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Archive | March, 2007
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Continue reading...Firefox 3.0 - All About Offline Web Applications
30. March 2007
PCMag did a damn interesting writeup of the new features coming in Firefox 3.0, namely the offline functionality is getting a swift kick in the pants and will make the first steps necessary to allow full web-application offline application… think of Gmail offline, Google Docs, Docs & Spreadsheets, etc… all offline. It looks like the support [...]
Continue reading...Olyphant to Play Agent 47 of Hitman Fame
29. March 2007
Kotaku reports that Hitman is going to get made into a movie with Timothy Olyphant as Agent 47. I’ve always liked the character in the Hitman series and actually disliked the dialog they gave him and personalization that eventually leaked into his character. I envisioned him in my mind is a merciless machine with a scruffy [...]
Continue reading...Top 10 Horror Movie Deaths of All Time
29. March 2007
Maxim has put together an awesome collection of the top 10 horror movie deaths of all time. As a horror movie buff (mostly for the gore) this was great.
Continue reading...Server Virtualization Cuts Performance in Half
29. March 2007
I don’t think there are too many surprises here. Using server virtualization makes managing the servers easier, but cuts performance roughly in half (43%). I never quite understood the craze with virtualization. I suppose the enterprises here are pushing this adoption, wanting to have the ability to manage their servers independent of physical boxes in your [...]
Continue reading...HD-DVD Consortium Fires Back Against BluRay Successes
29. March 2007
It looks like HD-DVD group is getting angry and are going to fire back in the next month or so against the success the BluRay crowd is seeing. That includes 2 new “low-cost” ($500 and $600) versions of the Toshiba HD-DVD player and then 70 HD-DVD title releases over the next 3 months or so. That’s [...]
Continue reading...World Declares Shenanigans on DirecTV’s “100 HD Channels” Claim
29. March 2007
We have covered DirecTV’s lies about it’s “superior HD quality” and customer/competitor’s reactions to those claims. Now it seems that the true story behind DirecTV’s “100 HD Channels” ad campaign is out as well over at Engadget HD. As anyone that likes HD and is a DirecTV customer knows, DTV has been promising “more” HD channels [...]
Continue reading...Don’t Clean Your HDTV Screen with Windex / Glass Cleaner
29. March 2007
So you’ve heard the techies say to you for years now, but you never understood why (that goes for me to): “Don’t use Windex or anything else to clean your HDTV screen!” I really wish there were a warning somewhere prominent on the box… how’s this for a warning on a $4k TV: What you are [...]
Continue reading...Grand Theft Auto 4 Trailer Due Thursday
28. March 2007
1up has a story up speculating what could be improved in GTA4 with the first trailer (for the XBox 360 version?) scheduled for release this Thursday (3/29/07). I think the only thing people should be concerned with is if the franchise will add full multiplayer (versus AND co-op… almost co-op more importantly). The reason I [...]
Continue reading...Java Swing LNF: Nimbus
27. March 2007
There has been some buzz recently surround a new LNF (look and feel) being worked on at Sun called Nimbus. Over all I think it looks fantastic and doing a great-looking LNF is something I’ve always wanted to do, but never set down to actually work on. Here are some quick shots of what [...]
Continue reading...Choosing a Toilet
27. March 2007
Strange topic for today isn’t it? But we all poop… so hey. I think for all the folks that live in one of the new-built homes that are going up a dime-a-dozen across America, one thing you’ll likely notice is the $50 blue-light-special toilets these builders use. One of my least favorite toilets on earth are [...]
Continue reading...XBox 360 DVD Playback is Trash
26. March 2007
ExtremeTech just did an extensive comparison between the XBox 360 DVD playback (apparently either the built-in DVD drive and HD-DVD addon both produce crap) and a standard Denon DVD player. The result is that the 360 is trash. It nails a HQV (max score of 130) score of 20 (for comparison, sub-$50 DVD players from [...]
Continue reading...GameStop Keeps Selling Opened Games as New
26. March 2007
I was reading rumors about this 2 or 3 years ago, and then in the last year seeing more and more stories about this popping up on Digg and other sites about GameStop selling open games as new. Some show all the new games to you in the case, but when you ask for it, [...]
Continue reading...God of War Review
20. March 2007
Ok so I just wrapped playing God of War on my new PS3, and the final take is: Freaking awesome. Even though this game is a PS2 game and looks a little dated, especially on larger HDTV sets, the game play and effects that you do so are so well done and so exciting that you [...]
Continue reading...PS3 “Big March Firmware Update”, v1.6 Notes
20. March 2007
Here’s the poop: Folding @Home: Now you can participate in the worldwide distributed computing protein folding experiments from Standford University, in hopes to further understand human genetics. You can access the Folding @Home application under Network on the XMB Internet Browser Pinpoint Zoom and Resolution Settings: You can now choose to zoom into a portion of a [...]
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- Britney Spears Looses Custody of Kids
- Ninja Gaiden 2, Rated B for Baby Jesus
- Class Action Lawsuit against Sony for "Green Haze" or "Green Blob" SXRD Problem
- iPhone Review (Part 1 of 3)
- Staring at Boobs Extends Male Life by 5 Years
- Manhunt 2 Banned in the UK
- There Are No Ugly Women (Maybe Bai Ling)
- Shoot 'Em Up Movie Review
- Microsoft Forcing Desktop Search on Users
- Lindsay Lohan Naked - SFW
- Class Action Lawsuit against Sony for "Green Haze" or "Green Blob" SXRD Problem (1104)
- Gears of War Movie Treatment Summary (145)
- Halo 3 Screenshots Analyzed (105)
- Time Crisis 4 Review (PS3) (79)
- Gears of War PC Problems (74)
- Mitsubishi WD-65831 "Air Flow" Problem (70)
- Which is the Hottest Java Web Framework? Or Maybe Not Java? (47)
- Dell 3008 WFP 30" LCD Review (40)
- Evolution of Water in Games, Best is Halo 3 (37)
- Britney Spears Looses Custody of Kids (30)
- Commentary: Stop Bringing Babies to R-Rated Movies
- The PC Game Market is Not Dead
- Computer Mouse to be Extinct in 5 Years… Again
- Are You a Chronic Almost-Achiever or a 95% Kind of Person?
- Guitar Hero: World Tour Supports Any Electronic Drum Set with MIDI Port
- E3: Mature MadWorld Gameplay Video (Nintendo Wii)
- E3: Street Fighter IV Extended Gameplay Video Video
- WordPress 2.6 Released - New Feature Summary
- E3: Resident Evil 5 Screenshots and Gameplay Video - Full Co-Op Support!
- E3: Mirror’s Edge Gameplay Video - Ridiculously Beautiful
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- Logitech Driving Force Feedback GT PS3 Wheel Review
- DDR2-800 vs DDR3-1333, Does Speed Matter?
- LinkedIn Is Written in 99% Java
- Dragon Ball Z: Burst Limit Review (PS3)
- Supported Values for @SuppressWarnings
- Building a Fast Home Powerline Network
- Intel Nehalem Benchmarks: 50-100% Performance Increases
- Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune Review (PS3)
- Blizzard Announces Diablo III includes Gameplay Videos
- Iran Missile Launch Photo is a Fake
31. March 2007
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