Last week, October 19th, Apple held a private event that drew a large crowd of Apple employees and was broadcast around the world to their retail stores to celebrate the life of the late Steve Jobs.The video of the event is now available and features Apple CEO Tim Cook and others remembering Steve and a small concert from Coldplay. It lasted an hour and twenty … [Read more...]
Archives for October 2011
Anticipating Battlefield 3? You’ll need to have EA’s Origin installed
Don't waste any time once you have the game in hand. You'll need to have EA's Download Manager, Origin, installed and up to date. It's a free 46 MB download and installs the Steam-like software. … [Read more...]
The State of Cloud Computing
With programs such as iCloud, Evernote, and Expensify becoming ever more popular, and people beginning to store more and more of their personal information on the web, those using cloud computing are beginning to wonder whether or not their information is as safe as they originally believed. Sites that use dedicated server colocation or dedicated server hosting are not … [Read more...]
New Photo Editing Research Allows Inserting Objects With Proper Lighting
PhD student, Kevin Karsch, and his team of three others have been working on interesting research at my alma mater, the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and Kevin has published to his personal website. It is a photo editing system that allows you to alter a photo and render a 3d object inserted into the environment with the correct lighting and other details. … [Read more...]
Netflix To Bring Streaming To UK and Ireland in Early 2012
A press release this morning announced Netflix's plans for expansion to the UK and Ireland early next year. This was an unconfirmed rumor earlier this year and is now being announced by Netflix though it's not posted on the Netflix Blog as of publishing. Having expanded from the USA to Canada and Latin America, Netflix continues the march to globalization with its new … [Read more...]