Articles and Posts related to free full version pc gamesshort reviews too late to matter Three full version games came bundled with my video card: Prince of Persia: Sands of Time (which I've already played all the way through on Gamecube), XIII, and Uru: Ages Beyond Myst. POP for PC looks a little better in some places than the Cube version but not as good in others. I'm using a Logitech Wingman Cordless gamepad, and it comes close to but falls short of a Gamecube controller in ease of use, although being wireless is nice, as I don't have a Wavebird. The game itself is superb, and is definitely worth playing if you haven't already XIII got middling to ok reviews, and it's not hard to see why. The cartoon/comic book look is kind of cool, but the game is extremely linear. You get to choose how you will dispatch your enemies, but that is pretty much the only choice you'll be making, other than to quit. The menus are also less than helpful, and changing settings requires you to tell the game to save the new settings after every screen. The storyline is still vaguely interesting so far, but there are huge leaps in continuity with no real explanation offered. If XIII hadn't been free, I would be complaining a lot more. It won't be staying on my hard drive after the first play-through. Uru is a different story. I tried playing Myst a few years ago, and I was too impatient with the click-and-load gameplay to play for more than half an hour. Riven never crossed my path for basically the same reason. Uru solves this by actually having a 3D world to move around in. It defaults to third-person mode, which has anti-intuitive turn-and-walk controls much like Tomb Raider and Resident Evil; I hate that type of control. Luckily, first-person mode can be switched on and kept on, and controls more like a shooter, with one exception: to use mouse look, the right mouse button has to be held down, which gets tiring. Otherwise, it's a huge improvement over third-person. The environments are beautiful, as is to be expected from a Myst product, and since I haven't gotten very far yet, the puzzles are still very solvable. The sudden onset and passing of a thunderstorm in a garden in one of the Ages showed off how impressive the sound and lighting effects can be as well. The game apparently had an online multiplayer component planned, but it was canceled due to lack of interest. |
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Perhaps a new simple document type which includes a couple of fields; Enthusiasts call Web feed next big thing By Frank Bajak, AP Technology Editor, 2/27/2004 NEW YORK E-mail is crippled, concussed by an irrepressible spam stream. Web surfing can be equally confounding, a wobbly wade through bursts of pop-ups and loudmouthed video ads. ADVERTISEMENT And that may explain the excitement these days over a somewhat crude but nifty software tool that automatically delivers updated information to your computer directly from your favorite Web sites. Enthusiasts see these Web feeds as sketching the outline of the next Net revolution. The technology behind them is called RSS and I rely on it daily to consult The New York Times, the BBC, CNET News, Slashdot and a few dozen other Web sites that employ RSS to make the very latest news stories or bits of commentary available for the plucking. Aided by software on my computer that goes out and retrieves my feeds, I swiftly sort through headlines and summaries. By clicking on included hyperlinks, I can visit originating sites for more detail. For an average Internet user who regularly visits about 50 Web sites, rather than have to go visit those 50 sites wouldnt it be cool if those sites could somehow visit you? And not only that, but if they could also tell you when theyve changed? said Greg Reinacker, head of NewsGator, which sells an add-on for Microsofts Outlook e-mail client that offers one leading way to read feeds. Hundreds of thousands of Web feeds are available, spurred by the popularity of Web logs, which account for their bulk. One site that has been sorting feeds since 2001, Syndicat8.com, added 7,326 in Januaryits biggest monthly jumpto its collection of more than 53,000 information streams. Some of that upsurge was election year fever as Democratic presidential candidates led by Howard Dean daily turned on the RSS spigot to broadcast to supporters. But Web feeds are no Howard-come-lately. Info generators of all kindsbig media, government and non-profits alikeare embracing them. Disney leverages the technology to deliver video clips for ESPN.com and ABCNews.com. Apples iTunes generates a feed to alert subscribers to its latest sounds. Anyone who builds a Web site can incorporate Web feeds. If it lives on the Web, it can be brought to your desktopor to your wireless device, for that matter. Human Rights Watch keeps activists current with feeds sorted by region. The U.S. Geological Surveys feeds let seismologists immediately know where the world is shaking. The U.S. Product Safety Commission just began providing recall notices via RSS. General Motors offers feeds on topics including safety and automotive tech. And a