July
23
2008
I'm really disappointed that Comic Sans was the hero in this clip. I mean, I get it - Comic Sans, but it's got no class. Wingdings should have showed up and confused the bad dood to death. That gives me an idea. Wingdings is totally underused. I'm bringing it back. No more Times New Roman in Word - it's all Wingdings from now on. I'm gonna go talk to the icanhascheezburger guys today to see if I can sell them on some LOLcat-Wingdings mash-up action. Finger-Pointing-Right, Snowflake, Circled-Cross.
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July
23
2008
Recently, a few organizations have begun offering an alternative to paper documentation of health records. Would you trust your personal health records to an online company?
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July
23
2008
I keep waiting for the day I can view my Google Calendar entries while I'm offline--without having to export the entries to Outlook or another standalone calendar program. Until that day, here are five ways to get make better use of Google's free calendar service.
Lock out unwanted ...
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July
22
2008
"Despite the first Mass Effect being billed as an Xbox 360 exclusive, famed developer BioWare tells Joystiq that it has "never confirmed any plans of Mass Effect exclusivity for the trilogy."
Though the sci-fi action-RPG later appeared on PC, the title is still considered an Xbox 360 exclusive in terms of the console market--meaning it has not appeared on rival systems PlayStation 3 or Wii. "
PS3 guys, I'm going to ruin it for you. Mass Effect was a beautiful, plot-driven Cleavland steamer. With it's fantastic visuals, the game actually starts in on choppy whe...
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July
22
2008
Well, since we all know how cool DX11 and multi-GPU is going to be, wait, maybe we don't.
GFW Live Goes Free, DirectX 11 Unveiled @ Kotaku
"Games for Windows - Live multiplayer features are free, effective today, Microsoft announced at today's GameFest 2008 conference in Seattle.
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In other news from GameFest, DirectX 11 was unveiled [and adds the ability for] compute shader technology that lays the groundwork for the GPU to be used for more than just 3D graphics, so that developers can take advantage of the graphics card as a parallel processor."
But the S...
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July
22
2008
"Forget about cellphones causing car accidents. In the UK, a ridiculous 300,000 car crashes have been caused by GPS. And, according to a survey commissioned by Brit tabloid rag The Mirror, 1.5 million drivers have swerved through traffic when following their sat-nav's instructions a little too closely.
The list of errors caused by slavishly obeying absurd commands would be hilarious if they weren't so dangerous: Driving onto a railway line, heading the wrong way down one-way streets, hurtling headlong into ditches, getting stuck under bridges and ignoring road signs. Th...
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July
21
2008
"Nintendo is flying high. Rather than examine the nature of this flight, the birdmen are mesmerized by the feathers. The analysts and executives do not see the concepts of disruption and don’t even understand the Blue Ocean principles (though they think they do). The feathers they see on Nintendo’s ascent are casual games. Therefore, they surmise, if they make casual games then they will be flying high with Nintendo.
There is nothing new here. Years ago, when Grand Theft Auto 3 hit big, all the birdmen began putting out Grand Theft Auto 3 clones. Years before that, it was fir...
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July
21
2008
IBM/Lotus is banking on the integration of its Sametime platform and collaboration software with tools from telephony partners to fuel its climb up the ranks of unified communications contenders.
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July
21
2008
"Curious as to just how the Netflix functionality is going to work on the Xbox 360 when it's added this fall? Major Nelson just posted a video of him going through it, showing off just how it's going to work. Essentially, it looks exactly like the interface on the Roku Netflix box.
You can't search through the entire Netflix database, instead needing to add movies you want to watch to your instant queue. It's a bit annoying, but as you can add as many movies you want to the queue, not that big a deal. If you own an Xbox 360 and bought a Roku box, however, get ...
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July
21
2008
"So when the Radeon HD 4870 gets busy with a very graphics-intensive application and gets hot, the fan spins up. Not to a troublesome level, mind you, but enough to hear the whine in my super-quiet PC at home. In fact, some users are more concerned about the GPU temperature and have set the fan to manually spin at around 35–40%, claiming you "can't hear it." If I do that, I definitely hear it. It all depends on how much noise the rest of your machine makes.
So I stopped by my local PC white-box shop, Central Computers and picked up a Zalman VF900-Cu VGA cooler for $40 (you...
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