Facebook Releases an Interesting Spin on the Gift Card
Never leave home without it.
Gift cards are pretty popular but also hated. Why are they hated? Because you always end up with a gift card to a place that you don’t go to. Getting the prepaid “credit” card ones that you can use anywhere are way better. Despite that, Facebook today introduced a reloadable multi-store gift card that will be rolling out to Facebook users in the US sometime soon. Read the rest of this article…
Rob’s Tech School Part 1 – The Great Framerate Debate
Must…hit…5 million…FPS…
30 FPS, 60 FPS, 120 FPS, Vsync, tearing, flicker…
I have seen this topic come up an untold number of times on gaming and hardware forums over the years and in various message boards and the mods always end up locking it because the argument is old, played out and stupid. People have gotten so pissy over the framerate issue that, now, if you even bring it up it seems to be grounds for locking a thread. Now I’m going to take a moment to clarify the situation on framerates and how our eyes perceive moving images.
Stickam Shutting Down. Pedos Of The World Break Down From Depression
No more naked 14 year olds?
Yep, it’s official. In 26 and a half hours, Stickam will be shutting down for good. At 11:59 PM Pacific Standard Time, January 31st, pedophiles the world around will be screaming out in anguish as Stickam closes its doors for good.
Newgrounds Wants You To Convert Your Flash Movies To Real Ones, Releases Swivel
You too can take your old crappy (or perhaps new and shiny) Flash movies and convert them to high-fidelity web video!
In a previous life, I used to make Flash movies. In fact, for most of my graphic design (and yes, the video work as well), I still use Flash on a regular basis, but the biggest problem with Flash-based content is that unless it’s a still image, it’s virtually incompatible with any other editor. You can’t just dump a Flash animation into a video editor like Final Cut Pro or Sony Vegas and have it work, it just doesn’t work like that. Even After Effects, another Adobe product, has issues with Flash content, nested movie clips, and so on. I’ve searched for years to find a way to efficiently move my Flash content away from its vector-based roots to something I can actually use.
Enter Newgrounds and their new Swivel tool, unleashed today.
Unlocking Your Phone Will Become Illegal on Saturday
Set my phone free!
Hey you, reading this article thinking about unlocking your phone to use on another carrier. What you are about to do is illegal and you will be thrown in jail, FOR-E-VER! That’s kind of a lie. If you bought your phone before Saturday, January 26, 2013, then by all means, unlock your phones and do what you will with them. But if you bought it afterwards, don’t do it because you are not legally allowed to. Read the rest of this article…
Facebook’s New Graph Search Missing Critical Component: A Point
Let’s find something cool.
At a major event, Facebook recently unveiled Graph Search, a new discovery tool that would take advantage of your friends’ data to provide better recommendations and results from, well, your friends, rather than the anonymous mass that is the average Google inquiry. The tool just opened to early registrants yesterday and is still relatively early, meaning it lacks nearly all the data from third-party apps. But placing all that data in this tool can’t solve the simple fact that Facebook’s new Graph Search is fundamentally useless. Underwhelming is the word I’ve seen across a swath of reviews to describe Facebook’s new toy and it’s one that fits aptly here. It could not be more underwhelming.
Data Caps Are Crap And We Overpay for Internet
Y U NO GO FASTER?
I get really heated being screwed over by paying so much for internet. $79.99 a month for 20MB internet? Seriously? Oh, I can’t forget that I’m also capped at 250GB of bandwidth a month and will have to pay overage fees. C’mon now. ISP’s have been saying that the data cap is there because of network congestion and that soon they won’t be able to support all the internet use. Upgrade your hardware is what I say! Don’t tell me you can’t give me faster speeds because the router in my area can’t handle it because it’s too old. Read the rest of this article…
Microsoft Finally Releasing The Surface Tablet We All Really Wanted On February 9th
This is actually a picture of the Surface RT, but can you REALLY tell?
Imagine a version of Windows that doesn’t run any of the programs you’ve accumulated over the years in exchange for an app store that’s still pretty small. It makes sense that Microsoft would release a tablet with that version of Windows to cater to hardware and app developers that are currently working on Android apps these days and not Windows ones, but there’s a reason why Microsoft has been hush-hush about Surface sales: because they’re probably not great at all. When Microsoft unveiled the tablet last summer, they promised an alternate, higher-end Surface Pro that was essentially the Windows you knew and loved, but in tablet form. The version you wanted. Well, it’s here.
Sad That Dinosaurs Will Be Impossible, Science Wants To Resurrect Extinct Neanderthals
“Zug zug,” the neanderthal said, indifferent to the matters at hand.
You may have used the term Neanderthal to call some oafish person an idiot, but neanderthals are an interesting fragment of our own history. We’re not sure whether they descended from the progenitor of humans or whether they were a split off of modern man, but the record shows they lived in and around Europe until about 30,000 years ago. We don’t know why they disappeared, whether it was climate change, interbreeding with humans, or any number of bizarre theories, but now the tables are set: we want to bring them back.
For About $30 A Month, Kim Dotcom’s Mega Wants To Give You 4TB Of Cloud Storage
M-M-M-MEGA. Can’t stop saying it.
I love and use Dropbox every day. I couldn’t live without some place in the cloud at this point to store my data so I can access it from virtually all of my devices. After a huge legal kerfuffle, Kim Dotcom, whom you may know from the will.i.am-slash-Kanye West-endorsed Megaupload, or perhaps the epic raid on his house in New Zealand to bring said service down, is bringing us Mega, a whole new service to send your data to. And they’re giving you 50GB for free, just to start, squashing any offer from those other, larger, perhaps more legitimate offerings from Dropbox and Google.
