Remember Space Invaders?

Stumbled upon this Q&A from USA Today with the creator of the original Space Invaders video game. I found it interesting that despite all the new technology available he finds game developers at the moment are going through a tough time due to the over saturation of games available as most video game themes have already been covered in the past.
He also states that the focus on unique concepts has waned with the evolution of technology, which I have to agree with. I remember when I was younger gaining much more enjoyment out of simple Atari games than I do now with the majority of games I play. In fact I tend to only ever play sports themed games now as the novelty has long worn off with shoot em up games.

Module 4

Copernic



I was already extremely familiar with the majority of programs on the list, in particular all the Media Players, which I have had on my PC for quite a long time. At the moment I only ever use Windows Media Player as my main media player and Quicktime for all my iPod music and video needs.

One program that was not on that list is VLC Media Player, which is a free, very basic media player that supports a wide wide range of video formats and codecs so is a great all round application.



I decided to download Copernic Desktop Search as I had not seen or heard of it before and it seemed like it may be somewhat useful to me and....it's pretty decent but I seem to not have configured it properly as I typed in a few queries knowing I had files in my hard drive that matched, but only a few of them showed up on the results section.



It really slowed down my Internet Explorer and Vista quite a fair bit and it annoyingly kept asking me if I wanted it as the default search browser even after I ticked the box saying "NO" repeatedly so all in all, not something I will be using too often as it seems to be more annoying than helpful at this stage. Maybe once I spend a bit more time configuring it then it may pay off.

Web 2.0

Comparing the Internet Communications FURL site to an HTML was quite contrasting. The furl site was much more vibrant and colourful, as the html site merely consisted of a simple list with links to relevant course work while the FURL site is much more graphic intensive, interactive and not as linear in its content.
I guess HTML would be good for simple, straight forward content/lists that do not require much explanation and user interactivity, as all you can really do is read and click on the links.
The FURL site was much more user interactive, allowing you to see what other users were active at the time, what sites/articles they had visited the rankings the links had attained. It definitely has a much more community feel to it along the same lines as Facebook and other social networks, as opposed to just a list with articles on it.

Facebook Porn Cops

Interesting article from Newsweek on the people in charge of monitoring what is and what isn't considered appropriate content on Facebook.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/195621

to iphone or not to iphone?

Been thinking about getting a new phone as my current one is acting up, was thinking about an iphone but to be honest not all that happy with what the current model has to offer. Sure its great,has decent storage capacity and I have an Ipod Touch so I'm familiar with its interface and love it but can't help but think if I hold out a bit longer I can get the new version of it. It's bound to come out soon, and I find the 2 Megapixel camera on the current model is waaaaaaaaay too outdated. I just can't justify shelling out almost $1000 bucks for something with a camera that has the same resolution as my current crappy $200 Ericksson.

Blogs! What are they good for? ABSOLUTELY anything

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Validation time...COME ON!!....Let's validate.

Ok, wow, I knew it wasn't going to be all peachy creamy but yikes.... fifteen problems with my site. I was going to paste it all into here but then my post would be three pages long, breaking one of the cardinal sins of the previous 5 rules. Most of the problems seemed to be little issues with coding that didn't have an effect on the actual functionality of the website so I'll put it down as beginner's errors.

With regards to copyright laws, then yes, I would definitely say my website infringes upon a couple of those as I have an unathorised image of Michael Jordan on my site that both him and FLEER trading cards would have an issue with. Unless they're really cool, in which case, I'm golden.