BumpTop Prototype

Some time ago I stumbled upon the video of a prototype desktop GUI. Today I finally found the website related to this project. If you are interested in learning more about the “BumpTop Prototype” have a look at the official project site.

Meebo Me!

The fine people at Meebo.com have come up with another great idea. As you know Meebo is a web based IM service that allows you to stay in contact with your ICQ, AIM, etc. contacts without the need to install a client software on your computer. That’s an excellent solution for public computers or when you are behind a restrictive firewall/router. Meebo Me is a small website widget, that allows the visitors of your site to contact you via Meebo. If you need some info on how to get this widget to work in your WordPress blog, check this out.

Interesting Desktop Prototype

While browsing the ‘net I found an interesting video showcasing a new kind of 3D desktop GUI that was modelled after a physical desktop enviroment. Ever wanted to pile icons in a corner or throw them across the desktop? Even that’s possible.

Some Oblivion Screenshots

Yesterday I made some screenshots of my current Oblivion character Julian Aurelius, a level 12 fighter/mage character. The class was created by me and is focused on blade weapons, heavy armor and some magic. He is already Grand Champion of the Arena and has some pretty high ranks in both the Mages and Fighters Guild.

Oblivion is much fun to play, especially with all the nice Official and Unofficial mods coming out. The armor my character is wearing is the “Mythic Dawn” armor normally worn by my sworn enemies. Ramseus has created an awesome plugin that adds the full armor suit for the player to wear (but you have to find the different pieces first!) and a set of spells to summon the armor. You can download the plugin here.

Flock is beta!

Flock is a browser based on Firefox with social networking support built-in. When the first developer versions of Flock became available for download, I immediately tried it out.

And since the developers of Flock made a deal with the nice people behind WordPress.com I was able to start my first blog hosted at WordPress.com! But since the early versions of Flock had some serious issues (it was pre-beta after all) I returned to using Firefox.

But now the beta version of Flock is finally available and I am ready to give it another try. You can download the version 0.7 of Flock at the official site.

Hellgate London trailer

Hellgate London is the one game that could replace Diablo 2 as my favorite action-RPG. The story is cool, the graphics are great and I am sure gameplay will be sweet, too. Today I stumbled upon the trailer from this year's E3. Here it is:

By the way, there is a high-quality version of that video available at GameTrailers.

Firefox painfully slow

I have been using Firefox for quite a long time now and it's my favorite browser. But for some weeks now Firefox is getting slower and slower by the day. It takes longer than before starting it up and rendering sites is very, very slow. When I try to access the menus etc. it often takes up to 5 seconds until anything happens. Creating and using a different profile helps for a while, sometimes even a complete system restart seems to be a solution but lasts only for some hours.

Has anyone some ideas how to fix that?

Powers of Ten

"Powers of Ten" is a classic short film that starting from a picnic takes the viewer out on a journey to the edge of known space and back down to atomic scale. There's also a cool "The Simpsons" version of that video. Enjoy!

 

Impressive WOW video

I just stumpled upon an impressive fan-made WOW video. 

Click here to watch it! 

BioShock preview

BioShock is a first-persion action-CRPG currently in development at Irrational Games. Steve Hogarty had the opportunity to watch the game in action and has written an interesting preview. Here's an excerpt:

"The focus is to create a world that we draw the player into as deeply as possible," he begins, "even deeper than in System Shock 2. What we're trying to do primarily is put the choice and the power in the player's hands and give him, in the classic Spider-Man sense, that great power and that great responsibility."

You can read the full article at ComputerAndVideoGames.com!