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Sunday, 30 November 2008
Augmented Reality Virtual Pet on the iPhone
Windows 7 allows DirectX 10 acceleration on the CPU
Windows 7’s new WARP system can run Direct3D 10 and 10.1 on the CPU, doing away with the need for a hardware 3D accelerator in some circumstances
It turns out that Intel isn’t the only company that’s looking at performing Direct3D in software; Microsoft has just announced that it’s also planning to introduce a new feature called WARP in Windows 7 that allows you to run Direct3D 10 and 10.1 on the CPU.
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Thursday, 27 November 2008
For the first time, ever, astronomers have captured an optical image of a planet orbiting a star like our own
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/11/13/huge-exoplanet-news-items-pictures/
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Wednesday, 26 November 2008
Lunascape5 Genesis is the World’s First Triple Engine Browser
Lunascape is a new web browser that handles all three major web rendering engines — Firefox’s Gecko, Internet Explorer’s Trident and WebKit (which is used by Safari and Chrome). Lunascape Corp., a Tokyo-based web software company, offers the browser as a free download. Lunascape 5 Alpha is Windows-only and the first English version of the browser (a Japanese version dates back to 2001).
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Twitter Rejects $500 Million Takeover Offer From Facebook
Crazzzzzzzzzzzy !
http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/11/twitter-rejects-500-million-takeover-offer-from-facebook
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The Force Behind Star Wars: Turning Design Ideas into Reality
You’ve got an idea. Maybe it’s a new idea for a web application. Maybe it’s a new product idea you need to push through your organization. The question is: How do you turn an idea into reality?
To answer this question, we’ll look at the making of Star Wars. We’ll look behind the scenes at what it took to get George Lucas’s space fantasy from script to screen. From assembling the right team to navigating the Hollywood corporate studio environment to tapping into powerful universal patterns—this presentation suggests more than a dozen lessons UX designers (and developers!) can all learn from this adventure.
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Tuesday, 25 November 2008
New Version 7 of Google 3D Drawing Program: Sketchup
http://sketchup.google.com/
http://uk.youtube.com/4sketchupgo2school
http://sketchuptips.blogspot.com/
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National Geographic Games
http://natgeochannel.co.uk/games
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Monday, 24 November 2008
US Army to invest $50M in combat training games
The Army has created a video game unit and will invest $50 million over five years on games and gaming systems designed to prepare soldiers for combat.
Lt. Col. Gary Stephens, product manager for air and ground tactical trainers at Project Executive Office — Simulation Training and Instrumentation said Thursday that the $50 million has been approved for a "games for training" program starting in 2010.
"The Army takes this seriously," Stephens said of PEO-STRI and its Army gaming unit, which will handle military video game requirements. "We own gaming for the Army — from requirements through procurement," he said.
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Evil company Google laysoff 10,000 'hidden' temporary workers
Google has been quietly laying off staff and up to 10,000 jobs could be on the chopping block according to sources. Since August, hundreds of employees have been laid off and there are reports that about 500 of them were recruiters for Google.
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50 Video Games for Physical Therapy and Rehab
Physical therapy and rehab is undoubtedly an important part of recovery for many victims of physical and emotional tragedy. Of course, finding the motivation to start and keep at it is difficult. Using video games, researchers and medical professionals have found that they can push patients harder, and help them enjoy therapy more.
http://www.uspharmd.com/blog/2008/50-awesome-video-games-for-physical-therapy-and-rehab/
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Thursday, 20 November 2008
Full Blackberry Storm Review
http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/19/blackberry-storm-review/
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Tuesday, 18 November 2008
The Tower and The Cloud
The emergence of the networked information economy is unleashing two powerful forces. On one hand, easy access to high-speed networks is empowering individuals. People can now discover and consume information resources and services globally from their homes. Further, new social computing approaches are inviting people to share in the creation and edification of information on the Internet. Empowerment of the individual—or consumerization—is reducing the individual's reliance on traditional brick-and-mortar institutions in favor of new and emerging virtual ones. Second, ubiquitous access to high-speed networks along with network standards, open standards and content, and techniques for virtualizing hardware, software, and services is making it possible to leverage scale economies in unprecedented ways. What appears to be emerging is industrial-scale computing—a standardized infrastructure for delivering computing power, network bandwidth, data storage and protection, and services. Consumerization and industrialization beg the question "Is this the end of the middle?"; that is, what will be the role of "enterprise" IT in the future? Indeed, the bigger question is what will become of all of our intermediating institutions? This volume examines the impact of IT on higher education and on the IT organization in higher education.
