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HoboBen

YouTube HTML5 Video Player
22nd January 2010

an opt-in experiment for HTML5 support on YouTub

HoboBen

Christopher Lee (aka Saruman) is making a metal album
7th January 2010

If nothing else, check out vid #3 / Act III
I SHED THE BLOOD OF THE SAXON MAN!!!
link #2 (warning - MySpace!)

HoboBen

HTML 5 data-attributes
12th December 2009

This has big implications for cleanly implementing microformats (at the moment most stuff things into a html element class attribute) as well as some more semantic ways to do various things with JavaScript.

HoboBen

Zeno Clash - £3.82
1st December 2009

Zeno Clash is probably one of my favourite games artistically. It uses the Source engine, so you know it handles well.
And only £3.82 until Friday!

HoboBen

List of words having different meanings in British and American English
29th November 2009

Most notably, the world ''dice'' in UK English can be used as a singular as opposed to the word ''die'' as American English.
People have lied to me about this.
(backed up by other wikipedia articles, but then again [citation needed]!)

HoboBen

EnlargeIt!
19th November 2009

I've been searching for a simple javascript image viewer that wasn't overly flashy and didn't have dependencies on a huge javascript library.
EnlargeIt does the job brilliantly.
Great documentation, easy to implement, works perfectly!

HoboBen

Net Renderer
19th November 2009

IE NetRenderer allows you to check how a website is rendered by Internet Explorer 8, 7, 6 or 5.5.
It works in an instant, unlike browsershots where you have to wait upwards of half an hour for a screenshot, if it ever arrives at all!

HoboBen

Making browsers faster: Resource Packages
18th November 2009

''we will be implementing this in the next upcoming release of Firefox (tentatively has the version number 3.7, but this may change).''
Fantastic stuff!
Also, I swear I had this idea a year or so ago.

HoboBen

Dive into HTML 5!
29th October 2009

Neat explanation of new features, backwards-compatibility, etc.

HoboBen

Finland makes 1Mb broadband access a legal right
15th October 2009

''According to the report, every person in Finland (a little over 5 million people, according to a 2009 estimate) will have the right of access to a 1Mb broadband connection starting in July. And they may ultimately gain the right to a 100Mb broadband *snip*

HoboBen

Has science found the cause of ME?
9th October 2009

(This is what I have)
Front page of The Independent today!
Rare piece of good news on the subject. It doesn't often get mentioned.
Science is awesome. I hope they get proper funding this time though - previous work in Glasgow couldn't get funding even t*snip*

HoboBen

Little girl giant
7th October 2009

Both creepy and awesome, in equal measure.

HoboBen

The case of the 500-mile email
21st September 2009

Also, the ''units'' program is awesome.

HoboBen

Optimize Firefox SQLite Databases
2nd September 2009

(Without even restarting firefox!!!)

HoboBen

One Bug to Rule Them All
6th August 2009

Affected products :
* Internet Explorer 5, 6, 7, 8 (all versions)
* Chrome (limited)
* Opera
* Seamonkey
* Midbrowser
* Netscape 6 & 8 (9 years ago)
* Konqueror (all versions)
* Apple iPhone + iPod
* Apple S*snip*

HoboBen

Beautiful indie game
19th March 2009

Just look at those screenshots & video clips!
Steam have a 50% off one-day-only deal, too, if you pre-order.
I've never pre-ordered anything before in my life - until now!

HoboBen

Mirrors Edge 2D
22nd February 2009

This is what I'm going to be playing all week, I think :)

HoboBen

Escape From City 17
13th February 2009

(Linked to HD version)
Awesome fan-made video of Half Life 2
''Filmed guerilla style with no money, no time, no crew, no script, the first two episodes were made from beginning to end on a budget of $500.''
And it's absolutely fantastic!

HoboBen

Video game name generator
12th February 2009

Generates the names for tomorrow's games. Coming soon: Soviet Dance Fortress and Professional Beach Assault.

HoboBen

Dexsoft free barrels and crates model pack
2nd February 2009

If you've had enough of looking at Psionic's free barrels and crates in your first person shooters, these are for you!
Now free (used to be about $8).

HoboBen

LIFE on Mars!
15th January 2009

Evidence of life has been discovered on Mars, Nasa scientists believe.

HoboBen

WolfenQt
19th December 2008

Qt Widgets enter the third dimension!

HoboBen

VirtualBox: (Experimental) full 3D acceleration with OpenGL
18th December 2008

The release of VirtualBox 2.1.0 can now use hardware-accelerated OpenGl in guests (currently windows guests only, from any host OS)
Also - Support for 64-bit guests on 32-bit host operating systems.

HoboBen

New Steam Hardware Survey Data
13th December 2008

Now Reporting Monthly Trend Data

HoboBen

Scientists extract images directly from the brain
11th December 2008

See also: exaggerated telegraph article
Edit: Found a mirror of the proper more scientific article: nathan.torkington.com
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