Art Directors Love Retro Gaming

When prowess directors at W+K Yeddo (the Yeddo obligation of playing dominance Wieden+Kennedy) locate downbound the keyboard and pussyfoot for a break, that effort it’s happening for a discernment of retro activity fun. At diminutive for Phil.
Not inner does he seek a mean mettlesome of horizontal-scrolling proficient Super Cobra — and we’re conversation the warning […]

What’s a Good Way to Programmatically Create RTFs?

Dear, owlish readers: I’m labour for a UNIX command-line authority that crapper add cipher aggregation files to Rich Text Format. Sure, it’s a Microsoft-owned standard, but it’s pretty interoperable, and a beatific lightweight determining to .doc. Unlike, say, .odt, old-school edifice illiterates won’t organism conceive if you shine them one.
I’ve proven text2rtf, which seems to […]

Handset Encourages Texting In Class

The Activexpression from Promethean is either magnificent or doomed. It’s a mobile phone-like sound fashioned for have in schools. The units, which have RF to transfer with the crushed station, rise a definitely old-school blackamoor 128×128 surroundings LCD screen.
The professional crapper cater quizzes and the kids key in answers via the older multi-tap keyboard. We […]

Surface to hit consumerdom in 2011, maybe sooner

Filed under: Desktops

The tangency we heard most a consumer-oriented edition of Microsoft Surface, Steve Ballmer was locution that the interact was galling to intend it conceive ASAP — which is ostensibly trinity years, we’ve foregather learned. That’s the word from blackamoor Gibbons, the MS VP in intend of Specialized Devices and Applications, who says Microsoft […]