongest physics-based game, what it lacks in the physics department it makes up for a few times over in style and fun.
In Civiballs, you are presented with a few colored balls, and your goal is to get those balls into the same-colored urn on the level. The "civi" part of Civiballs is that there are 3 sets of levels to play, each representing a different civilization. While the civilization doesn't affect gameplay, the artwork for each level is beautifully themed to it's appropriate era.
To play the game, you are given only one tool - a sword with which to cut the chains that are holding the balls. The puzzle part of the game is in figuring out what order, and with what timing to cut each chain. Do it right, and all the right balls end up in the right urns, with no stray balls entering an urn (a no-no). Do it wrong, and you get to start over again.
Civiballs is not terribly deep on gameplay; the entire game can be completed in about 15 minutes. But if you enjoy this type of game, it will be a very enjoyable 15 minutes.
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| 1 | Lee Mathews | 75 | 79 |
| 2 | Jay Hathaway | 68 | 1 |
| 3 | Brad Linder | 66 | 4 |
| 4 | Jason Clarke | 31 | 2 |
| 5 | Grant Robertson | 7 | 10 |
| 6 | Christina Warren | 2 | 8 |
| 7 | Nik Fletcher | 2 | 0 |
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