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WidgetBucks: Slapped or Banned? 0000-00-00 00:00:00 If you do a quick read on popular sites, you’d notice a lot of posts about WidgetBucks.com not coming up on Google SERP. Curious, I tried it for myself and came up with:
Apparently, this so-called “ban” isn’t exactly true. So people who reacted instantly (negatively) on the news removed WidgetBucks on their [...]
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Unreal Tournament 3 Cinematics 0000-00-00 00:00:00 I’ve been a fan of the Unreal
series ever since Unreal Tournament
so the latest version of the game is simply something that I’m drooling over for quite a while now. I’ve compiled a list of links to UT3 cinematics sprouted all over the net. I will update them as soon as I [...]
The Google OS is out 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Based on Ubuntu 7.10 Linux system with an Enlightenment E17 interface, the PC’s productivity will be almost solely derived from Google
applications accessed through Firefox: Mail, Calendar, News, Maps and Documents & Spreadsheets. It also comes with OpenOffice.org 2.2 and some other freeware Linux favorites.
While there isn’t much info about it right now (I’ll update [...]
Google Ads on Feedburner Feeds 0000-00-00 00:00:00 I was thinking of tinkering with my Feedburner settings when I noticed something odd with the Monetize Tab. Apparently, advertisement on RSS feeds doesn’t just come to people with high feed traffic. After checking with the Feedburner blog, I found this entry:
This newly integrated capability — designed just for FeedBurner-powered content like yours [...]
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I want to ___ with Meebo 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Meebo, the onlineIM service just launched the Meebo Development Platform. Interested developers can use Meebo’s API to create multi user applications that can interact with Meebo and allow Meebo users to connect with each other. Development will revolve around the question: “I want to ______ with Meebo”.
Before you can get access [...]
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Apple-Inspired Apparel 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Haven’t got enough of Apple
products—a Macbook for you laptop, an iPod for your music needs, an iPhone for your mobile—why not try apparel for your children as well?
Black Arrow is providing you a means of sating that ihunger (sorry couldn’t resist).
Black Arrow’s current line of clothes for the little Mac Lovers are suitable for [...]
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Hellgate:London goes Live! 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Horror flicks not good enough for the Halloween? Try Hellgate: London. Hellgate is an RPG game created by Flagship studios, set in post apocalyptic London where zombies, demons and all manner of nightmares crawl. Hellgate offers a unique gameplay that offers:
Randomization: Hellgate:London builds heavily upon the core design of roguelikes by using [...]
OpenSocial: Google’s SNS portal 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Google’s latest launch, OpenSocial (this url goes live on Thursday) is set on November 1, 2007 (tomorrow if you’re in range of our timezone). LinkedIn, hi5, Plaxo, SixApart (read their statement here) and other currently participating social networks, interested developers can interact with any of ANY social network he chooses just by learning OpenSocial’s [...]
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Nvidia 8800GT 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Looking for the perfect Christmas gift for yourself or an avid PC gamer? Look no further than Nvidia’s latest card, the 8800GT. It promises 8800GTX-like performance at an affordable price. This baby tops my current wish list for the holiday seasons.
Pros:
Best performance/price ratio around
Decreasing power consumption
Silence and card’s dimensions
PureVideo 2
Cons:
You may have [...]
Mythbuntu: The Perfect Linux Media Box 0000-00-00 00:00:00 If like me, you’ve dreamed of a Media Center PC that sits in your living room recording all your favorite shows but lack the money for it then good news for you. Mythbuntu is a specialized Ubuntu-based distribution designed to make using MythTV as painless as possible. It is designed to simplify the installation [...]
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Asus EEE US prices are out: disappointing 0000-00-00 00:00:00 People like me who wish for a low-cost, ultra mini subnotebook are in for some bad news. Early adopters to Asus
’ EEE PC will have to face an additional 100% to the original price. Why? Asus gives no answer to it but they are expected to launch 3 models that is significantly [...]
Mulitple Logins for Yahoo Messenger 0000-00-00 00:00:00 One of the major limitations I’ve found with YahooMessenger
and Windows Live Messenger is that they allow just single logins. While this provides a bit of security, there are times when you need to login more than one account.
To add multi-user capability:
Open notepad or any text editor
Copy + Paste the following:
REGEDIT4
[HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareyahoopagerTest]
"Plural"=dword:00000001
Save the [...]
