Augmented Reality Down Under [Video]
The Aussies have a bit of fun, kicking around some angry birds and having a dance-off with Timomatic. Powered by Nokia Lumia, if you didn’t catch that.
Category Archives: Software
Use Your iPhone to Control your PC while Gaming
For all you PC-gamers, hardware tweakers and media junkies, there is a new App in development that promises to give you control over your computer through your iPod/iPhone (and soon Android and Windows Phones) and compliment your gaming in new and creative ways. The app is called Power-Grid by German PC Gaming accessory company Roccat. [...]
Play Games and Increase Brain Power with Lumosity!
I went to visit my Aunty the other day and when I walked into the house one of her young children, aged 11, announced, “Look Mum! I reached Level 7!” So I got curious, Level 7 on what? Then my Aunty launched into an explanation of this website – Lumosity. This site was built by [...]
Speed Painting Time Lapse [Video]
This just goes to show you some of the incredible things that can be done on Adobe programs. True artistry. Can you believe this was done in only 30 minutes? [by Menton J. Matthews III via The BDAG]
Geeky Facebook Timeline Covers
The new Facebook Timeline layout has got social media experts’ undies in a bit of a twist. With the new layout extending from profiles out to fan pages as well, custom created landing pages with calls-to-action has been rendered obsolete. Well Fake Science (also on Tumblr) has found a way to make them super sexy. [...]
Identify the Song Stuck in Your Head
Let’s be honest, as intelligent geeks, we know most of the stuff in how-to’s around the web. We’re pretty much the people that write them. They’re usually designed for the less-than-tech-savvy, who find them thoroughly engaging, but often we find how-to guides yawn-worthy. Well in one of the latest posts from How-To Geek I discovered [...]
Robo-Teacher: Computer That Can Sense Boredom
Photo Credit: Sybren A. Stüvel The University of Notre Dame has produced the next phase of the robot take-over: now they’re teaching us. And they’re teaching us almost better than we can teach ourselves. Next on the robo-invasion master plan: indoctrinate the young. “AutoTutor” and “Affective AutoTutor” is a new technology that can read moods [...]
App Review: Wake Up Refreshed Using Science on Your iPhone with Sleep Cycle
When you use a regular alarm clock, it’s a total lottery whether it will strike when you’re at the end of a sleep cycle or in the middle of one. When you’re in the middle of a sleep cycle, you’ll find that you’ll wake up groggy and with that feeling of an anvil pressing you [...]
Why Google+ is Failing
By Rodney Brazeau Contributing Writer, [GAS] Google made a brave effort as the potential Facebook Killer with its own social media website Google+. The complete lack of anything ending in “ville” does make me want to jump to that service, but it seems that despite its initial signup of 90 million people, Google+ is not [...]
Blizzcon 2012 Canceled
While Blizzard Entertainment’s official All-Things-Starcraft-Warcraft-Diablo gaming convention is such a big deal, it seemed odd that they would NOT have one this year. After all, the media gaming giant has Heart of the Swarm (Starcraft2 Expansion), Mists of Pandaria (World of Warcraft Expansion) and Diablo 3 all being released this year. But in a side [...]
PC retail chain accused of mass Windows piracy
Microsoft has launched legal action against a major electrical retailer after accusing it of large-scale piracy. It claims the Comet Group PLC unlawfully copied and produced more than 94,000 sets of recovery disks for Windows XP and Vista, selling them to customers who purchased Windows-loaded PCs and laptops. Comet is owned by a French parent [...]
A Geek Girl’s Guide to Holiday Shopping
by Meredith Placko While millions of Americans fought tooth, nail, and pepper spray to get their hands on some mighty deals, this geek girl somehow managed to avoid the annual contact sport known as Black Friday. While sitting in my office, pouring over YouTube videos of people at their very best in Holiday cheer (and [...]