For the action games fans, Call of Duty has become more like a religion rather than a game -fans from all over the world anticipate every single part of the game and the sales of the production are admirable. With its perfect graphics, gameplay and soundtracks, as well as realistic scenes of battles and complicated campaigns, CoD is among the games that has gained the neverending love of the action lovers worldwide. Not to mention, who doesn’t like to blow up a diesel fuel storage tank really?

Modern Warfare displays a different atmosphere from the other CoD parts -while usually the games are connected with the events during the WW II, MW is focused on the near future where the advanced technologies and new weapons are used to fight the forces of terrorism.

Since it is a topic of high public interest, the war against terrorism has become a main plot for the game. The player would have to conduct several missions from different prospective -he will fight in the problematic zones of modern Russia with Russian soldiers, will fight in the Orient and South America as a British or a US soldier against those who threaten the world peace.

For PS3, the game offers a great single player experience while playing the campaign. The flawless graphic elements are stunning, almost real, making the player to completely enter the world of war and try to defeat the terrorism forces.

For the Multiplayer game there are no negative remarks. The fans can enjoy servers all over the world within the CoD network and play for hours their favourite game meeting fans from all over the world.

CTIA has not launched any breathtaking products for a long time now, but with the launch of the Samsung Galaxy S, the crowds are dancing in awe and exhilaration. The product is so attractive and perfect that it can be rated as the most perfect smart phone in the world.

The most amazing feature of this smart-phone is its clear 4 inch super- AMOLED colour screen. The screen is one terrific creation; it is sharp, smart and large. The remaining parts of the phone are equally splendid.

It has a fast processor, having 1 GHz processor within and also something called the mDNLe (mobile Digital Natural Image engine), which is a borrowed version of the Samsung LCD TV sets. With this feature, you can record, edit and play HD video, can read e-books of your choice and also can surf the internet.

Samsung has included the most convenient interface for the common social networking sites like YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, etc. You can obtain all the information you want on this phone. With the introduction of this smart-phone, people’s approach towards phone and way they converse in their day-to-day lives is bond to change.

The smart-phone operates on the Android 2.1 system. The test phone revealed that the phone runs on EDGE/GPRS/GSM/HSUPA and HSDPA networks. No wonder the phone was announced to be launched in Asia, Australia, Latin America, North America and Europe.

Another essential feature is the Swype, which facilitates ease in typing and relaxation for your fingers. The other accessories of the phone are 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi, GPS, 5-megapixel camera, 8 GB or 16 GB microSD memory expansion and Bluetooth too. The launch of Samsung Gravity S is awaited with great excitement and expectation. Let’s see what this phone has in store for you.

The Agency is a different kind of a game when compared with others of its genre as the makers have kept the concept much more defined wherein the spy needs to sneak around and also complete different missions in order to move to the next level. The USP of the game is that a player can switch from first to the third mode anytime during the game, the game is also made well and has ample storage space, so you won’t be finding yourself waiting for uploads very often.

This 3D spy game is a perfect mixture of the regular MMOFPs like any spy game but it also has missions that the spy’s need to complete. The game is very easy to understand and play. People who have already played other games such as Combat Arms and Wolfteam may find this game similar in its features and functions. The theme based missions of the game make playing this game a very enjoyable and pleasurable experience.

The missions in this game could take player from around 10 minutes to an hour to complete. Most of the missions that have been added to this game have been adapted from very popular spy movies to ensure the players enjoy the game with all its different kinds of drama and fun.

The game has a lot of things like delivery, assassinations and heists that make this game very thrilling for the player. The biggest plus of this game is that it is favorable for all kinds of gamers.

Recently, at my friend’s house (he’s a computer geek who specialises in Viral marketing and wouldn’t want it to be any other way; and that suits me…He sorts all my computer problems out and for free, no less), he took me up in to his attic to show me something special. Sat there on a dusty old table was a true behemoth of a computer: a two feet by two feet block with a keyboard that was almost as wide as the desk itself. My friend sat me down and said “watch this!”

So I watched.

And it was just like the old days–

My friend, in his infinite geeky genius (and my gosh was he excited…), had sorted the old Amstrad out so that it connected to the internet in that endearing, good old-fashioned way. I’m talking ten minutes to connect to the internet, a shoddy picture that is made up of fifty or sixty horizontal lines of information and a dodgy “ee-orr” noise that sounds like an electrified donkey.Brilliant…

And that was before we played the eighties games!

