Fun games for kids as holiday gifts
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Widgets to Consider for Holiday Gifts
Widgets to Consider for Holiday Gifts
12/08/2003 04:47 PMAP via Daily Press Dec 8 2003 3:03PM ET
Your Apple/Mac Holiday Gifts
Your Apple/Mac Holiday Gifts
12/25/2004 11:28 PMHoliday Gifts for .Mac Members
Holiday Gifts for .Mac Members
12/02/2003 01:36 AMApple has announced new benefits for .Mac members, just in time to
help you create fantastic Holiday movies.
Going Digital with iMovie and iDVD
Learn how to create movies with this new training course produced by
Apple. It covers everything you need to know including shooting your
movie, editing it, getting it online, and sharing it with friends and
family.
Free Sound Effects from Skywalker Sound
These sound effects will spice up any movie, and they're available
exclusively to .Mac members via the new Members Only folder of your
iDisk.
Free Soundtracks from Freeplay
Now you can add professional music to your movies with these
soundtracks. Encoded in AAC format, and available in your Members Only
folder.
For more details, visit the .Mac homepage.
Geek Books as Holiday Gifts
Geek Books as Holiday Gifts
12/19/2004 03:51 PMSlashdot Dec 19 2004 2:05AM GMT
Naughty kids lose gifts to online casino
Naughty kids lose gifts to online casino
12/27/2004 08:38 AMLubbockonline.com - Mon Dec 27, 09:23 am GMT
Online casino buys naughty kids gifts on
eBay
Online casino buys naughty kids gifts on
eBay
12/27/2004 04:48 AMChron.com - Mon Dec 27, 03:50 am GMT
CompAmerica's Annual 2004 "Holiday PC
Shopping Guide" Features Gifts From $5
to $25,000
CompAmerica's Annual 2004 "Holiday PC
Shopping Guide" Features Gifts From $5
to $25,000
12/19/2004 03:10 PMCompAmerica.com - a rising name in online and direct sales of custom
PCs, Laptops, and computer and consumer components released it's
Holiday Shopping Guide for everyone. [PRWEB Nov 29, 2004]
Microsoft Holiday Support Center Helps
Consumers Maximize Their Use of the
Season's Most Popular Gifts
Microsoft Holiday Support Center Helps
Consumers Maximize Their Use of the
Season's Most Popular Gifts
12/10/2003 07:50 PMIn keeping with the spirit of giving -- and receiving -- the perfect
gift, Microsoft is upholding another holiday tradition, the Microsoft
Holiday Support Center. Provided to customers for the fifth year, this
online support resource -- found at
http://support.microsoft.com/holiday -- offers
consumers help at no charge if they have questions related to
Microsoft consumer products and technologies. A convenient, one-stop
portal, the site condenses the top questions likely to come up over
the holidays for popular products and provides the resources needed to
resolve them.
True Statistics ... and then there are
those games for the kids! Fun for
everyone!
True Statistics ... and then there are
those games for the kids! Fun for
everyone!
05/02/2004 04:34 AMDarwin-Free Fun for
Creationists
nytimes.com/2004/05/01/arts/01DINO.html
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site | 3 links
Are Video Games Good For Kids?
Are Video Games Good For Kids?
08/11/2004 05:30 PMWhile it does seem that the anti-videogame folks blow the
danger
of video games way out of proportion, a new festival seems to be
going in the other direction by
claimin
g video games are good for kids. It's such a broad statement that
it has to be untrue. Certainly, some video games might be good for
kids, in helping them deal with
differe
nt kinds of challenges, but it hardly seems like random anecdotal
evidence (about all that's presented in the article) proves that video
gaming is "good." For example, the article includes this sentence:
"Dr Judy Robertson, of Edinburgh University, said some children had
told her during computer games workshops that playing violent games
did not result in violence in real life." Just because some kids say
something doesn't necessarily make it true (even if it probably is
true). If they really want to show this, wouldn't it make more sense
to actually promotes the
ways that video games can be helpful
to kids, rather than just declaring it so? I'm all for real studies
that show the positive impact games have for kids, but hyping up
something without substance just makes the arguments seem weak.
Blair reveals some games 'unsuitable'
for kids
Blair reveals some games 'unsuitable'
for kids
09/15/2004 11:57 AMThat's why the law already bans their sale to minors, Tony...
Getting Kids To Program Old School Video
Games
Getting Kids To Program Old School Video
Games
04/06/2005 06:48 AMIt seems that every recent story about Atari has been about their
attempts (in their modern form -- quite different from the original
Atari) to
make
a killing on the nostalgia market, offering up classic games from
years back to today's adults -- either on computers or (increasingly)
on mobile phones. However, it appears that many feel the basic
concepts of old Atari videogames are still valuable for game designers
to learn -- resulting in a
competition to design new games for the Atari 2600. Of
course, there's one twist: the games needed to be created in 24 hours.