growing number of companies use feeds to disseminate info internally. If youre not reading it in RSS youre wasting your time, declaimed Microsofts blogging evangelist, Robert Scoble, who says he subscribes to nearly 1,300 feeds. RSS has been called the TiVo of the Web, the first killer app of the anticipated automation of social and commercial transactions online using the Webs second-generation XML (extensible markup language) standard. Alas, youll not find the tools for handling RSS in your Microsoft Windows operating system. Not yet, anyway. Youve got to go out and get them, just like you had to download Netscape or one of its competitors in 1994 when you wanted a Web browser. But the writing is on the wall. And its not graffiti; the feeds are spam-freethough advertising may be pumped through some eventually. Yahoo and Google recently embraced Web feeds, and Microsoft is expected to incorporate tools for managing them in its next-generation operating system, code-named Longhorn. Yahoos new search engine trolls through RSS feeds in addition to Web pages. And a five-person company called Feedster.com is trying to build a business around customizing searches of 500,000 feedsand then delivering you the search results in a single feed. RSS feeds vary in length and capability. Depending on how a Web site decides to serve them up and how a given aggregator wants to organize them, feeds can be simple, spare text or bold and multimedia-flashy. And thats what makes them both exciting and frustrating. First, its not simple for the non-techie to configure RSS. If theyre obvious on a Web page, the feeds generally are offered as orange buttons that read XML or RSS. Theres no uniformity to feeds, though the best include a good headline and a succinct summary. You can choose to have feeds delivered to your desktop or gathered by a Web-based service. It can be really hard to get people to look at it. I tried to get my father, who is a news junkie, to look at it and he wouldnt, conceded blogging guru Dave Winer, who created the Web-based aggregator Radio Userland. Programmers whove developed rival versions of RSS since its 1999 inventionprimarily by Winer and folks at Netscapecant agree on what RSS is supposed to stand for. Winers preference is Really Simple Syndication (RDF Site Summary and Rich Site Summary are the other options). At least its nothing like the fiasco of 1997 known as push technology and incarnate in PointCast, which wrote its death warrant by clogging hard drives and crashing operating systems as it delivered updated information to subscribers. RSS is more pull than push. Your aggregator retrieves the updated material from the feed-offering Web site at set time intervals. For an introduction, My.Yahoo.com offers a dumbed-down beta version. Web-based aggregators including FastBuzz.com and Bloglines.com are popular because theres no software to downloadand theyre free. FeedDemon, a downloadable cross between an e-mail client and a Web browser, is feature-packed and costs $30. NetNewsWire for the Mac, also a download, costs $40. If only the RSS prophets would stop squabbling. Winer is among those who consider the standard complete; others insist it must become more versatile if its to be an engine of the next-generation Interneta smarter, two-way street rather than just a blind delivery vehicle. Anil Dash, vice president of business development for Six Apart, whose Movable Type is among the Webs leading blogging products, says RSS is broken. He promotes a more robust and flexible alternative called Atom that got a big boost when Blogger.com, Googles blogging service, began supporting it in January. As with most technologies, the market will settle these scores. But first, the market itself has to develop. Major content providers want to ensure that any feeds they offer drive traffic back to their Web sites. The benefit to us is were distributing our headlines and the users come back to the site, said Catherine Levene, vice president for business development at New York Times Digital, which has been quietly offering feeds for two years. Many RSS-watchers predict Web feeds will eventually morph into ad-delivery vehicles because it can be expensive to run a Web site that serves up hundreds of thousands of feeds daily, draining bandwidth. Nevertheless, boosters like Jeremy Zawodny, a software engineer at Yahoo who promoted RSS feeds there, are convinced that 2004 will be the year the technology goes mainstream. Remember when you first starting seeing URLs appear on billboards and at the end of movie trailers? Zawodny wrote in his blog in December. Its going to be like that. One day were just going to look around and realize that RSS is popping up all over the place. And a couple years later, well all wonder how we ever got along without it. