Well, I was really excited about the Wii altogether. When I first got it I loved the Controller, the many different ways it can be used. It’s a hell of an entertainment product. That said, it is merely considered a party console by a lot of people. Many of the games are much more fun if you play with (or … Read More
Official Google Blog: From Gmail with <3
Official Google Blog: From Gmail with <3 After years of elitism and stuff GoogleMail (or GMail) has finally opened the service to all of you. Just go to www.gmail.com and get your GMail Account. I’m using it for about two years now and I don’t regret switching. Give it a try, I can’t imagine what you would miss with your … Read More
I'm with Wii…
Yes, I finally did it. I had thought about it prior to christmas but it was sold out back then and so I had to wait. But on Monday I got my brand new Nintendo Wii!!!!I’m pretty connected with Nintendo. The first gaming concole my mother bought for us was the NES (Nintendo Entertainment System). I played “Super Mario Brothers” … Read More
windows alternatives / kubuntu odyssee
Well, I’m working with linux. It’s been probably 10 years since the first encounter and 8 or 9 years since I put up my first linux-only machine back at my parents’. Since then I always had a linux box at home. My main machine however always ran Windows (sometimes different versions in parallel) and my Desktop was always MS-dominated.Then I … Read More
uBrowser
Hi! Sometimes I’m really excited of some new software or some familiar software doing innovative stuff. There has been an article on Spiegel Online that presented the following: A browser (based on the Mozilla Gecko Engine) that is actually projecting the websites onto a 3D environment. It is actually a project of the people at Linden Lab who also created … Read More
Keyword Feature in Firefox- via letterboxd- via letterboxd
Sometimes you come up with an idea about a certain feature of software, right. Even if you don’t actually write software, you just come up with ideas or wishes of things a certain app should be able to do. This is the moment where you realize how good the software actually is that you’re using.A few minutes ago I thought … Read More
Thoughts on Interactive Storytelling
While I’ve always been a fan of Adventures (the first game I played on a Personal Computer was of course “The secret of Monkey Island”) I did not really have a chance to incorporate that into my studies. Well, but telling stories is of course an essential goal of computer games and it was only a matter of time until … Read More