Many of you will remembmer the E3 2003 announcement of Half-Life 2… the release date that got missed. Anyway here is the video from that presentation. Even tho we have had the source engine and many additions to it and new episodes of HL2 it is still fun to look at

Download the video @ Half-Life 2 E3 2003 Presentation – High Res

Tags: 2003, Demo, E3, Half-Life: 2, High, Presentation, Res, Valve, video

Here are the links for: Friday, February 13th 2009…

Sony Closing San Francisco Metreon Playstation Store [Sony]
Microsoft: Bounty on Conficker worm creator
Microsoft Sued Over Vista-To-XP Downgrade Fees
iPhone and iPod touch shares continue to grow
Unix world braces for geekgasm
News: Google enables spreadsheet edits from iPhone
Square-Enix definitely taking over Eidos
Google to Take a Hefty Cut on Android App Sales
Android Pay App Explosion Due Next Week
First Mac Screenshots for Google Chrome Browser [Google]
Twitter Raises $35 Million Series C From Benchmark and IVP
My letter to Microsoft as it gets back into retail
Fan-made HL2 movie (Must see for any Half-Life Fan)
7 Things We Hate About Windows 7 [Windows 7 Sucks]
Report gives iPhone 51% of US smartphone ad market
Prey lands on iPhone
Apple: Jailbreaking is illegal
Buy Panasonic: Panasonic forces 10,000 managers to buy their own electronics
Marketplace icon present within latest WinMo 6.5 screenshots
MobileMe File Sharing Now Available
HP’s exclusive Mobile Internet Ubuntu skin not so exclusive anymore
YouTube goes offline – free and paid downloads
Short: Windows 7 (beta build 7022) white list loses one

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I recently upgraded to a Toshiba Satellite laptop and was surprised to find out that it’s Ati Radeon Mobilty HD 2400 did Bully: Scholarship Edition amazingly well. As a test  I copied the bulk of my games over to the laptops tiny 200gb hd (It will have 500gb later on) to do testing and found that most of my other games work good too.

Despite the Ati Radeon Mobilty HD 2400 being a sub par series it works good enough for me. Due to the fact i don’t care about Anti-aliasing that wasn’t issue.

In the end if you do casual games and don’t care about high frame rate you can get away with a standard laptop as long as it has a semi modern graphics processor.

My test games were:

Half-Life 2
Half-Life 2: Episode One
Half-Life 2: Episode Two
Portal
Garry’s Mod
Bully: Scholarship Edition

Tags: ATI, Bully: Scholarship Edition, Episode One, Episode Two, Games, Garry's Mod, Half-Life: 2, Laptop, Portal, Toshiba

Here are the links for: Wednesday, February 4th 2009…

A closer look at the Windows 7 SKUs
Samsung 8-Megapixel Memoir Phone is Like Digital Camera That Takes Calls [Samsung Memoir]
7-inch USB-based MIMO monitors now shipping
17-inch MacBook Pro delayed, shipping in two weeks
Half-Life 2 engine used to create fire drill demo
New Snow Leopard Build (10A261) Seeded to Developers
Meizu M8 gets English-language video review
Gmail Adds New Move To and Labels Drop-Downs, Autocomplete
Gates unleashes mosquito swarm onto TED talk audience (Update: Maybe not?)
Watch and Listen To The Geniuses of This Week’s TED Conference On Your iPhone [IPhone Apps]
Why Your Avatar Matters
Mark Finkle: Fennec – The Inside Story
It’s official: DTV “hard date” moved to June 12
Chinese man killed by exploding cellphone; a few helpful tips
New Steam Update Gives You the Ability to Specify Content Download Region
Google Latitude coming to other devices, iPhone included
Apple to Allow Background Tasks on iPhone?
T-Mobile G1’s RC33 update includes Google Latitude
Symantec brings back Norton Utilities
Deck out your iPod Video with a 240GB hard drive upgrade
Panasonic: 15,000 jobs to be eliminated
First impressions with the Eee PC 1000HE and its delectable keyboard
Quake in your browser
Apple: Welcome to the obsolete list, PowerBook G4
Firefox 3.0.6 fixes yet another JavaScript bug
Time Warner swings to 4Q loss on hefty writedown
Google Earthlings fly to Mars
Known bugs in Windows 7 beta
Disk Encryption Standards Could Muddy Data Recovery
Google & The Big Ideas
Windows 7 auto-elevation mistake lets malware elevate freely, easily
Second Windows 7 beta UAC security flaw: malware can silently self-elevate with default UAC policy

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A while back a friend got me into a game called Garry’s Mod… A free mod that was built on the Half-Life 2 Source engine. I had known about it but wasn’t really sure  about it. The first version I used was version 9.0.4 and i later bought Garry’s Mod 10 on steam when it was released in November 2006… The version 9 interface was decent back when i played it but after playing version 10 for a year i chose to go back and try version 9 again and it seems kinda backwards. Also in the mean time i have been playing with the beta of the new Orange Box enabled Garry’s Mod update. Anyway i did some quick tour videos of the 3 Garry’s Mod versions that i have used (yes i count the beta as a different version).

Here are the videos:

Garry’s Mod 9
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Last free version, older interface

Garry’s Mod 10
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First pay version from steam, new easier to use interface and controls


Garry’s Mod 10 2007 Beta
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New update that will add a easier to use interface, new load screen, and the benefits of the new source 07 engine

Tags: Garry's Mod, Half-Life: 2, Source, source07, sourcemod