We spent the whole afternoon up there playing Double Dragon, Prince of Persia and Pac-Man, plus countless other classics from my childhood that I hadn’t thought about since I had discovered girls were actually quite a good thing. I was almost sad to leave the attic. Going up had been like going back in time, and sitting down at my new notebook computer it just didn’t feel right being able to connect to the internet in a matter of seconds–

I’d forgotten all about Pacman until I switched on the computer a few days to find a Pacman game staring back at me on the Google website. I played one game, it was addictive, then a couple before getting back to my work.

Pacman’s gameplay is very simple. Guide your Pacman around to eat the little pacdots to progress onto the next stage while avoiding the four monsters which causes Pacman to lose a life if caught. Eat a power pellet and Pacman can eat the monsters for a short time. Pacman can also gain bonus from eating fruit which appear for a short time in each level, and at every 10,000 an extra life is awarded to the player.

Google placed the Pacman game on its site due to Pacman turning 30 on the 21st May, being created in 1980. However on opening Google that day, productivity levels nose-dived as office workers and the like found themselves running around the maze away from the monsters. Some companies had to take action by blocking Google on their servers that day too, according to cnet, but it brought back childhood memories. I actually didn’t believe that companies would do this, until a friend of my who works for an email marketing software company said that this happened at their offices. Which actually got me thinking, how would I survive the day without google?!

I wasn’t born anywhere near the time Pacman was released, but I found it pretty addicting, but not addiciting enough to get beyond the third level. Of course the last time I heard about Pacman was in that infamous Friends episode when Phoebe buys Monica and Chandler the Ms. Pacman machine (similar to Pacman, but had a tinge of pink and one of the monsters was a lady I think). Obviously some people are hardcore fans, playing it all day and night until of course they hit a brick wall with level 256, where there is a kill screen due to a fault with the fruit sorter.

Pacman is still an addictive game today, with Google declaring that its Pacman game may be placed permentantly on its site due to its popularity.

4G (fourth generation) wireless is the new generation of how people can connect to the internet, but what is it? Simply put, 4G is the fourth generation of wireless technology, but more significantly, it is a drastic improvement on the previous generations in that it allows for wireless connections to the internet via many different media, such as laptops and Smartphones which wasn’t possible on the previous generations. This is because of their slower download speeds. 4G wireless allows for quicker access to the internet, which gives users more freedom and less annoyances due to slow bandwidth speeds.

What is even more remarkable about 4G compared to the previous generations is that you will actually access the Internet. With the previous generations, such as 3G, although you can view specific websites, you are not accessing the true www; instead, websites would rewrite their scripts so that you can access their information from a mobile outlet. With 4G, you are actually accessing the real internet; there is nothing different between surfing the web on your Smartphone and surfing from your PC. This allows for a much greater sense of freedom and a greater productivity, for example, those who work from home now have the freedom to work from a cafe or a public park and still have access to everything you could from home.

4G wireless also provides a greater sense of security. With previous generations, the level of technology in regards to security features were limited, but now with the 4G wireless systems, your information is secure.

Wireless is the way of the future and accessing the internet may soon be done exclusively by wireless means. Laptops, netbooks, and smartphones will be the predominant form of information gathering, and with 4G wireless, even those with plenty of experience will see no difference between using a Smartphone to access the web and using your PC, it will be just as easy to access all your information on online hr software from anywhere in the world, not just when you are at work. I’m not entirely sure if this is a good thing?

It is called ‘Wacky Inventions’ with the emphasis being on ‘wacky’. If you are looking for the latest super-cool gadget or time-saving idea, then you will certainly not find it on here. This space is strictly reserved for the most ridiculous innovations you are ever going to see (think crazy designer beach towels wacky). You don’t believe me, eh? Check out the human-head-shaped knife block and judge for yourself.

Okay, so there are some hilarious inventions on this website, but it is a little worrying when you think about all of those responsible. You could be standing right next to the creator of the ‘Scentuelle Libido Patch’ every morning at the bus-stop and you would never even know! These people walk among us. And that’s a rather worrying thought, isn’t it?

