All Entries in the "Technology" Category
Review: 1Dollarscan Book Scanning Service
I often review books and games on the site, but this is the first time I reviewed a service. Specifically, the book scanning service offered by 1dollarscan.com. 1dollarscan will scan any text item (books, photos, business cards. etc) and then use optical character recognition to convert the images to searchable text. I have some reference [...]
Review: Livescribe Pulse Smartpen as a DM Tool
I know this is a game site, but sometimes I go off the reservation if I find something useful to gamers. In this case, it is a Livescribe 2 GB Pulse Smartpen. I received my Pulse as a Christmas gift and found it very game-useful and worthy of a post. The Pulse is a large [...]
Computer Simulations and Modern Warfare
Foreign Policy magazine has a great article about the use of computer simulations and how they are used by the American military. “America’s Army” does get a mention, but there are several other programs either underway or planned that leverage games to train soldiers. It also mentions some of the pitfalls of virtual training. Interesting [...]
Four Good Reasons Not to Run Your D&D Game with a Laptop
Yax and company over at Dungeonmastering.com recently posted an entry about using a laptop to run your game. Four Good Reasons to Run Your Game with a Laptop I felt it my Luddite duty to post counter-arguments to Ben’s post. I strongly advocate a “low-tech” approach to my game. Nothing against those who choose to [...]