December 2010
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Dungeon Defenders on Android →
Not wanting to feel left out by the recent releases of Rage HD and Infinity Blade on iOS, it appears Android will soon be getting its first Unreal Engine 3-based game called Dungeon Defenders. From Engadget:
Of course, one problem these guys have now is that Android hardware is all over the map, so they actually need to publish a long list of minimum requirements — just like PC titles...
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Android and "open"
I want to like Android. I really do. But one of my biggest gripes actually comes from the fact that it’s “open.” Google loves to tout how Android is “open” and how this provides users with many benefits. And they’re absolutely right; Android allows users to modify the OS with third party applications, such as Swype, which is actually pretty neat. What Google...
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What does it feel like to be stupid? →
Have you ever wondered what it felt like to be stupid? Here’s an excellent answer posted on Quora to that very question. It’s definitely worth a read.
However, once I got used to it and resigned myself, it was great. Even though I knew I had a worrying illness, I was happy as a pig in mud. I no longer had the arrogance of being frustrated with slow people, I abandoned many projects...
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The "readability" of Google Maps labels →
Google isn’t exactly known for coming up with the prettiest designs, but their products are always highly usable. This article explains why the labels in Google Maps are simply more “readable” than those on, say, Yahoo! or Bing. Pretty cool stuff.
It turns out that Google uses a variety of techniques and visual tricks to help make its city labels much more readable than...