While the story is amusing to read, what it really does is remind
people that, despite all the amazing graphics found in today's game, a
game is still about
gameplay at its core -- which many of
today's game designers seem to forget.
Video games calm kids before surgery
Video games calm kids before surgery
12/30/2004 11:42 PMTechSpot Dec 31 2004 3:22AM GMT
Holiday sales help EA boost lead in
video games
Holiday sales help EA boost lead in
video games
01/28/2004 02:33 PMSan Jose Mercury News Jan 28 2004 6:47PM GMT
Games launch well ahead of holiday
selling season
Games launch well ahead of holiday
selling season
09/22/2004 08:36 AMCanadian Press via Canada.com Sep 22 2004 1:23PM GMT
Smartass kids slamming classic video
games
Smartass kids slamming classic video
games
12/28/2004 06:55 AM
Cory Doctorow:
Child's Play is EGM's recurring feature in which kids who play video
games are sat down in front of game classics like Tetris and Adventure
and Donkey Kong, then encouraged to deliver scathing hilarious
commentary on the general suck of yesteryear's treasured games as
compared to today's offerings.
Bobby: I've played this on my cell phone.
EGM: [Pointing to the humans on the ground] What do they look like?
Parker: They look like those little characters in the game Life, the
little people you have to stick in your car.
EGM: Before this came out in compilations, we used to put quarters in
arcade machines.
Parker: You wasted quarters on this?
EGM: Yeah.
Parker: That's so sad.
Link
(via Foe Romeo)
Women with kids flock to play online
games
Women with kids flock to play online
games
07/15/2004 10:20 PMAfr.com - Thu Jul 15, 08:46 pm GMT
UK study shocker: "18" ratings not
keeping games from kids
UK study shocker: "18" ratings not
keeping games from kids
06/24/2005 03:33 PMA study shows that parents know about age ratings for games, but
they're not using them to make decisions about what kids play. The
kids also know about the ratings, and they are taking them into
consideration.
"Child?s Play II ? 1UP subjects today?s
kids to yesterday?s classic games"
"Child?s Play II ? 1UP subjects today?s
kids to yesterday?s classic games"
12/27/2004 09:35 PMGifts I gave, Gifts I got
Gifts I gave, Gifts I got
12/31/2003 10:54 AMThis
holiday edition of Wardriver Wednesday looks at the mobile
technology that was found under my Christmas tree this year—both for
me and from me. Maybe it will give you some ideas on how to spend any
Christmas money you received or gift return cash you acquired.
Like Pixels? Check out
MacDesignTop Ten Holiday Gift Ideas for the
“Science and Engineering Minded”
Announced at Start of Holiday Shopping
Season
Top Ten Holiday Gift Ideas for the
“Science and Engineering Minded”
Announced at Start of Holiday Shopping
Season
12/19/2004 03:10 PMHoliday gift ideas for the science and engineering enthusiast. [PRWEB
Nov 24, 2004]
Kids Have a ‘Doggone’ Good Time with
Launch of RAGGS Kids Club Band Video
Series
Kids Have a ‘Doggone’ Good Time with
Launch of RAGGS Kids Club Band Video
Series
08/10/2004 03:43 AM [PRWEB Aug 10, 2004]
Keeping Your Kids Truly Safe and Secure
on the Internet Now Just Became as Easy
as "Smart Zone Kids" Browser Available
Through Wholesale-Telecom
Keeping Your Kids Truly Safe and Secure
on the Internet Now Just Became as Easy
as "Smart Zone Kids" Browser Available
Through Wholesale-Telecom
12/30/2004 05:15 AMWholesale-Telecom is now offering an Internet browser that protects
children and teenagers from online pedophiles and inappropriate
content The browser is totally interactive for parents to customize
to their preference. [PRWEB Dec 30, 2004]
Keeping Your Kids Truly Safe and Secure
on the Internet Now Just Became as Easy
as “Smart Zone Kids” Browser Available
Through Wholesale-Telecom.
Keeping Your Kids Truly Safe and Secure
on the Internet Now Just Became as Easy
as “Smart Zone Kids” Browser Available
Through Wholesale-Telecom.
12/22/2004 01:28 AMWholesale-Telecom is now offering an Internet browser that protects
children and teenagers from online pedophiles and inappropriate
content The browser is totally interactive for parents to customize
to their preference. [PRWEB Dec 10, 2004]
Ithaki 4 KiDs MetaSearch Engine for Kids
Ithaki 4 KiDs MetaSearch Engine for Kids
06/22/2005 02:48 AM
Ithaki 4 KiDs MetaSearch Engine for Kidshttp://kids.ithaki.net/Ithaki 4 KiDs helps you to find the best sites just for kids via
searching in real time several search engines for kids like DmozKids,
Yahooligans, FactMonster, ArtKIDSRule, AolKIDS, AwesomeLibrary &
KidsClick!. Ithaki is a metasearch engine, it finds quickly the best
web sites because it searches at once the top search engines and
guides for kids, then ranks the results according to an internal
ranking to make sure you get the exactly what you're looking for. This
will be added to the search engines section of all the
2005 Internet
MiniGuides.
