For some inexplicable soon after the announcement of Valve Software giving away their game Portal away for FREE via the Steam network (May 12th 2010). The totally unrelated (well apart from the rabid Valve/Portal/Gaming fans) Esper.net IRC server went down. At the time of writing I’m the ONLY person on all of the major channels [...]
Having announced their intention to change their look sometime in January. The user edited Encyclopedic juggernaut have decided to give all its users a sneak peak of the new look. Sporting a new skin called ‘vector’ Wikipedia’s aim is to make everything more user friendly (Surprise!) Apart from the new look other areas of improvement [...]
Image via Wikipedia a Few posts ago I whinged (yes that’s whined with a ‘g’) about the new look that google search page was sporting (over here: Google makes even more changes to its search display.) As expected, Google hadn’t given a Clear way to go back to old view (emphasis on Clear…we’ll get [...]
After pissing quite a few people off (and since this is Google, by “quite a few” I mean millions) by introducing their “fade the top menu in using slow ass JavaScript only if you move the mouse” option; Google have gone and done it AGAIN by (now) changing the search results page by tweaking the [...]
I, support any tech product that’s meant to help you humans in your petty rat race(s) and usually Apple seemed to have always taken and met the challenge – of making products that integrates the need of the modern adult of today combined with an interface built for a 5 year old. It’s that last [...]
Freeware games (while sorely underappreciated) are pretty common now and picking a favorite has become more of a ‘personal preference’ thing since the internet is flooded with them. Usually its the gameplay or visual aspect that wins one over and makes them decide ‘Yeah I’ll play this one!’ (Keep in mind, I’m talking of the [...]
An invisibility cloak just like the one Harry Potter used to creep out of Hogwarts could become a reality within five years. Researchers from Purdue University, Indiana are using ‘nanotechnology’ and ‘metamaterials’ along with Einstein’s theory of general relativity. It works by bending light around itself like the flow of water around a stone, which [...]
HAL (Hybrid Assistive Limb) has been released for rental in Japan for $2,200 a month. This system, which assists those temporarily or permanently disabled people to walk upright without crutches, has progressed a lot over the years. The robotic legs listens to nerve signals from the brain and mimics the intended movements. CYBERDYNE, a new [...]