Videogames are violent, but we’re not taking umbrage with that. No, we’re upset with the lack of innovation in weaponry. In an industry where every other game has a weapon with a trigger or a long, sharp blade, crazy, innovative weapons like these are a godsend.
Forget useless desktop apps and piles of paperwork: there are now thousands of small and medium-sized businesses managing all their affairs with online applications. After an exhaustive hunt this week, we’ve rounded up more than 230 of the leading online applications for super-productive companies.
The Nigeria scams riled up one person enough to write a parody spam.
Roast some marshmallows or some Covenant with the flamethrower. First screen and details on the weenie-roaster.
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The “Keyboard.” That’s what Apple is calling their latest engineering marvel– not the iBoard or the MacBoard, just Keyboard. I got a chance to check out the new iMac and play with the new iLife apps for a bit, and then cracked open TextEdit and started typing. So what did I think?
The ability to seamlessly run Windows and Linux applications on your Mac just took another leap forward. VMware Fusion just dropped on Monday, and these are 10 things you can do on your shiny Mac with VMware under the hood.”
Peugeot will convert 20,000 of its 72,000 users to Linux, using Novell’s SUSE Linux Enteprise Desktop product. The package includes the Novell edition of OpenOffice.
That’s right: Microsoft has released not one but several pieces of code as open source. Moreover, it’s submitting some of its home-grown licences to the Open Source Initiative for approval. So what is going on here?
While AT&T claimed to be just as outraged as we were over their censoring of Pearl Jam’s anti-Bush lyrics during their Lollapallooza stream, they might not be being all that honest. They claim that it was a one-time mistake made by an outsourced company. Really?
Yesterday Microsoft began testing a new dashboard view for its Windows Live services. In their never-ending game of technological catchup will this one help them compete or are they doomed to forever be the big software company that is “not Google”?
Asked about recent engine licensing controversy, id CEO Todd Hollenshead has drawn a line between the approach Epic takes with Unreal Engine 3 (”Epic has a philosophy to license to everyone they can.”) and id’s id Tech 5 plan (”We would rather have Call of Duty, Medal of Honor, and Half-Life as our licensees than thirty games nobody remembers.”)
