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Playing games without the original CD/DVD may very well be the ultimate dream for all the gamers out there, forced to insert the disc each time they play their favorite games. Some have found a solution in using programs like Daemon Tools, that emulate the original media, but shouldn't there be an easier way so ... |
16 August 2008
11:16 GMT |
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Online storage is news long expired, but I bet that if I throw in "free" and "5GB of space" chances are that interest will rise. Let's do that. So we have 5GB of free online storage. If that's still trivial and you think of Gmail's capacity which is continuously growing, ponder some more on the amount ... |
28 July 2008
11:30 GMT |
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LEGO has recently announced the fact that it will develop a MMO based on the different brick universes it has already developed. Now, further details are emerging of the way LEGO is envisioning its involvement with games, the Internet and fans.LEGO has had an online presence since 1996 and its site hosts a large numb... |
4 March 2008
03:10 GMT |
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The Sims is one of those games that redefined the industry and the expectations of the players. The "people simulator", as it was often dubbed, and its plethora of expansions have brought casual and people oriented gaming to millions of players. Anyone can take a character, mold it to suit their view of a perfect hum... |
27 February 2008
04:27 GMT |
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Virtual Reality allows us to enter into unseen worlds, created by computers, and even to influence this unreal world. VR goes from war games to the training of surgeons or pilots. It can be applied for supervising aerial traffic, in medicine, an agreement parks, in industries and administrative domains. On the other ... |
24 January 2008
17:06 GMT |
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The extent to which Second Life has reached the online community looks troubling to me, and if I were to be in charge of anything at all related to it, I would most likely shut the whole project down. You know, the usual "why go to work with your avatar and do what you do in the real life anyway" kind of issue that y... |
9 January 2008
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The slightest error during a surgery can kill a patient or induce severe effects. But what if the surgeon would undo the error and try again? By now only in science fiction movies you have seen this happen, but in the future it could turn real. Practicing on your "digital double", a perfect virtual copy of you, a sur... |
27 November 2007
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Vodafone has just launched a beta version of a mobile operation in the online game Second Life that is supposed to allow people to call other Second Life avatars and connect the call to mobile phones in the physical world.The Second Life phenomenon proved to be an impressive one right from the beginning, when its pro... |
5 October 2007
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Virtual machines and working environments are becoming increasingly popular nowadays as they allow large companies and enterprises to consolidate their computer hardware base and better manage their informational infrastructure. As there are a huge number of computer systems capable of supporting a virtual working en... |
1 October 2007
09:19 GMT |
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Many companies are striving to get the best out of their networks and to stay secure as well. A few years ago, the idea of virtualization popped up. Virtual machines are pretty efficient and in some cases more secure than the normal ones, but they have their vulnerabilities as well. Virtualization is not a process wi... |
24 September 2007
03:39 GMT |
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Researchers are no geeks. They know that the human mind is haunted by sex. By combining sex and technology, they got the most 'science fiction' variants of having sex. Some current gadgets may be a hint for the way we will have sex in the future. For example, the iBuzz is a sex toy combining an I-pod with a... |
8 September 2007
06:26 GMT |
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The Chinese authorities took a decision that might change the browsing experience of the local users because they will be continuously monitored by two virtual cops included in 13 major portals. The two police officers, a man and a woman, will appear every 30 minutes when the users visit the portal, informing them th... |
29 August 2007
05:20 GMT |
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As everyone knows, computers make our work easier these days. It's a heck of a lot easier to just search for some person inside a computerized database than to search for some paper files on a desk or in piles of folders. Bureaucracy is going down fast with new technologies appearing every day.And now, something... |
20 August 2007
03:51 GMT |
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A Korean based company named Cellulon is specializing in computer peripheral innovations and their latest product is a keyboard like no other. Forget big keyboards, slim keyboards, forget just about everything about classical keyboards and welcome the laser based optical and virtual keyboard.The virtual keyboard from... |
17 August 2007
09:45 GMT |
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I remember my first human figure drawings used to be a disaster. Whenever I started my drawing with the head, there was not enough paper to draw the feet and again, if I drew the feet first and then the head, I always needed extra paper to finish. Only after a lot of wasted crayons and paper I started to realize tha... |
31 July 2007
12:19 GMT |
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It looks like the battle between Google Earth and Microsoft's Virtual Earth might have a winner because the Redmond company's solution was chosen by Maporama as a partner in the detriment of the search giant. Maporama, a company that offers geolocalization and navigation services, was looking for a new solu... |
29 June 2007
09:38 GMT |
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Everyone who watched the Matrix trilogy was at least impressed by the complex virtual reality developed by sentient robots, if not by the many philosophical elements. The concept of artificial intelligence overthrowing or enslaving mankind had previously been touched on by hundreds of science fiction stories, but th... |
25 June 2007
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A company is developing a new virtual fence that would give livestock the impression of being in an unlimited space, while protecting the environment by removing the need for real fences and reducing the labor.Building a fence might not seem such a big deal, but the process may take some time, requiring man power and... |
15 June 2007
09:45 GMT |
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What is eyeOS? Imagine that you can have a virtual computer with all your important files and all you have to do to access it, is to open a web browser and log-in into your desktop, that it's exactly how you left it when you used it from another computer. This is eyeOS! A free, cross-platform Personal Content M... |
4 June 2007
09:46 GMT |
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You like fishing but you can't get out of town right now. You don't have the time or the money to go fishing in a remote area but you would like to spend a few quiet hours in nature, feeling the breeze and the water?No problem. If you can't get to a mountain river to catch some trout or salmon or to pr... |
22 May 2007
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Do you feel like visiting ancient Roman vestiges or the Egyptian pyramids? Or maybe you already have, but the thousand-year-old remnants failed to impress you like the originals would have?The experience of walking through the original Roman Colosseum or the Egyptian pyramids is unfortunately not available in real l... |
16 May 2007
10:47 GMT |
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Slightly more (ahem) mature readers may remember the vast number of DOS shell programs that used to be available. One of these was EasyDOS, very similar to Quikmenu. EasyDOS is still going strong in the days of Windows ubiquity, and is now known as EasyDesktop.As any power user will know, the installation of a large ... |
18 April 2007
11:56 GMT |
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Sci-Fi fans are used to seeing virtual avatars that talk to you, answer your questions, and even do something more...physical. Remember the virtual doctor from "Star Trek - Voyager", or "Andromeda", or "Stargate Atlantis" with its very realistic virtual archive that turned out to be a real Ancient?Those of you for w... |
6 April 2007
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The entire idea that stands behind a multicore processor is that it "might" help you do more things at the same time, the term also known as multitasking. And for that reason and that reason alone, the industry has shifted its attention towards milking as much as they can out of the fat cow of progress. In the pursui... |
3 April 2007
04:26 GMT |
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The synthetic world known as Second Life is more than a game, it has things that are not of this world, including floating launch pads, mini-planets, space shuttles and an international space station. More is on the way: environments that look and feel like the moon, for instance, or simulated lava tubes that could ... |
31 March 2007
05:04 GMT |
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