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FlashForward 2008 Winners
Flash Magazine has links for this years FlashForward winners.
Slow Motion Lightning = Waaaay cool!
This is possibly the coolest thing I’ve ever seen! Click link or image.
Daily Show - The Best F***ing News Team Ever
I love me some Daily Show, and I know they are gonna cover it better than all the cable news networks :) Last clip with the CNN mailbox; classic :) Enjoy!
Adobe Media Player v1.1 out, but…
So why do I need it when I can’t play the media available? And as a FLV player it’s too big. Oh well.
New JibJab “It’s time for some compaignin’”
New JibJab political animation is out. Funny stuff :)
Multi Touch finally available on the Dell Latitude XT
When I got my Dell Latitude XT, one of the most interesting features was Multi Touch. But, Dell and N-trig hasn’t delivered on that promise until now. It will support Firefox, Google Earth, Office, IE7(don’t use it!), and some other image viewers. Testing for a couple of minutes here and it works ok, but needs some tweaking.
That’s all good, but no info on a SDK, that’s not fun. Let’s hope Dell and N-Trig release that asap.
A good day(fall) for the xbox 360
I do like a good game, and I have all the current gen consoles (PS3, Wii and 360), but I do prefer my xbox. I like the controller, I think the graphics are better than the PS3 and best of all; I like the choice of games.
Today Microsoft had an impressive showing at E3 in LA. Here are just some of the things announced for the fall:
- New interface, the “blades” are finally gone. They worked for a while, but it looked a bit dated. Also as more items are added it got really messy. The blades are still there, somewhere.
- Play from Hard Drive!!! Finally you can install the game on hd and avoid the drive noise from the 360. (Drive noise is probably my biggest complaint)
- Avatars, the xbox Mii. coould be cool, but I personally don’t care that much.
- Games: Fallout 3, Gears of War 2, Galaga: Legions, Fable 2, Portal: Still Alive, Resident Evil 5, Final Fantasy XIII(!!!), and many, many more…
- Still bad: Europe is still neglected at the video store :( Why can’t we europeans legally rent videos online?
Anyways: Good work Microsoft!
Singularity a worldwide Flash/Web conference
Aral’s online Web/Flash conference Singularity goes on sale tomorrow (7/7) . the conference is from 24-26 Oct 2008. An online conference is a really good idea if done right. From networking to openness to the fact that you don’t have to fly anywhere, it looks like Aral is doing everything right. The speaker list is very good.
I’ll be “there”, hope you are too :)
Garfield is not funny, but removing him is :)
What do you get when you remove the main character from a very unfunny cartoon? A deeply schizophrenic and highly disturbing look into a very, very lonely man, but in a fun way ;)
Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron first impressions
I have an old laptop for testing, it’s an HP nc6120 1,86Ghz, 1gb ram. Up unitil today it has been running Vista and Ubuntu 7.10. Both running quite well. With the new Ubuntu out I decided to stratch the disk and use the whole hard drive for ubuntu.
Installation was a breeze, and fast as usual. Nice to not have to run the LIve CD first.
The Gnome interface is snappy, but I can’t really see that many changes. Open Office 2.4 is a nice welcome and Samba seems to work better.
I do have a few issues I didn’t have in 7.10:
- While the interface is snappy, The Firefox 3 beta is dead slow. Almost unusable, I also have alot of render errors. No idea why they chose to include a beta in the final release. But the weird thing is; Firefox 2 is almost as slow.
- The Intel gfx driver or Gnome seems a bit slower.
- Synaptic did lock up once, that has never happened to me before
Anyways, as of right now; Ubuntu 7.10 and Vista(!!) worked better as a sofa surfing pc even with firefox 2. It’ll probably get better, but right now I regret not sticking with 7.10.