There have been similar posts on other sites about this, but it never occurred to me that I would have any use of these tips until I had read rialvalue's "Some little gems on OSX you might want to know". ...Read More

6 award-winning and/or nominated games, all for $20 USD. I haven't demoed all of these games, but I can tell you that this bundle is totally worth it if you just play Amanita Design's Machinarium (which is usually $20 by ...Read More

Nice CNN Op-Ed piece by Bruce Schneier on the role US policy had in the Chinese hacks of Google. He makes a strong case against backdoor access systems for law enforcement, i.e., that building a backdoor access system is just ...Read More

Adobe Media Encoder CS4 (AME) is a stand-alone app that comes with Flash CS4 and After Effects CS4. While it has the ability to do batch encoding and HD h264 .f4v's (basically a .mp4 file in a flash wrapper), with ...Read More

1,000 must be the magic number of late. Two game designers have posted $1000 rewards for their game projects. Mary Flanagan, Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Professor in Digital Humanities at Dartmouth College and Director of the Tiltfactor Laboratory, is asking Dartmouth ...Read More

Interesting NY Times article by Kate Zernike, on colleges focusing more on training for specific jobs and careers: The Association of American Colleges and Universities recently asked employers who hire at least 25 percent of their workforce from two- or four-year ...Read More

Whether it's web development, media production, or writing that school term paper, version control is always A GOOD THING, especially when more than one person is involved. Good version control: allows a developers to concurrently work on the same section ...Read More

I was going to a game shop near Taipei Main Station to exchange my non-functioning copy of GRAW2 for a working one when I saw this: It was lying in the middle of a crosswalk, in front of a taxi that ...Read More

I've been kinda slow, but I'll be catching up with the review posts on the over 10 shows I went to during the Festival(!). My hope is that it may help somebody find more information about a film they're ...Read More

Coming home on my scooter after watching an opposite-of-upbeat set of animations collectively titled "Abused", I found that I was not able to take the usual roads home as a policeman was diverting eastbound traffic on Hankou St. to the ...Read More