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OpenGL 3.0 Spec Released - Community Revolts
It looks like the OpenGL 3.0 spec has finally been released by the Khronos™ Group and so far the community response has been: “You can shove that right back up your ass, we are going to DirectX”. Ouch… Shortly after the announcement game development forums were a-buzz with negative reactions to the spec essentially saying that it [...]
Continue reading...LivePlace Sneak Video Shows Life-Like 3D World via Browser
12. August 2008
Grant Gochnauer sends in news to a video that blows my goddamn mind, I’m honestly not sure what to make of this. Either it’s an extreme mockup, or the graphical/interactive/virtual-world bar that exists today is about to get broken in half and shoved right up someone’s ass. The video below is supposedly an unauthorized leak of [...]
Continue reading...Video of Android-Based HTC Dream in the Wild
12. August 2008
Hardly the most exciting video ever, but for the folks that have been standing around waiting for Google’s Android-based phones to finally make it to market, this might give you a glimmer of hope. What we have today is a really terrible quality video of the HTC Dream in action: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggR18cBzd8I Looks like HTC’s plans to fill out [...]
Continue reading...NVIDIA Released PhysX-Enabled Drivers and Demos
12. August 2008
Right after we got done covering the news that the upcoming 177.79 Forceware drivers from NVIDIA would add the PhysX physics engine support, NVIDIA made liars out of us and released that PhysX engine support in their new 177.83 drivers… so burn… on us I guess… Either way, getting tasty physics in games via your existing [...]
Continue reading...How to Install iPhone 2.0 Firmware on Hacked T-Mobile iPhone
12. August 2008
Introduction This quick guide covers the process I took to install the iPhone 2.0.1 firmware on my 1st generation, JailBroken, T-Mobile iPhone. It’s outlined here for anyone else that wants to do the same, but has been holding off on doing so until the process was a bit more documented and easier to do (with nice [...]
Continue reading...Upcoming NVIDIA GeForce 177.79 Drivers to add PhysX Acceleration
11. August 2008
Greg Amerson sent along news that after NVIDIA’s purchase of AGEIA a few months back the porting of the PhysX hardware-accelerated physics engine to NVIDIA’s CUDA software platform is complete and will be shipping in the GeForce 177.79 Forceware drivers. This addition will allow folks playing PhysX-enhanced games with supported 8000 series and 9000 series cards [...]
Continue reading...DEFCON 16… h4×1ng t3h b0×0rz!
7. August 2008
Well it’s that time of the year again folks. If anyone is going, we’ll see you there!
Continue reading...John Carmack: “We will have to make quality consessions on Xbox 360″
4. August 2008
In a Quake-Con 08 interview with the GameTrailers crew, John Carmack (lead genius behind the engines of id Software) was talking about console development. He said that while the PS3 is harder to develop for (you spend more time separating the work and collaborating with all 8 processors) it is much better than “back in the [...]
Continue reading...KDE 4.1 Released - The Release KDE Users Were Waiting For
31. July 2008
When KDE 4.0 was first released with major portions of the desktop rewritten and pieces of the desktop (from a user’s perspective) still left mostly raw or in some cases semi-functional, there was a large user lash-back to the “massive rewrite” approach taken; some calling to brand KDE 3.x and taking that branch forward instead [...]
Continue reading...Amazon Launches Checkout Online Payment Service
31. July 2008
In a move that rivals online payment leader PayPal and sidels up next to (and possible out-runs at launch) Google Checkout, Amazon has announced the launch of their new online payment system aptly named: Amazon Checkout. The kicker that makes this service have longer legs out of the gate than Google’s offering is that every single [...]
Continue reading...wikinvest Launches Interactive, Annotable Embeddable Stock Charts
31. July 2008
For the investors or financial bloggers in the group this is some really hot news. It looks like wikinvest has launched new support for embeddable and interactive stock charts that are also annotable. For example (click and drag around this thing): You can check out the main chart page for Google here. It’s a really nice touch with [...]
Continue reading...Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) Alpha 3, Screenshots and New Theme Proposals
27. July 2008
We don’t normally start tracking the Ubuntu releases until they hit about the Alpha 3 stage; after all the big software updates have made it in, any theme work is mostly done and the final release is starting to take shape. Well, that happened yesterday: Ubuntu 8.10 “Intrepid Ibex” Alpha 3 was released.
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