Today Amazon introduced its new venture into digital downloads for games. So far the new Game Download store contains 600 ‘casual games’ that can be played without the need for physical media (remember optical media is dying). Titles range in price from $6.99 to $9.99, with older games costing less. Additionally, games can be [...]
Amazon Introduces Game Download Service
By Franklin Davis on Feb 3, 2009 within Coffee Break, Technology, Windows | Comments
Solve Puzzles for Science while Playing a Game : Foldit!
By Franklin Davis on Jul 23, 2008 within Apple, Entertainment, Windows | Comments
Foldit is a new computer game that allows individuals to contribute to protein folding research. Think of it as similar to grid processing approaches like the protein folding project (folding@home) or the search for extraterrestrial life forms (SETI@home). However, rather than using millions of computers to try every possible solution/location, this new approach takes [...]
25 Useful Keyboard Shortcuts for Windows XP Users
By Bill Wagner on Feb 5, 2008 within Featured, Tips, Windows | Comments
If you’re like me, your experience when you sit down at the computer is more of a ‘point and click’ thing than a ‘carpal tunnel generating’ thing. However, there are times (rare maybe) that I spend a little more time at the keyboard, and I find it irritating to have to scroll through a [...]
How To Create a Poster Using Microsoft PowerPoint
By Bill Wagner on Dec 12, 2007 within Guides, Tips, Windows | Comments
If you are like me, everyone around you uses a Mac and you’re the only one with a Windows machine. So, when you have a computer question about something, you can’t lean over and ask your co-worker (because they just laugh at you and say ‘Apple has a sale on MacBooks right now’). Instead [...]
Send Text from Firefox to your TiddlyWiki via TiddlySnip
By Franklin Davis on Nov 7, 2007 within Apple, Linux, Windows | Comments
TiddlySnip is a small Firefox extension that allows you to quickly send text snippets to your TiddlyWiki that we previously set up here. Recall that TiddlyWiki is a single file personal wiki that is super portable; allowing you to enter notes, random ideas, and projects wherever you are. Furthermore, by combining TiddlyWiki with [...]
TiddlyWiki and LaTeX - Scientific Notebooks Made Easy
By Franklin Davis on Oct 10, 2007 within Apple, Linux, Tips, Windows | Comments
For ages scientific notebooks have been the mainstay of scientific research and have always had one thing in common: paper. Until now that was mostly due to a lack of options. Today as science and computers have become more and more inseparable the appeal of digital notebooks is quite clear. Digital notebooks [...]