The ‘computer’ Tag Archive


WALL·E – We have the technology

Light dispersed through a Prism by refeia @ flickr

Another amazing feat from production teams at Pixar Animation Studios, Emeryville, California, “made possible by modern technology (William*)”. With processors and memory available in such large quantities more computing can be done in less time, with time being money, and films having a limited budget it means higher quality films can be made at lower special effects costs....read more »


WALL·E

Walle, protagonist of the film of the same name

Such a loving little film about an endearing robot. Whenever I’ve been in the cinema over the last month or so I’ve heard people saying “Have they remade Short Circuit?” Obviously not but there are some similarities. Back then they used Johnny as a promotional tool, but there was only one because it was sooooo expensive to make, with most of the budget going to the Visual Futurist, Syd Mead, who designed him....read more »


Work Addiction?

So I’m watching this report on ITV investigating Video Gaming Addiction, when I was little I played and played games day in day out, these days I can’t even imagine sitting down to play an hour. I know that to make any decent progress; level up once or move onto the next area it’s going to take me a few hours possibly even a few hours everyday for a week. I’ve got to re-acquaint myself with the game controls, practice so I don’t ruin how well I was doing 6 months-3 years ago and get going again....read more »


Firewall

Firewall Movie Poster

I’ve just finished watching the movie Firewall, it wasn’t good, it wasn’t bad it just was. Its one of those films that a select few revere (there always are a few) but I’m guessing the majority are like me and think “m’eh”....read more »


Star Wars, Lightsaber effects and a Macbook

First I found this: MacSaber You’ve all seen/heard about that kid who swung a pole around making Lightsaber noises, that got the mick taken out of him and then later had CG lightsaber effects added in making it cooler? Well there’s the latest OMG thats so Geeky experience: Star Wars Kid macbook...read more »


Happy Winter-een-mas!!

Game Poster

Well actually it started on the 25th so we’re smack bang in the middle of it but still have a happy holiday none-the-less....read more »


So many wasted hours

As a polite gesture on my part I decided to improve the quality of the software on my Grandparents computer. You read me right, Grandparents and computer in the same sentence without any derogative words attached. Basically both their PC and Laptop were running slow and I offered to reformat and reinstall everything. Taking me 6 hours, about a third of which involved collecting all of their files for backup....read more »