Video recap of GDC: Game Developers Conference 2011 Here is my video recap of the 2011 Game Developers Conference.… Read More
Invasion of the Homefront At GDC2011 the best promotional campaign I saw for a game was for Kaos Studios Homefront. Published by THQ, Homefront is a first-person shooter game scheduled to be released for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and Windows this March. It is set in the near future, 2027, when a nuclear-armed Korean People’s Army invades the USA and… Read More
WebGL released @ GDC! I have talked about it before, but today at GDC2011 the Khronos Group released the final specification for WebGL, a specification that brings OpenGL hardware-accelerated graphics to supporting web browsers. Official press release. Back to the show!… Read More
Game Developers invade SF! San Francisco this week is home to hordes of game developers from all around the world for the Game Developers Conference (GDC) 2011. It is the conference on game development, sharing tools, tips and technologies for unbridled professional learning, networking and fun. Will be posting more soon but do check tweets #gdc and #gdc2011. Now… Read More
Ebay is getting ready for lots of buying and selling of iPhones This is pretty interesting. Ebay has a new feature to make buying and seeing of used (and new ) iPhone easier. You basically select the phone you want to buy its condition, and the carrier and you can buy if someone has placed a advert for that phone. Now what is different is the filtering… Read More
Google gets a new CEO.. and its Larry! Huh. Well I did not see this coming.. Larry Page, co-founder of Google is now the CEO and Eric Schmidt will assume the role of Executive Chairman. Wow. Not really sure what I think about this.. The stock is down -.79%, but the market is down in general so that does not mean anything. Perhaps… Read More
Julian Assange of WikiLeaks turns himself in. The hunt is over; let the games begin Wow, just saw this on the ‘The Telegraph‘…. “Mr Assange is expected to voluntarily attend a police station within the next 24 hours, and will then appear in a magistrates’ court. He is wanted over allegations of sexual assault in Sweden. He is currently in hiding in the south-east of England but police are understood… Read More
Do you really what to take down a Wikileaks? Kill the messager, but that still may not work The news that the Global Authorities, (no you never heard of this group because they are not a formal group) have decided to go after Wikileaks. No much of a surprise given the latest round of leaks which embarrassed lots of countries, (not just the US) and the BOA leaks. Now you are pissing off… Read More
Text to voice for ebook ePub on the ipad / iphone with vBookz vBookz is a pretty cool little application that takes an ebook or ePub file and read it to you using text to voice technology from Acapela pleasant voices.… Read More
jailbreak Sn0wbreeze for iOS 4.1 is out with Q and A Its been a few days, and the jailbreak for iOS4.1 Sn0wbreeze 2.0 seems to be holding up. There is also a really nice post with Q & A on Snowbreeze. I grabbed a couple, but go here for the fill list. Question 1: If I have a 3gs with new bootrom that i got from… Read More
Firefox sync for iphone ipad finally approved in the apple store Finally! Been waiting for firefox sync to hit the stores when I first heard of it. Now there are ways to get your book marked into the iphone/ipad, but not a live link. Now that is sorted. I installed it last night and synced on my laptop just now. Works great. However, all ready have… Read More
This is a test post from my iphone; its only a test. Dont bother reading it. Really, it’s just a test. I would just stop reading now. Sry. I’m even typing this on my iPhone so I can test saving a draft and then posting using the wordpress app. And given that I’m using wordpress 3.0, I would not be all that surprised if it does not work. And anyway, why… Read More
Must have iphone apps after bricking your iphone and a clean wipe As a general rule with jailbroken iphones, do not install something that has not already been installed on at least a few hundred other iphones. Second rules, keep your phone backed up. I broke both of those rules and I’m now paying for it. First, I have been really lazy and have not backed up… Read More
MS Slate Courier is dead. First major victom in the Great Tablet War Its kind of a shame really. Although once I read the specs and saw the mock ups, I know this would not fly, but it would have been interesting just to see. The idea of a two screen slate is intriguing to say the least. But Microsoft finally owned up to building one and owned… Read More
Line2 VoIP app pulled from the Apple Store? DNS Attack? UPDATE 2!! It’s gone again!! I’m guessing the same reason. Hopefully it will be up in a few hours. UPDATE!!! They pulled it from the store because of a DNS attack. I just went back into the store and its back. If this is something you can see using, I recommend jumping on it now.… Read More
Cool Geekness with new NASA iphone app As an ex-NASA guy (seems way back to me now) I had to check this out when I saw the write up on CNET. Its pretty cool! Well designed and laid out, not trying to do too much but doing a good job with what it does do. The app give you updates on various… Read More
Adversts in Google Maps on the iPhone? Great. Not I saw this in TC and have not seen it myself, but I will keep an eye out over the weekend. Basically, you could have a ad for beer or a bike shop or something based on the search. Also, it SEEMS uses can inject items into maps, but I think its more of where… Read More
A semi truck that messes with your mind This is wrong! Just plain wrong. I don’t know if this is photoshop or not, but I love it though. 🙂… Read More
iphone jailbreak for 3.0 will work for 3.0.1 Well there you go. I have been having issues with my iphone and have been thinking of a clean whip, so based on what I read in ‘Crave’ I’m going to do it. From Crave.. … In fact, the current versions of redsn0w and ultrasn0w work the same with the 3.0.1 firmware as they do… Read More
UPDATE: iphone should be secured tomorrow. Yeaaa for noise! Read this in Gizmodo: Seem Apple will have a patch out to take care of the SMS hijack issue tomorrow after knowing for .. what .. 6 WEEKS?? Oh, but 24 hours after everyone knows about it, AND people are yelling their collective heads off for a fix, AND it gets demo’ed and released at… Read More