http://www.educause.edu/thetowerandthecloud/133998
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Why Apple Won't Allow Adobe Flash on iPhone
Don't hold your breath waiting for the iPhone to support Adobe's Flash software: Apple's terms-of-service agreement prohibits it.
Although Adobe says it is working on a version of its popular Flash player for the iPhone, Apple is unlikely ever to permit it to appear in the handset's App Store, no matter how much customers want it.
"I'm pretty skeptical that Flash could be implemented in a way that doesn't violate the Terms of Service of the developer's agreement," said Bart Decrem, CEO of Tapulous, developer of the popular Tap Tap Revenge iPhone game.
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Monday, 17 November 2008
Sharendipity is a software development platform that empowers users to create, share, collaborate on, distribute and monetise software applications
Create a game or other fun application in just a few clicks with Sharendipity's new free game creation tools! No programming required! Don't forget to share your creations with your friends!
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Tuesday, 11 November 2008
Streamy: google reader killer ?
Streamy Demo from Streamy on Vimeo.
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Thursday, 6 November 2008
SMule: iphone sonic art apps
http://smule.com/
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Wednesday, 5 November 2008
Heidi Klum is going back to her risky roots with her "Risky Business" shirt-and-underwear style Guitar Hero commercial
The origin Tom Cruise version circa 1983:
But by 2007 Tom Cruise had become a total fruit loop :(
http://www.tomcruise.com/
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Twitter has just launched a group and community feature in Japan, Twicco
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CNN debuted its holographic correspondents Tuesday night
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US Election Result
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Tuesday, 4 November 2008
US Election Live
http://www.mahalo.com/
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Classics: E-Book Reading At Its Finest on the iPhone
The wait is over as Classics is officially available. As previously mentioned, Classics is a highly refined e-book reader that provides users with a collection of public domain books. What sets Classics apart from the plethora of similarly available apps in iTunes is that first, each book was painstakingly formatted for the iPhone/iPod touch, and second, the interface is truly amazing.
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Lego Universe: 10 years in the making
http://universe.lego.com/en-us/Default.aspx
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Vending machine for DVDs, Blu-ray discs, PS3 games and downloads 24/7
The PoP “entertainment vending machine” is a brand new venture between Universal Pictures and Sony entertainment to allow punters to grab their favourite DVDs, Blu-ray discs, PS3 games and downloads 24/7.
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Monday, 3 November 2008
The Unfinished Swan is a first-person painting game set in an entirely white world
The Unfinished Swan - Tech Demo 9/2008 from Ian Dallas on Vimeo
http://iandallas.com/games/swan/
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Rock Band MIDI guitar hack
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David Orban's presentation at SHiFT 08, "Why We Need to Listen to our Things"
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Sunday, 2 November 2008
Rock Band Makers To Release "The Beatles" Video Game in 2009
http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2008/10/30/the-beatles-rock-band-makers-to-release-new-video-game-in-2009/
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Microsoft takes touch screens into the next dimension
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Saturday, 1 November 2008
Hacking Democracy
After the 2000 elections having had massive problems, a number of groups got together to investigate electronic voting machines and to see the flaws in the system that get used in U.S. elections.
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Gundam academy will turn mecha into reality in Japan
For most universities around the world illegal meteor-mining, politically explosive space colonies and wars waged between teenagers in robot battle suits are treated as the stuff of pure fantasy.
For Japan, they are the stuff of high academia.
In an attempt to inject “the most inventive possible thinking” into Japan, representatives of many of its most august universities are to become a “virtual faculty” of the Gundam Academy — the first academic institution based on a cartoon.
Next year dozens of engineers, astrophysicists, doctors, anthropologists, linguists — even town planners — will begin discussing how to convert the science-fiction series Gundam, created by Yoshiyuki Tomino, 66, into reality.
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