My wife and I bought the Aion collector’s edition and managed to get in to head-start before the main horde of players joined in later on in the week. It’s a great game so far, I must say. The attention to detail is very nice and the fights feel fast paced and dynamic. continue reading…
I’ve been pulling my hair out for the last hour, while trying to copy files from my iMac to my Macbook Pro across my network. continue reading…
Occasionally I need to edit system files that belong to root and I found that it can be quite annoying as I always end up using nano in the terminal as it doesn’t seem possible to elevate the privileges of an application from Finder. For example if I wanted to edit my /etc/hosts file then usually I’d have to drop to a shell and type:
sudo nano /etc/hosts
The problem with that is that I have a nice looking graphical operating system here and although I love the fact that it uses unix under the bonnet, I really much prefer to edit my files in TextEdit rather than a console based application like nano. continue reading…
I just came across the Optimus Maximus keyboard today. I don’t know how I managed to miss such a cool gadget. I don’t usually rave about keyboards but this thing is insane!
Each key has a 48×48 pixel 65,536 OLED display, meaning the keyboard can be made to display any letter or image on any key! continue reading…
I recently purchased Torque 2D for the iPhone and came across a large memory leak in their iTGB 1.2 release whenever I ran the game on my iPhone 3G. I had a very basic platform game running with no engine modifications to the source code at all. The game would run for about 4 minutes before running out of memory and exiting. continue reading…