CCP Games – makers of the EVE Online MMORPG for Mac and Windows – announced Monday that Dust 514, its forthcoming massively multiplayer first-person shooter, will be free to play when it debuts on the PlayStation 3. Gamers will be able to download the game for free from the PlayStation Network once it’s available.
Dust 514 has been in development for several years. The game is not just set in the same setting as EVE Online – it’s set in the same shared, persistent game universe. What happens in EVE Online will affect Dust 514, and vice versa. Gamers leading teams in Dust 514 misions will work with starship pilots in EVE Online to fight battles, acquire territory, gain wealth and more, according to the games’ developers.
Close private trials of Dust 514 have already begun. The company is giving attendees of this week’s Game Developer Conference (GDC) in San Francisco a first look, and attendees of CCP’s annual Fanfest event in Reykjavík, Iceland will be able to participate in the private trial. Dust 514 is expected to launch publicly later this year.
Apple on Monday named the winner of its 25 billionth app download. The app counter rolled over to 25 billion on Friday night and people have been wondering who the winner was ever since.
According to Apple, the 25 billionth app downloaded, Where’s My Water? Free, was downloaded by Chunli Fu of Qingdao, China. Chunli Fu will receive a $10,000 iTunes Gift Card.
Apple also noted that there are now 315 million iPhone, iPad and iPod touch devices worldwide.
“We’d like to thank our customers and developers for helping us achieve this historic milestone of 25 billion apps downloaded,” said Eddy Cue, Apple’s senior vice president of Internet Software and Services. “When we launched the App Store less than four years ago, we never imagined that mobile apps would become the phenomenon they have, or that developers would create such an incredible selection of apps for iOS users.”
Tech’s latest boom has generated a new, more testosterone-fueled breed of coder. Sure, the job still requires enormous brainpower, but today’s engineers are drawn from diverse backgrounds, and many eschew the laboratory intellectualism that prevailed when semiconductors ruled Silicon Valley. “I don’t need to wear a pocket protector to be a programmer,” says John Manoogian III, a software engineer and entrepreneur.At some startups the pendulum has swung so far in the other direction that it’s given rise to a new “title”: brogrammer.
Let’s get one thing straight: If you unironically self-identify as a “brogrammer,” you’re a complete douchebag. Grow up.
Today, the company co-founded by Twitter inventor Jack Dorsey unwrapped Square Register, a free Apple iPad app designed to modernize point-of-sale devices for small merchants. “I truly believe POS, as you know it today, is dead,” says Megan Quinn, director of products at Square. “This will bring Square to an entirely new, small-market audience (bricks-and-mortar stores).”
Using Square Register, a merchant can set up a point of sale system using an iPad and Square’s credit card reader. Existing point of sale systems can cost retailers quite a bit to obtain and maintain, while Square Register is free to download. The service charges merchants a fee per transaction in order to make its money.
Whether you want to record a Skype conversation, save a streaming radio program, or just record a quick voice memo, Piezo can do it. It runs on Mac OS X 10.6 and 10.7 and it can capture audio from any application (yup, even sandboxed App Store apps).
Download Piezo free, then buy it in the App Store or directly through our store.
I like what Readability has tried to do with the service, and the apps are gorgeous, but I have a big problem with the approaches being taken by them. For one I can’t figure out if they want to be a great place to save articles for reading later, or do they want to be a middleman that helps make money for independent publishers and large publishers alike, or… I don’t know. The motives matter to me and I can’t figure out Readability’s.
I’m a long time user of Instapaper. I pay Marco for the service and have no plans to stop.
Medway-Ashland’s girls high school hockey team lost their appeal of their playoff loss Friday, after a parent was tossed from the game for aiming a laser pointer into the eyes of their goalie.
You have be a real piece of shit to pull this at any sort of sporting event, but especially at your kid’s hockey game.
The ability to import and edit layered graphics files was introduced in Final Cut Pro X 10.0.3. Layered graphics files, such as Adobe Photoshop (PSD) files, can be edited so that each layer appears as a connected clip in the Timeline.
Apple posted this article on their support Web site.
Reverb is perhaps the most misunderstood/misused effect in the mixer’s toolbox today. In this timeless series, DAW superman Eli Krantzberg reveals everything you need to know about this mysterious effect and how to apply it to the most popular instruments in your productions.