Presents For Bad Kids Head To eBay,
Rather Than Kids
Presents For Bad Kids Head To eBay,
Rather Than Kids
12/27/2004 04:42 AMWell, normally, people wait until after they've received presents to
dump them on eBay. However, one father who felt his three sons were
being particularly bad lately decided that to punish them he's
putting their
presents up for sale on eBay. To be honest, this sounds like a
bit of a publicity stunt -- and it seems likely that, now that this is
getting attention, that casino that seems to be buying
e
very random
quirky auction item will snap this one up.
Update:
Whoops. It's apparently already happened. Indeed, the casino in
question has
d
ecided to buy the undelivered presents. This is sort of an update
on our story last year about how sellers were increasingly looking to
use
eBay as a publicity generating tool. It appears that's now being
used by
buyers to generate publicity, as well.
MP3 Players Aren't Just For Kids; In
Fact They're Barely For Kids
MP3 Players Aren't Just For Kids; In
Fact They're Barely For Kids
12/19/2004 03:47 PMThe common bit of wisdom is that MP3s are a young person's technology.
It's the teens and the folks just coming out of college that are the
MP3 generation, after all, so they'd be the most likely to own an MP3
player, right? Not at all, apparently. A new study says that
90% of MP3 player
owners over 34 years old. While this
may have something to
do with the high price of many of the best MP3 players, the numbers
still don't seem right. It would be interesting to see the
methodology behind this study. That's not to say that those over 34
aren't likely to own an MP3 player, but it's hard to believe that
90% of MP3 players go to those 35 and older.
Birthday gifts
Birthday gifts
04/09/2004 04:02 PMOn birthdays I like to give a gift. If I had a new beta of NetNewsWire
to post, I would, but it’s not quite there yet. Instead
I’ll just tell you a little about it.
After doing an upgrade just about every month last year, we needed to
take a little longer to do a bigger upgrade, to add a bunch of new
features.
I’m not going to tell you about all the new features today, but
I will talk about two of them. (There are many more... this just
scratches the surface.)
Browsing in place
This is perhaps the most-requested feature, the ability to view pages
directly in NetNewsWire.
Some notes about this feature...
1. NetNewsWire already uses Web Kit (the Safari HTML renderer) to
render item descriptions—in the current version, there is extra
code to prevent browsing-in-place from working. So the first
step in making this work was to remove code, which is not
what you’d normally expect when adding a new feature.
2. NetNewsWire, like many newsreaders, is a hybrid of email/Usenet
apps and browsers. This feature is at the very intersection of these
two types of applications, which makes it quite a user interface
challenge.
3. Even though this feature is requested so often, and even though
it’s demonstrably useful, a number of NetNewsWire testers were
against having it appear at all. They’re in the camp that says,
“Each app should do just one thing and do it well.”
I’m in the same camp, by the way—the disagreement comes in
when you try to define what “just one thing” is. In the
case of newsreaders, it’s increasingly obvious that browsing is
part of that “one thing” that a newsreader does. But, just
so you know, this feature is an option.
Weblog editor overhaul
The new weblog editor is a 99% re-do. The user interface has been
completely redesigned, and most of the under-the-hood code has been
rewritten.
There are several goals:
1. Make the weblog editor easier to use and, at the same time, more
powerful, with a more intuitive and more aesthetic interface.
2. Fix bugs (things like categories not always showing up).
3. Support more of the special features of various weblog systems
(things like image uploading, support for Movable Type and TypePad
keywords, etc.).
4. Make the text editor itself more powerful.
5. Add some other new features which I’m going to leave as a
surprise for now.
Anyway...
There are lots of other
new features to talk about...
But for now I’m just going to get back to work.
Micropatron gifts (L@@K L@@K)
Micropatron gifts (L@@K L@@K)
03/14/2005 04:24 PMWell, we're a week and a half into the three-week "fund drive" (if
you're just tuning in, start here)
and it's time for a shout-out to the kind people and companies who
have contributed gifts for some lucky kottke.org micropatrons (contribute $30+ and you
have a chance). If you haven't looked at the
list in awhile, you'll notice some additions.
I chose the gift contributors fairly carefully. With one or two
exceptions, most of the list is comprised of either
friends/acquaintances of mine who are supportive of what I'm doing,
companies that have an interest in blogs and blogging, products I've
used, or people who have gone or are going out on a limb to do
something entreprenurial in their lives (selling photography,
software, soap, books, etc...labors of love and commerce). I have a
special place in my heart for the latter group because they're in a
boat similar to mine and it makes me happy than I can help get the
word out about their projects.
