Saturday, July 17, 2010

Classic Computer Games: The Ones that Should not be Forgotten

 With all the technology available in today’s video games it can be easy to forget where such brilliant masterpieces truly began. Very few people remember the old DOS based games, where all there was on the computer monitor was an endless stream of text. The user would type in the desired move for game progress, and the text story would tell the result. Nowadays, such games have been completely forgotten. Let’s take a moment to travel back and time and reminisce about the extraordinary games that have since transformed into graphics, speech, and interactive environments.
... From: Classic Computer Games: The Ones That Should Not Be Forgotten

Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Is Buying an E-Reader Right for You?

If you're a book lover you can understand the difference between reading text on a computer versus reading text in print.  You can understand the way that the words slide into your brain and either remain seated, or proceed to slither away into some unknown abyss.  As an avid reader, you know what the term, "eye strain", really means, as you devour word after word, sentence after sentence.  At the end of the day, do you really want to be hooked to another electronic device in order to do the thing you love most - reading?  Are e-readers really just mini computers, waiti... From: Reasons to Buy an E-Reader and Some Facts You Should Know