Well, it looks like after a good run, Wizards of the Coast will not be renewing the Star Wars license with Lucasfilm. Both the minis and RPG lines will go away, with the license officially ending this May. The license has been interesting for WotC at times, with limits imposed on print production of RPG […]
‘Mixtape’, a wonderful short film by Luke Snellin brings back the memories for those of us who used to spend hours making music mixes on cassette tape.
There was also the charge of hypocrisy; if Steve Jobs truly hates DRM so much and wanted it gone from iTunes Store music, why does he continue to lather it onto all video content from Apple, and why did he voluntarily add it to iPhone apps? Is it really Hypocrisy? Â Not really…. Â It\’s called being […]
ArsTechnica had a small tidbit regarding iPhone 3.2 OS (iPad only). Thankfully, Apple has addressed this in the iPad-only iPhone OS 3.2. The documentation for the SDKindicates that it uses a \”shared folder\” that any iPad application can read and write. This shared folder will also mount as a disk whenever an iPad is plugged […]
The term comes from the idea of a clumsy, \’fat-fingered\’ typist, who presses extra keys without being aware of it. As the practice of high-frequency trading continues to become more widespread, concerns are growing that erroneous trades carried out by \’algos gone wild\’—a sort of digitally amplified version of the \’fat finger\’ phenomenon—could cause a […]
It seems as if Half-Life and Left 4 Dead developer Valve is looking for a few good men to engineer things for Linux and Macintosh. Several sleuth sites, as well as more than a share of Mac-focused sites, have been reporting on a rogue sentence not-so-tucked-away in Valve\’s Chris Green\’s LinkedIn profile, indicating that the […]
Here\’s a first hand experience (not mine), about a stolen iPhone, and a little bit of deterimination… The whole thing started when my plane landed in Los Angeles on Monday afternoon at 2:55pm coming from Cabo San Lucas. The guy sitting next to me on the plane asked me to loan him a pen so […]
Apple today introduced the iPad. The 0.5\’-thick tablet weighs 1.5 lbs. and touts a 9.6\’ LCD (IPN) display. It features built-in Bluetooth and 802.11n connectivity, accelerometer, and compass and will be available in sizes from 16GB to 64GB. It uses a proprietary 1GHz Apple processor; the battery is purported to feature up to 10 hours […]