There are all manner of gems/turds to be discovered on the pages of ‘Wacky Inventions’. Have a look at the ‘Hamster Shredder’ (not as grisly as it sounds), ‘The Healthy Handle’ and the totally inane range of ‘Sideways Printed Books’ (designed for reading in bed, for God’s sake).

The other worrying element to all this is that inventors actually spent ages working on these ideas. Their friends and family must have told them their project was crap at some point, but they have just carried on regardless. I suppose it’s the same as those saddos you get on talent shows; even when they are laughed off the stage they are still convinced that they are truly gifted people.

Some of our older generation like a good moan about modern technology. For years I just thought they were being silly, but then the other day, on the train to London, I found myself understanding their viewpoint. I was sitting across from some teenagers who were playing some kind of hand-held games consoles and very much loving every second of it. The whole journey I just sat there internally moaning and shaking my head.

That was when it struck me–I had become an older person to them! I had become part of the older generation! (Backed up by me thinking very often Hmm, London property is so expensive, it’s daylight robbery don’t you know!) This was some shocking news that I hadn’t expected upon waking up. I hadn’t been prepared for that, and it really shook me up. I even had to move seats. Twice, in fact.

Then it came. From every corner of the train came new technology thrust right in my face, right under my old decrepit nose. New technology that was coming to get me, to mock me, to remind me that the days of regular conventional lap-top computers were gone!

I had to sit down and stare at the wall, but in my haste I had done it again. It wasn’t just a wall, oh no. It was a glassy-reflective surface and in it was the face I had been trying to avoid ever since the incident with the games consoles. The face of an older generation technology hating man!

]]> http://www.agents-tech.com/2010/04/09/ugh/feed/ http://www.agents-tech.com/2010/03/26/living-life/ http://www.agents-tech.com/2010/03/26/living-life/#comments Fri, 26 Mar 2010 10:58:01 +0000 admin http://www.agents-tech.com/?p=336

“Live your life and do what makes you happy”. Those were the last words my mother ever uttered to me. Well, the second from last ones (I couldn’t make out the very last ones but they sounded like breast reduction information, which seemed like a weird thing to say and hardly priority: the thing is, you see, despite how it happens in films, you really can’t understand what someone who is literally dying is trying to say. Apart from the fact that they are annoyingly quiet, not their fault of course, you’re feeling quite upset and it’s hard to concentrate).

So I did as she said. I donned my Darth Vader outfit and started living my life as Darth Vader. Our family had always been big on Star Wars, so it just seemed like the right thing to do.

I never really had any problems with children mocking me. 1) I looked frightening and 2) I looked unapproachable, which suited me fine in my state of mourning. The only problem which was a nuisance was getting the bus: as fantastic as Darth Vader’s wardrobe designers were, they really didn’t think much about small pockets which would be ideal for storing loose change.

Another issue I had was going to the toilet. In order to do this it took as long as twenty minutes to remove the clothing / armor. This meant that I had to make a good guess as to when I would require a toilet stop. But still, it was worth it. If only mum could see me now.

There is an anomaly so odd that few people dare to speak of it. But those who run in to this new-age atrocity will never forget the experience. I am talking, of course, about the phenomenon that is slow-walkers. And you may laugh! But this problem is becoming increasingly wide-spread. An example of the worrying speed at which these sub-human creatures are infiltrating the busiest parts of the UK is this: the slow walkers of London. I came across some the other day, while thinking of vaginal plastic surgery (as you do when really bored), on my way to catch the train…

I had a lot on my mind that day, if I remember rightly, and when I left work I was keyed-up and anxious to get home. But on my way I came across some slow walkers in a passage-way. For a while I believed them to be elderly, and so thought to myself It’s not their fault they are the slowest people on earth, don’t hate them and dream about vaporizing them with the same guns the aliens used in War Of The Worlds.

But as the darkness disintegrated I saw the unthinkable: they were young. Younger than me! The girl couldn’t have been older than thirty and the man-boy had tight jeans which showed, in all too grim, some buttocks which made me extremely jealous that I was not a young man anymore. Anyway, wishing I was younger and in better physical condition was not the point. The point was that these slow walkers were disgustingly slow and hellbent on keeping a man from his mission. So watch out people, because as the youth grow lazier, slow walkers can only become a greater problem.