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Archive | May, 2008
eBay - Sellers Cannot Give Buyer Feedback
I saw this today when I was directed to the feedback page to leave feedback on the seller that I just bought a Herman Miller Aeron from (great experience). At first it caught me off guard, my gut reaction being something like “Feedback has been limited?! WHAT?!” but then I thought about it, and remembered a [...]
Continue reading...GNOME File Manager Gets Tabbed Browsing and Column View Support
30. May 2008
For GNOME fans out there that love the UI polish but are less than happy about the lack of tabbed browser in the file manager and sometimes obsessive use of the “spatial” paradigm, rejoice! It looks like GNOME developer Christian Neumair has been working on adding tabbed browsing to Nautilus (the GNOME file manager); which ended [...]
Continue reading...Sweden Processing Sewage Into (Methane) Biogas
30. May 2008
Sweden is currently leading the charge in processing sewage, using bacteria, into methane gas that is captured from sewage processing facilities and delivered into the natural-gas grid to filling stations that biogas-enabled cars can use to fill. While other European countries are also on the biogas bandwagon, there are huge commercial backers to the ethanol [...]
Continue reading...PS3 Adds YouTube In-Game Video Uploading
29. May 2008
This is awesome news over on the YouTube Blog sent in by Ted Regulski. It looks like Sony has partnered with YouTube/Google to include game-video upload capabilities into the PS3 that any game title can take advantage of. The APIs enhancements will be available to all PS3 developers to take advantage of and will seamlessly upload [...]
Continue reading...Playing Games (for 10mins) at Work Increases Productivity
29. May 2008
Caught the results of a new report (issued by PopCap) that taking breaks and playing games for 10mins at work increases productivity (and no, World of Warcraft doesn’t count): A new report published today reveals that the current trend towards banning personal internet use in the workplace could be costing British businesses up to £4 billion [...]
Continue reading...Far Cry 2 Tech Demo
29. May 2008
If you’ve been following the Far Cry 2 screenshots and other news with the Crysis-level-hotness looks, I think the Ubidays Tech Demo here is gonna blow your skirt up. Skip to about 1:50 if you want to see the fire propagation (aka “shit sets on fire realistically”) part:
Continue reading...Splatterhouse Screenshots Released
29. May 2008
Splatterhouse follows college student Rick Taylor as he tries to rescue his girlfriend, Jennifer, who has disappeared after entering the mysterious and run-down West Mansion. Confronted by horrific other-worldly creatures, Rick comes across a mystical sentient mask that promises to give him the power to find Jennifer. Full of desperation and rage, Rick puts on [...]
Continue reading...Samsung L870 - Symbian OS + Safari Mobile Browser
29. May 2008
Details have popped up showing that the Samsung L870 is actually a Symbian S60 smartphone, slider form factor using (get this) the Apple Safari Mobile Browser. Yea… not WebKit, but specifically Safari Mobile… go figure. Here are the specs for anyone waiting on a new slider that want the “real web” on a 2.4″ QVGA screen [...]
Continue reading...Windows 7 Multi-Touch Demo Amazes non-iPhone Users
29. May 2008
Ballmer and Gates showed off Windows 7 (the follow-up failure to Vista) which ended up being Vista + Multi-touch technology. Everyone in the crowd that had never seen an iPhone before or heard of the idea of a “touch screen” since the 80s was sufficiently amazed… everyone else just saw Microsoft continuing to draft Apple [...]
Continue reading...Google Offering (Cachable) AJAX Library Hosting
29. May 2008
Looks like Google has announced that they will be providing hosting for the following 5 (most popular) AJAX Libraries: jQuery prototype script.aculo.us MooTools dojo in the form of their AJAX Libraries API project, described as: Google works directly with the key stake holders for each library effort and accept the latest stable versions as they are released. Once we host a release [...]
Continue reading...Samsung LNT5271F - Rows of Dead Pixels… Twice
29. May 2008
I wouldn’t normally post about LCD HDTVs having dead pixels, it happens. The issue here is that Chris Hunkele sent in news that the Samsung LNT5271F he bought from Amazon is having problems… again. A few months ago Chris bought the Samsung LNT5271F from Amazon (still one of the highest rated HDTVs on there) when it [...]
Continue reading...Far Cry 2 Screenshots
28. May 2008
Hot-damn Far Cry 2 is starting to look seriously hot. One thing to notice is that the fire and explosions look fantastic and that the game looks like it’s going to be crazy-filter-heavy (notice the grid/patching in the later screenshots?). I guess this is for the depth-of-field and blurring effects like in Call of Duty [...]
Continue reading...Microsoft Farecast Predicts Ticket Prices for Best Price
28. May 2008
Todd Swarthout sent in a link to a pretty cool new site from Microsoft: Farecast. The idea behind Farecast is very similar to Kayak or Mobissimo where you specify your departure and arrival city and then use all these nice AJAX-ey controls to fine-tune your search results on the fly. The difference with Farecast is that it [...]
Continue reading...HomePlug Powerline AV II Spec Nearing Release
28. May 2008
For the folks that preferred wired connections to wireless (even you Wireless-N folks) rejoice! The HomePlug Powerline Alliance has announced that the AV II specification is nearing completion and will be announced later this year with products dropping early 2009. For those that don’t know, the Powerline spec allows the transmission of ethernet network traffic over [...]
Continue reading...Monster Cable Would Sue Jesus
28. May 2008
Monster Cable, the company that produces the bullshit-performing and overly expensive A/V cables that Circuit City and Best Buy always try and ram down your throat when you buy a new TV doesn’t just create cables with a 800% markup, they also sue every other company that uses the term “Monster” in their name (Except [...]
Continue reading...Windows 7 (Vienna) Screenshots - Confirmed for 2010 Release
28. May 2008
If you haven’t seen it already, supposed pictures of the Windows 7 (Vienna) interface were leaked online yesterday along with a bit of information of “what we know so far”. Possible returns of WinFS, obviously a much more enhanced candy-esque UI is going to grace us and also a confirmation that consumers will be getting [...]
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