Piracy!
Piracy in the digital age – An essay about piracy in the digital age. Is it really that bad?
The WWW is not the internet!
A real geek should know the difference, do you? Learn the difference and stop being a n00b.
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Good bye 2011, hello 2012!
Posted on December 31, 2011 by Jingles | No Comments
It’s not the end of Kulture, just the end of 2011. You can expect more of the same awesomeness in 2012.
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Is the iPhone making like it’s creator?
Posted on December 30, 2011 by Jingles | No Comments
Some interesting data from YouGov’s BrandIndex (a company that measures a consumers sentiments towards brands) show that Samsung’s brand awarenesses rose rose while Apples iPhone brand awareness fell after Samsung released two ads (on or around Nov. 22 and Dec. 1) that take a dig at Apple fan boys and the iPhones woeful battery life.
According to the graph consumer sentiment towards the iPhone started falling around the start of December but has since recovered a little bit. Another interesting thing about the graph is that consumers sentiment towards Apples iPhone is trending south while Samsung’s consumer sentiment is trending north.
Checkout the ads from Samsung, they are pure gold. [Read more...]
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Skrym Dubstep arrow in the knee
Posted on December 29, 2011 by Jingles | No Comments
Unless for some strange reason you haven’t been on the internet in the last few months then you have probably heard of the ‘arrow in the knee’ meme or seen some mutation of it. Even if you aren’t on the internet you probably know that Dubstep is also kind of a big thing, even if you hate music you know Dubstep is big. Even deaf people have an opinion about Skrillex.
Rameses B’s Skyrim In The Knee is the happens when a meme and Dubstep get drunk and hookup.
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The world’s most important 6-sec drum loop
Posted on December 28, 2011 by Jingles | No Comments
Chances are that your favorite genre of music wouldn’t exist if it wasn’t for the Amen Break, the world’s most important 6-sec drum loop.
This documentary narrates the history of the “Amen Break”, a six-second drum sample from the b-side of a chart-topping single from 1969.
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This one time at Band Camp…
Posted on December 24, 2011 by Jingles | No Comments
I found some free music. Merry x-mass! I bring good will, x-mass cheer and free music! Band Camp is a platform that lets artists sell their music for as much or as little as they want including for free. Whatever genre of music your into Band Camp probably caters for it. So hit it up and check it out for some great free music in a decent amount of formats you want including high bit rate MP3 and my favourite format FLAC.
Of course if you can afford it you should donate some gold coin to the artists for their music (commonly known as purchasing music) or buy another one of their albums.
Just be careful if you have a small download limit, you could easily blow it all downloading awesome free music from Band Camp. If you don’t have any download limits you might want to check how much space you have or buy a new HDD because you could easily fill a HDD with awesome free music available on Band Camp.
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Raspberry Pi – $25 PC
Posted on December 23, 2011 by Jingles | No Comments
The Raspberry Pi is a credit card sized computer based on a 700 MHz ARM11 CPU and uses Broadcom’s BCM2835 SoC and VideoCore IV GPU. There will be two models, Model B which has a 10/100 network interface (going for $35) and the cheaper Model A version (going for $25) with out Ethernet network connectivity. [Read more...]
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C64anabalt
Posted on December 22, 2011 by Jingles | No Comments
How do you turn a popular new game into an old classic? Port it to the Commodore 64 in cartridge format.
It’s one thing to port an old game to a new system but to port a new game to an old system takes a little more effort specially when you only have 16KB to play with.
But that didn’t stop Paulko64 who created C64anabalt, an official Commodore 64 port of Adam Atomic & Danny B’s popular award winning game Canabalt for the RGCD C64 16KB Cartridge Game Development Competition.
Unfortunately Paulko64 came second (which is no mean feat for any male) to Mix256′s Fairy Well entry which claimed first prize but only by 0.1 of a point. [Read more...]
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Next station is FAIL!
Posted on December 21, 2011 by Jingles | No Comments
Apparently the next station is 10145001G 220C, oh no wait, sorry the next station is Serial Address = 00. Oh no, sorry, wrong again it’s failed they are memory and serial addresses… Actually I don’t know what the next station is your on your own. Good luck!
This happened on my train trip the other day. I always find it amusing when tech fails in public.
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Supaplex & backwards compatibility
Posted on December 19, 2011 by Jingles | No Comments
Backwards compatibility is a wonderful thing, thanks to backwards compatibility I can enjoy Supaplex in the right aspect ratio.
Supaplex will install (by install I mean unzip because that’s all you have to do to ‘install’ it) and play under DOSBox without any tweaking, it’s a rare example of something just working properly out of the box… Well nearly properly.
If you install Supaplex for some good old fashion fun you might notice something if you have a wide screen monitor. What? You don’t? 1990 called, it wants it’s 4:3 monitor back.
Sorry, I digr… oooohhhhhhhhhhhhh! Shiny things!
When you run Supaplex in full screen mode you will probably notice that the aspect ratio will be incorrect that’s because Supaplex was coded in the early 90′s when we were stuck with dirty great big CRT monitors and had a choice of two aspect ratios: 4:3 or 4:3. Supaplex wasn’t coded for wide screen monitors because they didn’t exist at the time, you can’t cater for something that doesn’t exist.
You will know the aspect ratio is wrong because the image will look like it’s stretched. Those beautiful pixels won’t look as square as they should. If you can’t tell then keep playing it like that if it doesn’t bother you, but Murphy (the red Pac-Manesq character) is actually supposed to be round as in round like a circle not an oval. I just ruined it for you by pointing that out didn’t It’s ok there is probably a solution. [Read more...]
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20 years later: Gopher
Posted on December 18, 2011 by Jingles | No Comments
How Gopher nearly trumped the web.
It was the second killer app, after email, for the internet and to the average person it is the internet. The World Wide Web (henceforth referred to as the web) and the internet is indistinguishable to most people, they are assumed to be the same thing, they are inseparable. More people wouldn’t know the internet without the web which had a hand in driving the uptake of PCs and internet connections world wide. Now email, and the web have become indispensable tools. An internet connection is considered a necessity like other utilities like gas, water, electricity etc…
But have you ever stopped to think what the internet would be like with out the web? Would the internet have become as popular as it has with out the web? Would email alone be enough to drive the uptake of internet connections and make people want to get a PC? What would the internet look like? Would the internet have made the jump from a university research project and tool to main stream usage without the web? [Read more...]
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