Submission + - Heroic Ramparts (bosskilling.com)
rudeboy714 writes: "In-depth, heroic ramparts master pulling guidebook for world of warcraft."
Submission + - Platinum Arts Sandbox 3D Design Software For Kids (platinumarts.net)
Mike writes: "Platinum Arts Sandbox is the sandbox game that is easy enough for kids to use but fun for everyone! Your imagination is the limit as far as worlds you can create. Kids and adults alike are finding sandbox a fun and easy tool to make worlds quickly and easily in real time! Download it at http://kids.platinumarts.net/
The project is to remain open source and free so that developers and kids can help add new content and features to help make Platinum Arts Sandbox the most fun and easy world creation tool possible. Platinum Arts Sandbox is easy enough for kids to use but also powerful enough for full game projects.
Main Feature List: — The ability to map edit in game in real time and cooperatively with other people. — The ability to immediately play with and interact with map editing changes — Several custom maps that will feature slides, jumping levels, mazes, amusement park rides, etc — The pursuit of making it as easy as possible to add map features and content. Also the addition of new entities to add even more features and capabilities. — Windows, Linux, and Mac compatable
Upcoming Features, a list I hope and want to have in: — A tutorial video — Audio tutorials — Vehicles — New models — A way to scroll through the models much like how you can already scroll through the textures and easily add new models such as trees, plants, and other objects — New maps — New entities. I really want to create a "move" entity so players can make movable platforms, roller coasters, etc. — Any other features I can think of to make the creation process as easy as possible.
Thanks for checking out Platinum Arts Sandbox. I hope you enjoy it! Take care.
-mike"
Submission + - Sprint to offer Loopt friend-tracking service (msbconsulting.net)
i8myh8 writes: "Sprint Nextel said Tuesday it will use Loopt's "friend finding" technology to let subscribers track their friends.
Loopt, which also offers its location-based service on Boost Mobile, a subsidiary of Sprint, uses Global Positioning System chips in phones to allow subscribers to see where their friends are located.
To address privacy concerns, Loopt subscribers must give other Loopt users permission to track them. Subscribers also can hide from anyone in their "buddy" list at any time.
Loopt has been available on Boost Mobile since last year. And earlier this year the company said it had signed up 100,000 users. Sam Altman, the company's CEO, wouldn't give any updated information about subscribers. The deal with Sprint is the first in which a major carrier has announced it will use the service. Altman said Loopt will offer the service on other carrier networks later this year.
Location-based services are becoming popular. Most major mobile operators already offer a GPS-enabled navigation service that allows people to get real-time driving directions. Sprint uses a mobile-navigation application from TeleNav. The company bundled the TeleNav service for free with data packages that cost more than $20 per month.
Helio, a mobile virtual network operator, also offers a tracking service that is similar to the one offered by Loopt. Other providers, such as Disney Mobile and Verizon Wireless, offer tracking services for parents who want to keep tabs on their kids. Sprint also offers a kid-tracking service.
Location services also can be used to enhance other applications, like search and weather updates. And mobile operators see great revenue potential for leveraging the technology, which originally was put into phones to comply with a Federal Communications Commission requirement to provide enhanced 911 services that automatically provide the location of people who have called 911.
I don't know about anyone else, but my friends are idiots and would most likely use this device to locate me at the absolute worst moment. I don't keep anything with GPS built in enabled, even my cell phone. If I'm not able to be found, chances are I want it that way."
Loopt, which also offers its location-based service on Boost Mobile, a subsidiary of Sprint, uses Global Positioning System chips in phones to allow subscribers to see where their friends are located.
To address privacy concerns, Loopt subscribers must give other Loopt users permission to track them. Subscribers also can hide from anyone in their "buddy" list at any time.
Loopt has been available on Boost Mobile since last year. And earlier this year the company said it had signed up 100,000 users. Sam Altman, the company's CEO, wouldn't give any updated information about subscribers. The deal with Sprint is the first in which a major carrier has announced it will use the service. Altman said Loopt will offer the service on other carrier networks later this year.
Location-based services are becoming popular. Most major mobile operators already offer a GPS-enabled navigation service that allows people to get real-time driving directions. Sprint uses a mobile-navigation application from TeleNav. The company bundled the TeleNav service for free with data packages that cost more than $20 per month.
Helio, a mobile virtual network operator, also offers a tracking service that is similar to the one offered by Loopt. Other providers, such as Disney Mobile and Verizon Wireless, offer tracking services for parents who want to keep tabs on their kids. Sprint also offers a kid-tracking service.
Location services also can be used to enhance other applications, like search and weather updates. And mobile operators see great revenue potential for leveraging the technology, which originally was put into phones to comply with a Federal Communications Commission requirement to provide enhanced 911 services that automatically provide the location of people who have called 911.
I don't know about anyone else, but my friends are idiots and would most likely use this device to locate me at the absolute worst moment. I don't keep anything with GPS built in enabled, even my cell phone. If I'm not able to be found, chances are I want it that way."
Submission + - World of Warcraft (bosskilling.com)
rudeboy714 writes: "Very informative website for World of Warcraft players. Includes videos, quick reference summaries, and several PDF ebooks on the game."
Submission + - Google limits lifespan of cookies
wouterteepe writes: Google's preference cookies used to last a dazzling 31 years.
