Thursday, July 24, 2008

ausTech news Episode 96: WELCOME BACK BABY!

Episode 96: WELCOME BACK BABY!

So this week, you can look forward to a nice return! Great to be back, and I'll talk about the things that I've been up to. There has been a lot!

A cracker of a tip to make looking at videos and pictures more fun in your browser, and a video that.... may just be weird enough to make you laugh.

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Shownotes:
Firefox 3 Rockzors the download record - 8million!
blog.mozilla.com - source

Commodore 64 Lan
I'm not kidding - source

Virtual drivers to take on real racers
slashdot.org - source

E3 Goss
I talk about what went down at E3 - includign things like Nintendos update to the Wii controller, Go d of War 3, and other things..

ESA Stats on gamers
tgdaily.com - source

Unreal Tournament 3 six months on
source

Hardware Goss
Whats interesting this week? Well, I've been eyeing graphics cards, and on this part, I talk about what I see as interesting..

China Introduces Game Fatigue System
games.internode.on.net - story

Aussie books for the lose
ttheage.com.au - a good read. HA. I get it.


Tip of the week:
Online Video Editor
Called eyespot, those with a decent upload speed will have a lot of fun with this tool.
It will let you edit your home movie or captured game footage, and cut it up, put titles in etc.
I chose this one over the others, because it lets you do more normal transitions, like Crossfade.
eyespot.com


Tip of the week #2:
Pic lens
Now this is a mega tool - You start up your webbrowser , point to google or youtube..
Press the button, and bam! A 3D representation of that search pops up. You can scroll through
thousands of results, it looks amazing...
piclens.com - 8 meg download

Video of the week
Who wants some? I'll tell you who does - duke does. Watch this trailer
from Duke 3D, and you'll come out knowing about as much as me about this
upcoming "trilogy"
Duke nukem Trilogy - gametrailers

Hope you enjoyed the return, send along some encouragement at our email address which is austechnews@gmail.com . If your feeling keyboard shy, you could leave a voice mail for feedback and comments on the show as well. Thanks for supporting the show and listening to it!

Episode 90: Coming tommorrow, July 24th

Episode 96 to come out tommorrow!

Its good to be back! I'd like to thank everyone sticking around, you can look forward to even more tech goss and hardware ramblings. I have recorded the episode, and look to upload it tommorrow.

And I was able to get through an entire show without talking about the iPhone near its launch - thats how jampacked full of info this one is!