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Good Bye

Filed Under: Comment, Main by pascal — Leave a comment
8. May 2012

No long words and lots of paragraphs: I will close this blog.

This happens as I don’t have the time to write that much anymore and my main audience based on comments seem to be spambots. I have that idea to relaunch this kind of public tech-diary in some way for some time now but hadn’t the time to do this so this blog would even continue some time if my awesome freehoster hadn’t declared to end its service. I have (like most of its users) awaited for this decision as iBitLive as a project of a now 18/19 years old Linux nerd had no income via hosting and ads so it couldn’t provide that 50 bucks a month by itself. Gladly the forum stays alive.

Maybe some day I will have the time to do a proper relaunch – but till then this hole stuff shuts down on June 1st 2012. Thanks for your time supporting me and my thoughts by reading this blog!

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Crysis 3 Teaser

Filed Under: Games, Shooter by pascal — Leave a comment
21. April 2012

Last year Crytek gave us a solid Crysis 2 gameplay (which I actually preordered) build upon their CryEngine 3. Now the Frankfurt based company teases us with a minitrailer for the first animated pictures of the final part of the Crysis triology.

The game is supposed to combine all the goodies of part 1 and 2 by giving back bigger open areas with and the possibilities to solve problems your own way. It introduces a new bow and some alien weapons.

While the release is set to be Spring 2013 (so in 1 year) you can already preorder it via Origin or Amazon for around 60 bucks. As I enjoyed it partly really a lot I hated playing online cause nearly every match included nasty hackers that were more than obvious but didn’t got banned as well as having other balancing problems (at least not that noob shit you find in CoD but still not that fun), and therefore I won’t preorder. EA and Crytek prove that they can create some nice games but hackers have been some big problems in titles like Crysis and Battlefield 3 which both have the attitude to be played mainly because their multiplayer experience. Also I don’t think my ol’ G73 won’t be able to play all that new features so nicely :(

Anyway: I hope Crytek does some magic with their last Crysis game and it will be more the way they advertised Crysis 2. What is your opinion on the trailer? Are you curious and think you will might preorder?

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Microsoft, please add Ext support

Filed Under: Linux, Microsoft by pascal — Leave a comment
18. February 2012

Some time ago I read that Microsoft is involved in several Open Source projects and that they now even supports some Open Source stacks on their proprietary Azure cloud computing service. They added this kind of compatibility cause the industry uses Open Source software like Linux and therefore it is just a reasonable decision for Microsoft to include support for that kind by making their cloud computing even more a service based business.

When I updated my HTC Desire to get the delicious Ice Cream Sandwich goodies I used mount2sd to get rid of the problem of having way too little internal space for all the apps. To use this nifty feature you have to format your sd card with first an Ext2/3/4 partition and for photos etc you use the default Fat32 file system. ClockworkMod has a partition manager build in so you don’t have to worry about that step.

But what do you do if you want to access these files stored on sd-ext? If you use windows this is impossible without some extra drivers that are not compatible with Windows 7 and/or 64 bit so you have to go all the way to some (virtual) Linux machine just to get these files. It would be some simple task to give some official drivers at least to the business and I think the industry would thank Microsoft a lot.

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moot: Facebook & G+ do identity wrong, Twitter does it better

Filed Under: film, Google, Think about it, UX by pascal — Leave a comment
18. October 2011

I think I don’t have to add much to this nice speech Chris Poole aka “moot”, admin of 4chan, gave at Web 2.0 Summit 2011:

He basically says that Facebook just allows one single identity they try to use all over the web, and sadly Google did the same mistake as they forbid to use pseudonyms and even banned several users for not using their real names. He states that twitter makes it a lot easier to use some kind of other identity by not enforcing real names and allowing several accounts for different usages as personal and professional.

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Thoughts on G+ UX (optimizations)

Filed Under: Facebook, Google, UX by pascal — Leave a comment
30. August 2011

I have already expressed some basic thoughts about the photo feature of Google+ which has some nifty advantage in comparison to the world’s biggest photosharing site Facebook and the photo-centric flickr (and of course some parts are not as compelling as its rivals).

In my opinion the killer feature is the ad-free uncluttered interface in comparison to the messed up UI Facebook confronts us every day (yes, I hate to admit that I am kind of an Internet addict and therefore on Facebook on a daily basis while still getting annoyed by The Social Network and its policies again and again). While it is nice to view quite a lot information without any extra action in a neat useful arrangement it is not that optimal that you are able to view only two entries (or even just one single one!) before you’ll have to scroll. On Facebook I am able to view at least 4 entries in my news feed with a resolution of 1920x1080px (leaving a viewport of 975 px height) which gives me more different information than Google+ will ever be able. Interestingly the width for one update is 398px (FB) vs 427px (G+) wider and also the amount of characters before the “more” link appears is a lot higher but on the other hand Facebook also uses a smaller font (11px vs 13px). View full article »

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