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Streamy Revamps & Leaves Beta

Friday, May 8th, 2009

For a long time I’ve been looking for a website that houses absolutely everything I look for in a personalised start page… and for as long as I can remember, I’ve had to settle for iGoogle. Don’t get me wrong – Google’s start page is absolutely stellar, and I can almost absolutely everything from feed reading, to checking Facebook, updating Twitter and so on.

However for a fair while I had also been eyeing up a contender for it’s replacement in the form of Streamy. You may remember the site from my previous review of the site that had a fair bit of attention.

Anyway it’s been a fair while since I’d used the service, and I decided to check it out again, and discovered that the devs had revamped the site’s look and functionality. After having a chat with site co-founder Jonathan Gray, I found out that they had “quietly launched” out of beta, and hadn’t yet advertised the fact. This is great news, as I highly recommend the site to anyone – and here’s why.
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08.05.2009 Tech View Comments

Wicked Portal Gun [Updated - Video Added!]

Wednesday, January 21st, 2009

Ok my gaming geekness is torn between this, and the Gears of War Lancer…. though having one of these along with a plushie companion cube would probably win.

Check out the full flickr gallery here.

And fresh from Endgadget, you can now view a hands-on video with the Portal replica gun below:

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21.01.2009 Gaming View Comments

Flickr Alternatives – Why Bother Looking?

Thursday, August 14th, 2008

I’ve been looking around for alternatives to image hosting powerhouse Flickr for a little while (well, since my pro account expired around April), and have been left wanting.

I’ve investigated sites like Google’s Picasa & Photobucket, as well as hosting my own image gallery using Gallery2 – all of which have left me thinking I may as well just go back and pay my $24.95 pro account fee to Flickr and carry on as I was.
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14.08.2008 Tech View Comments

Miscellaneous Crap

Thursday, June 19th, 2008

Well I haven’t blogged in a while, but then I haven’t had that much to blog about recently – life has trundled along and been generally uneventful… so I’ve decided to do a quick blog about loads of things I’ve been up to (that aren’t necessarily important).

Firstoff, another of my reviews is up over at Geeks of Doom.com, this time taking a look at the Guinness Book of Records: Gamer’s Edition.

Secondly, I’ve started using a website called Plurk in the past week… and I’m completely addicted to it already! The site is basically a microblogging site verymuch like Twitter, but with threaded conversations based around your “plurks” (twitter would call them “tweets”).

I have to say I’m loving it – there’s much more of a community feel to the site, and its great for sharing media like Youtube videos and photos etc. I’d highly recommend it, especially over Twitter what with its continuing downtime. You can check out my Plurk widget at the top right corner of my blog. :)

And lastly, I found a great image manipulation website that adds a cartoon-style to any uploaded photo… which makes it look a lot like the filming style in A Scanner Darkly… gotta say I love it, and have been fiddling with a few photos of me… take a look:

me, cartoon-style Another pic of me - I love the "scanner darkly" look to it

Last picture edited using befunky's cartoon-iser site

To get the desired effects as above, use the sketch feature first (set the brightness fairly low – it makes the sketch lines darker)… then click on the colour option and set it at medium/low.

Anyway thats all from me for the moment… I’ve got some more reviewing to do, but cashflow issues aren’t allowing me to do much yet. :( There will be a review of Ninja Gaiden 2 soon though… so keep your eyes peeled for it. :)

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19.06.2008 Gaming, Life, Tech View Comments