Bobby Kotick – “I took a look at World of Warcraft and I thought, ‘Who would want to buy a subscription to that?’”

This is from Bobby Kotick speach as DICE this year (CEO of Activision Blizzard)
Kotick was also offered the chance to buy Blizzard in the 1990s for $7 million, and then in the early 2000s for $700 million.
[12:10] “I took a look at World of Warcraft and I thought, ‘Who would want to buy a subscription [...]

[Review] Microsoft Sidewinder X8 Mouse

Just received my Microsoft Sidewinder X8 mouse as a replacement to my aging Logitech G7. Both mice are wireless gaming mice relying on batteries for power, but both go different ways to making sure you can always use your mouse.

The Logitech G7 went down the route of 2 seperate batteries that could only be used [...]

Create a cartoon style cloud in Photoshop

This tutorial will teach you how to make a basic cartoon cloud in Photoshop. The tutorial should be suitable for beginners.

Create a basic layout using HTML & CSS

Following on from the Guide to classes and ids in HTML and CSS, we will create this basic 2 column layout.

Before we delve in to HTML and CSS, you need to understand the basic structure of the page to know how to write your HTML. To do this, on paper or Photoshop draw out [...]

Guide to classes and id’s in HTML & CSS

Classes
A class can be applied to any HTML element to allow you to easily target it using CSS to add styling and change the way it is presented to the user. In CSS classes are selected using a full stop followed by the name of the class.

Open source intranet solution – Open Atrium

Open Atrium is an open source intranet package that uses Drupal as it’s underlying framework.
As Open Atrium is a Drupal installation profile, it runs using PHP and MySQL, which means other than hardware cost it is free to get started and run. It features a few familar modules to any Drupal user such as Views [...]

Create a Drupal 6 theme based on the Zen starter theme

What is Zen?
Taken from the Zen project page:
Zen is the ultimate starting theme for Drupal. If you are building your own standards-compliant theme, you will find it much easier to start with Zen than to start with Garland or Bluemarine. This theme has fantastic online documentation and tons of code comments for both the PHP [...]

Convert BluRay or DVD to MKV (x264) using free open source applications

We will be using 2 free open source applications. The first application to rip the video files from the BluRay or DVD, for this we will use MakeMKV, this will take the main video from the BluRay or DVD and create an MKV using the video and audio straight from the disc. With [...]