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Frank Bajak can be reached at techeditor(at)ap.org Posted in General | Edit | No Comments » GOOGLE FEEDS RSS FEEDS LINKS February 19th, 2005 RDF Resources tools Dave Becketts RDF Resource Guide http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/discovery/rdf/resources/ An extensive and annotated collection of links to RDF documents and software, updated frequently. Extensibility http://www.rundom.com/extensibility/ Details on this XML, Semantic web, and web services metablog and news aggregator. Hyphen.info http://www.hyphen.info/ Repository of RDF hierarchies. Introduction to RSS News Feeds http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/w-rss.html Find out how to create and use RSS files and learn what they can do for you. See why companies like Netscape, Userland, and Moreover use RSS to distribute and syndicate article summaries and headlines. This article includes sample code that demonstrates elements of an RSS file, plus a Perl example using the module XML::RSS. PML - http://iw.stanford.edu/pmldescription.html Proof Markup Language is used to build OWL documents representing both proofs and proof provenance information. RDF Interest Group http://www.w3.org/RDF/Interest/ The main discussion forum for RDF developers and users. RDF Logic Mailing List http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-logic/ Provides a forum for technical discussion concerning the design of logic-based languages for use on the Web. RDF Resources http://www-db.stanford.edu/~melnik/rdf/ Links to various documentation of RDF sources. RDF-DEV : A Site for RDF Developers http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/discovery/rdf-dev/ Resources database containing links to guides, papers, tools, and standards in addition to the archives of the (now closed) RDF-DEV mailing list. Resource Description Framework http://www.w3.org/RDF/ Official pages from the World Wide Web Consortium, includes the specification, resources and news, and a links collection. SchemaWeb http://www.schemaweb.info/ Repository for RDF schemas expressed in the RDFS, OWL, and DAML+OIL schema languages. Posted in General | Edit | 1 Comment » December 31st, 1969 elcome to WordPress. This is the first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging! 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*Saved the best for last, no peeking! This post took me about 7 hours to complete, so enjoy!* Make 2.4GHz parabolic mesh dishes from cheap but sturdy Chinese cookware scoops & a USB WiFi adaptor! The largest (300mm diam)shows 15-18dB gain (enough for a LOS range extension to 3-5km), costs ~US$5 & comes with a user friendly bamboo handle that suits WLAN fieldwork- if you can handle the curious stares! Wow I have a wok!! "If you ever aspired to be the next Jerry Seinfeld instead of the next American Idol. Maybe the product featured by Wired is just right for you. Joke-e-oke, basically a karaoke with stand-up comedy material. Joke-e-oke is a laptop rigged to a video projector allows you to choose from a list of stand-up comedy icons to perform. A built in laugh track is added, timed perfectly to accent punch lines. 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Pentium M to Pentium 4 adapter by Asus, reviewed by Anandtech Mithun's house takes energy from the sun and uses spinach protein to generate electricity for neighbouring homes and street lighting infrastructure. Microsoft Corp, the world's largest software maker, signed an agreement allowing its biggest mobile phone software rival, Symbian Ltd, to deliver e-mail stored with Microsoft's Exchange program to customers' phones.  And you thought you were a huge fan of Halo! VERY SEKSI! Yahoo said Thursday it will spend $3 billion over the next five years buying back its stock. Toshiba America's Digital Solutions Division (TAIS DSD) announced Thursday it is offering a total IP telephony solution consisting of its new Toshiba Strata CIX pure IP telephony system along with networking, security, and wireless products and services from Peak Technologies, SMC Networks, and SonicWALL. Pretend-pets from the Web are headed for the big screen. Neopets! I remember playing this when I was a little kid, don't you? "Google OS by 2010? Wishful thinking? Yes, but let's consider the possibilities. The last couple years have seen significant advances in hardware production and design. One of the more interesting (and potentially revolutionary) developments to take place this past year is the announcement of a new CPU, the STI (Sony, Toshiba, IBM) Cell processor." osnews  Photoshop work? Nope. It is a transparent LCD The music industry argued that owners of the Kazaa file-sharing software must be liable for millions in lost sales because their program is like putting a photocopier in a library where it clearly will be used for piracy. Political bloggers and other online commentators narrowly avoided being slammed with a sweeping set of Internet regulations this week.  Veejay is a great software to do video mixing/editing, with great real time video effects that would put Hendix to trip like never before. Best of all, it is open source! 