*-* Updated *-* Looks like you can’t view the pages unless your on the alpha too! I’ll take a look to see if this is true or not *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* After the annoucement of Popfly a couple of weeks ago i was keen to see it in action Today i received an invite to the alpha so
Desktop Tower Defense – Game coding for profit
Go check this out – Desktop Tower Defense I’ll warn you though..it’ll take up so much of your time!! There is a bit of back story about the developer (and how it’s making him rich!) here which is where i first picked it up from. Almost straight after reading that there was a similar post on
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A-Z of Cool Computer Games
I picked up this book from a book shop in Coventry for £2 at the weekend First couple of chapters show promise and it’s had me wondering down an electronic memory lane!
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Joystick Nostalgia
There is an article over on CNET about the greatest game controllers of all time Obviously it’s all down to opinion so thought i’d add some comments of my own Atari 2600 While this is a classic i actually preffered the Atari CX24 joystick as it was so comfortable to hold SNES I would go as
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New Tool To Battle Spam? – DKIM
The BBC is reporting about industry backing for a tool to battle spam It’s called DomainKeys Identified Mail and works by using digital signatures. The organisation that is setting this up can be found here Nice idea in practise but first thing that sprang to mind was “What happened to Sender ID & SPF?” There is
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Stop Being A Smart Ass
As way of apology i thought i’d link to Matt McSpirit’s blog Why the appology? I left a comment on his post “SCVMM – the worlds longest acronym?” saying that SCVMM isn’t actually an acronym RAM, RAID (pun not intentional), ROM and BIOS are all examples of acronyms as they form a new noun Random
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Inkless Paper
I’m quite interested to see how this works out. A new company called Zink, embed dye crystals actually within the paper and then use heat to set the colour. It means that printers are effectively a little bit bigger than the paper and you can put it anywhere What about a mobile phone that prints out
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I Want One Of These!
I vaguely remember reading about this sometime ago but stumbled across it again today The Optimus Maximus Keyboard replaces each button with a tiny led display. This means you can change the image on each button to anything you like. It will even do moving images! Very cool They are currently taking pre-orders for December 2007!!!
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Knowledge versus Ability
I was looking down the “recent posts” bit on my wordpress dash board when i came across this post Programming Knowledge versus Programming Ability « Imran On Tech I generally agree with the post and it has a good footballing analogy too!As we’re looking for new staff at the moment it definitely got me thinking.
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Longhorn Product Name?
Have Microsoft given a product name to Longhorn Server yet? I was looking to see what was new on the Microsoft download site when i saw the following Windows Server 2008 Beta 3 Step-by-Step Guides Or am i just really behind on my news since i got back?