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Which is the Hottest Java Web Framework? Or Maybe Not Java?
I haven’t sat down in a long time and actually tried to determine a trend in the Java web framework arena. The uncountable number of “easy to use” Java web frameworks that are out now adays is too many to even start to pay attention to. Struts 1 came out at a perfect time in history… [...]
Continue reading...Windows 7 Multi-Touch Demo Amazes non-iPhone Users
Thursday, May 29, 2008
Ballmer and Gates showed off Windows 7 (the follow-up failure to Vista) which ended up being Vista + Multi-touch technology. Everyone in the crowd that had never seen an iPhone before or heard of the idea of a “touch screen” since the 80s was sufficiently amazed… everyone else just saw Microsoft continuing to draft Apple [...]
Continue reading...Microsoft Farecast Predicts Ticket Prices for Best Price
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Todd Swarthout sent in a link to a pretty cool new site from Microsoft: Farecast. The idea behind Farecast is very similar to Kayak or Mobissimo where you specify your departure and arrival city and then use all these nice AJAX-ey controls to fine-tune your search results on the fly. The difference with Farecast is that it [...]
Continue reading...Windows 7 (Vienna) Screenshots - Confirmed for 2010 Release
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
If you haven’t seen it already, supposed pictures of the Windows 7 (Vienna) interface were leaked online yesterday along with a bit of information of “what we know so far”. Possible returns of WinFS, obviously a much more enhanced candy-esque UI is going to grace us and also a confirmation that consumers will be getting [...]
Continue reading...Carl Icahn Begins Proxy Bid for Yahoo
Friday, May 16, 2008
Carl Icahn (the 46th richest man in the world) has begun the process of proxy-bidding for Yahoo after the failed Microsoft takeover. It seems that Carl is gunning to get a new board of directors installed that will negotiate and see the Microsoft merger through. Thanks BGR
Continue reading...Windows XP SP3 - FAIL
Friday, May 9, 2008
I don’t know why I didn’t think this would happen… it is Microsoft and they have proved for the last 8 years that they are absolutely incapable of releasing valuable, stable, robust and well-designed software. Rumors abound that Windows XP SP3 installs are fucking over computers world-wide, resulting in the inability to boot after the patches [...]
Continue reading...How to REALLY Repair Your Xbox 360
Wednesday, May 7, 2008
This is an excellent tip, and having gone through the Microsoft Xbox support channel twice (Xbox support disaster #1, Xbox terrible support #2 and a friend) and wanting to die before I do it again, a very applicable point (oh yea, and also cause their hardware has a 30% failure rate). 1. Call 1-800-4-MY-XBOX 2. Demand your [...]
Continue reading...Xbox 360 + Blu-ray Rumors More Serious
Friday, May 2, 2008
Microsoft continues to deny a Xbox 360 with a Blu-ray drive to avoid letting 360s sit on shelves and collect dust while people wait… but rumor has it that a subsidary of ASUS has won the contract to build the Xbox 360’s with the Blu-ray drives in them for Microsoft, prepping for a Q3 release [...]
Continue reading...Sun to Begin Closing up MySQL Source Code
Thursday, April 17, 2008
Uh-oh, Spaghettio’s! Looks like Sun is going to start closing up some of the open source portions of MySQL, namely the more advanced functionality and the backup solutions that are currently open sourced. Can you blame them? They paid a goddamn billion for MySQL, it’s not too surprising that they want to create some value-add [...]
Continue reading...Legit Vista Crack (OEM Emulation) Released
Monday, March 3, 2008
APC reports that a legit Vista crack has made it’s way out in the form of an OEM emulator. Apparently Microsoft does not require activation from machines with Vista on them from some OEM partners (See above screenshot) and the crack takes advantage of that. Also… for the folks reading this, “legit Vista crack” doesn’t mean [...]
Continue reading...Netflix Mediacenter Plug-in
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Anthony Park has released on open beta plug-in, that allows you to utilize your Netflix “Watch it Now” functionality on your Media Center PC. The plug-in is still in beta and still a little buggy, but to be able to cruise movies, shows and concerts with your remote on watch a movie on demand is [...]
Continue reading...Fable 2 GDC Walkthrough Summary
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
As a follow up to the super-Co-Op that Fable 2 will have in it, I watched the GDC walkthroughs and am here to summarize them for you: NOTE: I am not clear from the walkthrough if the co-op is online or offline only. He talks a lot about the “camera” and how it manages to keep [...]
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Tuesday, June 10, 2008
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