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Download of the Week
Boulderdash
Remember Boulderdash from the old Commodore 64 days? Here it is as an applet, but without the scroll! Grab the diamonds, but avoid the falling rocks and swarming fireflies! Ten levels of excitement with full instructions on how to create additional levels! Source included!
The JavaBoutique Top 15:
1. APMenu
2. Mdrain
3. Flame
4. NavDeluxe
5. Lake
6. NetMenu
7. PopupVideo
8. Encyclo
9. Snow
10. ABCMenuMan
11. Fader
12. TextScroll
13. SecretPass
14. NavPop
15. MShow
Want more? Check out our Top 100!
Time to Purchase Hardware
It's that time of month again, time to sit down with a list of our favorite products, and put together our monthly HardwareCentral Buyer's Guide.
Why Low Key PR is Not an Oxymoron
The issue of being "low key" plays to some of the criticism that the technology PR industry has faced recently, specifically in the way many dot-com PR people interact with journalists.
The Line is Blurring
There have been several announcements this week that deal with integrating PDA features with mobile phones. Here are some of the issues to think about as these devices begin to fill store shelves.
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Artificial Intelligence/Lifeforms
Biomorph Breeder
How about using Java to evolve trees into animal forms? Based on the biomorph concept described in Richard Dawkins' book "The Blind Watchmaker", this applet lets you experiment with breeding artificial creatures called biomorphs, causing them to gradually evolve into a diversity of forms.
Simulated Predator Prey Ecology
This applet creates a simulation of predator/prey ecology. A spinning doughnut displays the predator/prey info, as does a grid at the top left of the applet. This is a great educational use of Java, and the author has even released the source code!
The Virtual FishTank
Computer Museum visitors walk inside a virtual 2,200-square-foot undersea world known as The Virtual FishTank™. The exhibit enables visitors to create and interact with their own virtual fish using, what else...Java!
Langton's Ant: A Cellular Automaton
Interactive implementation of Langton's Ant - a very simple cellular automaton which nonetheless exhibits behaviour that is currently baffling mathematicians. After about ten thousand moves the ant locks into a cycle of 104 moves which causes it to build a broad diagonal "highway."
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