GeekPicks

PlayStation Move motion controller launched at GDC

jojo_abelgas@yahoo.com (AcidXBurn) — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:41:00 +0000

"Sony just officially announced the PlayStation Move motion controller at GDC 2010, calling it the "next generation of motion gaming" because it's so precise -- latency is about the same as the DualShock 3. As expected, it uses the PlayStation Eye camera to track the controller, and Sony says it becomes an "extension of your body."

[via engadget]

The Fall of Donkey Kong

jojo_abelgas@yahoo.com (AcidXBurn) — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:39:00 +0000

"Covered in matted brown hair, a fashion faux pas he’d later amend with a sharp red tie, the iconic ape was named Donkey Kong. His legendary 1981 platform game, consisting of just four levels and taking roughly two minutes to finish, was a groundbreaking arcade masterpiece—no game before it had used such a diverse range of environments or told such a strong narrative."

[via wii potato]

Wii workouts: best of the games

jojo_abelgas@yahoo.com (AcidXBurn) — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:36:00 +0000

"When Nintendo's Wii console came out, couch potatoes across the country rejoiced. Here was a way to get in shape and play video games at the same time! But the bowling, tennis and other early sports titles ultimately delivered less-than-challenging workouts."

[via la times]

Get the Most from Your Point-and-Shoot Camera

jojo_abelgas@yahoo.com (AcidXBurn) — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:35:00 +0000

"Just because you've got a relatively inexpensive point-and-shoot camera and not a $1500+ DSLR rig doesn't mean you can't take awesome photos. Here's a look at how you can elevate your regular old point-and-shoot shots to greatness."

[via lifehacker]

Completely Erase Your Hard Drives, SSDs and Thumb Drives

jojo_abelgas@yahoo.com (AcidXBurn) — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:34:00 +0000

"With stories abounding of identity theft aided by information lifted from discarded storage devices, you want devices you no longer plan to use to have no usable information when they head out the door. Here's how to wipe them clean."

[via gizmodo]

Biking directions added to Google Maps

jojo_abelgas@yahoo.com (AcidXBurn) — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:32:00 +0000

"Whenever I meet someone who finds out that I work on the directions team for Google Maps, the first question I'm asked is often "So when's Google Maps going to add biking directions?" We're big biking fans too, so we've been itching to give you a concrete answer. I don't want to keep the good news a secret any longer, so the answer is: right now!"

[via google blog]

Google Apps Marketplace

jojo_abelgas@yahoo.com (AcidXBurn) — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:30:00 +0000

"Google has unveiled their Google Apps Marketplace. This is an app store for enterprise apps in the cloud. Using a set of APIs, these third-party apps can deeply integrate their products within Google Apps, which already some 25 million people are using. And that also includes over 2 million businesses ranging from startups, to small businesses, to Fortune 500 companies."

[via techcrunch]

Design A Clean Small Business Website

jojo_abelgas@yahoo.com (AcidXBurn) — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:28:00 +0000

"The design style that we’re aiming for with this template is clean and minimal – we therefore only want to include essential details and make subtle use of colors and fonts. On a small business site it’s very important to highlight exactly what the business does and the types of services it provides, so we need to make this clear."

[via voosh themes]

Apple’s Secret iPhone Developer Agreement Goes Public

jojo_abelgas@yahoo.com (AcidXBurn) — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:43:00 +0000

"Before you create software for the iPhone, Apple demands that you sign away a laundry list of rights, including the ability to sell rejected apps through other channels, the ability to sue Apple for more than $50, and the ability to reverse-engineer or modify the iPhone or its SDK — and even the right to talk about your agreement with Apple.

[via wired]

Badass Japanese Game Designers

jojo_abelgas@yahoo.com (AcidXBurn) — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:42:00 +0000

"American video game developers have it all: Multi-million dollar development budgets and the world's largest video game market are at their disposal to make some of modern day's best video games. However, they all lack one crucial thing--the rock star charisma of Japanese video game designers. When it comes to eccentric style, outspoken statements, and attention-grabbing publicity stunts, the game designers of Japan are second to none."

[via oc weekly]

Worst Product Names Ever

jojo_abelgas@yahoo.com (AcidXBurn) — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:34:00 +0000

"We can only imagine the time and money that goes into creating a successful product line and, more important, its catchy name. There are many items that succeed in doing both, but some, not so much. The launch of the iPad—and the digs that ensued—got WD thinking about the worst names out there. From Pee Cola to Krack Nuggets, try to wrap your head around these off-the-wall labels."

[via woman's day]

Free Fonts For Creative Projects

jojo_abelgas@yahoo.com (AcidXBurn) — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:33:00 +0000

"We all know picking the right font is important when working on your creative projects. There are so many fonts out there, and it litarally may take hours until we find the ONE. To save you some time, here is a collection of 30 quality fonts hand-picked by Fonts2U. "

[via web designer wall]

The Wonderful World of Geo Location

jojo_abelgas@yahoo.com (AcidXBurn) — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:30:00 +0000

"Pulling out your phone, find your location and getting directions to the nearest bar is easy, but a lot of work has gone into making that possible. The good news is that because of that effort, mere geo-mortals like you and me can now create geographically aware products using a few lines of code. So, let’s give the geo-community a big hand."

