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mcnaryw

Computer program manager - 0 views

www.techsupportalert.com/e-maximizes-pc-performance.htm

Gaming Efficiency

shared by mcnaryw on 08 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • mcnaryw on 08 Mar 11
     
    If you like playing games on the computer this shuts down all the stuff you don't need when they are running. Once you are done you just click a button and everything is back to normal.
mandabee9

StumbleUpon.com: Discover the Best of the Web - 0 views

www.stumbleupon.com

shared by mandabee9 on 25 Feb 11 - Cached
  • Alex Bayer on 25 Feb 11
     
    This is a cool site that has a lot of random stuff on the web anywhere from photos,videos, and websites recommend by other people. The website finds things that you are interested in.
  • mandabee9 on 11 Mar 11
     
    I have spent many MANY hours "stumbling" through various websites. What I love about StumbleUpon is that you can choose a category (or categories) to "stumble" through. My favorite topic to stumble through is food. More often than not, the featured websites that would come up have easy-to-follow recipes posted on blogs and mouthwatering pictures. Another good topic to stumble through is games if you're looking for more lighthearted fun.
Zach Morin

Pixel Prospector - 0 views

www.pixelprospector.com/indev

shared by Zach Morin on 08 Mar 11 - Cached
  • Zach Morin on 08 Mar 11
     
    For those who like to know what kind of cool independent games are coming up.
Elise Beall

SXSW 2011: The internet is over | Technology | The Guardian - 1 views

www.guardian.co.uk/...sxsw-2011-internet-online

digital sxsw technology gamification social future

shared by Elise Beall on 16 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • We've been hearing about this moment in digital history since at least 1988, when the Xerox technologist Mark Weiser coined the term "ubiquitous computing", referring to the point at which devices and systems would become so numerous and pervasive that "technology recedes into the background of our lives".
  • sensor-driven collective intelligence
  • When the GPS system in your phone or iPad can relay your location to any site or device you like, when Facebook uses facial recognition on photographs posted there, when your financial transactions are tracked, and when the location of your car can influence a constantly changing, sensor-driven congestion-charging scheme, all in real time, something has qualitatively changed
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  • You're still creating the web, but without the conscious need to do so.
    • Elise Beall
      Elise Beall on 16 Mar 11
       
      I have great optimism for actually being alive to see all of this happen.  My fear is that it falls into the wrong hands.  Or we begin to rely on it so heavily, that when the system hiccups, the world crumbles.  Recently, in my "Computational World" class, we talked about how the fear is all relative.  My teacher (late 40s maybe?), said he wanted nothing to do with facebook, and has a hard time understanding why people feel the need to share in that way.  He also despises his cell phone, and only carries one because his family insists.  My generation has embraced all of these technologies, and I am positive that my son will grow up with few reservations about this incredible growth in tech.
  • credit card companies can predict with 98% accuracy, two years in advance, when a couple is going to divorce, based on spending patterns alone
  • Videogame designers, the logic goes, have become the modern world's leading experts on how to keep users excited, engaged and committed
  • So why not apply that expertise to all those areas of life where we could use more engagement, commitment and fun: in education, say, or in civic life, or in hospitals?
  • Seth Priebatsch
  • SCVNGR
  • His take on the education system, for example, is that it is a badly designed game: students compete for good grades, but lose motivation when they fail
  • why not start all pupils with zero points and have them strive for the high score
  • Clay Shirky
  • The end state of connectivity," he argues, "is that it provides citizens with increased power."
  • AskNature
  • Nissan, right now, is developing swarming cars based on the movements of schooling fish
  • the internet is distracting if it stops you from doing what you really want to be doing; if it doesn't, it isn't
  • we were not meant to operate as computers do
  • A related danger of the merging of online and offline life, says business thinker Tony Schwartz, is that we come to treat ourselves, in subtle ways, like computers. We drive ourselves to cope with ever-increasing workloads by working longer hours, sucking down coffee and spurning recuperation. But "
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