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Try hitting the snooze bar again now!" -Slashdot How to guide for transferring personal movies from your computer to the PSP. Also DVDs The European Union (EU) can now make a name for itself on the Internet, following this week's approval to include .eu as a country code top-level domain (ccTLD). "The Local reports that a 27-year old man who allowed people to download a film from his PC has become the first Swede to be charged with illegal file sharing, after a tip-off from the country's notorious Anti-Piracy Bureau. It's a critical test case, as prosecutors say that anything less than a prison sentence would make future prosecutions unlikely." From the article: "The case was brought after a tip off from Antipiratbyrån (APB), a lobby organization set up by the media industry to combat illegal downloading in Sweden. 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The new service, which is being tested by more than 25,000 users, most of them from the group which previewed ver. 5 of Windows Update last year prior to the release of Windows XP SP2, has been delayed several times, and now should debut mid-year. Blue Vertigo is an excellent site to have in your bookmarks. It boasts a huge collection of design resources. Including vector logotypes, stock photography, fonts, brushes, sounds and more!  Throught that spending $60-70 for monster cable was too much, then this isn't for you. Crystal Cable. Here is a ultra-thin silver cable encased in a translucent outer Teflon jacket. No more huge bulky cables. But the Price WOW. $400 for a iPod connection cable. Brad Fuller put together a tutorial on how to turn your old PC into an internet-enabled jukebox using Linux. Knoppix MusicBrainz analyzes your digital music collection and fills in missing artist and song title information for your MP3’s and CD’s. 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While not a new topic on Slashdot, it's great to see musicians speaking out about the value of p2p as an alternative channel for reaching audiences. Choice quote from Veiga's article, on what it's like to pass muster before a mainstream media company: "For Sananda Maitreya... online music distribution gives him the freedom he says he lacked when he was signed with a major label in the 1980s under his former name, Terence Trent D'Arby. Back then, Maitreya recalled, committees had to sign off on any music released. 'The Beatles could not have faced that criteria and come up with anything other than the most mediocre, conservative music,' said Maitreya."" -Slashdot  Top 25 Innovations in 25 years, #1 The internet.  From the deepest darkest reaches of space it came – prepared to unleash its dark power on unsuspecting desktops the world over. Introducing Alienware Darkstar, our most dangerous and mind-blowing experiment to date. Sweet but we can already skin Windows. 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Blogs in Action and a nasty case of speed mingling Just sitting on the train home after a great day up in London, which was capped off by the Six Apart-arranged Blogs in Action seminar featuring short presentations from Tom Coates from the BBC but talking about his own experiences of blogging, Neil McIntosh from Guardian Unlimited, Dominique Busso from VNUNet Europe, John Dale from Warwick University, and Charlie Schick from Nokia LifeBlogs, with a coda from lawyer David Carr about libel. Funny, although I've been reading Tom for ages and keep bumping into him at various dinners and events, this was the first time I've seen him speak. I always had the suspicion he was a good speaker, and he did a great job this evening having been suddenly oiked up from attendee to speaker and having only ten minutes to prepare. I like the points that he made about how we need to stop talking about blogs in terms of what came before and start talking about blogs as blogs, as they are now. His personal blogging experience life-cycle I found interesting, having had parallel experiences. Also curious about how he defines a lot of traffic as being 'over 1000 people a day'. I guess that puts Chocolate and Vodka firmly in the 'lots of traffic' bracket, which is a surprise to me. Hm. I see a blog post coming on about that. Neil McIntosh was very interesting, although to some extent I felt that I was cheating a bit because he and I have spoken about his experiences putting together the Observer blog, and the Guardian Unlimited blogs that came before it so I had the background already. The most important point that he made was that the Guardian/Observer blogs are not about bringing traffic to the website nor are they about marketing, or trying to somehow bolster sales of the paper. He see them instead as a foray into new territory: "We see it as editorial innovation, a place where we are learning a new form of journalism." Yet again, I have to say that Neil really gets blogging in a way that most journalists do not (and there are plenty that think they do). Final highlight (is three out of five too many for 'highlights'?) was John Dale who gave a fascinating account of implementing blogs at Warwick University, not just for academics but for all students and workers. Creating their own blogging platform gave them a degree of flexibility and integration with existing systems that they could not have had from a commercial solution, and it took them only nine months to