Eye-Opener: Stop Making Steve Jobs Richer

Some alternatives to Apple's half-functional pathetic iPad:
iPad Alternatives

A Couple of Nice Diagrams

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A Song of Ice and Fire

I am looking for hard copies of the four books in A Song of Ice and Fire. If you have the series and willing to part with it for a reasonable fee, let me hear it. If you never heard of this series, then you are missing a lot. This is by far the best fantasy-fiction series I have ever read (Lord of the Rings is incomparable).

Mobile Application Development Center

Starting from Fall 2010, I will be teaching mobile application development courses. My current plan is an application development course in Fall, and a mobile game development course in Spring. In 1-2 years, I will open a mobile application development center under the university. The center will have running projects to which the students can enroll and contribute. I am in contact with Blackberry and HTC. So, most probably we will focus on Java and JavaME development. Blackberry promised to supply teaching material and devices. Come on HTC, you can do the same and support the academy :)

Gamer - Banned Trailer

Wow, I didn't hear about this movie. Apparently, it was released a couple of months ago. Time to download and watch.

Gamer - Banned Trailer

Beautify your web with Stylish

I have recently found a beautiful Firefox extension that allows you download and use skin/theme files for different websites you browse. There are similar tools out there, but this one is really easy to use and hence deserved some advertising.

First of all, go get the extension here.

After you install the extension and restart your browser, go to http://userstyles.org/ and start installing some themes. I will give you a hand here. Go to this web page and click on the Install with Stylish button under the How To Install box. Now, go to Facebook and see the change for yourself!!

Here is a list of all Dark, shiny, blue transparency themes, in case you like the above theme for Facebook:
Facebook
Youtube
Wikipedia

The Internet is just better now!

edit: if you want to install a different theme for a website that you already themed, then you must first uninstall or disable the existing theme(s) from the addons dialog of Firefox.

edit 2: The google themes are not working properly, so I removed them from the above lists. But in case you want to give them a shot, here they are:
Google, iGoogle, etc.
GMail

Let me know, if you find anything nice for the google applications.

The best game I have recently played.

The company of myself

For all my CA320 and CGT551 students, as well as all game addicts out there. This is a nice little flash game with a very nice idea (now that is my cup of tea [sorry for bastardizing English a bit]). You play the role of a lonely hermit trying to find his way through platforms. But somehow, you are actually wandering in his memory as he tells his story to his psychiatrist. The story is lovely in its own right. But what is really catchy in this little gem is the gameplay. You can play each level many times. Well, no big surprise here. But, everytime you replay a level, you will be replaying it synchronously with your past selves. Confusing? Go play it. It deserves a try by all means.