Recent additions to the list:
Solid gold platinum executive class founder gifts:
Again, here's the
detailed list and here's how you become a micropatron for a shot
at one of the above.
Affordable Gifts
Affordable Gifts
12/17/2004 06:32 PMIn a round-up of affordable holiday gifts, Julio Ojeda-Zapata writes
in the St. Paul Pioneer Press, “The iTunes cards, in $15 and $25
denominations, are good for the purchase and download of individual
tracks. Get the cards at local Apple retail stores and at Target, Best
Buy, Circuit City and CompUSA stores, or snag them online at
store.apple.com or Amazon.com. The online Apple store offers paper or
electronic gift certificates good for iTunes purchases, too.”
[Dec 14]
"Shopping & Gifts"
"Shopping & Gifts"
06/03/2004 05:04 AMLast-Minute Gifts for Dad
Last-Minute Gifts for Dad
06/16/2004 10:02 AMIt's never too late to buy a present when you have the Internet at the
ready.
And speaking of gifts
And speaking of gifts
12/19/2004 03:40 PMSo the most significant change in my technology-related life in the
last year is the elimination of spam without a white-list technology.
I used to use Mailblocks for my main account, but Marc Perkel
convinced me to try his own Bayesian spam filter.
I'm on record saying such systems could never work. I was wrong.
Marc's system is amazing. I get endless email. His system filters the
mail into three boxes -- my inbox, a low probability box, and a high
probability box. I have never found a mistake in the high probability
box, so I no longer look at it. I very rarely find a mistake in the
low probability box, so I scan it about once a week (maybe 1% error).
And it is almost fun to get an error in my inbox, reminding me that
there still is this problem of spam out there.
Anyway, I'm giving Marc's spam filter service to my family for
Christmas (no, they don't read my blog). And I'd recommend it to
anyone else out there looking for a gift (note, I don't have any
financial interest in this). As Marc described to me:
I
sell it as a service. I can do it several ways. If someone wants a
single email address I can give them a something@marxmail.net account.
$25/year. Or I can host their email domain for $95/year. Or I can be a
front end spam filter where I clean it and pass it on to their
existing email server $75/year.
You can reach him for at this
MarxMail address.
Blue Sphere Games To Distribute Java
Games On Nokia's Preminet Solution
Blue Sphere Games To Distribute Java
Games On Nokia's Preminet Solution
02/01/2005 10:01 PMBlue Sphere Games Ltd, a leading Mobile Games Developer, today
announced it will distribute its Java Games to mobile network
subscribers worldwide using the new Preminet Solution from Nokia.
[PRWEB Jan 14, 2005]
Games Pavilion at Macworld Conference &
Expo in San Francisco Showcases Best New
Games for 2005
Games Pavilion at Macworld Conference &
Expo in San Francisco Showcases Best New
Games for 2005
12/17/2004 06:44 PMFRAMINGHAM, MA, December 15, 2004 – IDG World Expo, the leading
producer of world-class tradeshows, conferences and events for
technology markets around the globe, today announced that the
Macintosh...
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Planetwide Games to Publish Pixel
Poppers™ Library of 80 Video Arcade
Games
Planetwide Games to Publish Pixel
Poppers™ Library of 80 Video Arcade
Games
06/05/2005 10:52 PMGames based on uWink Game Library Developed by Nolan Bushnell. [PRWEB
May 18, 2005]
Jollygood Games Announces Partnership
with Digital Eel - Four New Games
Available Immediately for Microsoft
Windows and Macintosh OS-X.
Jollygood Games Announces Partnership
with Digital Eel - Four New Games
Available Immediately for Microsoft
Windows and Macintosh OS-X.
12/19/2004 03:10 PMJollygood Games and Digital Eel today announced a strategic
partnership where Jollygood Games will publish and distribute the
entire catalog of Digital Eel games for both Windows and Macintosh
platforms, including Weird Worlds: Return To Infinite Space, the
eagerly-awaited sequel to Strange Adventures In Infinite Space. Weird
Worlds, which has already been chosen as one of the finalists in the
upcoming annual Independent Games Festival, is slated for release in
early 2005. [PRWEB Dec 17, 2004]
Games interview: Kojima slams Japanese
games industry
Games interview: Kojima slams Japanese
games industry
05/21/2004 07:01 AMComputer Buyer May 21 2004 11:07AM GMT
Last Minute Gifts for the Holidays
Last Minute Gifts for the Holidays
07/25/2004 12:54 PMG4 Tech TV Jul 25 2004 5:07PM GMT
Grok Description matches for Fun games for kids as holiday gifts
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