Pownce Shutting Down, Technology Sold To Six Apart

December 1st, 2008 | Posted in Offbeat News, Technology by William Shank

Pownce co-founder Leah Culver has just announced that Pownce will be shutting down as of December 15 and they they have sold their technology to Six Apart. Leah and Pownce developer Mike Malone will be joining Six Apart’s engineering team.

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Creative Commons Licensed Flickr Photo Used In Iron Man

December 1st, 2008 | Posted in Technology by William Shank

On his blog, UK-based web developer and hobbyist photographer Jeremy Keith recounts how a vacation photograph he took inside NASA’s Vehicle Assembly Building came to be used in the 2008 blockbuster Iron Man.

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Left 4 Dead Review

November 29th, 2008 | Posted in Featured, Gaming by William Shank

Left 4 Dead
Platform: PC, Xbox 360

Zombies. Lots of Zombies. Throw in an excellent AI engine to spawn hoards of them, and four player co-op to sweeten the deal and you’d better fetch a change of underwear because you’re going to need them. Left 4 Dead is finally here, and we take a look to see if it lives up to the expectations.

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Apple says yes to antivirus software

November 28th, 2008 | Posted in Technology by William Shank

A recent spate of rather ineffective viruses for Apple’s Mac OS X platform has the company worried enough to recommend anti-virus programs to its users – a volte-face for many Mac fans.

According to ITWire’s Stephen Withers, Apple has quietly been updating its knowledge base with an entry which “encourages the widespread use of multiple antivirus utilities so that virus programmers have more than one application to circumvent, thus making the whole virus writing process more difficult.”
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The Monty Python Channel on YouTube

November 26th, 2008 | Posted in Art, Offbeat News, Technology by William Shank

“For 3 years you YouTubers have been ripping us off,” begins a recent Monty Python announcement “taking tens of thousands of our videos and putting them on YouTube.” Rather than firing off endless rounds of cease and desist letters, the Pythons have decided to tackle the problem by creating their own YouTube channel. The Monty Python Channel offers high quality versions of classic skits, new interviews, and rare archival footage. Of course it’s all free, but the guys encourage you to click the links to buy their dvds, shirts, etc.

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