Finally Twitter for Windows 8

What a waste of space.

Download:
http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/en-US/app/twitter/8289549f-9bae-4d44-9a5c-63d9c3a79f35

But IMHO only TweetDeck is a good Twitter client with its multi-column approach (general timeline, interactions, tweets of your preferred users, etc...)

Virtual Reality

What happened to the Virtual Reality so often dreamed in the 80's and 90's?

What do we have today? Especially in the homes of consumers?

Sony Move: ok, but it seems very primitive
Nintendo Wiimote: Like Move, more or less
MS Kinect: Good, detects motion, objects (with nothing in your hands) and "textures" (pictures).

But none of these immerses the player / user in a virtual world as we thought then.

What is missing? The classic goggles to wear, maybe with orientation sensors to direct the viewport (the view of the game, the camera in the 3D environment) and then show to the player what he should see.

MS IllumiRoom for the Kinect 2 and XBOX720

The next Xbox will have, as an accessory, a projector to project the game on the walls of your room (maybe using the Kinect to see where you're looking at?). Is it considered AR (augmented reality) or VR?
We'll see ...

Nope, Google Glass is not VR imho, but AR like Google Googles in your ... googles.


What do you think? What's the next step? What's the true VR?

Google Reader to shutdown July 1st, alternatives:

Goodbye Google Reader RSS aggregator... (it's in good company: http://googleblog.blogspot.it/2013/03/a-second-spring-of-cleaning.html)

Alternatives? Try these:

http://blog.feedly.com/2013/03/14/google-reader/

http://theoldreader.com/

http://theoldreader.com/

http://www.privateoss.com/


Evil Google...

ImmersiveTaille v2, France says "We want a floating Start Screen"

With ImmersiveTaille (version 2) the new Start Screen of Windows 8 obtains new features:

•  you can put the Metro Start Screen (Modern Start Screen or what you call it) on your desktop
•  you can decide dimensions and position
•  you can have the taskbar in the fullscreen Start Screen

Free and useful:

ImmersiveTaille v2 | Free software downloads at SourceForge.net

Everybody is on Tomb Raider reboot and I am...

... and I'm playing for the second (or third) time Tomb Raider: Underworld

is more "tomb raider" than the new one?

Gnome founder: bye bye Linux, I'm on Mac now

http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2013/Mar-05.html

What?

And now we know why Gnome is a little too much inspired to OSX interface...
We are always inspired by things we like.
Just kidding, just kidding...
And nope, I don't like the Gnome default/OSX style.

Women are deceiving us

yes, even pornstars:

http://imgur.com/a/ynkv8

Age of Empires 2 HD version... (available on 9th April on Steam)

Now you can find on Steam (9th April) the restored HD version of the legendary game Age of Empires 2 ...
€ 20 ...

http://store.steampowered.com/app/221380/

GG EA: shitstorm on SimCity

EA has released the new SimCity game and  has generated online a shitstorm of considerable size, these are the main reasons:

1. Always online (DRM)
2. No offline mode
3. No terraforming
4. Small cities (future DLC?)
5. No control over regional transport (future DLC?)
6. No subways (future DLC?)
7. Cloud saves only
8. Origin client
9. Dumbed down gameplay
10. Bugs
11. Busy servers
12. Fake reviews with high votes

DickVille

Comparison...

Windowed ModernUI apps on Windows 8

Do you want "metro" apps in resizable and movable windows?

Try this new StarDock software: http://www.stardock.com/products/modernmix/index.asp

Download the beta or try it free (trial). Or wait a free version by another developer...