More Google Updates 0000-00-00 00:00:00 There’s a bit of buzz going on around the Google
Complex as well the Google blogsphere (yes, some sites are dedicated to blogging about google and google alone.) so I’ll round things up:
The Gphone:
As I’ve indicated on an earlier post, The Google Phone or GPhone is not an actual phone but a platform for [...]
The Apple Tablet PC 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Like Dell, with their Lattitude XT, Apple
is pitching in their badge in the Tablet
PC market. Asus is one of many of Apple’s contract manufacturer, producing parts and products like the iBooks, PowerBooks.
Will Apple’s entry bring much needed attention into the Tablet PC? It’s a gamble. Considering how well Vista integrates with Touchscreen equipped [...]
Thoughts on gOS 0000-00-00 00:00:00 I was ecstatic to find a new Linux flavor on Linuxtracker . While some people are fazed by having a Linux distro compiled with the idea of their web apps (docs, youtube, gmail, blogger etc) at the helm of the OS, I was curious as to how the gOS would fare with Ubuntu, it’s mother [...]
gOS (Ubuntu derivative) is out 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Based on Ubuntu
7.10 Linux system with an Enlightenment E17 interface, the PC’s productivity will be almost solely derived from Google applications accessed through Firefox: Mail, Calendar, News, Maps and Documents & Spreadsheets. It also comes with OpenOffice.org 2.2 and some other freeware Linux favorites.
While there isn’t much info about it right now (I’ll update [...]
Crysis leaked before Launch 0000-00-00 00:00:00 The much awaited First Person Shooter, Crysis
which is set to be released on November 19 has been seen floating on one of the most popular torrent sites, PirateBay. Razor1911 released a cracked version of Crysis, 3 days before the store date.
Read on for more details.
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YouTube gets upgrades 0000-00-00 00:00:00 If you’re a frequent YouTube
uploader, you’d notice that the Google company increased file size limit from 100 MB to 1 GB. Length for videos still remain at 10 minutes though so while there will be more high quality content on their database, you still need to stream a whole in parts.
Also, currently available [...]
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Gmail 2.0 0000-00-00 00:00:00 After the release of Gmail
’s IMAP support, the free email service began rolling out Gmail 2.0 for its users. The change wasn’t global (I think it’s per area) and the change for my email account just arrived now. Check out my screenshot here.
If you notice that your gmail’s URL is no longer a [...]
Elder Scrolls MMO is no go 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Rumors spread out once Bethesda bought the domain naime elderscrollsonline.com. What’s true so far though is that Pete Hines of Bethesda has NOT yet confirmed an MMORPG installment in the works for the ElderScrolls
series.
Here’s the statement that caused all the confusion:
I don’t think that this funding changes our focus in terms of what [...]
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News on Sonys PS Systems 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Sony’s packed a bunch of stuff for release to anticipate the Christmas Season for gamers and enthusiasts alike. With the PS3’s sales still going at a crawl, Sony turns it’s heads on the PSP and the PS2 with a bit of new hardware. Here’s the rundown
PS2:
Sony is set to launch a lighter version [...]
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Debunking MMO Gamers 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Playing MMOGs for about most of my college years, I’ve found that gamers can be classified into 5 categories depending on how they interact with other players and the game itself. Note that these descriptions apply to the games I’ve played like Ragnarok Online, RF Online, RAN Online, Maple Story (wth!), Final Fantasy Online as [...]
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AMD ATI HD 3800 0000-00-00 00:00:00 With the release of Nvidia’s 8800GT, budget gamers were given a taste of high end chips without the shelling out massive bucks. Not to be left behind, AMD
unveils it’s bet on the middle class range, the ATI Radeon HD 3800 series.
Flaunting the first Microsoft’s DirectX 10.1 support, the AMD ATI Radeon HD 3800 [...]
Shakugan no Shana Season 2 - A quick look 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Like many sequels I’ve seen so far, Shakugan no Shana’s second take on the seen feels like a drawn out appeal by animators (not the creators of the manga) to bait more people into watching a series that’s getting more and more stale with each passing episode.
The new series is currently running at six episodes, [...]
