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Second Life: Finally some useful numbers and it’s 20,000 not 2 Millions

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Linden Labs Second Life really had it the last days. First the press stops praying and hyping and gets a bit more critical – see this “Boing Boing” article to name just one – and then their whole system came to a halt yesterday and is now slowly coming back up again. But what we were really waiting for and couldn’t find was that someone puts that whole hype back in line – so we provide you the figures ourselves…
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…We think its time to get back to real life and see “Second Life” as what it is – just one of many online games with some success. On the charts with the Asian figures alone you would have problems to plot the numbers for Second Life as they are so much smaller than even those from games with medium success. And that’s after all the hype and massive increase in user numbers for Second Life…

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Animation: Playing with the Windows Sound Recorder

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Features of the build-in MS Windows Sound Recorder might be limited but this guy creates music with a few of them opened at the same time. Quite astonishing what you can do with a bit of creativity…

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Animation: Icon Wars

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What happens when the icons on your desktop start fighting each other? A war starts between them where they shoot each other with rockets and “dark side” lightning…

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Myths: What computer code does in movies but not in reality

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Whenever you see a computer in a Hollywood movie it always makes some sound or when you see the (in)famous hacker working on it, always something on the screen is moving. “Drivl.com” has put together a list of 10 “Myths” that are continuously used in movies but don’t compile happen in real life. The list includes the following…

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Adobe: New Reader available online

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Adobe has made a new version of its popular free PDF Reader software available for download. New features of Adobe Reader Version 8 include a simplified user interface…

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Create a Kaleidoscope from (your) web site images

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This Kaleidoscope generator automatically creates animated Kaleidoscopes from web site images. Very impressive results. Just enter a URL and watch…

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