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 [....]

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 [....]

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 [....]

Way back in April of 2010, we published a text review of ScreenFlow v2 as we knew we just had to review one of the best screen recording software for the Mac. Now, a little more than a year after our initial review, Telestream has done it again with their latest ScreenFlow version, version [....]

Today I’m going to be brining you a review of the Chromatics Skin for the iPhone 4 by Phantom Skinz. This case will run you around $29.95 from their website. I have been testing out this Skin for the past month now and I have to say I personally am very pleased with it. It [....]

I have always been a big fan of the look, and only the look, of the Apple in-ear headphones; the sound on the other hand left something to desire and that something is coincidentally the sound. Now, don’t get me wrong, I am not framing the headphones in this review as heaven’s answer to this problem but [....]

Background The DS-90U is one of the main iconic products that made DoubleSight Displays the brand it is today. DoubleSight is known for manufacturing monitors, but when they released their USB Monitor, the market slowly started to take advantage of the new idea. Design The DS-90U’s Black matte finish looks very nice and blends in most [....]

Your paper boys route might of just gotten a little smaller. PressReader for your iOS devices creates a one stop shop for all of your news consumption. I was never a big fan of news papers, probably because I could never figure out how to get them to not fall apart and bend when I was reading an article [....]

Even though you may not realize it, every single website you visit  has an HTTP server to it. There are many HTTP servers out there, even some based upon open source projects, but the majors ones are mainly Apache (most websites use Apache), Microsoft’s IIS (blah!), Nginx, and lighttpd. Nginx has been getting quite [....]

Over the years I and almost every other computer user have “collected” gigabyte upon gigabyte of family photos, music, and other documents that if they are lost, for the most part there is no way to get them back. Some people have resorted to burning these photos onto DVDs or saving them on flash memory. These [....]

The HD2 may be a year old, but it’s still an impressive, head-turning piece of hardware with specs that would have put my old desktop computer to shame. Despite its giant screen size, it is amazingly thin, light, and pocketable, and feels like a premium product in every way imaginable. I purchased it [....]

As the Linux operating system has been getting more and more popular, many system administrators want to learn Linux shell scripting for a larger feature set. The Linux terminal is a powerful feature; combining that with shell scripting, you can really unlock some of the neglected features of any Linux operating system. Shell scripting [....]

Every developer knows creating 3D games from scratch isn’t easy.  However, when you use a 3D library, your life becomes quite a bit easier. OGRE 3D is one of those popular 3D open source libraries. Because Packt Publishing has been really gearing on the 3D side of things lately, they released a beginner’s guide on OGRE [....]

Blender has been getting great attention for quite sometime now. As more and more features are added into this wonderful 3D program, 3D designers are really noticing Blender’s features. One of Blender’s most notable features would be how it handles materials and textures. It’s for sure not modo 501, but it can do some pretty [....]