Can Windows 7 Save Microsoft's Reputation?

Windows, in its many and various forms, is installed on somewhere between 88 per cent and 93 per cent of the world's computers; to extrapolate that vague figure even more inaccurately, that's somewhere around a billion machines.

Indeed, Windows is so hilariously dominant in the marketplace that discussions of the merits of relative minnows such as Macintosh, Linux or Google's emerging Android OS sometimes feels as niche as pondering Kettering Town's impressive start to the football season.

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Lemmings - A Complete History

DMA Design, creators of the (in!)famous Lemmings game, which captured hearts in the 90s and broke many little feeble minds in the process have published the Complete History of Lemmings online. The piece mainly talks about the development of the game, some of the political situations and how they came up with those damn puzzles! Well worth a read for any budding games developer.

8000 New Jobs In IT In Next 4 Years

"The global IT industry will spearhead economic recovery, with 5.8 million new jobs in sight. Despite the global recession, some of the most exciting new developments in mobile and internet are still being unleashed, from Twitter, to Facebook, to apps on mobile devices."

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Semester 3 and Beyond

Howdy Folks,
Each student needs to make a decision on their choice of stream for Semester 3 shortly. The powerpoint presentation linked here outlines all the information. If anyone has questions, contact me know via email or call up to the office.

Music Technology Input Devices Demo

Hello Entertainment Systems people. Tomorrow (Wednesday) we're having a bit of a class excursion down to the College St. campus (Good Shepherd) to view a Music Technology demo that's taking place as part of New Music Week here at WIT.

The demo focuses on input devices for controller synthesizer events. There are two main parts:
1. Using Wii Remotes and Nunchucks to control sound, pitch and also trigger sample events.
2. Translating sound generated from a pots and pans drums kit into WAV format, then analysing that WAV and generating MIDI information which can then be fed into a synth.

This is of interest to students of both games and music disciplines. The music side is pretty obvious, but for the games people you will see how a gaming device (Wii Remote) can be co-opted for other purposes. Will this have an effect on games in the future?

ALL students need to be at the Bunker's Hill entrance of the College St. Campus at 11.25am tomorrow (Wednesday) morning. The demo is set up in the dance studios.

YouTube Branded Justice?

From the Irish Times: THE INTERNET can be a window to some dreadful cruelty: but physical cruelty always takes place elsewhere. When an anonymous teenager uploaded videos of himself mistreating a small household cat to YouTube, the crime was in what he had done, not that he’d shown the world the evidence. But what happened next was a direct result of that upload. It’s either an illustration that justice can be reached even in the less salubrious parts of the net; or it shows that sometimes the net reaches further into the real world than most people are comfortable with.

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DJ Phone

A young designer has came up with a phone concept that smashes together design elements from Nintendo's Wiimote, Tonium's Pacemaker Portable DJ, and the iPhone to make an interesting portable music system. Read on ...