go from concept to full launch. The blogs have been very successful, the surprise being that students' blogs aren't all bacchanal debauchery but have included some intensely personal writing and some well reasoned commentary. Unfortunately, the seminar overran a little, leaving me with only 40 mins in which to talk to the people I wanted to talk to. The only way I could get round to say hi to everyone was to embark on a bit of slightly manic speed mingling - like speed dating but without the promise of a snog at the end of it - with conversations along the line of 'Hi! Drink? Next week? Good!' before diving off into the far distance to accost some other poor innocent soul. So sorry if you suffered my whirlwind hello-goodbye. I did catch my train, though, so it all came good in the end. Anyway, I had my demon typing hands with me, as usual, and I managed to capture these semi-verbatim notes, EAOE: Introduction by Alistair Shrimpton Tom Coates I'm the warm up act, everyone else is from business, and although I do work I'm not here in that capacity. Just to distract you, I am going to talk about the horseless carriage. In the middle ages people walked or rode horses. Some used carts, and later the carts got suspension and got more popular because they were kinder to your bum. Then steam-based appliances arrived - horseless carriages, and derivatives of this product line are still here. Lots of histories of blogs talk about technologies. Some say the very first site on the web at all, by Tim Berners-Lee, was a blog. All of those early people were pointing to other pages on the web, but they also realised the personal aspects. Dave Winer talks about humans, camaraderie, community, and I think he was right. Photographers created the arty side of the net. Early experiments in self-representation online. Not particularly social, but communicative in that they stand up and talk about themselves. After Sept 11, an entirely different group of people used blogs for punditry. More recently, people have been commercialising weblogs, e.g. Gawker. Group blogs like BoingBoing making a decent amount of money. All those uses of blogs, you can see why people have different understandings of what blogs are. Diaries, linklogs, personal home sites, etc. Multifarious use set. This is the history of PlasticBag.org, and my blogging experience: Started talking about blogging, then talked about friends, but was anonymous so could say what I like. But then my friends found it. Shit. Then had an apocalyptic relationship and blogged that in secret. Then felt like there was no privacy so stopped. Then there was writing about stuff I was interested in and got into new conversations with different people. Now it's a mixture of personal stuff and ludicrously complicated stuff about social software. Been doing it for 5.5 years, and at times it's been boring, but mostly tremendously rewarding. Has come to conclusions: Weblogs are fast, rapid to write, so are informal. I speak in long archaic rambling sentences, hence my site is unreadable. An individual writes about things that they are interested in, but people are not good at staying on topic. The only thing that people can write about at the time are the things they are doing at the time - the common thread is the person themselves. The only ways to stay on topic are if you're being paid or in a group so they can kick you in the head. Blogs are social, they are conversational. It's not fun if you are writing into a vacuum, but they run down existing social groups. If you start a blog then your friends might start a blog too. On messageboards, loads of people lurk. Bloggers think that they can be anonymous when they start, but then they tell some friends and they're not anonymous anymore. All comes down to one core statement: A weblog is a representation of a person. An extension. Like a suit you wear when you engage with someone. You interact with people in the space by wearing the blog as an outfit. Comes down to the fact that the tone of voice is personal, an individual wants to be part of a community, which will increasingly the same as offline, and they care about what they care about and not other things. What you do with blogs. If you want to use blogs for what they're most naturally useful for, if you're trying to exploit what makes them brilliant, keep the individual at the heart of it. Knowledge management, or community building, or publishing Wonkette style, keep the individual at the core, be conversational. Even Fleshbot has an editorial tone, not that I've ever been, and neither have you, and nor should you. But a blog is a representation of you as an individual. Diary, linklog, journalism - all about individuals doing what they want to do. Personal publishing is about an individual, that's at the core of it. These statements are like saying that a car is a horseless carriage. We don't call them that anymore, we don't think of things anymore in terms of what came before, we think that we can define a car without talking about the origins. I think we can do that now. I think we can call a blog a blog. Q: What about blogs with no voice? |