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I try not to give too much love to any one single website, but this is too good to resist. Smashing Magazine have a great article listing some of the best retro and DOS games which are now available on-line, some as downloads, some online. As far as I can tell, all the games are legitimate, but use your own
The latest version of the Ubuntu Linux distribution, 10.10 will be released tomorrow (if all goes to plan). Otherwise known as the Maverick Meerkat, this release focuses on improving the desktop experience and stability rather than radically updating it. As usual, the kernel has been updated along with the Gnome desktop and there has been one change to the default
Smashing Magazine is a website aimed squarely at graphic and web-site designers but there's some great resources there for all geeks. First up, is a series of absolutely gorgeous desktop backgrounds for each month of the year. October's were released at the beginning of the month (unsurprisingly) and they've taken them a step further with the inclusion of a calendar
If you haven't seen how small Shuttle's XS35 series of ultra small PCs are, then you need to look more closely at the picture on the left. The PC is the unit stuck to the back of the monitor. The XS3510M is now available with a Blu-ray player making this a full hi-def media device. Powered by Intel's dual-core Atom
Over at How It Works there's a short story about a father and his two children sending up a weather balloon to 19 miles with a video camera on-board. The camera records all of the ascent and all but 2 minutes of the descent - the battery runs out! It takes the Geissbuhler family eight months of planning and it's
In "Blade Runner Revisited", François Vautier has produced an experimental homage to "Blade Runner", Ridley Scott's sci-fi noir classic. In creating the film, François ripped 167,819 frames from the "Final Cut" version and digitally pasted them together, making a single image roughly 60,000 pixels square. In digital camera terms, it's 3.6 gigapixels. Much of the film involves floating above this
UK-based mobile telco, Three, today announced a new pay-per-day mobile data option. For only £2 ($3), you get a day's worth of internet access with a limit of 500MB. There's no monthly commitment. Three’s Director of Mobile Broadband, Joe Parker, said: “Three’s Pay Per Day deal is the ideal proposition for business travellers, iPad owners and students who have a