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OnLive presented themselves at this year’s Game Developer’s Conference and caused a massive stir with their promise of playing current generation games without having to first buy an expensive gaming PC or console to do it. All you will need, they say, is an inexpensive PC or their own proprietry console, a fast internet connection and a display device capable of showing the games in their full HD glory. All the game processing will be done on their special servers and then streamed Read the rest of this entry »

Geoff Adams
Programmer, Research and Development

It is this day of the year again, when even the big and popular crack on some jokes. April fool’s day is the day when the internet is not trustable anymore. Keep repeating yourself that and dive into our list. And don’t follow the panda.

Flickr is certainly going to entertain you today with some picture of the “real” world, like:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jaggers/3403964346

Experience a new generation of browser with the upcoming features on Opera:

http://download.cnet.com/8301-2007_4-10208949-12.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheDownloadBlog

It is also a day to make good deals, like Warner Bros and their new partner:

http://torrentfreak.com/warner-bros-acquires-the-pirate-bay-090401/

Google employees have always been very productive on April Fool’s day:

http://mail.google.com/mail/help/autopilot/index.html

http://www.google.com/intl/en/landing/cadie/index.html

http://cadiesingularity.blogspot.com/

http://www.google.com/intl/en/landing/chrome/cadie/

Microsoft is also about to release IE8.1 as revealed by smashing mag:

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/03/31/breaking-internet-explorer-81-eagle-eyes-leaked/

Youtube goes upside down:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xadS1NpPsPM&flip=1

What about a little try to Mars, cheapest ever!

http://www.expedia.co.uk/daily/mars/flights-to-mars/?mcicid=mars_home_uk&rfrr=-57400

That should keep you busy for a few minutes. And if you are wondering why are they bothering about doing this I would say just two words: Link Bait.

Benoit Gilloz
Programmer, Research and Development

There are many reasons why a switch in web host might be necessary at some stage during a website’s life.   Maybe your site has grown since you applied SEO techniques to it and the allotted bandwidth is no longer enough. Perhaps you want to use new software which is not supported by your current host. If you have just started your online presence with a free website it might be that you want to run on an independent domain. Whatever the reason, at some stage you will need to move to a different host. How do you go about it? Read the rest of this entry »

Sir Pumpkin Longshanks
Programmer, Research and Development

A neat little addition that allows users to filter Google image searches by colour has been announced on the Google Operating System Blog.

To enable this you just need to add the parameter imgcolor to the URL and give it a colour as an option. There are currently 12 colours available, which are black, blue, brown, grey, green, orange, pink, purple, red, teal, white and yellow. So to search for red things just put this at the end of your Google image search URL.
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Philip Norton
Lead Developer, Research and Development