Google has released a new feature for GMail called Priority Inbox Beta. It works by analyzing your email and filtering it out what it thinks are the important messages and giving you easier and quicker access to those. It does this by seeing which emails you read, and which ones it applies to. So, it’s customized for each individual user. …
Tim Golen
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Seems like CCP has been busy… seems like they also have too much money on their hands. What happens when you have a company run, built, and dreamed of by gamers? Apparently you get CCP. Their persistent world MMO EVE Online has been a classic. Something all other MMOs should strive to be. Now they are branching out. They have …
So, I came across this MMO yesterday called Allods Online. I was very very skeptical. I’ve been looking for a good MMO to get into lately and the barriers have either been high-barriers to entry (EVE Online), you have to pay for it (just about any MMO out there), or bad graphics and childish gameplay (WoW). I was first impressed …
I happen to be a user of both WPTouch (a plugin that makes my blog mobile friendly) and Webcomic (a plugin and theme that allows you to organize comic series). The problem lies in that webcomic uses a custom post type for displaying the images associated with each comic and WPTouch has no idea how to display a webcomic. Thus, …
I’m going to try and nip this one in the bud. For those of you who don’t know what Facebook Places is you can read about it here. It is a new service by Facebook that allows you to “check in” at a location to let other people know where you’re at and who you’re with. I saw someone with …
I’ve been on Facebook for a long time. I have seen people do some pretty dumb things when it comes to protecting themselves, their identity, and the identities of their friends and loved ones. One of the biggest threats on Facebook is to give strangers access to your personal information. A lot of people I know play Facebook games which …
One of the biggest disconnects in video games has been the inability for a 3D model to fully interact with it’s environment. Hair never seems to follow the laws of gravity, hands and arms seem to float right through clothing. I have often been disappointed that no one has stepped forward to solve some of these basic modelling problems. It …