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 [....]

When I started to get more into what I do, which is of course programming, I started to fear one thing that every developer had experience with… code organization failures. You developers know exactly what that means — the failure to keep your code in an organized fashion. We all had our days [....]

If you can remember a while back in late September of last year, we reviewed one of the best task managers on the Mac, OmniFocus. It ever so happens that they make one of the best diagramming applications on the Mac also, OmniGraffle. When Packt Publishing shot me an e-mail about reviewing one [....]

We gave you a short preview of this upcoming review, and now, we’re ready for the full review of Cocos2d for iPhone 0.99 Beginner’s Guide! If you may not know, Cocos2d is a highly looked upon iOS/Mac game development framework. In fact, I used it to develop my first game on iOS. It’s extremely easy [....]

If you don’t know, nearly a year ago I switched over to the Mac for one main reason — iOS development. Forward seven months after the day I switched to the Mac, Alienz (yup, shameless plug) was released. It was hard learning game development on iOS; I’ve never publicly released any game before [....]

Design These headphones show off a normal black design that you would find on any other $20 headphones. You will notice that the ear cushions are made of foam and they don’t go around your ear. Instead, they sit over the opening of your ear, meaning that these cannot possibly be noise [....]

As we’re approaching the holiday season, more and more people are going out to the stores to buy the perfect (and rather last minute) gift for their friends and family. We’re seeing practically everyone owning some kind of MP3 player and with that, the stock earphones typically stink so bad, that you want [....]

Recently I did a review of the Macally KICKSTAND case for the iPhone 4, well now we have the CASESTANDT4. These cases are meant for the same audience, the media-phile or those who would find it convenient to have some sort of stand for easier media viewing. From the front of the case all you [....]

As the case flood starts for one of Apple’s newest devices starts the amount of options you have, as well as the average consumers confusion, sky rockets. So if you want a basic case that is going to keep your iPod touch 4th generation safe and secure for a great price the Griffin [....]

The Macally KICKSTAND for iPhone 4 is a very simple case that is going to provide the great functionality of a stand, for watching videos on your device, as well as the protection needed in a protective case! This case comes a microfiber cloth the is able to stick the the back of the case, so [....]