Computing – Page 33

YouTube for Television released for PS3 and Wii, sort of

January 30, 2009March 12, 2009 Danny X PS3, streaming, Wii, YouTube9 Comments

If you’re like me, the only exercise you often get on a Saturday afternoon is when you take a break from playing video games to walk into the next room where your computer lives and check out some videos on the Interwebz. Now, if you have either a PS3 or a Wii, YouTube has effectively robbed you of that 15 seconds of pure raw cardio by quietly offering up Youtube for Television, currently in Beta and advertised as only available for the aforementioned systems. Technically, the phrase “only available for…

On The Road With The Aspire One

January 27, 2009July 9, 2009 Doug Groves Acer, netbook, Windows9 Comments

I can’t imagine what Jack Kerouac’s classic would have been like if he had a 3G connection and a netbook. Would “On The Road” have been a hit blog, or would he have been too busy watching Youtube videos of some dope jazz beats? Anyways… A buddy of mine wanted to go on a road trip not long ago and called me to see if I wanted to tag along. I figured, what the hell. It would give me a chance to put my new Acer Aspire One to the…

Dudes, here’s your Windows 7 beta on the Mac guide. Plus, Plain Sight.

January 24, 2009July 9, 2009 Paul L Windows9 Comments

I can’t actually vouch for this tutorial (courtesy of TUAW). Maybe RebelScum or King-Pin can pop in and evaluate it, since as we discussed while cable-sorting at our recent group tidy-up of the increasingly Gigeresque floor of the podcast studio, I don’t intend to get into Windows 7 until I am forced. Hell, I would still be installing Windows 98, if XP weren’t required for the whole concept of me trying out PC games. A concept sadly, heretofore unexecuted, mostly due to lack of drive space on my Windows partition…

Useless Product of the Day: Philip’s 21:9 CINEMA TV

January 23, 2009July 25, 2009 Danny X 14 Comments

Ever watch a movie on your 16:9 LCD or Plasma TV only to be disappointed to see the black bars above and below the picture? That’s because the movie you’re watching was shot in glorious 2.35:1 aspect ratio, so the picture has to fit in the vertical centre of the screen. “But rye”, you say. “That’s why I bought a widescreen TV in the first place; to avoid those annoying bars!” Well, apparently Philips feels your pain, and now proudly presents the Philips Cinema, a 56″ superwide screen that does…

Scott McCloud, in Search of a Durable Mutation

January 19, 2009January 24, 2009 Paul L 8 Comments

The TED conference has just posted a dynamic slideshow talk from 2005 by comics artist/theorist Scott McCloud, wherein he delves into his own biography and how his artistic vision was informed growing up by science. Which is interesting enough, but in the final half, he gives a crisp rundown of the analytical territory which he is famous for populating with graphic Aristotelian orgies, beginning with his 1993 treatise, Understanding Comics. The final third is the most interesting to me. McCloud is bearish on hypertext, or any form of interactivity which…

Apple NOT Allowing Alternative Browsers In App Store

January 15, 2009April 17, 2009 Doug Groves 8 Comments

In every operating system known to man, an alternative browser is a separate application with it’s own rendering engine. You know, Firefox or IE or Safari etc… Apparently this isn’t true on the iPhone OS. Either that or some otherwise tech savvy people had their reality distorted by some kind of field, and we at rgbFilter aren’t immune. We recently ran an article covering the ‘news’ originating from Macrumors that suddenly, Apple was allowing 4 new alternative WebKit based browsers into the App Store. The story was picked up by…

Adventures in Windows 7

January 13, 2009January 14, 2009 drsquid 32 Comments

Microsoft opened the Beta of Windows 7 up to the public over the weekend. It can be downloaded here. Windows 7 has been misconstrued as a response to Vista’s bad press, even though it has been in development since well before Vista even shipped. However, I am sure the all hype surrounding this very early public preview (it might not even ship in its final form until 2010) is a response. Vista has generated a lot of ill will towards the Redmond giant (most of it unfounded), and Windows 7…

BOOM!: Data supports free online co-release of new miniseries ‘Hexed’

January 10, 2009January 24, 2009 Paul L 5 Comments

When BOOM! Studios published their post-ice-age/book-burning dystopian comic book tale North Wind, at Myspace concurrently with its retail release last January, brick-and-mortar comic shops chafed and some even rebelled, asking for “evidence” that free online simul-publication would not eat their collective lunch. (Funny how the common conventional wisdom that it would, requires no evidence whatsoever.) One year later, alongside last Wednesday’s (January 7th) release of their new miniseries Hexed under the same experimental distribution model as North Wind, BOOM!’s Editor-in-Chief Mark Waid has posted a video statement for retailers saying…

Climatology of a Cultural Ice Age, core sample #1

January 10, 2009January 10, 2009 Paul L 8 Comments

An eBook ‘digital rights management’ provider suddenly decides to ‘manage’ all the books it has ever sold through a popular eBook site into deep freeze, consigning all that distributed literature to the digital dustbin in a single blow. A developer attempts (and fails) a 100-day protest just to get permission to release a game he has been designing for years, on the Nintendo Wii. A physical crafts artist begins firing up a lynch mob to take down and destroy the widely sourced collage art of digital remixers. Apple escalates its…

Macworld SCOOP! The new MacBook Wheel!

January 6, 2009January 6, 2009 drsquid 3 Comments

Blog@Newsarama to Highlight Webcomics

January 2, 2009January 2, 2009 Paul L 4 Comments

There is an entirely new blogging team at Blog@Newsarama, the old team having quit en masse last month due, as far as I can ascertain, to a surprise redesign and a glitchy comments system. The new bloggers seem, so far, eager to connect with the community, and particularly bullish about webcomics, which would be encouraging if it weren’t for the way they parrot all of the current conventional wisdom about ‘new’ media. That the web is only good for bite-sized information, for example. (Perhaps we should just pat HTML on…