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Hunting down a laptop for a travelling geek

March 21, 2016 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

I’ve an old Sony Vaio as my laptop. It’s ancient and has Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 10 installed on it during its life and while it’s struggling now two of my original decision factors for it were spot on. At the time, the Sony Vaio was one of the lightest around, given that […]

Filed Under: Cool Tech Tagged With: dell, laptops, microsoft, Windows

Royalty free RPG map maker turns to Kickstarter with Other World Mapper

October 23, 2014 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

I suck at drawing maps but what’s an epic fantasy quest without the world map to put all that travel into context? Three Minds Software is having a crack at the computer cartography market with a project called the Other World Mapper. [Back this Campaign] It looks like this Kickstarter will slide to success. This […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters, maps, Three Minds Software, Windows

What do the Windows 9 leaks mean for gamers?

September 15, 2014 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

There’s some leaks of reported Windows 9 videos. As usual; take with a pinch of salt. Windows 9 Start menu Windows 9 multi-desktop What do you think? These videos are a little hard to unpick. Sure; we get to see some of the features but it is not always clear what the demo is trying […]

Filed Under: Cool Tech Tagged With: leaks, Windows, windows 9

Play World of Warcraft with the Kinect

December 30, 2010 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

A team from the University of Southern California has developed a free to download system that will let you play World of Warcraft or other off-the-shelf titles with the Kinect. The Flexible Action and Articulated Skeleton Toolkit (aka FAAST) was put together by the USC’s Institude for Creative Technologies, is currently available for Windows and […]

Filed Under: Cool Tech, PC Tagged With: kinect, microsoft, Windows, World of Warcraft

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