In a move to please privacy advocacies, they have decided to reduce this to only 2 year.
To let your cookie expire, you do have to keep away from google for only 2 years...
Of course, all the other issues about Google and privacy are unaffected by this.
Feed Engadget: Palm launching Foleo on August 22nd? (engadget.com)
Filed under: Handhelds
Per usual, this one's laced in speculation, but considering that there are potentially millions of you out there who can't wait to throw down for a less-than-revolutionary Foleo as soon as humanly possible, we'll pass along the message. According to an anonymous tipster that wrote in to BrightHand, we could see the Foleo launch on August 22nd, and it was even noted that Palm's retail stores and website would have dibs on first sales, while big box retailers such as Best Buy would be stocking it this November. On pricing, it was suggested that interested consumers could look forward to a $100 rebate right out of the gate, but we wouldn't shell out that extra Benjamin on Sour Patch Kids and string cheese just yet. Still, late August doesn't seem too far fetched for a "summer" release date, so for the handful (literally) of you taking notes, now you know where to mark that calender.[Via The Boy Genius Report]
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Office Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!
Feed Wired: SunRocket Hangs Up: Second Largest VoIP Carrier Stops Service (wired.com)
Feed Macworld: News: Quark offers students free commercial use (macworld.com)
Submission + - DoD Offers $1M Prize for Lightweight Power Pack (defenselink.mil)
timbck2 writes: "The U.S. Department of Defense periodically offers a Research & Engineering Prize to "promote the use of inventive and novel approaches to solve problems of U.S. military interest inventions". The current contest, which begins Fall 2008, is for a wearable power system which lasts 4 days and weighs less than 4kg."
Journal Journal: Pentagon dithering costs the lives of troops 4
Just when you think the poor planning and bad management that have characterized the Iraq war couldn't get any worse, a new outrage emerges.
On Monday, USA TODAY reported that the Pentagon has known for years that vehicles called MRAPs could keep U.S. troops safer from most roadside bombs, but until recently it did little to deploy the vehicles to Iraq, even as hundreds of Americans died.
Submission + - Google to Cut Life of Cookies Short
em8chel writes: "Under the scrutiny and critique of the ARTICLE 29 Data Protection Party of the European Union, Google is to introduce a new cookie policy in the next few months to auto-expire their cookies after 2 years. Up until now, the cookies are defaulted to expire in 2038.
As reported on German technews site heise, Peter Fleischer, Google's Global Privacy Counsel, writes on his Google blog: "In the coming months, Google will start issuing our users cookies that will be set to auto-expire after 2 years, while auto-renewing the cookies of active users during this time period. In other words, users who do not return to Google will have their cookies auto-expire after 2 years. Regular Google users will have their cookies auto-renew, so that their preferences are not lost. And, as always, all users will still be able to control their cookies at any time via their browsers."
The Artiel 29 Working Party's letter to Google back in May can be downloaded here (PDF)"
As reported on German technews site heise, Peter Fleischer, Google's Global Privacy Counsel, writes on his Google blog: "In the coming months, Google will start issuing our users cookies that will be set to auto-expire after 2 years, while auto-renewing the cookies of active users during this time period. In other words, users who do not return to Google will have their cookies auto-expire after 2 years. Regular Google users will have their cookies auto-renew, so that their preferences are not lost. And, as always, all users will still be able to control their cookies at any time via their browsers."
The Artiel 29 Working Party's letter to Google back in May can be downloaded here (PDF)"
Submission + - Sony Atones for Early Blu-ray Sins
An anonymous reader writes: When it was originally released on Blu-ray's launch day back in June 2006, 'The Fifth Element' seemed to represent all that was wrong with the next-gen format. Featuring a sub-standard video transfer, fans and reviewers alike agreed that the disc looked no better than standard DVD. A year later, riding a wave of good press for the Blu-ray format,
Sony has returned to the scene of the crime, offering up a new remastered Blu-ray edition of 'The Fifth Element' as the format's first re-issued disc, and even going so far as to offer a free disc replacement program for consumers who felt burned the time around. In a just-posted review, High-Def Digest compares the two editions — complete with screengrabs from both.
Submission + - Million-dollar prize for soldier 'power pack' (cnn.com)
mnovotny writes: According to CNN — Inventors across the country are being asked to find a way to lighten the load U.S. soldiers carry on their backs — largely due to the high-tech gear that uses batteries — and the solution will be decided in a $1 million contest.
The Department of Defense is asking a person or team to come up with a way to lessen the weight of the 20-40 pounds of batteries a solider carries on a typical four-day mission. The batteries power everything from soldiers GPS systems to their night-vision goggles.
The Department of Defense is asking a person or team to come up with a way to lessen the weight of the 20-40 pounds of batteries a solider carries on a typical four-day mission. The batteries power everything from soldiers GPS systems to their night-vision goggles.
Feed news.com: New iMac rumors growing; new iLife to come as well? (cnet.com)
The back-to-school season is always one of Apple's most important quarters of the year. Buzz is building that the company won't let the season pass by without a new iMac. From Crave, CNET's gadgets blog.
Feed news.com: Hybrids wane, diesels gain as buyers weigh real-world mpg (com.com)
Blog: Hybrids wane, diesels gain as buyers weigh real-world mpg
