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At Half Life’s 10th anniversary, the game costs only 98 cents! 2008-11-19 20:55:02 Valve is now offering Half-Life for just 98¢ in celebration of the 10th anniversary of the company’s debut title. Launched 10 years ago today, Half-Life was greeted with overwhelming review scores (Metacritic of 96%), earned over 50 Game of the Year Awards, and birthed a franchise with over 20 million units sold to date. The [...] Read more:Half Life
Latest results of the internet growth 2008-11-19 19:44:59 There are 2 news that made me publish this article. In spite of the fact that we are in the middle of an international financial crisis, seems to me that online businesses are in that narrow but corner of those few positive financial signals these days.
January 2009 - Last edition of PC Magazine
PC Magazine dropping [...] Read more:results
Gmail goes color adding 30 themes! 2008-11-19 17:18:48 Gmail fans have been building unofficial extensions to spice up their inboxes for a while, but up til now themes
haven’t been an integral part of Gmail. We wanted to go beyond simple color customization, so out of the 30 odd themes we’re launching today, there’s a shiny theme with chrome styling, another one that [...] Read more:Gmail
More than 10,000,000 Life’s photos go public 2008-11-19 08:30:46 LIFE magazine will give to the public more than 10,000,000 photos
through a partnership with Google.
The archive includes many iconic images from throughout the 20th century taken by famous photographers like Gordon Parks, Margaret Bourke-White, and Dorothea Lange.
Currently, many of the photos–searchable by keyword–are available through Google Image Search. And many more will [...
3 reasons NOT to use the CommentLuv WordPress Plugin 2008-11-18 20:43:43 Why you should not use CommentLuv? Because it’s turning worthless and messy, that’s why! And yes. There are some strong reasons not to use it.
What is CommentLuv?
CommentLuv is a wordpress plugin, easy to install and usually used by bloggers to pass a bit of luv onto your commenters by providing a titled link to their [...] Read more:Plugin
Hard work 2008-11-18 18:54:50 This will be a short article. Actually it’s just a video made by Loren Feldman in the beginning of 2007, about A-list bloggers. Yeah, that’s right. Something to keep your thoughts together before you go to sleep in a couple of hours :-).
Loren Feldman is an entertainer and videographer based in New York City. He [...]
Jerry Yang surrender the Yahoo! CEO reins 2008-11-18 00:54:55 Yang’s surrendering of the CEO reins, announced Monday, won’t occur until Yahoo
finds a suitable replacement. The Sunnyvale-based company said it is interviewing candidates inside and outside Yahoo in a search led by its chairman, Roy Bostock, and the executive recruitment firm Heidrick & Struggles.
Source Yahoo!.
Yang became CEO in June 2007 at the request of [...] Read more:Jerry
In the very heart of a financial crisis, U.S. citizens spend on video games and hardware! 2008-11-17 04:00:10 Living a global financial and economic crisis is not a secret anymore. Banks are falling down, prices are growing, the global buy-power is falling also mostly because people are saving money instead of spending.
There is no business field affected but…
… gaming industry! Yeah, sounds a little bit incredible isn’t it? Seems to me that [...] Read more:video
Secondlife.com facelift 2008-12-16 16:46:32 Yesterday we talked about There.com, Lively and Second Life. Today, SecondLife announced that the team is testing a new home page this week.
Hah. They were scared about my previous article. I knew it! I just knew it! :-) Read more:facelift
There.com - another virtual 3D world 2008-12-15 19:24:37 I have notice an ad with there.com on it and an invitation to join this virtual
There community.
Obviously, I have made a little research and I have found that the website is quite old, starting back in December 24, 1997 as The Anonymizer, a free proxy website (surf the web anonymously-like website), an anonymous [...]
The only 2 steps to build a nice Rich Text Editor using Yahoo! UI Library 2008-12-15 16:52:22 Usually I work only with my own scripts. I know, I’m not perfect and I’m not supposed to do this but I have an issues trusting other coders.
One of my big problems is choosing the right colors so that’s why my css (or the entire design) is borrowed but that’s it. In all my [...] Read more:Editor
, Library
, steps
, Yahoo
Upgrade to WordPress 2.7 is a must! 2008-12-14 08:38:56 I just waited to see if this new version of WordPress is stable and I see a lot of A-list bloggers that updated his online homes to 2.7.
Reminder :-)
On downloadwin.com you can download, share your opinions and write tips and tricks reviews about WordPress 2.7
John Chow, for example, wrote about the new WordPress 2.7 making [...]
View PDF files directly in your browser 2008-12-13 18:17:42 I have taught you (hehe) how to create a PDF file using a free Office-like application named Open Office. Now I will tell you how to read one directly in your browser
.
Actually it’s not one of my innovations and I read about it on Gmail’s Official Blog.
Clicking “View” quickly opens the PDF inside your [...] Read more:files
Copy/paste php code in Wordpress articles 2008-12-06 08:23:17 When I wrote about the fastest way to create a rss feed using php and a mysql database in 30 minutes, I have told you that I’ll find a plugin to paste
the code directly into wordpress and I did find one. Actually there are 2 plugins. Just read and you will see why.
The first [...] Read more:Wordpress
Is there a roadmap to become a successful blogger? 2008-12-04 21:26:10 I don’t know yet, seems to me that I must read a book to find out! If you ask me, I’ll say that for a good start there are 5 tips only. But let’s rewind to the beginning.
About 2 weeks ago I have subscribed to this list of bloggers. Most of them are not fresh [...]
If VLC could convert files… 2008-12-04 02:01:10 … I would be the happiest man around because VLC Media Player 0.9.6 is the best player I have ever used because it plays ANY video file I want, even the temp files
that DC++ is using :-).
Anyway, as you will see I also use VLC to relate good news. :-)
The first one is about [...]
How to extract Youtube thumbnails in seconds, increasing the usability of your website video section! 2008-12-02 20:13:53 Searching with Google about how to extract
Youtube.com thumbnails and use them with your websitevideo
sections may push you to start learning about Youtube APIs and Tools, this being a good thing anyway!
In fact this is only the result of recently(?) closed youtube.videos.get_details function (API Function Reference) for new sign-ups.
I know. For most people, [...]
The online underground economy talks about millions of dolars! 2008-12-02 10:00:15 This economical crisis has come with a lot of interesting news. And jokes. “The new economical crisis affected also the social relationships. That being told, the latest news is that women are actually forced to marry for love…” :-)
Anyway, I have found out that maybe there is hope… The November 24th Symantec report details an [...] Read more:economy
, millions
, online
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