My friend Monty suggested that I write an article to offer guidelines to journalists about what to write when there’s no real news – something that might help readers from having to sift through endless piles of rumors. I thought it was a great idea, so here it goes:
NASA said hackers stole employee credentials and gained access to mission-critical projects last year in 13 major network breaches that could compromise U.S. national security.
I wonder what the protocol is when a government agency gets hacked.
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This web site has way too many things that make you go, “Oh! I’d love to have one of those!” Check out the transparent Pool Table! Thanks to @Chiron1 for the heads up.
I bought this last night and have been playing around with it. Lots of great features like drag and drop video and images and support for lots of blogging platforms, including WordPress, Movable Type, Joomla, Drupal, Posterous, Blogger and TypePad.
Still lots of exploring to do, but so far I’m impressed.
When it comes to computer security, Jeremiah Grossman, Chief Technology Officer at security consultancy White Hat Security, is paranoid — and for good reason. He’s seen what the bad guys can do. But when he met with Wired at the RSA Conference in San Francisco this week, he said something surprising: He doesn’t use antivirus software.As it turns out, many of his security-minded peers don’t use it either. The reason: If someone is going to try and attack them, they’re likely to use a new technique, one that most antivirus products will miss. “If you asked the average security expert whether they use antivirus or not,” Grossman says “a significant proportion of them do not.”
Integrated a new mastering-quality audio slowing engine that significantly improves the clarity of slowed down music; fixed a bug that affected chord entries when a tranposing capo was set up in the note settings.
The new audio engine is amazing. If you play guitar and haven’t tried Capo, you’re missing out.
The Windows 8 consumer preview is utterly delightful. But I have a huge suspicion that by the time it ships, it could completely suck. And that’s because the people who make the machines on which it is installed will fuck it right up with a bunch of crap.
Honan is, of course, worried about all the shovelware that PC makers include with new computers. It’s because of this that PC makers are able to sell their computers so inexpensively, but there’s no question that it devastates the user experience – and it’s something that separates Apple products. Not just Macs, mind you, but iPhones too, because Android phones are suffering the same problems too.
Politics could tip the scales in Apple’s favor for a high-stakes legal battle that will decide ownership of the iPad trademark in mainland China. But some legal experts remain divided on whether it will be enough to help the U.S. tech giant avoid a ban of its iconic tablet in the country.Stan Abrams, an intellectual property lawyer and professor at Beijing’s Central University of Finance and Economics says, “The political argument in itself does favor Apple.” But Zhao Zhanling, a legal expert on China’s information technology law said Apple’s arguments were unconvincing. “I think there is little hope Apple will win,” he said.
Throughout our history, Apple has created entirely new products — and entirely new industries — by focusing on innovation. As a result, we’ve created or supported more than 500,000 jobs for U.S. workers: from the engineer who helped invent the iPad to the delivery person who brings it to your door.
Windows still relevant? Of course it is. Earlier this week I said that even if Windows 8 is a total failure it would still sell hundreds of millions of units (which means expectations on Microsoft are still to sell many hundreds of millions of units if this is a success). That’s a long way from not being relevant.
I get what Robert’s talking about and agree that they will sell millions whether it sucks or not. Still, it’s a sad statement that it’s sales, not its abilities that make it relevant.
Orangutans across the world may soon join the ranks of millions of humans as proud owners of new iPads. As strange as that may sound, a conservation group is testing its “Apps for Apes” program, allowing orangutans to communicate with each other remotely via the iPad’s video chat technology.
Electronic Arts has no plans to relaunch its troubled iOS game Battlefield 3: Aftershock on the App Store.Aftershock was a released last month as a free download due to a sponsorship deal with the film Act Of Valor. However, it was removed from the store on February 22 after users complained of a range of difficulties, including connection problems and control issues.
EA has issued a statement indicating that it’s suspending development and support of Battlefield 3: Aftershock for iOS; the servers will be shut down at the end of the month.
The U.S. Air Force has awarded a $9.36 million contract to purchase as many as 18,000 iPad 2s, according to Bloomberg. The plan is to replace bulky and heavy flight bags full of navigational charts and other materials with iPads in order to reduce the weight of pilots’ bags and save fuel on flights.
