July 2011
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Infographic of the week: Mac vs PC
So here we have it: workspace arrangements and personalities as alternative as the direction of toilet bowl water movement between the hemispheres. A well researched look into the difference between Mac and PC people shows that we each really are what the stereotypes assume. Read on to see what we mean.
Jason England
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Tuesday Trends!
Twitter trends often reflect the big news stories and this week’s news has been very grim. However, because this is Twitter, you can always expect there will be a few silly, confusing and downright strange trends along the way.
Despite all of the bleak news this week, the most popular worldwide hashtag was… #justinbieber . I’ve got nothing against the Biebz, but perhaps one day his...
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Facebook chat redesign
Singing from the same metaphorical hymn sheet as the new Facebook layout, a simple non-intrusive design that covered up the invasion of ones privacy has been transformed into a form factor of inconvenience, with the addition of simply incorrect knowledge. Being presented with a selection of people you haven’t communicated with since you accepted their add out of common courtesy just...
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PC gaming is not dead
The intense popularity of the current console generation has been a double-edged sword. On the one hand, it’s been behind some of the best games, period, with developers conjuring mesmerising worlds, innovative gameplay and creatively lush environments from the debutant HD formats. Consequentially, with rising development costs and a congested marketplace, publishers increasingly opt for...
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nrm Presents: the app. For Android and Windows...
With the only option for viewing our website on a phone being the stock tumblr layout issued to every blog, it’s fair to say we found it boring. Henceforth, we’d like to present the nrm app. We have builds available for Android and Windows Phone 7, and an iOS version will be available soon…just as soon as we can afford the cost of hosting the app on the store. Such is the...
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Thoughts on The End of News of The World
The anger seems to be towards a capitalistic gain through biased, intrusive, speculative news reporting. And the fact that other journalistic institutions are rallying against this is beyond hypocritical. So long as news is used for profit, there will be no such thing as objective journalism, and a large amount of fact-finding missions of manipulation will continue to occur (more than we...
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Video Game industry: out for creativity's blood.
From vector-based graphics to crisp high-def visuals, chip-tune soundtracks to 7.1 surround and cartridges to the proliferation of download services such as Steam and PSN, it’d be disingenuous to think that videogames haven’t evolved in the past 15 years. But yet, it’s become an industry indefinitely suffering with creative stagnation. Yearly franchised sequels litter the...
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Nigel Thornberry goes viral: the beauty of Tumblr
I understand trends commencing at the source of the likes of 4chan, and being received by Tumblr a few months later; but last time I checked there wasn’t a Thornberry trend. I stumbled across it by accident when a particular post of a little mermaid/Nigel hybrid was (and still is) being reblogged over 40 times; but for some unexplained reason this ginger safari expeditioner has explored...
