The “Break it Down” Blog
Archive | July, 2008
KDE 4.1 Released - The Release KDE Users Were Waiting For
When KDE 4.0 was first released with major portions of the desktop rewritten and pieces of the desktop (from a user’s perspective) still left mostly raw or in some cases semi-functional, there was a large user lash-back to the “massive rewrite” approach taken; some calling to brand KDE 3.x and taking that branch forward instead [...]
Continue reading...Amazon Launches Checkout Online Payment Service
31. July 2008
In a move that rivals online payment leader PayPal and sidels up next to (and possible out-runs at launch) Google Checkout, Amazon has announced the launch of their new online payment system aptly named: Amazon Checkout. The kicker that makes this service have longer legs out of the gate than Google’s offering is that every single [...]
Continue reading...wikinvest Launches Interactive, Annotable Embeddable Stock Charts
31. July 2008
For the investors or financial bloggers in the group this is some really hot news. It looks like wikinvest has launched new support for embeddable and interactive stock charts that are also annotable. For example (click and drag around this thing): You can check out the main chart page for Google here. It’s a really nice touch with [...]
Continue reading...id Rage Engine Gameplay and Sneak Preview Video
31. July 2008
QuakeCon is going on right now and id set it off with a teaser from their upcoming racing/shooting/burn-out/FPS/RPG/god-knows-what game using their new Rage Engine technology: Overall pretty damn sharp looking… I didn’t see any stuttering or hickups, the textures looked crisp and clear and the bump mapping all nicely applied. I can’t figure out what the theme/style [...]
Continue reading...Soulcalibur IV PS3 and Xbox 360 Comparison Screenshot and Video
30. July 2008
Gametrailers has put together a comparison video for Soulcalibur IV that compares the Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 versions of the game. While the scenes were in motion I could barely see a difference, but at a few moments during the action stopping, I suddenly saw it… I suddenly saw the “epicly more powerful” PS3 [...]
Continue reading...Giant Crysis Warhead Screenshots
29. July 2008
Looks like the German PC Games got a hold of some stupid-huge Crysis Warhead screenshots, here they are for you and for the folks that have dual 30″ monitors to view them on: Thanks VE3D!
Continue reading...Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) Alpha 3, Screenshots and New Theme Proposals
27. July 2008
We don’t normally start tracking the Ubuntu releases until they hit about the Alpha 3 stage; after all the big software updates have made it in, any theme work is mostly done and the final release is starting to take shape. Well, that happened yesterday: Ubuntu 8.10 “Intrepid Ibex” Alpha 3 was released.
Continue reading...Gears of War 2: Linked Achievements and Epic Musical Score
26. July 2008
Comic-Con is getting a taste of sexy with Cliff Bleszinski doing demos for attendees of the “Sinkhole” level that was shown off during E3. As it turns out Steve Jablonsky, the composer that did the score for a few Texas Chainsaw Massacre movies, Command and Conquer 3, Transformers 1 and upcoming Transformers 2 and the majority [...]
Continue reading...Soulcalibur IV Character Creation and Gameplay Video
26. July 2008
If you are getting excited for the release of these next-gen classic fighters like Soulcalibur IV (Code Name: Ultra-boobs), then I think you are going to find this video very tasty. Some highlights from the video if you don’t want to sit through it: Character Customization Armor Weapon Stats Coloring (armor, body, hair, etc.) Hair and other physical attributes Fighting style Take that character [...]
Continue reading...Tron 2 (Tr2n) Handy-Cam Trailer
26. July 2008
Ok, this is viral-marketing entering a new stage that it hasn’t been in before… supposedly “bootlegged” handy-cam footage of a private showing of a new Tron 2 movie trailer (named Tr2n); you know, cause movie studios don’t like to stir up buzz about their movies ahead of time: Tron 2 Bootleg Trailer http://teaser-trailer.comby dragonball-movie
Continue reading...New Multi-Touch Windows Taskbar In Action
26. July 2008
My apologies, this is actually older news back from May, but we hadn’t run across it until now. It seems that the media semi-blitz required to reset people’s perspectives of Microsoft (and erase the bad name they got for Vista) are starting early… way early. Microsoft isn’t slated to release Windows 7 (Vienna?) until January 2010, [...]
Continue reading...Surveillance Back Doors Built into Skype
26. July 2008
Heise Online reports that there have been recent findings that suggest there are surveillance back doors built directly into Skype. While Skype refuses to comment directly on the findings by the community, at an ISP meeting on June 25th higher-ups at an unnamed Austrian ISP made the comment that spying on Skype-based phone calls was not [...]
Continue reading...
Loading ...
31. July 2008
4 Comments