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May 21, 2010

PlayStation Eye and PlayStation Move

Shortly after my post on Project Natal, I suddenly thought of how PlayStation had something similar nearly ten years ago, namely EyeToy for PlayStation 2. I am sure that others have had the same thoughts. And with the PlayStation Move coming near the end of this year, I figured it is worth writing about.

May 19, 2010

Project Natal’s release date

Project Natal, Microsoft’s future technique that enables Xbox 360-gamers to play games without the controller is expected to hit the stores this autumn!

May 3, 2010

HTML5 is the future?

With HTML5, a major revision of the HyperText Markup Language, around the corner and the recent critiques by Apple and Microsoft towards Adobe’s Flash, we might be facing a battle between HTML5 and Flash.

Apr 20, 2010

Our Connected World

Shortly after my post on Twitter, I stumbled upon this funny comic by Horsey which I think quite fits contemporary situations.

Apr 17, 2010

Twitter: over 105 million users!

Ever since the start of Twitter in March 2006, Twitter has always kept silent about its users. However, the company finally revealed its amount of users during Twitter’s Chirp developer conference. Biz Stone, co-founder of this micro-blogging service, showed an impressive number of 105,779,710 registered users, and it is still growing by 300,000 users each day!

Mar 22, 2010

Google Maps Street View

Google Maps offers a wide range of features. If you are searching for a hotel, Google Maps will tell you where they are located. If you are unfamiliar with an address is, just type it in Google Maps and it will gladly aid you. If you want to know how the environment of location B looks like, Google Maps’ Street View will show you what it looks like.

Mar 21, 2010

UseITM Metamorphosis

UseITM underwent a dramatic metamorphosis today; going from "Ah, my eyes!" to "Look at all those pretty colors..".

Many changes have been applied, tweaks have been made, posts have been beautified, and some other small stuff.