http://www.engadgeted.net personal website of christoph wimmer Sat, 28 Jun 2008 18:33:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The big news in gaming today is of course Blizzard's Diablo 3 announcement at WWI. You can find a very comprehensive gameplay trailer, a cinematic trailer, some screenshots and general information at the official Diablo 3 website. My first impression after watching the gameplay trailer was that Diablo 3 stays true ... http://www.engadgeted.net/2008/06/28/some-thoughts-on-the-diablo-3-announcement/ Gauging Openness with iPhone as Measure: I've been trying for months now to explain the bottom-to-top nature of what an open cell platform running on an open network would look like. Thanks to Apple, I can now use the iPhone location feature, which triangulates on both cell towers and Wi-Fi access ... http://www.engadgeted.net/2008/01/23/1271/ I'm in the process of going through my "toread" del.icio.us bookmarks. I started with the oldest ones and after i had finished reading Some notes on the building of codezoo i found that the site described in the article is no more. Makes you wonder about the significance of ... http://www.engadgeted.net/2008/01/20/1270/ After several requests (and admittedly rather late) i've finally had the time to put a quick Wordpress Heat Map compatibility update for WordPress 2.3 together. WordPress 2.3 did away with categories and introduced a more flexible taxonomy system, which broke the plugin. I actually didn't do any work on this ... http://www.engadgeted.net/2007/11/04/wordpress-heat-map-23/ "Apple today announced that EMI Music's entire digital catalog of music will be available for purchase DRM-free (without digital rights management) from the iTunes Store worldwide in May." http://www.engadgeted.net/2007/04/02/1265/ A while back (well, actually, more than a year ago) i launched a small website for one of my student projects: QRDemo.com: This project showcases possible applications of QR Code recognition on cellphones, with a focus on referencing online resources using QR Codes. You can find a java midlet for decoding ... http://www.engadgeted.net/2007/03/31/qrdemocom/ Understanding Games part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4: a series of games "trying to raise awareness for the basic concepts of computer and video games. It deals with rules, interactivity, representation and simulation in games." http://www.engadgeted.net/2007/03/31/1263/ The ad generator: The ad generator is a generative artwork that explores how advertising uses and manipulates language. Words and semantic structures from real corporate slogans are remixed and randomized to generate invented slogans. These slogans are then paired with related images from Flickr, thereby generating fake advertisements on the fly. http://www.engadgeted.net/2007/02/14/1262/ Mac rumors has a nice indexed video of the macworld keynote speech where you can jump straight to the interesting parts of the keynote (and we all know that by "interesting parts" i mean iPhone). Also: David Pogue's ultimate iphone faq part 1 & part 2. I found this part particularly ... http://www.engadgeted.net/2007/01/15/1261/ Regine's notes from Joi's world of warcraft talk at 23c3. In there it is mentioned that Joi has played this game for more than 108 days, that's about 10 days more than my total playtime. Hard to imagine how he managed this while maintaining a jet-setting vc lifestyle. More notes ... http://www.engadgeted.net/2006/12/31/joichi-ito-on-wow/