PC Perspective

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Real Name

Scott Michaud

Title

News Editor, Troll

Location

Kingston, ON, Canada

Bio

Scott joined PC Perspective in May 2011. Prior to PC Perspective, Scott has worked on personal projects and has completed degrees in Physics and Education from Queen's University. Currently PC Perspective is the only place to find his published works. Other ventures related to computing, physics, math, education, and technology are currently in progress. He is also a geek, go figure.

Beyond PC Perspective, you can find Scott at several places throughout the internet:

• Email: smichaud@pcper.com
• Twitter: http://twitter.com/scottmichaud
• Google+: Scott Michaud
• Online games as Phopojijo

 

History

Member for

2 years 2 weeks

Recent Posts

Recent Posts

If Kickstarter is for your oculars: what about your legs?

04/22/2013 - 18:16

Even if you no-one watches you game, this device would probably be difficult to store in a closet. Team Fortress 2 is a fun game and one of the first with support for the Oculus Rift VR headset. But why stop there? The Omni is an omnidirectional...

With just $70, you can save an underprivileged Retina.

04/22/2013 - 17:34

Operators are standing by... Of course Apple is not a primary manufacturer of LCD panels; like everyone else, they buy their panels from someone like LG. Due to how much Apple loves IPS technology, which I cannot blame them for, they in fact do purchase...

Stop Pushing Microsoft's Buttons! Take the Start Button!

04/20/2013 - 19:36

The latest rumors, based on registry digging and off-the-record testimony, claims that Windows 8.1 will including the option of booting directly into the desktop. A bold claim such as this requires some due diligence. Comically, the attempts to confirm...

A PC Perspective on Gaming: How We Rank Games

04/18/2013 - 13:55

So, news which might excite our readers: we are going to try reviewing video games. Of course, the first thing which needs to be addressed when reviewing games is our grading system. Games, in particular, are a very artful medium and as such it does not...

AMD Never Settles: Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon Bundled

04/14/2013 - 02:22

So when AMD reloaded their Never Settle bundles, they left an extra round in the barrel. Some of my favorite games were given to me in a bundle with some piece of computer hardware. You might remember from the PC Perspective game night that I am a major...

Sauce Labs: Integration into modern.IE

04/13/2013 - 03:16

The main benefit of open Web Standards is that it allows for a stable and secure platform for any developer to target just about any platform. Still, due to the laws of No Pain: No Gain, those developers need to consider how their application responds on...

(Not) The End of DirectX

04/07/2013 - 22:21

Microsoft DirectX is a series of interfaces for programmers to utilize typically when designing gaming or entertainment applications. Over time it became synonymous with Direct3D, the portion which mostly handles graphics processing by offloading those...

Blink and It's Gone: Google Forks WebKit

04/06/2013 - 17:47

There once was a web browser named Konqueror which was quite common in the Linux community. At its core was the KHTML rendering engine, a nice standards-compliant layout package; KHTML was so nice that Apple decided to create WebKit based on it. Since...

What We Are Learning about Internet Explorer 11

04/06/2013 - 04:34

Windows Blue Windows 8.1 was leaked not too long ago. We reported on the release's illegitimate availability practically as soon as it happened. We knew that Internet Explorer took it to incremented its version to 11. The recent releases of Internet...

GDC 13: Intel announces PixelSync and InstantAccess

03/27/2013 - 20:51

GDC 2013 is where the industry comes together to talk about the technology itself. Intel was there, and of course the big blue just had to unveil developments to help them in the PC gaming space. Two new major rendering extensions and updated developer...

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