Next Project: MMORPG Development
I'm currently considering creating a game. Right now, I have a really solid idea and I'd like to see how it goes.
Currently looking for any programmers with game development experience (or just general programming experience; C++), or artists (both 3d and not), and anyone who's creative and pretty good at writing stories.
The game will be an MMORPG.
Please use my contact form if you're interested.
Zero Gravity Magnetic Levitation Audio Shelf
Oh how I really want this shelf. Too bad the price tag is way out of my range ($500).
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NewerTech USB 2.0 Display Adapter supports up to 6 extra monitors
Adding an external display to most modern laptops isn’t a big deal; and many desktops natively support dual displays. But adding a third, or even a fourth, display can be a challenge. The NewerTech USB 2.0 Display Adapter aims to make adding extra monitors as easy as plugging in a USB gadget. Macs can add up to four monitors, while PCs can add up to six!
The USB 2.0 Display Adapter is priced at $96, which isn’t terrible, considering that it supports resolutions up to 2048 x 1152 and includes everything you need for DVI, VGA or HDMI connections.
via NewerTech USB 2.0 Display Adapter supports up to 6 extra monitors.
The world’s smallest 16GB flash drive
USB drives keep getting smaller and smaller. For your viewing pleasure: the Wink. Advertised as the world’s smallest USB drive, it really is quite diminutive.
Ideal for attaching to a keychain or necklace, or smuggling out of a secure data facility in on your body, the Wink is a just solid piece of plastic with contacts on it, providing the minimal hardware required in order to connect to a USB port. Oddly though, it looks almost exactly like a Verbatim Tough-n-Tiny.
They’re available now from your favorite retailer; the flavors it comes in are 2GB for $7.95, 4GB for $10.95, 8GB for $19.95, and 16GB for $37.95.
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Google Voice User? Get The Quick Reference Card
If you’re a Google Voice user like me, you’ll be glad to print out this quick reference card that gives you all the menu options when you call the service to listen to voicemail or change settings, or receive calls.
For example, when you receive a call with Google Voice you can hear who’s calling before you answer. Hit 1 to answer the call, or hit 2 to send them to voicemail. Easy to remember. But you can also hit 3 to send them to voicemail and listen in. Or 4 to answer the call and record it. Four is too many things for me to remember, which is why I’m printing this out and putting it in my wallet.
Thanks for CoolGeex for creating this!
City of Los Angeles Goes Google for $7.2 Million
It looks like those Going Google billboards are actually good for something, as the Los Angeles’ city council has just unanimously approved a Google Apps deal worth $7.2 million.
According to CNET, LA would become one of the largest government agencies, outside the District of Columbia, to make the switch to using hosted Google email and application services.
However, security concerns over storing information in the cloud did factor into the process and have yet to be 100% aleviated. Apparently the deal hinges around an agreement with Computer Sciences Corp, a contractor who would need to agree to pay a penalty should there be a security breach.
If the deal does go through it would be quite the coup for Google and their Going Google campaign. With both the US Government supporting the initiative and the city of Los Angeles joining the Google team, Google is building up an arsenal of large and impressive customers that should make it easier to attract more top dollar enterprise clients.
Image from Peter Kaminski on Flickr.
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Google Acquires reCAPTCHA
I think this is great news. Google can truly take this service to the next level, and even improve upon it to not only provide a better, more available and robust service but also to improve other technologies along the way.
You know those boxes with funky looking letters that are becoming increasingly common on website registration forms, or on Facebook Pages when you want to post an update? They’re called captchas and they’re used primarily to deter spammers and bots.
One of the biggest providers of the technology is a company called reCAPTCHA, and now, Google owns them. The search giant just announced on their blog that they’re buying reCAPTCHA, which is used on more than 100,000 websites worldwide.
Why exactly does Google want to own this technology? For starters, reCAPTCHA has a unique solution. As Google describes:
“But there’s a twist — the words in many of the CAPTCHAs provided by reCAPTCHA come from scanned archival newspapers and old books. Computers find it hard to recognize these words because the ink and paper have degraded over time, but by typing them in as a CAPTCHA, crowds teach computers to read the scanned text.”
And where does that fit within the Google portfolio of products? Google Books. The company continues:
“This technology also powers large scale text scanning projects like Google Books and Google News Archive Search. Having the text version of documents is important because plain text can be searched, easily rendered on mobile devices and displayed to visually impaired users. So we’ll be applying the technology within Google not only to increase fraud and spam protection for Google products but also to improve our books and newspaper scanning process.”
In other words, those 100,000+ captcha forms are now Google-powered, with the data being used to improve Google’s ability to digitize old books and newspapers to make them Web searchable. It makes a lot of sense, and gives Google yet another strategic advantage over would-be competitors.
via Google Acquires reCAPTCHA.
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Google Launches a New Way to Read the News
Is reading online news broken? Google (Google) seems to think so as they just launched Google Fast Flip, a Google Labs experiment that’s designed to help you flip through news online as fast as you would if you were holding a print magazine or paper.
Fast Flip is essentially just a funky way to flip through articles from three dozen Google partners including The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Fast Company. Partners share in advertising revenue generated through the labs experiment.
With Fast Flip you can flip through snapshots of the day’s popular news, drill into specific sections and topics, or narrow stories by publisher source. Once you select a story, you can view the article in its totality and use the arrows to flip to the previous or next story.
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Windows 7 Ad Kills With Cuteness [Video]
Microsoft has experienced mixed results with its ad campaigns. A Seinfeld-Gates pairing was panned in the tech press, but its “Laptop Hunters” series had a positive impact on consumers’ value perception of Microsoft products (even if Apple did insist that one ad be changed).
Come to mention it, who can forget that bizarre projectile vomiting ad for Internet Explorer (Internet Explorer) 8? Microsoft later attempted to remove the ad, after it had been shared widely around the web.
With the new operating system’s retail release scheduled for next month, it’s time for the Windows 7 ads to start rolling out. Microsoft’s strategy: kill with cuteness. An ad released this week features the return of Kylie, who shows us how simple it is to make slideshows on her new laptop.
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