This week ... holiday shopping, scratch proof CD's, and a new firefox
Hello well the aftermath of black friday and the Xbox 360 release is now behind us and as the dust starts to settle, one can only notice the craziness that is the holiday shopping season is in full swing. The concept seems nice enough, go out and put some though towards someone in your life and buy them something they might like but instead we get crazed shoppers hunting for the next bargain of some randomly color item that their convinced is a must have gift. Normally this isn't so bad but it makes driving in Florida that much more dangerous, for those of you who live in the state should know what I mean, seriously I doubt the guy a head of you wants a concussion for the holidays. Well now that I've vented a bit of my road rage rant on to this weeks top topics.
Firefox the popular open source web browser officially released version 1.5 this week with a bunch of fixes and improvements. Personally I like Firefox, mainly for its extension functionality; however, the new release seems to offer a good amount of new features that were really needed. You can finally re-arrange your tabs and its gotten a pretty decent performance boost. Along with the new version launch mozilla.com has gotten a make over and looks like its gonna to start promoting Firefox to gain more of the web browser market share. I would post links to the tech sites that covered this but its pretty much the usual places like digg.com, Slashdot, and other tech related sites.
Apparently they've finally started to make Blank CD's that are "scratchless" meaning that it should be much harder to screw up your backup CD's now. The discs feature bumps to keep the data side from coming into contact with anything along with a protective coating to protect your data when something does touch the wrong side. The post was originally found on boingboing who links other sources. All I have to say is that's awesome news that I can now protect my image CD's from getting scratched up but it seems to have taken long enough, but I guess we should be happy that they're making any at all.
In other happenings Prince of Persia 3: The Two Thrones came out this week and the verdict is that it's seems to be a pretty strong game. I've kinda been watching a few people play it and have to say that visually the game is pretty much on pare with the second game but seems to have more of the "toony" element more prevalent in the first game POP: The Sands of Time. The new game brings back a few characters from the original and adds a few more crazy acrobatics to the mix, but I won't have a full review until I get a chance to beat it. However, so far this seems like a pretty good title to pick up if you liked the other games.
----Update
It seems that the creator of the google maps based risk game has been ordered to take down the game due to copy right infringment. It seems that Hasbro has a lot of copyrights on the old Risk board game. The site ashotoforangejuice.com got a lot of attention from sites like Digg and Slashdot for showing the power of the google maps API, but it seems that the fun is over, I guess its back to websurfing in between classes. You can check out my previous posting here.
Firefox the popular open source web browser officially released version 1.5 this week with a bunch of fixes and improvements. Personally I like Firefox, mainly for its extension functionality; however, the new release seems to offer a good amount of new features that were really needed. You can finally re-arrange your tabs and its gotten a pretty decent performance boost. Along with the new version launch mozilla.com has gotten a make over and looks like its gonna to start promoting Firefox to gain more of the web browser market share. I would post links to the tech sites that covered this but its pretty much the usual places like digg.com, Slashdot, and other tech related sites.
Apparently they've finally started to make Blank CD's that are "scratchless" meaning that it should be much harder to screw up your backup CD's now. The discs feature bumps to keep the data side from coming into contact with anything along with a protective coating to protect your data when something does touch the wrong side. The post was originally found on boingboing who links other sources. All I have to say is that's awesome news that I can now protect my image CD's from getting scratched up but it seems to have taken long enough, but I guess we should be happy that they're making any at all.
In other happenings Prince of Persia 3: The Two Thrones came out this week and the verdict is that it's seems to be a pretty strong game. I've kinda been watching a few people play it and have to say that visually the game is pretty much on pare with the second game but seems to have more of the "toony" element more prevalent in the first game POP: The Sands of Time. The new game brings back a few characters from the original and adds a few more crazy acrobatics to the mix, but I won't have a full review until I get a chance to beat it. However, so far this seems like a pretty good title to pick up if you liked the other games.
----Update
It seems that the creator of the google maps based risk game has been ordered to take down the game due to copy right infringment. It seems that Hasbro has a lot of copyrights on the old Risk board game. The site ashotoforangejuice.com got a lot of attention from sites like Digg and Slashdot for showing the power of the google maps API, but it seems that the fun is over, I guess its back to websurfing in between classes. You can check out my previous posting here.
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