[via smashing magazine]

The Secret Origin of Windows

jojo_abelgas@yahoo.com (AcidXBurn) — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:28:00 +0000

"Few people understand Microsoft better than Tandy Trower, who worked at the company from 1981-2009. Trower was the product manager who ultimately shipped Windows 1.0, an endeavor that some advised him was a path toward a ruined career. Four product managers had already tried and failed to ship Windows before him, and he initially thought that he was being assigned an impossible task."

[via technologizer]

Top Science Fiction Book Blogs

jojo_abelgas@yahoo.com (AcidXBurn) — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:25:00 +0000

"Do you love Science Fiction? Do you have a favorite author? If you’re like me once I read everything that my favorite author has published I’m looking for other stuff about her or people to chat with about those books."

[via computer science schools]

Hangover Tips Every College Student Needs

jojo_abelgas@yahoo.com (AcidXBurn) — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:24:00 +0000

"For most students, college is not only a place to learn, but a place to break free from the bonds of parents, live life as well as party and have fun. However many soon find that drinking and partying too hard can easily lead to a bad hangover."

[via best colleges online]

Use Google Wave for Business

jojo_abelgas@yahoo.com (AcidXBurn) — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 01:51:00 +0000

"Remember Google Wave? Clearly, Google Buzz has recently overshadowed Google’s other hotly anticipated social communication platform, but before you ditch your Wave account, give it a second try. There are many useful business applications for Wave, especially in situations that call for collaboration with a group or managing a project."

[via mashable]

Outstanding Photo Manipulation Tutorials

jojo_abelgas@yahoo.com (AcidXBurn) — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 01:50:00 +0000

"Photo manipulation is an art that requires lots of patience along with the expertise in Photoshop and other photo editing tools. With your creativity and imagination, you can manipulate any photograph the way you want! Now it’s all about your imagination and using Photoshop’s effects and other tools cleverly."

[via noupe]

Common Questions About Design Professionalism

jojo_abelgas@yahoo.com (AcidXBurn) — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 01:49:00 +0000

"The design profession is full of happy folks, and understanding why so many designers enjoy their work is not hard. But not all are so happy. If you’re not careful, the joy of getting paid to pursue your passion can be tainted by the less joyous realities of the professional world."

[via smashing magazine]

Design & Code a Cool iPhone App Website in HTML5

jojo_abelgas@yahoo.com (AcidXBurn) — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 01:46:00 +0000

"HTML5 is definitely the flavor of the month, with everyone in the design community getting excited about its release. In this tutorial we’ll get a taste of what’s to come by building a cool iPhone app website using a HTML5 structure, and visual styling with some CSS3 effects."

[via line 25]

Nominations and Winners of 82nd Academy Awards

jojo_abelgas@yahoo.com (AcidXBurn) — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 01:40:00 +0000

"The most awaited Academy Awards or Oscar for 2010 just completely announced the last and final award – the Best Motion Picture of the year 2010 that was awarded to “The Hurt Locker” directed by Kathryn Bigelow who also won Best Director for the year. It was held at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, hosted by the actors Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin."

[via save delete]

Must-Have Twitter and Facebook Add-Ons

jojo_abelgas@yahoo.com (AcidXBurn) — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 01:20:00 +0000

"By no means are Twitter and Facebook perfect: You might wish that Facebook made it more intuitive to hide FarmVille or certain status updates. Or, maybe you wish that Twitter would introduce a new feature likenested tweets. Good news: For many of these website tweaks or suggestions, there's likely to be a script you can download to fit the bill."

[via pcworld]

And BitTorrent’s Oscar Goes To…. District 9

jojo_abelgas@yahoo.com (AcidXBurn) — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 01:49:00 +0000

"In just a few hours the Oscar winners will be announced, including the award for the best movie of 2009. We take a look at the nominees in the Best Picture category to see which film would win if every download on BitTorrent counted as a vote."

[via torrent freak]

Google Chrome Extensions For Web Designers And Developers

jojo_abelgas@yahoo.com (AcidXBurn) — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 01:47:00 +0000

"Google Chrome is not a popular browser yet but still it’s growing fast and as a web developer or designer, you must be among the earliest to adopt new browser technologies. What help you a lot are extensions of browsers though Chrome does not offer many extensions but still there are lots of extensions, those can be very handy for designers and developers."

[via pel fusion]

Best VPN Tools

jojo_abelgas@yahoo.com (AcidXBurn) — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 01:45:00 +0000

"VPN software lets you join private networks as though you're sitting at a local computer on that network, giving you access to shared folders and tons more handy stuff. Here's a look at five of the most popular VPN tools."

[via lifehacker]