Saturday, September 23, 2006

The 46 Best-ever Freeware Utilities

Yes, you're right, you've seen it before, but it's being updated quite frequently. Take a look. Read on

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All the Nintendo Wii info you will ever need! FAQs

CorbieD: I made a list of many of the most frequently-asked questions that keep getting asked on various gaming message boards and answered them in a question and answer format. Maybe this will help those of you out who have a lot of questions about the upcoming Nintendo Wii system and its many features and launch details.

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Sony's Keynote was a TRAINWRECK

This years keynote by sony at TGS was worse than e3's, so worse in fact, the developers began to pictochat during the keynote.

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Sony doing all they can to sink the PS3

New information about scaled-back shipments of launch games that could make the PS3 even less attractive. Top-tier titles will only ship 100,000 copies by year-end, so games will be scarce, and publishers' profits will take a beating.

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Python 2.5 final released!

This release includes conditional expressions, absolute and relative imports, unified try/except/finally, new generator features, the 'with' statement, new packages: ctypes, ElementTree, hashlib, sqlite, wsgiref. More details are here: http://docs.python.org/dev/whatsnew/whatsnew25.html

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Python Programming for Beginners

In this tutorial, you will learn how to write applications that use command-line options, read and write to pipes, access environment variables, handle interrupts, read from and write to files, create temporary files and write to system logs. In other words, you will find recipes for writing real applications instead of the old boring Hello, World!

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Tetris in 100 lines of Python

"Ok, my friend Kevin, in an attempt to silence my bragging, challenged me to make Tetris in 200 lines of code. I announced I could do it in 100! It is ghetto and looks and feels about as suave as a minivan, but it is a functional game of Tetris! Could have been done better, but I think the point was proven."

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Monday, September 18, 2006

Wii Console Walkthrough

Good news for gamers and sports fanatics alike, big bold letters on the box indicate the Wii Sports WILL be shipping as part of and parcel of the system

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Wii Boxing in action

Couple of guys playing the new boxing game in Wii Sports. Looks fun.

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Amazon Quickly Sells Out of Wii Pre-orders

Here is a comment from one customer that made it under the wire: "Amazon offered preorders with Wii Sports included for $249 today. With 1 day expedited shipping ran $283.83. No absurd bundle required. They began taking preorders this morning and had sold out of preorders by 11 am cst."

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Nintendo Wii Details Roundup

A collection of all the current Nintendo Wii details. This Includes the Wii conference and gaming videos as well as pricing and launch details on the system and games.

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Python Programming for Beginners

"Despite what assembly code and C coders might tell us, high-level languages do have their place in every programmer's toolbox, and some of them are much more than a computer-science curiosity. Out of the many high-level languages we can choose from today, Python seems to be the most interesting for those who want to learn something new.."

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How To: Learn AJAX Tutorials

With the popularity of AJAX growing every day I've had the opportunity to collect and try out many more tutorials in the last several months.

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