MS Excel as 3D Engine?

This is no easter egg or something like that. Apparently, excel could be used as 3d engine. I don’t think we will get result like Half Life, Quake, and others, but still, it’s nice to see the idea.

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Update Your Twitter Status from Terminal

Yes, you could update using your favourite instant messaging client, or texting from your cellphone. But that aren’t the way to looked geeky. Updating from terminal is geekier.

Here, try this.
curl -u yourusername:yourpassword -d status=”Your Message Here” http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml

Of course, you have to had the curl installed first.

Linux is Heavily Used in hollywood Animation

Another example that linux is very powerful. Linux Journal has an article on how Tippett Studio using linux for their movie, The Spiderwick Chronicles. They’re using mac desktop, but running linux as it’s OS. Nice

IE8 Will Meet Web Standard?

Hearing the news that IE8 will default to standard-compliant mode definitely suprises me. Finally Microsoft want to use the widely used standard, instead of using their own standard.

I hope IE8 just a start. I want to see more standard compliant applications.

Top 10 Classic Smartphones

allaboutsymbian.com release their top 10 classic smartphones. Not sure why they use the word classic, considering the list included Sony Ericsson W960i and Nokia N95 8GB. Both are released on 2007, classic huh?

Nice list, it has my old but great SE P800. But I’m little bit dissapointed knowing the first UIQ 3 phone, SE M600i, didn’t make the list.

The Beautiful of Modding

Modding a PC case is and always be my dream. Yes, for some people, the important thing is what inside it, not how it’s looked. But I never disagree with them. Having a beautiful PC case is definitely a must. It’s simply a personal pleasure to me.

MKmods shows you you don’t have to be rich to do casing mod. A US$ 19 plain case could be modded into a whole different look. All you need is patient and some techie skills.

Bring Your Desktop to Starbucks

Do you want to do some fancy working with your computer in Starbucks, but you don’t have laptop? Well, you could bring your own desktop to Starbucks.

Ubuntu Brainstorm

Ubuntu brainstorm.

Maybe you have some ideas that you think could improve ubuntu in the future? tell them!

Cate West – The Vanishing Files

Cate West is Hidden Object genre game developed by Menara Games.

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Firefox 3 Will Be Faster than Any Others

Firefox 3 Performance Gets a Boost.

Wow, nice one. I might consider to use Firefox again, leaving my beloved Epiphany.