If you can remember back to 2008, Comcast started to enforce a bandwidth cap of 250GBs. At this time, many popular “tech stars” like Chris Pirillo even revolted against the cap. Due to all the video stream we have done these past four years, a 250GB cap is ridiculous for all. Comcast mentioned in [....]
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Wacom has done it again with the new release in their Intuos series, the Wacom Intuos5. Wacom is promising a productivity increase with the new multi-touch surface along with enhanced features; let us see how the new Intuos5 stacks up with the Intuos4 we reviewed sometime back! After having a good chunk of [....]
May 8, 2012 at 9:34 pm Reviews, Software / Hardware
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If you have ever used Photoshop and needed to export certain layers, groups, and slices, you can quickly find out it is the most frustrating process in the design world. Whether you are a developer clipping images out of a Photoshop file to be used in a [....]
April 5, 2012 at 2:55 pm Reviews
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Last week we wrote about the QuickWeb Supa VZ1 VPS, which sported some amazing results for the price. However, like we mentioned before in the review, we wanted to give you the feeling of how fast their SSD VPSes are. I will tell you right from the start, these VPSes are some of [....]
February 18, 2012 at 10:45 pm Reviews
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Finding the perfect VPS (Virtual Private Server) hosting company can always be tough. We reviewed other companies like the Rackspace Cloud before, but to be quite frank, they are very expensive. For most people, we really do not want to disk out $30 a month to spend for a server. Sure, you might be getting [....]
February 11, 2012 at 9:09 pm Reviews
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We have reviewed many Unity books before, however, we never reviewed a full-on Unity book geared to Unity-experienced developers. That’s exactly why Packt Publishing, with the help of Jate Wittayabundit, released Unity 3 Game Development Hotshot. With just a word of warning, Unity 3 Game Development Hotshot is far from a beginners book. You should be [....]
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With all of the hype being generated about SOPA and PIPA, Stop Online Piracy Act and Protect IP Act, there have been a ton of huge outbursts with many of the major companies (both positive and negative). One of the world’s leading internet browsers, Firefox, are about to change the whole debate and flip it [....]
January 17, 2012 at 9:55 pm News
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If you have been in school in the last couple of years, there is most likely a huge chance you have used the popular e-learning CMS program called Moodle. With the help of Packt Publishing, who is notorious from writing about open source projects like Moodle, they have taken it to the next level. With [....]
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Readers would be pleased to know that we have teamed up with Packt Publishing and we are organizing a giveaway for you! Three lucky winners stand a chance to win a copy of our new books on Unity 3D. Keep reading to find out how you can be one of the lucky winner. [....]
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Want to get yourself delved right into the 3D gaming world but never had the knowledge to do so? With Packt Publishing’s recent release, Unity 3.x Game Development by Example Beginner’s Guide by Ryan Creighton, it is a great read if you wish to get started in the Unity world. If you have been following [....]
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Virtualization has been around for quite some time now, but it was slow to get in the consumer market. Sure, we have some “advanced” solutions like VMware ESXi that are mainly for businesses, but consumer virtualization took off much slower compared to the business market, especially on the Mac. Parallels are known for two [....]
October 18, 2011 at 10:30 am Reviews, Software / Hardware
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Coppertino is at it again! First we reviewed their wonderful wallpaper changing utility, Wallpaper Wizard, and we’re back with an entirely new application! Focus, one of the brand new applications from Coppertino. Focus is a photo-oriented application that’s made to do one thing: make your photos look amazing! The entire point of Focus is very simply; all [....]
September 28, 2011 at 5:57 pm Reviews, Software / Hardware
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During Facebook’s F8 speech on September 22 in San Francisco, Mark Zuckerberg unveiled a new Facebook feature, the Timeline. Mark stated that the timeline will basically be a part of all 800 million user’s life scrapbooking their content throughout the day they were born and the current day. Mark also stated what he [....]
September 24, 2011 at 5:03 pm News
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If you haven’t figured it out already, I’m one of the biggest jQuery fans out there. When Packt Publishing gave me the opportunity to review three of their jQuery books, I was more than happy to give a full read of all three books and make one huge jQuery book review. As that was nearly a [....]