Tag Archives: Electronic Geek
Gadget Lust and How to Control it
I, like many many other geeks, suffer from an affliction called gadget lust. Every new, shiny, blinky gadget that comes down the pike and replaces the previous shiny, blinky gadget must be had. I suppose it’s a subset of the general capitalist disease, but it’s a particularly virulent (and expensive) strain. And it’s not something […] Continue reading
Quick! Get Yourself the Indie Love Bundle
I’m a big fan of “casual games,” the sort of thing that’s often played in a web browser; point-and-click puzzles, side-scrollers with some sort of twist, beautiful abstractions with lovely sounds. I stumbled across the Indie Love Bundle, a collection of six fantastic independent games (all of which have won some sort of award or […] Continue reading
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Tagged And Yet It Moves, Auditorium, Aztaka, computer games, Electronic Geek, Eufloria, independent games, Machinarium, Osmos, Toys and Technology
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The Wii Laptop Brings Portable Wireless Gaming
This is definitely the most impressive and good fun modification/hack I have seen in quite some time. Not being at all up to speed with a soldering iron, I respect those of you who engage in this type of activity.
I await a video that shows some actual game play. But, think of the possibilities – […] Continue reading
A Brief History of Pretty Much Everything
You know that feeling when you see something that somebody much younger than you has done, that blows you away with its creativity and execution, and you realize that you couldn’t make something that awesome now, let alone when you were that age? That feeling, gentle reader, is called “humility,” and, if you’re at all […] Continue reading
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Tagged animation, Electronic Geek, History, Science and Education, stop-motion, Video
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Cogs Will Spin Your Gears
I’ve always loved sliding tile puzzles, from the simple number kind to distant relatives such as the Rush Hour Traffic Jam puzzles. There’s just something appealing about putting things back in order with only the one open square to work with. Cogs adds a new dimension to the idea.
Created by Lazy 8 Studios, Cogs was […] Continue reading
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Tagged Electronic Geek, iPhone Apps, review, sliding puzzles, Steampunk, Toys and Technology, Videogames
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February 10, 1996: The Machines’ Takeover Begins
Today marks the anniversary of a watershed moment in human history. In Philadelphia, the IBM computer named Deep Blue became, on February 10, 1996, the first machine to beat a reigning chess world champion, Garry Kasparov.
While nobody could have known at the time, this was the moment when machines truly began their conquest of Earth. […] Continue reading
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Tagged Chess, Computers, deep blue, Electronic Geek
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Happy Birthday Photoshop – The Prodigious Pixel Pushing Program Turns Twenty
It was twenty years ago this month, that the first version of Photoshop was released. At the time its toolset was pretty limited and the application wasn’t capable of much. A second version, featuring paths followed later in the year, but it wasn’t until 1994 that version 3 with a new feature called “layers” that […] Continue reading
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Tagged Adobe Photoshop, Electronic Geek, Graphics, Image editing, Pixel, Plugins
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Welcome the Chinese New Year with Kai-Lan on the DS
Next Sunday is a holiday of wonder and celebration. No, not Valentine’s Day! It’s the first day of the Chinese New Year. (2010: Year of the Tiger!) Perhaps the most important holiday in Chinese culture, the New Year is an opportunity to celebrate, exchange gifts, and reconnect with family and friends.
The […] Continue reading
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Tagged chinese new year, Electronic Geek, holidays, Ni Hao Kai-lan, Nintendo DS, videogame
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Perform Engineering Calculations in the Palm of Your Hand
Are you an engineer who wishes they had access to some work-related calculations out in the field? A series of handy new apps may offer what you need. The Formulator Series by MultiEducator, Inc. is a series of iPhone/iPod Touch apps designed and packaged for a variety of engineering and other professionals. Depending on the […] Continue reading
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Tagged Civil engineer, Electronic Geek, Engineering, iPhone Apps, iPod Touch apps, Science and Education
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Slugging It Out: Slug Wars for iPhone
Down in the garden there is a war being fought … slowly. Two armies of slugs face each other across the battlefield, each determined to break into the opponent’s base. Armed with acorn guns and salt shakers, they race—er, trudge—into the fray.
Slug Wars is a new real-time strategy game for the iPhone and iPod touch, […] Continue reading
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