pixelquiz Pixel Quiz January 2019 Q1. Designed by Travis Kochel, X uses the OpenType font features to create a useful utility out of a type-face. For example: Typing 50 using the X font ren- ders it into a semi circle. The reason behind creating X was to make it easier to edit a particular visualelement
pixelquiz Pixel Quiz July 2018 Q1.When you plug your phone into a car stereo, the phone starts playing music alphabetically, this usually means that there’s one song that you’ll hear whether you want to or not. Many songs starting with the letter A have probably been ruined thanks to this quirk, but
pixelquiz Pixel Quiz: December 2017 Q1. “During those bubble years while the stock price was going up 30 per cent a month, we would have all-hands meetings, and I would ask employees, ‘Please do not feel 30 per cent smarter because the stock went up 30 per cent, because when it goes down 30 per
pixelquiz Pixel Quiz: November 2017 Q1. In early 1993, Charlie Jackson and Jonathan Gay, founded FutureWave Software. The intention was to create a graphic design tool that would enable pen-input for users. And so, they released SmartSketch. However, SmartSketch was a little ahead of its time and just as pen-computing didn’t take off. However,
pixelquiz Pixel Quiz July 2017 Vidit Bhargava Q1. X is the official alias for Lockhead Martin’s Advanced Development Programs group. The name X originated back in the World War II days, when Lockhead Martin was first given a contract to build fighter jets. X is widely used to describe a group within an organization
pixelquiz Pixel Quiz June 2017 Vidit Bhargava Q1. According to it’s creator Y, X was inspired from his own adventures around the hillsides of a village called “Sonobe”. In an interview Y explained, “When I was a child, I went hiking and found a lake. It was quite a surprise for me to stumble
pixelquiz Pixel Quiz : January 2017 Vidit Bhargava Q1.Which game based on the GoldSrc Engine was developed by Minh “Gooseman” Le and Jess Cliffe? An excerpt from the gameplay section of the Wikipedia page of the game reads : “Spectators are generally able to watch the rest of the round from multiple selectable views, although some
pixelquiz Pixel Quiz : December 2016 Vidit Bhargava Q1. The idea of X came to Y when he took a vacation with his children in the summer of 1999. Y would then be reminded of his own childhood and how travelling used to be an event in itself, and how the creation of interstate highways led
pixelquiz Pixel Quiz October 2016 Vidit Bhargava Q1. In May 2016, Dag Klittlaus at TechCrunch disrupt showed an advanced AI platform called X which would be able to write it’s own code to accomplish new tasks, allowing “it to understand the intent of the user and to create programs to handle tasks on the
pixelquiz Pixel Quiz: May 2016 Q1. The idea of the name X, came to Robert Kalin while he was transcribing an episode of Fellini’s 8 ½ (to decide on a name for his startup), which is when he came across X. According to him, “In italian, you say, ‘X’ a lot. It means, “Oh
pixelquiz Pixel Quiz: December 2015 Vidit Bhargava Q1. Neverending was an online, massively multiplayer game that didn’t have an endpoint and had no real objectives, but it was the conceptualising point for X, because the founder needed an anciliary project to keep paying his employees. X turned out to be a big internet service
pixelquiz Pixel Quiz: October 2015 Vidit BhargavaQ1. X was reportedly first carried out by a Malaysian IT consultant who used his phone to advertise Sony Ericsson. He also invented the name, which he claims is an amalgam of _____ and ajack, his username on Esato, a Sony Ericsson fan online forum. however is an extremely common
pixelquiz Pixel Quiz: July 2015 Vidit BhargavaQ1. Y works out what’s in an image by analysing layers until they finally decide on what it shows. The first images from Y’s project X, shown in June, reveal a horrific display of monsters and tentacles and a capability to insert random noise on a black
pixelquiz Pixel Quiz April 2015 Q1. The website X is known to advertise mainly through Podcasts, launched in 2003 by Anthony Casalena. X is a SaaS based Content Management System comprising of a website builder, blogging platform and a hosting service. X’s 2015 Super Bowl ad titled, “The Power of Om” featured Jeff Bridges.
pixelquiz Pixel Quiz: December 2014 Q1. In 1987, Thomas Knoll, a student at the University of Michigan began writing a pro- gram on his Macintosh Plus to display gray- scale images on a monochrome display. This program, called Display, caught the atten- tion of his brother John Knoll, who recom- mended Thomas turn it into
pixelquiz Pixel Quiz October 2014 Q1. X was originally the design of Jon Gar- ber, who wanted to call it the ‘Mac-camera’, but was vetoed by Connectix’s marketing department which saw the possibility of it one day becoming a cross-platform product. We’re talking about the world’s first _____. Q2. The X name was
pixelquiz Pixel Quiz August 2014 Vidit BhargavaQ1. X is a successful kickstarter campaign for a piece of hardware developed by Eric Migicovsky, the earlier prototypes of which were meant to work with Blackberry Handsets only. What is X? Q2. One of Hartmut Esslinger’s first design was a green colored television set. This eventually became
pixelquiz Pixel Quiz | June 2014 Vidit Bhargava Q1. The font is popular for appearing at a lot of places. Its in the logo for Rolls Royce, Gmail used it once in its logo , the name iPhone on the back of the iPhone is printed in this font & one of its variants is also the