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Tuesday, December 30. 2008
 Guide your character to the goal by cutting objects and joints.
Continue reading "Splitter: Flash-Based Puzzle Game"
Wednesday, December 24. 2008
Boston.com's "The Big Picture" is a weblog with impressive high resolution photographs. Recently, its author Alan Taylor has posted the third and final selection of 120 (US-centric) pictures that "show a good portion of what life has been like over the past 12 months".
Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3
Tuesday, December 23. 2008
"Check out the video by Adrien Mondot for a demonstration of eMotion being used with a Wiimote. eMotion is a physics based visual tool for the Mac. It's designed to enhance performances by reacting to real world motion."
Continue reading "eMotive: Physical Motion Effects"
Tuesday, December 23. 2008
Noupe.com has collected a nice selection of icon sets. Many of them can be used freely for own projects.
Saturday, December 20. 2008
The onion routing project Tor has published a three-year development roadmap. It contains a lot of interesting material and research topics, like a mechanism to turn reliable clients into bridges/relays automatically, and 'bonus points' for well-behaving relays.
Saturday, December 20. 2008
I regularly browse through the list of new acquisitions of our university's library. Turns out there are a few interesting new books to read!
Continue reading "Five New IT books: A To-Do List"
Friday, December 19. 2008
One of the largest "identity thefts" in German history turned out to be a bizarre christmas story: Account data of 130,000 customers of the Landesbank Berlin (LBB) was delivered to the Frankfurter Rundschau (a German newspaper) on December 10th - allegedly even including PINs.
How did this happen? It was all about Stollen, a traditional German christmas fruitcake.
Continue reading "A Most Amazing (and funny) Privacy Scandal"
Friday, December 19. 2008
Auditorium is a very nice relaxing Flash-based puzzle game. If you need something "for in-between", this is one for you.
Continue reading "Play Auditorium"
Friday, December 19. 2008
Dmitry Fadeyev from Smashing Magazine has posted some useful tips for (mostly Web related) interface design.
Thursday, December 18. 2008
Joyent is offering free VPS with 256MB RAM, 10GB storage and 'unlimited' traffic, as long as you're using Google's OpenSocial API. Yes, including root access.
Continue reading "Free vServer (Joyent)"
Thursday, December 18. 2008
A team from University of Mannheim has published a case-study about trojan keyloggers and their dropzones. What I found particularly interesting is the analysis of configuration mechanisms: The two examined families of keyloggers (Limbo/Netshell and ZeuS/Zbot) both contact servers for updated configuration, whereas the ZeuS family is more advanced and even allows to take screenshots to defeat virtual keyboards.
Continue reading "Interesting Paper on Trojan Keyloggers"
Tuesday, December 16. 2008
TN Games, a company that already sells a haptic body vest to "feel the impact of punches, kicks, bullets and blasts" within computer games, has annouced a Force Feedback helmet that is supposed to make you feel as if you're being shot in the head.
Continue reading "Simulated Headshots"
Friday, December 12. 2008
Auszüge aus dem Artikel Projekte, Strukturen und Herzblutenergie von Gunter Dueck, IBM Distinguished Engineer, aus der aktuellen "Informatik Spektrum" Dezember 2008:
QUOTE: Wer beginnt heute einfach mal so ein Projekt - aus unternehmerischer Lust? Das kann sich vielleicht ein mittelständischer Unternehmer leisten, der das Sagen hat und das eigene Geld gibt und dazu noch alles gut selbst überschauen kann. (...) Wer aber blickt bei großen Projekten noch durch? Etwas Neues muss überall genehmigt werden. Jeder sagt etwas dazu. Stellen Sie sich vor, Sie haben eine große Idee und besitzen nicht zufällig die Firma oder die Unversität selbst. Sie können das Projekt nicht stemmen, Ihr Chef auch nicht, dessen Chef ebenfalls nicht. Keiner will eine neue Baustelle aufmachen.
Continue reading "Projekte, Strukturen und Herzblutenergie"
Friday, December 5. 2008
 A 3D world, filled with music coming from different sources, blended together in surround sound (5.1/7.1). Similar music is closer together (for example, based on last.fm information). You can freely move around, with distant sources fading out, until you only hear the closest source (standing "inside" it).
Continue reading "The Music Room"
Wednesday, December 3. 2008
Do you really need CAPTCHAs?
Spam bots are so effective today mostly because there's only a handful of different publishing software used (forum, blog, CMS). This is very convenient, because all information required to write and tweak a bot is identical for all installations. All the bot software has to do is query Google for parts of a particular URL (eg. inurl:yabb.pl or inurl:phpbb/posting.php) and continue with algorithms to circumvent the specific protection (if any).
Continue reading "Eliminate Form Spam Using Behavioural Analysis and Individual Forms"
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