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19 CommentsMy current PC is in it’s autumn. It’s long-term memory has started clicking and it sometimes dozes off when it should be awake. I built the damn thing myself. Or rather, bribed my cousin to do it for me. Limbs were ordered seperately and surgically put together in a fashion similar to that of Frankensteins [...]
3 CommentsI just can’t help myself: anything Indiana Jones tickles my fancy. Now gorge in these tiny blurry pictures of LEGO sets from the movie. I spot an amphibious car, Maya ruins and … are those live skeletons?
5 CommentsFirefox 3 promises a new way to bookmark, new security features and an integrated “type-to-launch” bookmark access feature which is not entirely different from that of Spotlight or Vistas start menu. Probably most importantly, Mozilla promises fixes to memory leaks and speed improvements.
This portable version is perfect for testing out such an early build of the new browser. My quick test shows this: yes, it does indeed seem much much faster and surpisingly stable. Perhaps Firefox just became interesting again…
CommentAll wound up in a package featuring a nice logo, Mozilla Weave (just launched) aims to explore “the blending of the desktop and the Web through deeper integration of the browser with online services”. That sounds nice. But what does it mean? Reading up on their use cases helps a bit:
That all sounds really nice. Except in my case, I’m already enjoying most of this using Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Browser Sync and Google Docs. I expect Google Storage to be just around the corner. Competition is good, and it’s nice to see open standard versions of these services, but one must wonder whether anyone will adopt Mozillas offerings.
CommentThere’s a new API in town. It’s name is Google Charts. The abuse shown above is a timeless classic. Thanks for the tip, Frederik.
I wonder what other hilarous abuse this will lead to.
CommentOnce again Googles year-end roundup, “Zeitgeist”, shows what’s been popular in the passing year. The lesson this year comes from young actress Vanessa Hudgens: flash yourself and skyrocket to fame. Sort of confirms what Atomic Swing said all along.
6 CommentsIn this case, the dark knight in question is actually Batman, as this is a sequel to 2005s quite adequate Batman Begins. Go on ahead and watch the new trailer. Great take on the Joker, but annoying that Batmans love interest was re-cast instead of re-placed.
CommentReviews are spoilerfree but beware of comments.
There are many parallel universes, all connected by the mythical golden substance: dust. In one such universe, souls are separate from humans and walk beside them as animals. In this world, Lyra is given a Golden Compass, a device that can unveil truth and the true nature of things as they really are. Their power threatened by this compass, the evil Magisterium seeks to gain control of it.
This is a positively strange film. It is littered with beautiful pictures and delicous Jules-Verne-style retro-decorative elements, yet there’s no time to dwell on the pretty vistas. It is extremely well produced, starring big-name actors, yet it feels like they could have cast anyone and it would be all the same. It touches upon grand themes like what religion does to a childs mind, yet at the same time it all feels like I’ve seen this fantasy story a dozen times before. The entire film is told in a distinctly child-friendly way, yet there’s just enough violence that one starts to ponder who this film is made for. It’s has all the elements of a great fantasy story: good is good and evil is evil, yet I find the story rather hard to follow. Finally, it seems to me that spending $200M on the first film in a trilogy is a rather big gamble, when it can hardly stand on its own — should the second one not be made.
Make no mistake, this is a gorgeous movie, and feels just right for this time of the year. It’s also a good movie, that could have been great had it been paced differently with just a tad more character development. I want this movie to succeed, just to see what happens next. So here’s hoping the film makes enough that Lyras golden compass can point to the symbol that says “sequel”.
14 CommentsMorning coffee not yet entirely digested, I flipped through the news. Brain set to autopilot, I somehow found myself participating in a competition for tickets to the new movie: The Golden Compass, a fantasy adventure starring Nicole Kidman. To win tickets, I had to answer the following question (loosely translated):
To which faith does The Golden [...]
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– It’s All Text! Really convenient.
14 CommentsSix years ago I started doing illustration-work for the heck of it. Five pieces a month kept the mind-doctor away. Come May this year, I stopped that and instead started brewing and concocting devious evil schemes: I would love nothing more than to sell you prints. Deliciously crafted and printed representations of hard work, blood [...]
CommentWill Mac OS X one day run Windows apps without the need for dual booting or virtual machines? That’s the question/rumor currently making the rounds after Wine developer Steven Edwards discovered Leopard contains an undocumented loader for Portable Executables, a filetype used in Windows applications.
Now that would just be damn sexy. This will clearly appeal to existing Mac users who want to be able to play that kids CD-rom game that doesn’t come out on the platform, as well as would-be switchers who absolutely need their trusty old spreadsheet from the days of yore. It makes OSX an even stronger offering.
It further solidifies the mantra: content is king. A games console is only as good as the games on the platform. A DVD format is only as good as it’s movie releases; and now: an operating system is only as good as its apps. Because in the end, it’s not the desktop wallpaper or the pretty application launcher that entices us or keeps us on one platform. It’s whether the applications we absolutely need, are available. With the second coming of Ubuntu a year or two away, it’ll be interesting to see if operating systems will actually expire in their usefulness altogether.
2 CommentsGoogle has started rolling out colored labels in Gmail. It’s smart, I like it a lot, especially how removing a label is now no longer an option in a pulldown menu, but actually related to the label you’re removing. I am, however, ready for a label manager redesign. The whole “search don’t sort” thing, at times, seems a bit too smart compared to good ol’ folders.
8 CommentsSilence is golden. Consider that my holiday present for the lot of you: busy times call for a silent Noscope. Contrary to what I planned all along, I’ve actually had work to do in my first month of freelancing. So much that I haven’t had much time for anything else. That’s good.
Coacheye is my [...]