Thursday, August 17, 2006

Firefox 2.0 Delayed to Late October

There are approximately 40 bugs in the under-construction Firefox 2.0 Beta 2, and about 100 that need to be addressed before the final goes out the door. In the meantime, the release of Firefox 1.5.0.7 -- the next security update for the current production version of the browser -- has been moved up to the first week of September.

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Google Talk Adds Voice Mail, File Sharing

Google Talk is offering an update today that will enable users to easily transfer files, set presence with music, and send and receive voice mails.

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Sun to release Java Micro Edition source code

Sun officially announced yesterday plans to release the source code of its Java Micro Edition (J2ME) implementation before the end of the year.

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Google Webservices with PHP

Have you ever wanted to enrich your site with information from Google, Amazon, eBay, or one of the many other sites that provide web services through SOAP? In this tutorial, I will be demonstrating how to use the SOAP package from PEAR to query Google's extensive database.

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AOL buys video game review site

Time Warner Inc.'s Internet unit AOL on Wednesday said it had purchased GameDaily, a video game news and review Web site, part of an effort to expand a portfolio of online information and entertainment.

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Nintendo of America Prez. Says Online Play Free, Shares Overall Strategy

Reginald Fils-Aime says that free online play is an integral part of the Wii experience and that they're out to get new customers, not recycle us old gamers.

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The Nintendo DS Exercised Your Brain, the Wii Will Make You Lose Weight

Just as the DS was the answer for the lazy brain, Wii may be the answer for the lazy body. A report from Bloomberg today made mention of a new form of "game" in development at Nintendo: Wii-based diet software.

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Tuesday, August 15, 2006

TorrentSpy users beware - Something fishy's going on

TorrentSpy seems to have a suspicious amount of similar torrents for the PC game "Prey". A search for the game pulls 131 results. All of which have similar amounts of seeders. All of them posted anonymously. All of them having slightly varying titles. Anyone in the torrent scene should spot this. Be careful downloading.. it could be a trap.

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Nintendo DS emulator released

No$Gba v2.3 has been released, adding support for Nintendo DS emulation. Now you can play commercial DS games on a PC.

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Wii for $170?

Financial report anticipates lower price point for upcoming system. Nintendo's new Wii console could be yours later this year for less than expected.

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Wii Pre Orders in Europe starting - With photographic proof

"We have had a tip off that Smyth's Software stores in Europe are starting to take pre orders for the Nintendo Wii...."

With photographic proof & date on poster for Smyths.

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Nintendo Confirms Free Online Play For Wii

We will offer online-enabled games that the consumers will not have to pay a subscription fee for. They'll be able to enjoy that right out of the box. The Wii console is going to be Wi-Fi enabled, so essentially, you'll be able to plug it in and go.

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Sunday, August 13, 2006

Microsoft make MSDN Library free to download!

Great news has arrived for anyone who programs with Microsoft tools and a Microsoft language: the MSDN is now free to download.

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AJAX Developer Resource Center

Great source of AJAX info from Sun. Your first stop for AJAX related material. Obligatory quote: "Get ahead of the curve and start developing AJAX applications today. This is your source for Java tools, technologies and expert advice."

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Thorough C++ Tutorial for Noobs

This is a great tutorial for learning C++. If you have any experience with other languages or possibly no programming experience at all this tutorial will explain the ins and outs of C++ very well.

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Learn How to Develop Firefox Extensions!! - A step-by-step Tutorial

What is your dream firefox extension? Don't wait, Do-it yourself!! This tutorial has been created for individuals wanting to develop full-featured extensions for the Mozilla Firefox browser. The tutorial has been constructed as a step-by-step guide providing many examples, explanations

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Docking boxes (dbx)

Docking boxes (dbx) adds animated drag 'n' drop, snap-to-grid, and show/hide-contents functionality to any group of elements. And ... in what might be another world-first for brothercake - dbx is fully accessible to the keyboard as well as the mouse, an action I've re-dubbed "press 'n' push"

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So how do you code an AJAX Web page?

See hands-on examples for creating lighter, faster interactive sites

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AJAX Hello World!

This tutorial will teach you how to create a hello world web page using AJAX technologies. Odds are if you found this tutorial, then you have created a "Hello World!" program before.

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AJAX FAQ for the Java Developers

This FAQ is targeted for Java developers that would like to add AJAX functionality to an application.

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A lost art: PHP objects

You get object-oriented languages like Java and Smalltalk, and function-oriented languages like PHP. Well that was the theory, until PHP introduced its objects model in PHP 3, and it's been getting progressively better at it since then. Yet still the practice of using objects in PHP remains a bit of a lost art.

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JavaScript templating system - Display HTML blazingly fast

AJAX applications are everywhere, and one of the key issues is the speed of rendering HTML. Using innerHTML is not recommended, but DOM can be slow. This JS template system lets you render HTML much faster than standard DOM, while keeping its flexibility.

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How (Not) To: MySQL Connection Management in PHP

This article is intended to highlight various basic topics concerning proper methods of handling connections to MySQL databases in PHP, guidelines for caching dynamic content, and a technique called "lazy loading".

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8 Google Games To Keep You Entertained & Busy

Warning: Google Games mentioned here may be highly addictive.

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