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I had a few days away at my nephew and godson's 18th birthday this weekend - congrats again, Jared. Thanks to DM for keeping the news page busy. Anyway, at one point during the weekend I finally succumbed to the pressure and checked out Angry Birds.. and Quite Some Time passed before I put the phone down again. :) If you haven't checked it out there's a few free versions (original, RIO and Seasons) in the App Store, but if you don't have an iphone or similar, then this browser game (and many others no doubt) are a similar idea.
If you're a user of games.on.net, they have a quick survey to help them improve things.
A few people sent word that News Corporation are in hot water for allegedly hacking people's mobile phones to get information for news stories. Rupert Murdoch's UK news arm faces a flood of fresh compensation claims and could be exposed to criminal prosecution after admitting its role in a long-running phone hacking scandal, lawyers say.
Harvey Norman has joined the daily deals battle, with their own website. The unveiling of the site is a reversal for the head of electronics and furniture chain Harvey Norman, who in November lashed out at the government for allowing consumers to import merchandise, bought online and costing less than $1000, GST free.
Marty has a 2011 Web Browser Roundup on his site. We at TurnedOn have decided to find out exactly that, ‘which web browser is the best?’ Unfortunately, due to the sheer volume of web browsers online, we have decided to only test the most popular browsers and a couple others. Needs some proof-reading, Marty! :)
Wired have a gallery of microscopic art inside computer chips. But it’s not all business inside a chip fab, as these microscope photos reveal. In fact, the designers of microchips frequently hide tiny cartoons, drawings and even messages alongside the super-tiny circuits and semiconductors they create.
This Chinese USB drive is a amusingly dodgy. A couple of days ago a customer has brought a broken 500Gb USB-drive that he had bought in a Chinese store across the river, for an insanely low price. But the drive was not working: if you, say, save a movie onto the drive, playing the saved movie back resulted in replaying just the last 5 minutes of the film.
Tech-Report explore the world of multi-monitor computing. My favorite thing about living with so much screen real-estate is having a place for everything, with everything in its place. Outlook and Winamp (I kick it old school) go side by side on one monitor, while another is occupied by Skype, Pandora One, and various other widgets that display stock quotes, calendars, and vital system information. This arrangement frees up the bottom two displays for the main course - whatever I happen to be working on at the time. I certainly couldn't go back to one monitor now I've gotten used to two.
Callan and Aaricus sent in today's timewaster, a drag/click musical sandbox thingy.
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