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Entries from May 2, 2010 - May 8, 2010
Thursday
May062010
Brandon DavenportThe Canadian DMCA will be reintroduced within six weeks
The Canadian DMCA will be reintroduced within six weeks
Everything has crumbled again, in terms of our rights on the internet and sharing media (of course). This new Bill won’t be introduced until June, but it will have dramatic repercussions once introduced.
This will be te most “anti-consumer copyright bill in Canadian history” says James Moore, Canadian Heritage Minister. There is a slew of bad things that are going to happen if us Geeks don’t mobilize, and stop the madness! - Read more
Thursday
May062010
3D FixPix game for the iPhone is brilliant
This is the brainchild of eBoy, which is obviusly very good an making apps - and man oh man is this awesome or what! The app works like this: you have a “picture” and it is made up of multiple layers. When you rotate and tilt the iPhone, you can line up the layers, but the epic part is that the whole game looks 3D. Once you have aligned the picture, you get to go to the next one, and so on and so forth. It should be available very soon
Demo - Try a simple demo of the game, in-browser
Thursday
May062010
Farmville players outnumber real farmers, 60 to 1
Its no doubt that Farmville has reached such a large size - and gained such a large fanbase, that it could put many social networking sites to shame. Heck, at the moment Farmville is bigger than Twitter with its 62 Million registered users, so all I ask is when will the madness stop!
The New York Times reports that there are more Farmville players than actual Farmers in the United States, outnumbering them 60 to 1. What is more fascinating is that Philip Tan, director of the Singapore-M.I.T. Gambit Game Lab, goes on to say that “The whole concept of ‘I’m sick of this modern, urban lifestyle, I wish I could just grow plants and vegetables and watch them grow’” and that sitting in front of a virtual farm, in your house, for hours is very “therapeutic”. I can never get into this stuff, and I cant really afford to…
Thursday
May062010
Very first non-English URLs go Live
Very first non-English URLs go Live
History has been made as the very first non-English URLs go live, and so far, we are not looking back.
Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are the first countries to have URLs written in Arabic scripts. This advancement is the first step to allow web addresses in many scripts including Chinese, Thai and Tamil. Up until now, URLs have been Latin root only and this became very frusterating for countries with incorrect keyboards, lack of knowlege amung other challenges - Read More
Thursday
May062010
Microsoft Kin available online today, in stores on the 13th
Generation Y your attention please - Beginning today you’ll be able to purchase Microsoft’s latest ‘not a Windows Phone.’ Yep that’s right, today (May 6th) Verizon’s online store will be selling both the Kin One and Two for $49.99 and $99.99 respectively, after a full two year contract; (with outright models selling for $100 more of their respective prices). If you’re not a fan of Internet shopping you’ll be able to grab a Kin from one of Verizon’s convenient retail stores a week later on the 13th. So what are you waiting for?
Verizon Store - Bust out those credit cards!
Thursday
May062010
Awesome Google Chrome speed tests
Awesome Google Chrome speed tests
I don’t know much about the practicality of measuring the speed between a potato shot out at high speeds and Google’s Chrome browser speed, but it’s fun as heck to watch.
Just to note, Google used a 15mb internet connection.
After watching the video I tried doing a simple test of my own; I entered a URL (Allrecipes.com) and counted on my fingers to see how long it would take to load up completely. To my dismay, the potato in my instance would’ve won by a landslide: It took a full 5 seconds.
Thursday
May062010
Darth Vader's Voice on your TomTom - Available Now
Two days ago was May 4th - Star Wars Day - the unofficial worldwide holiday to commemorate the greatest film series ever conceived. And to celebrate the occasion Tom Tom released the first of a 4 special edition Star Wars voices which can be downloaded and transferred over to your Tom Tom GPS device.
Available now, for a mere $13, you can have the one who brought balance to the force and killed thousands of Jedis and civilians along the way, Darth Vader. Go here if you want to see a behind the scenes look into how the recording went with the once proud apprentice of the Sith lord.
Other Star Wars favorites will soon be joining the TomTom voice lineup; C3P0, Yoda (July), and even Han Solo (August) will be coming soon.
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