http://blog.runninginthehalls.co.uk Wed, 17 Feb 2010 11:06:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A leading privacy group has urged US regulators to investigate Google's new social networking service Buzz, one week after its launch. The Electronic Privacy Information Centre (Epic) has made its complaint to the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC). It says that Buzz - which is part of Google's Gmail service - ... http://blog.runninginthehalls.co.uk/google/google-buzz-falls-from-grace/ The world's biggest social network has revealed details of a stripped-down, text-only version of its mobile site called Facebook Zero. The low-bandwidth site is aimed at people viewing Facebook on their mobile and will launch "in the coming weeks". The social network recently said that more than 100 million people now access ... http://blog.runninginthehalls.co.uk/technology/facebook-zero-to-be-lanuched-soon/ Source: bbc.co.uk Barbie, the toy doll that is a perennial favourite among girls, has been assigned a new career - computer engineer.But how accurate is the glam-looking tech support Barbie compared to real life? She's got an impressive CV that includes everything from astronaut to racing car driver. But Barbie, the doll ... http://blog.runninginthehalls.co.uk/other/barbie-is-now-a-computer-engineer-love-the-pink-glasses/ Source: bbc.co.uk/news Hand-held devices could soon have pressure-sensitive touch-screens and keys, thanks to a UK firm's material that exploits a quantum physics trick. The technology allows, for example, scrolling down a long list or webpage faster as more pressure is applied. A division of Samsung that distributes mobile phone components to several handset ... http://blog.runninginthehalls.co.uk/news/quantum-phone-technology-advances-for-touch-phones/ Source: Rory Cellan-Jones, BBC News Today is Safer Internet Day and in the UK, the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (Ceop) is promoting two ideas to make the web more secure for children. The first is an animated film aimed at helping children aged five to seven to stay safe - ... http://blog.runninginthehalls.co.uk/news/safer-internet-day-browsing-with-microsoft/ A "paint by numbers" dress has been announced today by fashion designer Berber Soepboer and graphic designer Michiel Schuurman. Being hailed as a way for women to co-ordinate their party wear, the sixties style scalloped dress comes with a varity of different coloured pens to match your moods. Berber, who lives in ... http://blog.runninginthehalls.co.uk/other/paint-by-numbers-dress-a-fashion-first/ We've been busy over the past few weeks doing pitches and writing documents, doing design work and forming partnerships with Industry partners. We even had our first Running in the Halls birthday celebration and curry night, and that late night we ordered in Pizza of course! In our spare time we ... http://blog.runninginthehalls.co.uk/game-development/what-weve-been-up-to/ We've just set up a new rendering machine in the studio. I did a trial test render. Staggered at the speed difference an i7 processor makes. Apparently vista 64 says its running at a perfect score of 5.9! http://blog.runninginthehalls.co.uk/other/r-in-the-clouds/ Or something similar. We're messing with making a facebook game, just for fun. It has tractors! http://blog.runninginthehalls.co.uk/game-development/tractor-factor/ If you already use some kind of online versioning software this article is not for you. though if you're not, this might prove useful. I've been using Subversion since 2007 on a couple of personal projects, mainly because I used to hop from one laptop to the other and found the ... http://blog.runninginthehalls.co.uk/tips/how-we-use-svn-version-control/