Thursday, March 18 2010
Written by Michael Swengel on March 8, 2010
GoDaddy, is a popular web hosting and domain name company. Over the last few years it has grown into one of the most popular website service businesses. However, the company is quickly becoming known for its ads featuring attractive women in provocative situations. But I pose this question to you: Are GoDaddy’s commercials hurting their professional image? Personally, I find these ads high...
Written by Michael Swengel on March 4, 2010
Ubuntu, a free operating system based on Linux, has finally been given a facelift after six years. Some of the new artwork for Ubuntu's 10.04 release has been unveiled. (Keep in mind these are images of a pre-release version of Ubuntu and are subject to change before the release of Ubuntu 10.04 in April). Since its creation in 2004, the tagline behind Ubuntu has been "Linux for Human Beings." T...
Written by Michael Swengel on February 28, 2010
If you are hit with a "505 Internal Server Error" page while browsing this site, hit the back button and reload the page. Something is up with GoDaddy and the hosting configuration. Hopefully we'll have it worked out within the next 48 hours. Everything should work fine except for the occasional error message. Please be patient. ...
Written by Michael Swengel on February 27, 2010
Blender 2.5 (now version 2.5.1) includes a beautiful smoke simulation engine. This engine allows for the simulation of highly-realistic smoke and fire. This new version of Blender is giving professional plugins like FumeFX a run for their money. (Note: I did not create these videos.) Blender 2.5 is currently available as an open alpha. This means it is not yet complet...
Written by Michael Swengel on February 25, 2010
Development on the groundbreaking Blender 2.5 has progressed considerably since my initial Blender 2.5 post. Blender 2.5 Alpha 1 has been released. This is an update of 2.5 Alpha 0, the first testing release. The Blender 2.5 roadmap includes a series of six releases: culminating in the release of Blender 2.6 in mid 2010. The releases are as follows: Alpha 0: First testing release Alpha 1 ...
Written by Michael Swengel on February 9, 2010
The next installment in the Ubuntu Linux saga is due out in April. It is code named Lucid Lynx. Ubuntu 10.04 is an LTS (long term support) release - meaning it will be officially supported for three years on desktops and five years on servers. My tests with the current alpha version show a greatly improved boot time over that of 9.10 Karmic. For this coming release, the Ubuntu team wants to cut...
Written by Michael Swengel on February 2, 2010
For a limited time, Classics - a collection of classic books in a very attractive package - is available at no charge in the App Store. The Classics app provides a beautiful reading interface - including the ability to jump to a chapter and place bookmarks. With Classics, users get the following books (FREE): Alice in Wonderland Through the Looking Glass Robinson Crusoe The Jungle Book...
Written by Michael Swengel on February 2, 2010
As of today, Apple has released iPhone OS 3.1.3. This update is for all models of the iPhone and all models of the iPod Touch. NOTE: If your device is jailbroken and/or unlocked, DO NOT UPDATE to firmware 3.1.3. This update WILL break your baseband. To update your device to iPhone OS 3.1.3: Connect your iPhone / iPod Touch to iTunes. Select your device in the iTunes sidebar. Click 'U...
Written by Michael Swengel on February 1, 2010
During an internal meeting in the wake of Apple's release of the iPad, Steve Jobs explained to Apple employees why the iPhone and iPad have yet to support Flash - and likely never will. Apple does not support Flash because it is so buggy. Whenever a Mac crashes more often than not it's because of Flash. No one will be using Flash. The world is moving to HTML5. Really? Flash is buggy? An archit...
Written by Michael Swengel on January 31, 2010
With the release of Apple's iPad running iPhone OS version 3.2, we see the operating system still lacks support for the Adobe Flash platform. The iPhone OS shows the infamous blue lego where Flash content should be. Adobe's Flash platform is actually a collection of Web 2.0 technologies that allow content publishers to deliver a rich, interactive media experience to the end user. Flash brings to...
