Right now Facebook seems to be exploding… more and more of my former classmates are using it. They are leaving Lokalisten.de or Nasza-Klasa.pl and are getting on Facebook. Even my wife started using it and finds a lot of old friends on it. Facebook became so popular that companies like Motorola advertise with the Facebook-capabilities of their mobile phones!
In comScore their number are going through the roof as well.
Image by Vasjen Katro
Did you see the guy watching nude photos at work? Did you notice he’s reading emails before opening the photos… now guess what? This has been most probably an office joke! Someone sent him an email with the photos and a “turn around now” in the email!
Join this campaign to save his job: http://news.hereisthecity.com/news/business_news/9902.cntns
A must have for a Battlefield series fan like me! I only wish I had more time to play… *sigh*
Coming March 2nd 2010
Apparently there is a new Ghostbusters 3 movie coming! There are rumors it will be in 3D as well… looking forward to it. I bet they are going to use the latest visual effects in it but right now I’m playing the video game and enjoying the nice spooky Ghostbusters atmosphere!
More info on the new movie: http://ghostbustersiii.blogspot.com/ & http://uk.movies.ign.com/objects/150/150020.html
True Combat: Elite is IMHO one of the best looking games based on the id-Tech 3 engine – now a cool new installer is out that installs everything you need to get started: http://www.wolfmap.de/comments.php?news_id=2270
More info: http://www.truecombatelite.com/
Well… after 30 years Russians also have now a stealth fighter too: The Sukhoi T-50. IMHO it looks very much like the F-22 Raptor.
Info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukhoi_PAK_FA
News: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article7007913.ece
1 USD = 1 Euro? This seems to be the currency conversion of a German online store when pre-ordering the iPad! Yesterday Apple announced the iPad for 499$ and now you can pre-order it at cyberport.de for 499€! Not quite right I would say… or does somebody want to earn some extra money here?
Here the real value of the Euro and the US Dollar: http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=EURUSD=X
After reading many articles about the iPad yesterday I get more and more skeptical if it can be a replacement for my old G4 PowerBook. I think I need to see the iPad in action in a store.
Finally it’s out and probably I will get one as a replacement for the old G4 PowerBook that we are using at home as a Couch-Internet-Surfing-Device. What I miss in it is a DVD drive for watching movies and a simple USB port. Apple announced a USB-converter called “iPad Camera Connection Kit” so you can get your photos on the iPad but IMHO it should be just there. Of course you can get movies via iTunes and then watch them on the iPad but DVDs are something you can buy everywhere and watch wherever you want. If you watched the Apple Keynote you maybe noticed that the New York Times didn’t have ads when Steve Jobs presented it… that’s because the Mobile Safari doesn’t have Macromedia Flash. For me the web experience is not complete without Flash so I think Apple needs to do something here! It amazed me as well that the iPad can’t handle multitasking so you wouldn’t be able to write an email and listen to music at the same time. A nice to have would be a webcam… but hey, for surfing the internet, checking emails and watching youtube videos it’s perfect!
More info: http://www.apple.com/ipad/specs/
Nice coverage: http://www.mayursha.com/blog/?ref=Yahoo
This year I have been following the Dakar rally more closely than ever as there is a pretty good team form Poland participating on a Nissan Navara T1 and a KTM LC4 660 motorcycle.
Nice “unofficial” intro:
Look how Argentinians are enjoying the Dakar rally in Buenos Aires:
More info:
Dakar 2010 – http://www.dakar.com/us/DAKAR/2010/live.html
Orlen Team – http://dakar.orlenteam.pl
What I really like about racing games are the crashes and the latest racing game by Codemasters, Colin Mc Rae DiRT 2 brings a lot of them! The best racing game since years! Photo-realistic graphics, realistic controls and many fun game-types! 10/10 IMHO!
One of my favorite racing games is FlatOut Ultimate Carnage… it has the coolest crashes and car destructions ever! The crashes in DiRT 2 look nice as well but in FlatOut they are simply spectacular!
Burnout Paradise The Ultimate Box has nice crashes as well but the controls in the game are just crap. Nevertheless the game is fun.