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PS3 to support DivX 0000-00-00 00:00:00 x
Anime and gaming fans rejoice after the press release sent out by DivX Inc., revealing a partnership with Sony allowing DivX media support on the PlayStation 3 console. The functionality is expected to be enabled via a firmware update future. Additionally, Game Developers will also be given the ability to incorporate DivX [...]
Crysis hit shelves 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Crysis, one of the most anticipated FPS games is now available in stores—in selected countries that is. Germany, Austria, as well as Australia and the US will be able to find copies (legal ones) of Crysis sitting on the shelves
of local games stores. Global release is still set on November 19 though so [...]
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Level Up drops the Ban Hammer 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Due to the wide popularity of Valkyrie, Ragnarok Online PH’s newest free-to-play server, numerous players intending to GAME the system tried to employ the usual bot-dominance over the server. Too bad for them, Level Up Philippines raised their anti-bot ordinances up a notch.
To those who haven’t been up to speed with what’s happening, after a bit of bot-throttling from Level-Up which ended up in massive disconnections from thousands of botted accounts, Valkyrie’s server, under the stress of thousands of incoming connections went down for several hours.
Here’s LU’s official statement on the stability of the server:
Please be advised that Level-up! Games will start sanctioning users caught with thousands of instances of daily log-ins. Not only is this an indication that you’re using a third party program, this can also be considered a DOS attack against our servers which causes great inconvenience to the rest of the community. This is the main reas Read more:Hammer
Sony Launches the PlayStation Store for PSP 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Without much fanfare, Sony
opens up the PlayStationStore
. where you can download for-pay and free content via your computer and upload them directly onto your PSP.
At the moment, there’s still just limited content like Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (PS1), Syphon Filter: Combat Ops and Tekken 2. Aside from games, wallpapers, themes, video trailers and demos are available as well.
To start downloading from the PlayStation Store, get The PSP PC Application and install it on your Desktop. It allows users to download content through the software and then it directly uploads to the USB-connected PSP.
It’s expected that sometime in the future the PS3 store will offer the same type of service as well as integrate with the PC and PSP Store. For now though, if you’re interested in trying the store out without cashing in, there’s FREE contents like games and themes that only require a sign up to download.
[Via Gamebrink]
Gigabyte M704 UMPC 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Things seem to be heating up in the sub-notebook world as major names in manufacturers like Asus, Fujitsu, and Apple begins to target the Ultra Mobile PC Market. Now, Taiwanese-based Gigabyte
is also aiming to hit it big with the M704.
CPU :
VIA Esther ULV C7-M (1.2GHz, 400/800MHz, 128KB/128KB L2)
Nano BGA2 90nm, 3.5W~7.5W TDP
OS:
Windows Vista Premium
Chipset:
VIA VX-700
Memory:
DDR2-533, 768MB
LCD:
7” TFT-LCD WXGA, 1024×600, with LED backlight
HDD:
1.8″ with 5400 RPM,40 or 60 GB
ODD:
External optical device supported
Camera:
1.3M pixel CMOS web-cam
Wireless:
802.11 b/g
Peripherals:
Card reader:SD/MMC/SD-IO
USB 2.0: 2 ports
VGA output
DC in connector
Stylus
Expansion port(including 10/100M ethernet jack)
Battery
2 cells,3900mAh/cell, Approximated at 3 hrs
Dimension
190(W)x120.8(D)x30.3(H)mm
Weight
780g
Price and availability is still unknown though so for now, it’s Asus EEE stealing the limelight.
Browsershots: A great web design tool 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Interested on how your site looks on a different browser and OS? If you were to do it the old way you need multiple browsers in your PC (say Opera, Firebox, IE and Safari) and check them out manually. If you wanted to test your site on both IE6 AND IE7 then you need a separate installation for both (check below on how to do it). If you want to test your work on multiple OS’s though, you either need multiple machines or a bit of knowhow on running multiple OS’s on the same machine.
Now you just need to type the URL of the site you need to test and it’s automatically done for you.
Enter Browsershots
Here’s a test run on Atma Xplorer (click for the full version):
Browsershots also allows you to download these images conveniently packed into one zip file.
Under Linux (Ubuntu) :
6.06 Opera 9.24
6.06 Firefox 1.5.0.13
6.06 Konqueror 3.5
6.10 Firefox 2.0.0.8
Under Windows:
XP Internet Explorer 7
XP Internet Explorer 5.5
XP Opera 9.24
XP Safari 3.0.2
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