My birthday was on the 4th October an so as you would expect I gained a trunk load of Geekery. As you would guess from the title I will be taking about Spore and Aperture.

Spore

Spore is an amazing game from the creator of the Sims Will Wright. In basic terms you are charged with bringing up a race of creature to your design, over a few thousand billion years. The game is great fun to play mixing the best bits of load of different game styles. There are a few problems with it, each level is very short and you can compete it easily in 4 days like me, but there are so many possibility so you can play it and every time come out with something different. Another problem I have found is the glitches, the game is divide into 4 stages and the final stage space I have yet to play as the game crashes every time I click buy on the interstellar drive to power your space ship from planet to planet. It is by far easiest to beat the game as a evil massacring savage civilization. I would highly recommend the game to anyone.

Aperture

I finally got 4GB of RAM for my birthday and so upgraded from iPhoto to Aperture at the same time. With the 4GB the performance is greatly improved. From what I have done in Aperture it is slick and works fast and well. The workflow is extremely easy to understand and uses. Apple also have loads of handy videos on their site. I have tried Lightroom but Aperture just seem to be more my cup of tea. It runs great for me and I can’t wait to try out some plugins.