Stephen Merchant the genius other half behind The Office and HBO’s Extras has joined the cast of Valve’s highly anticipated Portal 2 as the voice of Wheatley. I seriously cannot wait for this game. Having recently completing the first Portal, I can only imagine the technological advancements and story developments that Portal 2 will adopt. Enjoy the trailer for now. Remember to watch it in HD.
Monthly Archive for August, 2010
With every article that surfaces for Call of Duty: Black Ops, I’m getting more excited and looking forward to my first Treyarch experience. I know that they have a lot to live up to in order to fill Infinity Ward’s shoes but they are now a fully committed studio to the COD franchise. The Bitbag just posted an update as to what’s brewing with CODBO before the so called surprise “Full Multiplayer Reveal” on September 1st. Beta anyone?
What’s better than reddit and imgur? The ability to upload images directly to both sites from OSX’s menu bar via Nate Stedman’s Imgup. I can’t tell you how many times I would want to upload a pic but dread going through the extra steps. This is no longer is the case! When you install this, make sure you make this as one of your login items. System Preferences> Accounts> Login Items> and add it to your queue. Visit Stedman’s blog for the latest download.
I just ran into this code to embed HTML5 YouTube videos on your site. Now all mobile platforms that don’t render Flash like all iOS4 devices and the like can load in HTML5 with no hiccups. What’s cool about the iPhone’s behavior is that it doesn’t need to launch its native YouTube App and therefore load the clip immediately in Safari. Just replace VIDEO_ID with your clip’s ID. It’s the sequence of characters in the URL that begin after the equal (=) sign and before the ampersand (&) sign.
Just scroll down to see my embedded videos that are already coded out this way. If you see the HTML5 logo in the video’s control menu, then it’s working. There are still several clips on YouTube that are not encoded in H.264 and will therefore load in Flash. It’s only a matter of time before YouTube makes this the norm. Here’s to another win for the HTML5 standard!
