Software – Page 6

Live Android for x86

July 15, 2009 Doug Groves Android, google2 Comments

Curious to give Android a whirl, but nobody’s ported it for your smart phone yet? That’s what Live Android is about… Want to give Google Android a try, but don’t feel like buying a T-Mobile G1? LiveAndroid lets you download a LiveCD disc image of the Google Android operating system. Just burn the image to a disc, stick it in a CD-ROM drive, and reboot your computer and you can check out Android without installing it or affecting any files on your PC. You can also use the disc image…

Google’s Chrome OS Coming In 2010

July 8, 2009July 8, 2009 Doug Groves chrome os, google1 Comment

Google is planning on launching it’s Chrome OS, an extension of it’s Chrome browser, by mid 2010, and plans on ushering in an era of “speed, simplicity and security” for netbook computers. Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks. Later this year we will open-source its code, and netbooks running Google Chrome OS will be available for consumers in the second half of 2010. Because we’re already talking to partners about the project, and we’ll soon be working with the…

Apple’s WWDC 2009 keynote: What, they sell more than iPhones?

June 8, 2009July 25, 2009 Danny X Apple10 Comments

UPDATE JUNE 9: At the bottom of this article I mention that the Tethering feature will likely be a major money pit for those of us on Rogers. However, I just received this tweet from Keith McArthur, the Rogers PR rep who’s working on the 3GS launch. Here’s what he says: keithmcarthur@RebelScum Tethering is included free in data plans over 1GB or more until at least the end of the year. So there’s some good news at least. I recommend getting in touch with Mr. McArthur directly if you have…

Cydia Apps for a Time Walker’s Phone II

May 5, 2009May 6, 2009 Paul L 6 Comments

This iPhone screenshot is from an episode of a TV show called Flashpoint, which I discovered on my hard drive, and with which I discovered that the most common video container in the world (anything ending in .AVI), is unplayable on this ‘iPhone’ handset! It took a little bit of screwing with to get right, but there is an MPlayer app on Cydia you can use to watch this forbidden format. With a few skips and jumps, and provided you don’t sic it on anything too hi-rez, it works. But…

Windows 7 RC released to public

May 5, 2009May 5, 2009 Doug Groves Windows5 Comments

Though it actually sneaked out the door a day early, the latest version of Microsoft Windows 7 has officially been released to the public. Just like the earlier beta, this is the ‘Ultimate’ edition of the OS, so it comes with all the bells and whistles, including Media Center. An XP compatibility mode which will allow legacy applications to run in a virtualized XP space, concurrently with Vista & Windows 7 applications, is also available as an addon, which should help assuage some of the fears of enterprise users as…

iPhone Jailbreak, Start-to-Finish

April 29, 2009April 30, 2009 Paul L 3 Comments

It appears that I promised a full iPhone jailbreak guide in an earlier rgbFilter post. I have since lost any memory of doing it. Fortunately, I actually wrote out all the steps before my latest schism, and have since recovered them for you from my lifestream. Here is the entire rest of the series. Make sure you reread the caveats in that first post!… QuickPwn 2.2.5 identifies which iPhone model to jailbreak…

Vue 7 Pioneer: Free Download

March 27, 2009July 25, 2009 Doug Groves landscape, vue1 Comment

Cornucopia 3D recently announced an update to the venerable 3D landscape software Vue, which creates everything from stunningly realistic to downright cartoony and cool worlds to plant your stories in. Beyond the commercial software, they also make Vue 7 Pioneer available for free for non-commercial use. The renders are watermarked, but what makes Pioneer interesting is that you don’t have to pay for the full program to get rid of them. Pioneer has a series of modules which you can add to the basic software which can remove the watermarks…

MIT sees dead people. Well, not really.

March 18, 2009March 18, 2009 Danny X 0 comment

At last month’s annual TED conference, MIT’s Pattie Maes demoed what she called the new 6th Sense, which took the form of a wearable piece of tech that was able to translate your gestures and behaviour into functional and useable data. The uses for such a device are enormous, as you’ll see in the video, but the most fascinating part is that this is not simply theory but practical fact. At a cost of $350 “cobbled together” with “off the shelf parts” at an MIT lab, the device is not…

Newtek Announces Lightwave CORE

February 6, 2009April 17, 2009 Doug Groves core, Lightwave, newtek4 Comments

Newtek, makers of the venerable Lightwave, have announced a radical change to their 3D animation package, in the form of Lightwave CORE. CORE is a complete re-write from the ground up, with a completely open SDK, with 3rd party developers using the same software tools as the programmers themselves. One of the potential advantages is transparent interaction between the various physics solutions, which should obviate the need for workarounds that have been the bane of at least one Lightwaver I know. The first advance build should be out by the…

YouTube for Television released for PS3 and Wii, sort of

January 30, 2009March 12, 2009 Danny X PS3, streaming, Wii, YouTube9 Comments

If you’re like me, the only exercise you often get on a Saturday afternoon is when you take a break from playing video games to walk into the next room where your computer lives and check out some videos on the Interwebz. Now, if you have either a PS3 or a Wii, YouTube has effectively robbed you of that 15 seconds of pure raw cardio by quietly offering up Youtube for Television, currently in Beta and advertised as only available for the aforementioned systems. Technically, the phrase “only available for…

Dudes, here’s your Windows 7 beta on the Mac guide. Plus, Plain Sight.

January 24, 2009July 9, 2009 Paul L Windows9 Comments

I can’t actually vouch for this tutorial (courtesy of TUAW). Maybe RebelScum or King-Pin can pop in and evaluate it, since as we discussed while cable-sorting at our recent group tidy-up of the increasingly Gigeresque floor of the podcast studio, I don’t intend to get into Windows 7 until I am forced. Hell, I would still be installing Windows 98, if XP weren’t required for the whole concept of me trying out PC games. A concept sadly, heretofore unexecuted, mostly due to lack of drive space on my Windows partition…