July 2005
18 posts
Microsoft "Virtual Earth" sucks.
Aside from poor functionality, black-and-white arial photography, and bad design, Microsoft’s new “Virtual Earth” (we’ll call it MSN Maps) is pretty bad. Most, if not all, of the maps are out-of-date, and the site is slow and buggy. The worst feature is definitely when you zoom-in on the Maps, it stretches them out in your browser a few times before loading the next level...
"Family Guy" Movie leaked TWO MONTHS early!
Not really much else to say… lol.
Half-Life 2 on Sale at CompUSA for $20
Instant-Savings, too. None of this Mail-in Rebate fiddle-faddle. :P I just went over and picked up a copy. (It’s an in-store only deal.)
The biggest problem I ran into was that I didn’t have a PC to play it on. SO, I started scrapping some parts together and eventually came up with an AMD Duron 1.2GHZ system (with a Thermalake fan… I should over-clock it) with like 390MB of...
About this XBOX 360 Leak Non-sense
Guys, this is a definite marketing ploy. First off, chances are of that kid having a digital camera that clear, yet nothing in his house, is pretty slim. (And that quality’s way too good to be a cellphone camera that kid would have.) However, that aside, how the HELL was he taking pictures of himself?? The chances are of him setting the camera like that with a timer or a tripod…...
Best CD for Driving.
Billy Corgan’s new mix (formally of Smashing Pumpkins, Zwan, both good) is pretty sick. It’s good just to blast in the background while bombing around in a VW Golf GTI… or anything else ridiculously sporty.
My favorite songs:
2. Mina Loy (M.O.H.)
3. The CameraEye
4. Tolovesomebody (the CD’s hit)
6. DIA
The album’s more of an experience, but even just these songs...
Fujitsu's 'Flexible' LCD Screen
You always hear about Korean/Japanese tech companies developing new forms of LCD screens… but I’ve yet to be impressed, until now! Fujitsu’s new screen, shown below, is actually being curved while perfectly displaying an image. Now THAT’s cool.
Plus, it apparently uses no power at all.
Mac OS X Updates, New Cellphone
Apple must have heard my pleas, as they’ve released both an iSync update and Mac OS X update. I haven’t been this happy about OS X since 10.2.4 came out. ;)
So basically 10.4.2, the new update for Tiger that was released today, fixes a bunch of Dashboard slowness. Even though the widgets still take a while to load properly… at least it’s not lagging the entire machine. Not...
Free SkypeOut Minutes
Don’t forget to claim your 10 free SkypeOut minutes! As much as I don’t like Sharman Networks, you can’t argue with free.
All you have to do is login to the linked page TODAY (the 11th of July, 2005) and click the claim gift button at the top of the page.
Oprah on Google Maps
If you haven’t seen this yet……………. it’s a maze…. lol.
The "Search Dog"
This is honestly the most pointless feature of Windows XP. It was cool for like five minutes.
Why is this stupid? Because when you’re trying to find something, chances are you’re in a rush and don’t have time to just browse for it. The “Search Dog” takes forever to load and uses up valuable system resources. Stupid M$.
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Spotlight on Grand Theft Auto 2's Music (GTA2)
Grand Theft Auto 2 for the original Playstation was one of my favorite games. Of course, it’s now available for FREE download (GTA2) from Rockstar Classics (totally legal), which adds to the awesomeness of the game. The PC version was the best one, especially because you could play at night time as well.
Anyway, back then, the game was a lot more silly. On the Playstation, the...
Amazon's 10th Birthday Celebration!
This is so cool. In celebration of its 10th anniversary, Amazon is having some lucky customers’ orders delivered by celebrities!
Phreak with your Cellphone
Now that most mobile phones can play full-audio ringtones, you can ‘redbox’ payphones a bit more casually. (if you find a payphone that it is still compatible with, of course) In rural areas, which might have a lot of older payphones but no cellphone towers or coverage, this could come-in-handy!
I put together this nice ringtone with two quarter-deposit tones spaced evenly. It...
Mockingbirds are 'mocking' cellphone ringtones.
If birds are mocking your tone, that means it sucks and you need a new phone. :) Then you can use mobile17… hehe.
“Arizona mockingbirds are picking up and repeating some cell phone ring tones, said Bob Witzeman, conservation chairman for the Maricopa Audubon Society. You can thank the avian species’ ability to mimic, combined with their exposure to phone-infested public places,...
"World of Warcraft Unfinished Area"
I’m not a fan of RPGs per-say, but I thought this was pretty cool. This chic’s dial-up crapped out while playing World of Warcraft (WoW) and when she went back on, the game had glitched her character into an inaccessable area! (Blizzard is still developing it, and they built a wall around it for that.)
“The area I was in was an area that is inaccessible from the outside world....
How to play the iTunes 500-millionth Song...
from Apple’s fine-print: http://www.apple.com/itunes/500million/
1. NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. 3. How To Enter. You will automatically be entered into the Promotion by: 1) downloading a song from iTunes (any free downloads will be deemed an ineligible entry); or 2) a free alternative means of sending an e-mail to Apple at itunes500@apple.com via the iTunes “Tell a Friend” feature (a...
The Guide to Laughing Online (How-To Dictionary)
When some people laugh online, they don’t actually know what they’re saying. Silly them… let me clarify the terminology. :)
haha = A casual laugh.
ha ha = A “Nelson” style laugh from the Simpsons, usually at someone else’s expense. Hear sample.
hah = Something you don’t really think is that funny, but you’re laughing more-or-less to be polite and...
PSP Games to run from a Memory Stick Hack only...
NOTE: This is pure hypothesis backed with casual research. If you like it, digg this story, but I haven’t spend enough time playing with the PSP’s software and data.
I was checking out the recent hack for Lumines that lets you run the game from a PSP memory stick… but people were complaining that there was no sound. The reason for this is simple.
One of the files you change the...