Posts Tagged ‘linux-magazine’

The Quake III Test

If people haven’t started thinking about the current crop of smartphones as computers, maybe this will help: Quake III Arena (Q3A) ported to the Android platform. If a device can run a custom port of Id Software’s legendary first person shooter, surely it qualifies as a computer more than a phone. That might sound silly, but think about it: When Quake III Arena was initially introduced, it took massive (at the time) processing power and a beefy (at the time) video card to run

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The Quake III Test

The Quake III Test

If people haven’t started thinking about the current crop of smartphones as computers, maybe this will help: Quake III Arena (Q3A) ported to the Android platform. If a device can run a custom port of Id Software’s legendary first person shooter, surely it qualifies as a computer more than a phone

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Spice Up Your Site with SIMILE Widgets

The SIMILE Widgets project has four nifty tools for Web developers who want to provide data visualization or to create exhibits from pictures, with minimal coding required.

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Spice Up Your Site with SIMILE Widgets

PC-BSD 8.0 Goes Gold

Looking for a desktop-centric version of BSD? Check out the latest from PC-BSD, released on Monday

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PC-BSD 8.0 Goes Gold

Working with Ruby and Amazon Web Services: Ruby/AWS 0.8 Released

After a long pause in releases, a new version of Ruby/AWS is available for developers looking to work with Ruby and Amazon’s product advertising API. Ruby/AWS makes it possible to access carts and catalogs on Amazon.com, and a number of the regional sites as well. This release supports most of the AWS v4 API, though some operations are not entirely implemented.

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