The first round of BlizzCon tickets will be going on sale a 7pm and they sell out quickly. Tickets are $175 and ticket holders get one BlizzCon badge that grants access to the convention and a BlizzCon goody bag, which it’s contents have yet to be revealed.
You pick purchase tickets from the official BlizzCon Ticket Sales page. For complete details on the event head to Blizzard’s official BlizzCon page.
An amazing little project by Teehan+Lax changes the way we use Street View by creating incredible “Hyper-Lapse” video from the images in google’s Street View database by stringing them all together. The end result is just plain awesome to look at.
Even better, you can make your own version, although it will be a slightly lower quality version. All you need is a browser that supports WebGL, like Goole Chrome, Safari, Opera, or Firefox and then you can simply head here to set a start and finish point and make your “Hyper-Lapse” video.
Hyper-lapse photography – a technique combining time-lapse and sweeping camera movements typically focused on a point-of-interest – has been a growing trend on video sites. It’s not hard to find stunning examples on Vimeo. Creating them requires precision and many hours stitching together photos taken from carefully mapped locations. We aimed at making the process simpler by using Google Street View as an aid, but quickly discovered that it could be used as the source material. It worked so well, we decided to design a very usable UI around our engine and release Google Street View Hyperlapse.”
To Enable WebGL in Safari on the Mac (Safari 5.1 and Up):
Firefox (4 and Up) WebGL is on by Default
For Internet Explorer you can use this plugin.
Apple’s latest line up of computers are extremely thin and compact, it’s amazing how much can fit in such a small form factor. All of this makes for an amazing design but it also has a downside.
To those of us who are more inclined to tinker with our machines, it can appear as if there’s almost no way to upgrade Apple’s latest and greatest. There is good news however. If you want to add some RAM or your own SSD to your Mac, then there’s probably a way to do it. You can even get step-by-step instructional videos on how to do it along with all the tools you will need.
All of this can be found at OWC (Other World Computing). OWC offers all kinds of options for upgrading your Mac, they sell the hardware and tools you will need to get the job done and all of it is reasonably priced so you can save some cash by doing it all yourself.
The upgrade projects can vary in skill level quite a bit, some of them are quite simple while others will require you to be pretty confident about tearing down your Mac. It’s safe to say that most of these upgrades are for the bold but if you’re not up to doing it yourself then in some cases OWC can do it for you.
All of their installation videos are available on their site but you can also view them on their YouTube channel. OWC also offers repair services for your iPad along with a ton of accessories and additional software.
BlizzCon is back this year and soon you will get a chance to buy tickets to attend the event in person at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim California November 8th and 9th.
Tickets for the 2013 event go on sale Wednesday, April 24 at 7 p.m. PDT and Saturday, April 27 at 10 a.m. PDT. Benefit Dinner Tickets go on sale Wednesday, May 1 at 7 p.m. Pacific Time. You can purchase tickets directly from the official BlizzCon website.
You can also watch BlizzCon live from home by purchasing a virtual ticket. Information on how to obtain virtual tickets will become available later. Pricing and other ticket info can be found on the BlizzCon ticket page.
It’s hard to believe that it’s been 15 years since March 31, 1998, when StarCraft first captured our imaginations and for some of us, became a solid part of our childhood. StarCraft has also greatly contributed to the online competitive gaming world, even though at the time we couldn’t have known how much it would grow.
So, what’s the best part about all of this? Well, we’ve got many years of StarCraft ahead of us!
Blizzard is offering up a feat of strength for StarCraft players that will allow you to unlock 3 new portraits that pay homage to classic StarCraft along with getting a special achievement “15 Years of StarCraft” .
So how do you get the achievement?
Just play one game of StarCraft II in any online mode before 11:59 p.m. PDT on April 17.
Beginning March 31, play one Arcade, Custom, Ranked, Training, Unranked, or Versus A.I. game to earn the StarCraft 15-Year Anniversary Feat of Strength achievement. As soon as you’ve received the achievement, all three portraits will be permanently unlocked in your StarCraft II character profile.
You get see Blizzard’s official post about the anniversary on battle.net.