Nvidia GeForce Cloud Gaming
Posted by Gavin Lewis in Games, Hardware, Internet on May 18, 2012
This has the potential to be massive. High performance computing on virtually any device, delivered over the Internet. The barrier to this right now is latency. The problem with services like Onlive at the moment – aside from massive data usage – is a noticeable disconnect between your actions and the movement of your character. [...]
Corel Aftershot Pro – Linux
Posted by Gavin Lewis in Linux, UNIX & Open Source on May 18, 2012
Formerly a seldom-talked-about photo workflow program, Bibble 5 Pro was a very decent bit of software. It had a built-in Noise Ninja plugin, all of the tools you would need for processing your images and a tasteful dark UI. Nowadays it is called Corel Aftershot Pro and yes, it’s still got everything it had before. [...]
Max Payne 3 – The Video Review Roundup
Posted by Gavin Lewis in PC Games, Playstation 3 on May 17, 2012
The launch of the game about a man who sounds like he could do with a strong analgesic is nearly upon us, so before dropping forty notes on it, it’s probably wise to check out the reviews. You don’t want to end up buying a lemon, do you. The chances of Rockstar Games releasing a [...]
Microsoft to charge customers $99 to remove OEM “crapware” – ZDNet
Posted by Gavin Lewis in Windows on May 17, 2012
If you’ve bought a Windows PC recently from somewhere like PC World, you may have noticed that you the manufacturer has taken the liberty of offering trials for applications you probably don’t want or need. These programs often run at startup, sit in memory and every now and again, pop up asking you for money. [...]
Russian Upstart Claims Bit-Torrent Killer – The Register
Posted by Gavin Lewis in Internet on May 17, 2012
The Register reports that a team of Russian developers has developed the technology it claims can stop torrent traffic in its tracks. They have started a company called “Pirate Pay”. It isn’t clear how their technology works, but according to the article it appears to be little more than a torrent-specific denial of service attack. [...]
Displaying Code in a WordPress Post
Posted by Gavin Lewis in Internet, Wordpress on May 17, 2012
If you’ve ever wanted to share some code with your readers and found that WordPress read it as an instruction to do something, or even just stripped it out completely, read on. When you wrap text in the <code> and </code> tags, it’ll display it like you’d see it in a basic text editor, but [...]
WordPress Optimisations
Posted by Gavin Lewis in Internet, Wordpress on May 16, 2012
Ever since I started this blog I’ve been unwittingly slowing it down under the weight of my own ramblings. We’ll have reached 1,084 posts as I type this – and we’ve had 135,292 visits since the beginning. We’ve been averaging over 10,000 visits per month since October 2011. I must admit, I’m immensely proud of [...]
The Last of Us – New Trailer
Posted by Gavin Lewis in Games, Playstation 3 on May 16, 2012
…and here’s IGN’s analysis of it. Given NaughtyDog’s recent history, I’m looking forward to getting my hands on this when it comes out.
125,000 Ubuntu PCs to land in Pakistani students’ laps – The Register
Posted by Gavin Lewis in Linux, UNIX & Open Source, Ubuntu on May 15, 2012
The Register reports that 125,000 PCs running Ubuntu are to be rolled out to students in colleges and universities in Pakistan. Chairman of the Punjab Information Technology Board, Umar Saif, said the project was designed to “facilitate better access to educational content and tools”, adding that it was the first project of its kind on [...]
Internet Explorer only for Windows 8 RT
Posted by Gavin Lewis in Windows on May 14, 2012
Windows 8′s list of disappointments appears to be growing by the week at the moment. I am really struggling to hide my utter delight at watching this heap of spare parts disintegrate and am looking forward to watching it tank spectacularly. So far we’ve seen that the Metro UI is an unusable and confused mess [...]
Video Standards Council to take over games age ratings – BBC
Posted by Gavin Lewis in Games, News on May 13, 2012
The BBC reports that the Video Standards Council is to take control of the age ratings for video games. This basically means that anyone caught selling a game with an 18 certificate to someone who is underage can face a jail term. About time too, although I don’t think the retailers are the problem. Creative [...]
Wolfenstein 3D Now Free To Play…In Your Browser!
Posted by Gavin Lewis in Internet, PC Games on May 13, 2012
It’s hard to overstate the importance of Wolfenstein 3D. Released in 1992 it was one of the earliest entries in a fledgling first-person shooter genre. It spawned a few sequels of its own (Return to Castle Wolfenstein, Wolfenstein and a free-to-play online game called Wolfenstein Enemy Territory), but it should be credited for inspiring every [...]
Canon 7D Durability Test – DigitalRev
Posted by Gavin Lewis in Gear, Photography on May 13, 2012
Always good for a laugh on a lazy Sunday morning…
New Mapping Service Coming To iOS6, probably…
Posted by Gavin Lewis in iOS, Utilities on May 11, 2012
You may have heard that Google Maps was on borrowed time in the world of iOS. Apple & Google have not been best of friends since Google decided it wanted to compete with iOS with its Android platform and both Apple and Microsoft have been slapping Android handset makers silly with their patent portfolios ever [...]
Pay to “highlight” your Facebook status updates to more friends – Techcrunch
Posted by Gavin Lewis in Internet on May 11, 2012
If you’ve been on Facebook a while you may have noticed that in recent years certain people seem to disappear from your news feed. You may have hundreds of friends, but only a handful (a mere 12% apparently) of them will make it into your news feed. I used to think this was some sort [...]
Google Page Speed & An Apology
Posted by Gavin Lewis in Internet on May 11, 2012
I need to apologise for something. Regular visitors to the site may have noticed some rather erratic behaviour over the past week. You may have had pages fail to load, you may have seen a Cloudflare page offering you a cached version of the site or it may have been just slow to load. You [...]
Leica Unveils a £6,000 Digital Camera That Only Shoots Monochrome
Posted by Gavin Lewis in Gear, Photography on May 10, 2012
In a bid to separate the incredibly gullible from their cash, Leica has unveiled a camera that can only shoot in black & white… The Leica M Monochrom lacks the Bayern pattern filter and therefore is incapable of producing a colour image. The boffins at Leica insist that because it can’t see colour, the sensor [...]
Apple’s 1984 Bluebusters Advert
Posted by Gavin Lewis in Odds & Ends on May 10, 2012
I know the world was quite different back in 1984, but the only words I can muster in response to this is: oh, Hell no.
RaboDirect Pro 12 – iPhone
Posted by Gavin Lewis in iOS, Utilities on May 10, 2012
Good news for all you Welsh, Scottish, Irish, French & Italian rugby fans! There is now an official app to allow us to keep track of our favourite club or region. As far as rugby apps go, this is quite swish. The screen is divided up into four rows of thumbnails, with each row able [...]
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