Many rumors have been going around as to the price, if any, of the upcoming Windows 8.1 (aka “Blue”) update. Today we get a confirmation that “Blue” will be officially named Windows 8.1, and will be a free update to Windows 8 users.
Source: Mary Jo Foley/ZDnet
“Microsoft's Windows Chief Financial Officer Tami Reller, during an appearance at the May 14 JP Morgan Technology, Media & Telecom Conference, shared the pricing news. She noted that pr...
Understand, I love Starcraft. But I finally got to the point where I can’t play it anymore and have fun. I’m a low-level “Gold” league player. And the problem (for me) is that at a certain point, it’s really about the micro of the units. I managed to get to the level I was at because I’m pretty good at macro – I play as a virus that is always trying to spread across the map and unless you counter me consistently, it’ll eventually all be mine.
But at a certain point –...
Stardock's Brad Wardell is on the latest podcast from Geeks with Wives. Wide range of topics are discussed from gaming to comics, and it’s a great podcast to listen to.
http://geekswithwives.com/geeks-with-wives-podcast-episode-83/
Our background orchard has an apriary. I lost most of my hives this past year. Some of it due to CCD and some of it due to kids with too much time on their hands who come over and knock over the beehives from time to time (and tear off the no trespassing signs). I could probably write a lengthy article on the cultural rot of upper-middle class teenagers who don’t have jobs, have never had to do anything and have a lot of free time to get into trouble. But that’s a different topic..
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3D Printing seems to have crossed a major mile stone in that a start-up, called Defense Distributed, has used a 3D printer to create a working gun. It’s still mostly a curiosity since the cost to make such a gun and that it isn’t yet very robust still keeps it firmly in the early adopter era.
So here’s what I’ve found out so far :
No matter which printer you get, the materials for it are currently over $100 a pound. To me, that makes it fairly impractical for most uses. I could imagine...
We knew it was only a matter of time before Adobe made the switch to cloud-only software, but I was quite surprised that they did it so soon. The Creative Cloud was introduced about a year ago I believe, and yesterday at Adobe MAX, they announced new versions of their Creative Suite line is no more, and replaced by Creative Cloud. They will still support Creative Suite 6 with fixes and limited updates, but no new features or anything like that. If you want the latest and greate...
Start8 has shown to be very popular with Windows 8 users looking to get the Windows 8 start men and button back on their desktop.
Not only does Start8 give you back the Start menu, it also gives you the ability to boot directly to the desktop, and other features like disabling desktop hot corners. Another cool feature that sometimes isn’t mentioned is the ability to customize Start8 to look and feel how you want it to.
Purchase Start8 for only $4.99 today!One of the easi...
Fallen Enchantress: Legendary Heroes is in TIME's "10 Games to Watch for Late Spring 2013"!
"it’s rolling out an expansion dubbed Legendary Heroes that, as it sounds, is about digging down into the champion-building game (champions don’t show up randomly, you now have to work for them) and deep-tweaking everything else, including the leveling system, battle maps, bestiary, magic and visuals."
See it here - http://techland.time.com/2013/05/03/10-games-to-wat...
So what, you ask. The biggest news, though is that the app will do RAW processing.
A camera raw image file contains minimally processed data from the image sensor of either a digital camera, image scanner, or motion picture film scanner.
“Tom Hogarty, Adobe's group product manager for Lightroom, appeared on Wednesday's episode of The Grid, a weekly online chat show, and showed off RAW processing on an iPad.” - http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2418470,00.asp
Wel...
Today we released the ObjectDock 2.1 beta featuring Windows® 8 support and drag and drop application launching for quick access to your favorite applications.
ObjectDock is an animated dock for Windows that enables you to quickly access and launch your favorite applications, files and shortcuts.
Features:
Access your shortcuts and applications from an animated dockAdd as many docks as you wishDrag and drop application launchingRobust dock customization options and skinsWindows 8 / 7...
Stardock’s lead game developer, Cari “Elf” Begle, who led the effort in Galactic Civilizations I, The Political Machine, Galactic Civilizations II and part of Fallen Enchantress (until she went on maternity leave) will be leaving us on May 1 to focus on being a mom. She’s one of the most wonderful people I’ve ever met. She’s an amazing developer, a kind hearted person and is always eager to take on new challenges. She was the one who did most of our network programming (including the multi...
ModernMixTM from Stardock is the latest app to help you take control of Windows 8 and have it work the way you want and are familiar with. Windows 8 has a new start screen, once called Metro, that’s home to Modern apps for Windows 8 such as Mail, Calendar, etc. There are thousands more of these Modern applications that can be downloaded from the Windows Store, and many of them are very useful and great to have.
The problem is these apps run full screen, and for many apps that’s ju...
Stardock is pleased to announce that the release date to the expansion to its popular fantasy strategy game, Fallen Enchantress has been set as Wednesday, May 22nd.The expansion, Fallen Enchantress – Legendary Heroes, picks up where Fallen Enchantress left off. The world of Elemental is seeing new monsters invading the land and new champions have arisen to aid the player in their quest to bring order and civilization back to the people.The expansion is loaded with new features including a ...
There are two main problems game developers, particularly *strategy* game developers are trying to deal with these days:
1. Memory
and
2. Feeding the GPU
There's almost a third which involves CPU starvation which has to do with the poor way we handle our data structures but that's a lesser issue.
Now, with regards to memory, we can say all day that graphics shouldn't matter but they do. Forums are full of people saying how much they still like some old game but the...
Recently I was involved in a discussion regarding the two Boston Marathon bombers. It started off with someone expressing concern about the amount of anger and hatred being directed towards the bombers.
I am dismayed and afraid about the amount of hate and vengeance for the two who planted the bombs. It is spreading the attitude of vengeance in our country. I saw a quote from Ghandi this morning which I have not verified, but it struck me as true. "An eye for an eye will make ...