Shaun Mccran

My digital playground

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Open Source Scotland Digital festival

Just saw on the Twitter-vine that there is an Open Source Scotland digital festival happening next year. It happens on the 13th-14th of April and looks like it is being pitched as a Digital Festival.

The speaker list is looking pretty impressive and there is a Twitter hash tag already #oss2012.

You can read more, and buy tickets here:

http://open-source-scotland.com/2012/

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FaceBook expands your profile with Pregnancy options

Yup, you read it right. FaceBook adds an option to your 'Friends and Family' settings that allow you setup a new family member as an expected child. You can also add their Due Date.

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Book review: jQuery 1.4 Animation Techniques: Beginners Guide

This is a review of a book that Packt Publishing (http://www.packtpub.com/) have just sent me: JQuery titles, jQuery 1.4 Animation Techniques: Beginners Guide.

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Welcome to the strictly digital age: Dirt 3 for PC only available for download

I split my gaming across the Xbox 360 and the PC, so I always tend to weight up which format I want to buy new releases on. Dirt 3 was released in the UK last week, and I noticed on the tv advert that the PC edition is now only available as a digital download.

A quick search on Game's website shows this too: http://www.game.co.uk/search.aspx?s=dirt+3

I used to work for a high street game retailer so I've always know PC sales are considerably lower than console, and the prices is usually 30%-40% less, so they are a less attractive option to software companies. This is the first time I've seen a new title ONLY available as a download though.

Personally I like to buy physical versions of my software as I generally sell them on, maybe this is the start of a trend? Are you comfortable having no choice, and only being able to download a title?

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