The Truth About the Physics of ‘Angry Birds’
October 12, 2010
We all know that ‘Angry Birds’ is one of the most addictive games ever created, but does this physics puzzler actually obey the laws of physics? Wired’s Rhett Allain had to find out, and used some fancy video-tracking software and lots of geeky math skills to reveal the truth. He also discovered that, in the real world, those red angry birds would be over two-feet tall. Terrifying.
Tags: AngryBirds, apps, gaming, ios, physics, top, videogames
Right then…. so now I have an excuse to be playing angry birds in my physics lessons! Yay!
Exploring Search with Prospector
October 12, 2010
I cannot wait to see the outcome of these prototypes that we are soon going to be seeing… oh… wait…. let me explain….
Mozilla Prospector is all about experimenting with search in the browser…. some of these experiments will come in the form of no-restart addons!
For more information visit the Mozilla Labs Blog
Firefox 4 Beta for Android and Maemo is Now Available
October 7, 2010
The first Firefox 4 beta for mobile is now available to download and test. It’s built on the same technology platform as Firefox for the desktop and optimized for browsing on a mobile phone. Firefox beta for mobile comes with many of your favorite Firefox desktop features like Firefox Sync, Add-ons and the Awesome Bar.
A major focus of this release is to increase performance and responsiveness. Two of the big architecture changes are Electrolysis and Layers. Our alpha contained Electrolysis which allowed the browser interface to run in a separate process from the one rendering Web content, resulting in a much more responsive browser. This beta brings the Layers pieces which improve overall performance and in graphics areas such as scrolling, zooming and animations. For more technical details, see Mozilla mobile engineer Matt Brubeck’s blog.
Firefox 4 Beta includes Firefox Sync to create a seamless Web browsing experience between desktop and mobile. With Firefox Sync, you can take your browsing history, bookmarks, tabs, passwords and form-fill data with you anywhere so you never have to retype passwords or long URLs again. Your Firefox data is completely encrypted end-to-end between your computers so that only you have access to it. (For those using Firefox Sync, be sure you’re up to date.)
This release delivers a rich set of features, including pinch-to-zoom, which is now supported on multitouch-capable devices, and the Awesome Screen, which instantly gives you access to your recent history, bookmarks and tabs just by tapping in the Awesome Bar. See the release notes for a full list of features included in this release.
Firefox 4 Beta for mobile is significant step forward in sharing a personalized, seamless and encrypted Web experience across devices. Developers have the power to use the latest Web technologies like HTML5, CSS and JavaScript to to build fast, powerful and beautiful mobile apps and add-ons that can reach millions of devices. We are excited to see the innovative and valuable mobile add-ons that developers will build for Firefox.
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Meet the Firefox mobile team and watch the demo:
Mozilla need your help testing this beta to build the best Firefox mobile browser. Get involved with this beta release and Go Mobile.
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9GAG
September 29, 2010
I have found a great site that should provide hours of fun… it is called 9gag and there really is some great stuff there. I recommend you take a look for yourself!
THIS PLACE I HURT TO BE #vimeo
August 26, 2010
I don't know what it is, but this video has envoked something of an emotion that I cannot describe. One I never knew I even had. Truely a video you have to see.
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sent from my nexus one
Awesome Drop
August 25, 2010
So just a few moments ago I finally got round to reading my big ol’ nasty lot of feeds that trudge through my aggregater daily to find something amazing. That something is called Awesome Drop.
Just open up the Awesome Drop app on your phone and enter the PIN it gives you in Awesome Drop’s web interface, accessible from any browser. The HTML5-powered webapp will then give you a window to which you can drag and drop any files you want, and they’ll automatically appear on your phone, ready for use. Check out the video for a demonstration.
This works wonderfully, and I cannot wait to take a look at the source code that drives it. I just have to know how it works!
For those of you who don’t have an android phone I really do feel for you. There is always dropbox I suppose, and I will continue to use dropbox as it is very good for times when I am not at my computer, but for the quick transfer… I don’t want to hunt for my transfer cable, mount the device, and all that cafuffle.
[via Lifehacker]
I want to share ‘How to feed the world ?’ with you
July 25, 2010
Hi!
I thought you would enjoy this video:
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sent from my nexus one
I want to share ‘The Search’ with you
July 25, 2010
Hi!
I thought you would enjoy this video:
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sent from my nexus one
Medical Update
July 13, 2010
Okay, time for the promised update to you all…
I now no longer have a chest in my tube? Wait… a tube in my chest { just joking im shline 
}. This means that I can leave soon. I have to spend one more night here and then have one more xray to make sure I am not going to drop down dead. Then FREEDOM!!!
So that is all I am going to post for now. I just got the good TV and PS3 back so I want to make the most of the time I have with it.
FuzzyFox out!
In Vancouver Hospital
July 13, 2010
Hey guys this is just a very quick post which will be followed up shortly. Some of you may know that I was not at the last day of the Mozilla Summit but was instead rushed away to hospital. Well I have now been transfered to Vancouver Lions Gate (about 3 days ago).
All is now well and good. I have one final x-ray in the morning and then a short wait of about 8 hours before I am discharged.
The reason for all this is nothing too serious. I had what they call a “Spontaneous Numothorax”. Basically. Part of my lung collapsed. This is apparently quite common in young, tall, slim males of my age. So it was just my turn out of all us tall, young, slim, 18 year old males.
Many thanks to all who have sent / are planning on sending me get well soon messages.
This has not ruined my summit experience in the slightest (though I would have liked to go up the mountain). It has merely made it a little more interesting.
So more to come,
William D signing off…
