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Vimeo Vs. youTube

I’d be annoyed that I missed the War on the Internet (an event that was recently put on by Electronic Frontiers Australia, in partnership with the Australian Greens) if it weren’t for the fact that the videos of the talks were posted online. The videos were posted on Vimeo, a YouTube alternative, which I now [...]

THINK! Supaplex

Supaplex is an old skool puzle game that was released in 1991, then in somewhere in the mid 90s (my closest estimate is somewhere between 1994 to 1997) Digital integration, the publishers of Supaplex, agreed to release it for free and thus Supaplex became freeware. It’s the first game that I know that went from [...]

Supaplex: a history

The old adage that “imitation is the sincerest form of flattery” defiantly holds true in the gaming industry where clones are par for the course. Take a successful game, change the environment, enemies, weapons, story and maybe throw in a new game mechanic and bingo you have your own game. A good clone can set [...]

How to use QR codes to easily update passwords

I use KeePass password manager to generate strong passwords, by strong I mean gibberish passwords like this: &ýJ8½u@è[ Aqîsñ«qÓÉ\8ÎzB Good luck cracking a password like that, if it ever did get cracked it would probably be useless anyway because I would have changed it. Unfortuantly not every service lets me choose a real secure password, [...]

Stop SOPA & PIPA!

In America On January 24 Congress will pass two acts, SOPA & PIPA, despite the vast majority of Americans and people world wide being opposed to it. These two acts amount to internet censorship and these laws will be passed unless 41 senators block the vote. These acts need to die. We need to protect [...]

Midas

Remember Midas? You may have herd of him, he’s the guy in ancient Greek mythology who had the golden touch, everything he touched turned to gold. After all was said and done it wasn’t such an awesome thing. It proves that you should be careful what you wish for. This is why history is so [...]

Eye spy…

Track pads on laptops are a pain to use, no? Ever wanted an easier way of pointing and clicking? Say hello to Tobii, tech that lets you look to point. You press and hold down a key, look where you want to point then release the key to click. It works by shooting near-infrared lights [...]

The first web page on the web

Above: Tim Berners-Lee’s NeXT at CERN was the first-ever web server, browser, and editor. The computer that Tim Berners-Lee used to invent the World Wide Web. There is no such thing as the last web page on the web, well not unless you count the newest page that was uploaded to the web but then [...]

In memory of web sites lost in a HDD crash

Yesterday I was bored so I decided to look through some of my old design work for some inspiration and came across some screenshots of websites I built back circa 2002-3 which prompted me to go digging deeper. In a draw I have about 100 CDs mostly MP3 CDs (from back in the day when [...]