Have Laptop Will Travel

Play Quake on your browser via HTML 5

This here is the future of gaming, folks. One day in the not-so-distant future, we’ll be playing games on our browsers – without any plugins of some sort.

Played Quake Live before? If you haven’t I suggest you do it – it’s an excellent port of Quake Arena with better graphics, and you play on your browser. However, it uses a plugin, so it’s not exactly the most optimal way to play games on your browser. Same goes for Flash-based games like Farmville.

So what if you can play Quake 2 on your browser – with no plug-in needed? All you need to do it woud be HTML 5 and WebGL. And Google has pulled it off, apparently. Check out the video demo:

According to Download Squad:

They started off with Bytonic Software’s Jake2, a Java port of the open source Quake engine. From there, they re-compiled the engine using the Google Web Toolkit (also OSS), created a WebGL renderer to display the graphics, moved multiplayer communications from UDP to WebSockets (part of the HTML5 spec), and bolted on an emulated filesystem to allow game and preference saves.

However, I’ve looked for the download link in the Google Code page. I can’t find it anywhere. [Read more…]

Are 3-D display laptops the future?

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Honestly, I don’t know what to make of it. It seems that Acer has come up with a laptop that has a 3-D display effect. The 3-D effect is achieved by a transparent polarizing filter overlaid on the screen, which splits images into separate streams for each eye. You would need a pair of special polarizing glasses to get the effect, and if you look at the screen straight-on, you’d get the 3-D effect. Looking at the screen at an angle may actually not show the 3-D. [Read more…]

CrunchPad is not dead, could cost $400

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So the world waited with bated breath this November for Michael Arrington’s much-awaited $200 internet tablet, the Crunchpad. And it never arrived. In fact, the way it just disappeared from the zeitgeist made people speculate about its premature demise.

Well Arrington came out and said that no, the CrunchPad is not dead. In fact, it’s going to be out sooner or later and it’s going to cost between $300-$400, with sponsorship (probably like Google sponsoring Firefox by being its default search engine). [Read more…]

Litl Easel

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I know what you’re thinking: what is the Litl Easel? It’s apparently a “webbook,” or an internet appliace. It’s designed to get the clutter of an operating system out of the way. The custom operating system will take you straight to the browser and open up multiple windows to do tasks straight in the cloud. [Read more…]

New Dell Monitor adds versatility to your desk

Whenever I am at home I usually turn my laptop into an instant CPU. I connect a monitor to it as well as a wireless keyboard and mouse combo. My reasons are simple — I don’t need to torture my eyes and give myself carpal tunnel syndrome when I am at home. If I can make things easier for myself then, of course, I’ll take advantage of it.

If you also do the same things like I do then the Dell SP2008WFP will be a good monitor for your needs. It’s a 20 inch flat panel monitor that is meant to be used for gaming, multimedia and and for communications. The nifty thing about this Dell monitor is the integration of a 2 megapixel webcam to the unit. No more awkwarly propped up webcams with this baby. It also makes your desk look less cluttered. It also has a built in microphone for easier video conferencing. The great thing about this webcam is that Dell has made it fully functional. It comes with a Dell Webcam software suite that allows you to do a number of functions with your webcam.

The monitor has a wonderful pixel response time of just 2 ms. This means that it can easily handle the demands of high end gaming. It has an HDCP compliant DVI connector that also allows you to view high definition content that is protected.

I’m going to list down this Dell monitor in my wishlist to Santa.