Tue., Sept. 9, 2014
Meh. The iPhone 6 looks cool, with its rounded glass. The 6+ is big, approaching Phablet territory. Meh. The operating system was already announced at the last Apple event, so meh. The watch looks rad, but if you thought the iPhone was elitist… Meh. Combine…
Mon., Sept. 8, 2014
Last week was low on tabs, high on action. Check them out. http://www.nwprepsnow.com/almanac/ Most of last week was spent working on NWPrepsNow.com, the collaborative Spokane-area high-school sports site that combine's the SR's text and photos with KHQ/SWX's video coverage. It's a pretty cool site, if…
Mon., Sept. 8, 2014
Title: The Last of Us: Remastered Genre: Cover-based stealth shooter Platform reviewed on: Playstation 4 Developer: Naughty Dog Publisher: Sony Computer Entertainment America Release Date: July 29, 2014 Acclaimed film critic Roger Ebert once (in)famously said, “Video games will never be art.” He clarified those…
Tue., Sept. 2, 2014
Last week's tabs development heavy, since it's been crunch time here for a few projects. I'm also posting them late, for the same reasons. Anyway, check 'em out: http://celery.readthedocs.org/en/2.1-archived/configuration.html http://chase-seibert.github.io/blog/2010/07/09/djangocelery-quickstart-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-using-cron-and-love-celery.html http://sebastiandahlgren.se/2012/11/13/using-celery-for-asynchronous-messages-in-django/ Celery is a Python script we use here at the Spokesman to perform various…
Mon., Sept. 1, 2014
Title: Infamous: Second Son Genre: Open-world action Platform reviewed on: Playstation 4 Developer: Sucker Punch Productions Publisher: Sony Computer Entertainment America Release Date: March 21, 2014 Enjoy your powers in Infamous: Second Son. With the promise of the next generation of console gaming comes the…
Tue., Aug. 26, 2014
This is amazing. The new iPhone 6 was leaked and disassembled to see what was inside. This guy is sure to be blacklisted, similar to what happened to the Gawker dude.
Mon., Aug. 25, 2014
Title: FEZ Genre: Puzzle/platformer Platform reviewed on: Playstation 4 Developer: Polytron Corporation Publisher: Polytron Corporation/Trapdoor Release date (original): April 13, 2012 A little taste of the superb level design in 'FEZ.' The resurgence of the platform genre can be attributed to the rise of the…
Fri., Aug. 22, 2014
Welcome to the new feature I'm adding to the Tech Deck called "Dan Gayle's Tabs for the Week," where I'll share the best of all the Firefox tabs I have open by the end of the week. A lot of the links shamelessly come from…
Wed., Aug. 20, 2014
Do you remember those long nights in grade/secondary/high school spent gripping a sweat-drenched Nintendo 64 controller, peppering your buddies with paintballs of death while screaming at their selection of 'Oddjob'? If so, this video of Jimmy Fallon from 'The Tonight Show' schooling Pierce Brosnan, AKA…
Mon., Aug. 18, 2014
Thanks to Fox News, there is mass hysteria about the Facebook Messenger app being the Worst Thing Ever™, which is silly. The ruckus is all about how the app asks for all sorts of permissions to use the camera on your phone or access your…
Mon., Aug. 18, 2014
Title: Battlefield 4 Genre: First-person shooter Platform reviewed on: Playstation 4 Developer: EA Digital Illusions CE (DICE) Publisher: Electronic Arts Release Date: October 29, 2013 Watch Kip play (miserably) a portion of 'Battlefield 4.' If the “Fallout” series teaches us that war never changes, the…
Mon., Aug. 11, 2014
Title: Charlie Murder Genre: Beat ‘em up Platform reviewed on: Xbox 360 Developer: Ska Studios Publisher: Microsoft Game Studios Release Date: August 14, 2013 My education in the side-scrolling beat ‘em up began, as most children of the ‘90s, with the spritely “Final Fight” for…
Thu., Aug. 7, 2014
An unlikely hero, robbed of his parents and an identity, rises from obscurity to lead an intergalactic band of misfits to save the universe. Wise-cracking sidekicks, inspired by money, fame and revenge, join our reluctant hero against seemingly insurmountable odds. All of this occurs to…
Mon., Aug. 4, 2014
Title: 'Dead Island' Platform reviewed on: Xbox 360 Developer: Techland Publisher: Deep Silver Release Date: September 6, 2011 It's a truism of post-apocalyptic zombie lore: Stay in a group, or your brain will be eaten. That same can be said when playing Techland's action-adventure role…
Wed., July 30, 2014
I did not know that this was a thing, but apparently this is a thing. The Riker Lean.
Tue., July 29, 2014
Title: 'Watch Dogs' Platform reviewed on: Playstation 4 Developer: Ubisoft Montreal Publisher: Ubisoft Release Date: May 27, 2014 If there's anything I've learned from two generations of open-world games, it's that they must do one of two things well to be successful: 1) establish a…
Thu., July 24, 2014
This is the most amazing Kickstarter project ever. No words are needed to describe the awesome. For more details, and to sign up for the (ALREADY FUNDED!) Kickstarter, check out the Bunch O Balloons campaign page here.
Tue., July 22, 2014
I'm a big fan of electronic music, so I thought I'd share with you this collection of the best drops ever. It is a very serious thing, these drops, and I am a very serious person. If those drops are too mega for you, perhaps…
Mon., July 21, 2014
It's a brutal, turn-based Rogue-like game with no save points and no mercy. I still haven't survived longer than a few hours before I die from a traumatic head wound or massive internal bleeding. Like some nightmare version of Groundhog's Day, I start over again…
Thu., July 10, 2014
If you haven't noticed, Summer is in full swing, and that means that the eternal struggle between the sexes over the A/C is also heating up. While not particularly a "tech" thing, I was curious if there was any science behind why women prefer the…
Thu., May 29, 2014
Adobe just recently released three weights of their new Source Serif Pro to the public under the SIL Open Font License, and I couldn't be happier. I am a self-avowed font nerd, and I'm super stoked to see that Adobe is continuing to add to…
Wed., May 28, 2014
My name is Dan I am teaching some journalism students some HTML/CSS at Eastern Washington University. Specifically, I'm embedding a tweet. Right here. Like below this. Can you see it? That's an embedded tweet. A rejected high five is one of the biggest insults there…
Fri., April 11, 2014
Any commenters that log directly into our Disqus commenting system are advised to change their passwords due to a security vulnerability announced by Disqus.com. http://engineering.disqus.com/2014/04/10/heartbleed.html PLEASE NOTE: This applies ONLY to users who use their DISQUS account to comment, NOT users who comment using their…
Tue., April 8, 2014
Hey everyone, this is really important: Avoid the internet for a while and change all your passwords to everything. This is not a joke. They discovered a bug in OpenSSL, which powers like 2/3 of the internet. It's really, really really bad. If you are…
Mon., March 31, 2014
Out of all the news coming out the the Ukraine, I bet this wasn't a story you were expecting. The Guardian is reporting that the Ukrainian Internet party (UIP) has put forth a new candidate for President. Darth "I am your father" Vader, Sith Lord.…
