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Take Google Search 2.0 for a Spin
In an attempt to compete with the oncoming shit-house that is Microsoft’s Bing, Facebook’s real-time Search and everyone else generally wanting a piece of the Google pie, Google has pulled version 2 of Google Search out of the garage for some beta test runs while they tighten the screws over the coming months. You can give [...]
Continue reading...Call of Duty 5: World at War (Xbox 360 and PS3) Review
Saturday, January 17, 2009
Summary [8.5 out of 10] Call of Duty 5: World at War is a must-have COD title for fans of the series and a title dripping with enough polish, charm and replayability that gamers previously not enamored with the COD series might want to rent it and give it a try. Introduction Call of Duty: World at War [...]
Continue reading...Quad-Core Computer Confusion… Which One Should I Get?
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
Long time reader and all around great guy Gordon Walter wrote in and asked us about making heads or tails of the computer-offerings (especially the quad-core) computer offerings showing up online this holiday season. His questions were good ones and we thought it best to answer them for everyone to read. See our answers inlined below [...]
Continue reading...Guitar Hero: World Tour Reviews Suggest Not Better Than Rock Band 2
Monday, October 27, 2008
Uh oh, it looks like we might have been wrong on this one. Preliminary reviews of Guitar Hero: World Tour suggest that things might not be as rosey in the Guitar Hero camp as originally thought with their first foray into the “full band” experience. Unlocking Songs In previous Guitar Hero titles songs were always presented to [...]
Continue reading...Rock Band 2 Drum Pictures
Friday, September 5, 2008
Kotaku is rocking the Rock Band 2 news as they got a set of the drums in and snapped off some great shots of them up close, far away and comparing the two (Rock Band 1 vs Rock Band 2) drum sets. Overall the Rock Band 2 drum set looks about 15% bigger pads, Kotaku claims [...]
Continue reading...Tracing JavaScript Engine Coming in Firefox 3 Could Give 20-40x Performance Boost in Some Scenarios
Friday, August 22, 2008
Ars has a piece up about the Tracemonkey JavaScript engine work that we will first see in Firefox 3.1 (currently in nightlies) but is the first part of major JavaScript work known as Tamarin that won’t be seen until Firefox 4.0. Apparently the Mozilla JavaScript engine is getting worked over from the ground up with an [...]
Continue reading...Soulcalibur IV PS3 and Xbox 360 Comparison Screenshot and Video
Wednesday, July 30, 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...Rock Band 2 Guitar Pictures
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
We’ve been covering the up-coming war between Guitar Hero: World Tour and Rock Band 2 as the details unfold… this is mostly because I finally played one of these games and see why people like them so much; they are pretty fun. Since Guitar Hero: World Tour got the announcement-drop on Rock Band 2, Rock Band [...]
Continue reading...Saints Row 2 vs Grand Theft Auto 4 Trailer
Thursday, June 5, 2008
Damn, I really thought the potential for Saints Row 2 was dead after those “teaser trailers” came out and were boring as sin, then GTA4 dropped… it was an end-game… until we all noticed that GTA4’s multiplayer was sort of lame for co-op junkies and it came out that Saints Row 2 was going to [...]
Continue reading...Apple iPhone vs BlackBerry Bold
Thursday, May 22, 2008
A detailed, mostly physical comparison between the iPhone and the BlackBerry Bold. If you saw the Bold and were curious how thick, wide, tall, short, heavy it was, this is the article to read. The gist of it is that the BlackBerry Bold is a bit thicker, has almost exactly the same surface form factor and [...]
Continue reading...Comcast HD – Significantly Worse Than Verizon FIOS
Sunday, March 30, 2008
bfdtv, a user on AVS Forum took the time to do a competitive analysis if the new re-compression Comcast is doing in order to fit more HD channels on the same network without chopping out a significant number of analog channels to compensate. The end result is that your once gloriously untouched HD channels are [...]
Continue reading...Wicket vs JSF, Forum Application
Tuesday, May 15, 2007
Peter Thomas has put together an excellent blog post comparing the development of a simple “forum application” using both Wicket (now in Apache Incubator) and JavaServer Faces (JSF). I’ve wanted to do a comparison like this for a long time and while I’ve developed using both technologies I’ve never done a side by side comparison [...]
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Tuesday, August 11, 2009
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