December 2010
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Coffee is the source of my optimism.
– Jane
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Thumb Scan
My second foray into PalmOS programming proved to be a hit after my first game, Fire Escape, failed to capture a big audience. Thumb Scan was one of the few “apps” (that word didn’t even exist then) which did full screen animation and later spawned copycats across a variety of mobile devices.
Originally released on Feb 11, 1999.
Awarded 4 out of 5 stars on Palm Central! Awarded...
Isle of Tune →
Create musical journeys from street layouts. Roadside elements are your instruments and cars are the players. Share your island for others to play and vote on!
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
– Arthur C. Clarke
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'Jeopardy!' to pit humans against IBM machine →
The game show “Jeopardy!” will pit man versus machine this winter in a competition that will show how successful scientists are in creating a computer that can mimic human intelligence. Two of the venerable game show’s most successful champions — Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter — will play two games against “Watson,” a computer program developed by IBM’s...
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The letters of the word "forty" are in...