Nintendo kills Twilight Hack with Wii Menu Update 3.3
Say goodbye to homebrew (at least for now, until they figure out how to exploit something else).
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Archive for June 18, 2008
Why You Should Download Firefox 3 Right Now
Firefox 3 — available for download at 10am PDT Tuesday — is the culmination of a two-year quest to build the best browser ever. And while it’s not perfect, it comes pretty close.
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Google Street View Car Gets Pulled over by U.S. Park Police
It appears that a mounted member of the United States Park Police briefly detained a Google Maps camera car for some sort of driving infraction this morning.
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AMD says new graphics chip makes games seem real
We’ve come a long way since Pong and Space Invaders. But video and computer games are still striving to be both interactive and realistic. Have you seen the “Saturday Night Live” skit of the interview with Grand Theft Auto IV’s main characters, Niko and Vlad? Their arms move imprecisely, as if they’re puppets underwater.
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Wine 1.0 Released
The Wine team is proud to announce that Wine 1.0 is now available.
This is the first stable release of Wine after 15 years of development
and beta testing. Many thanks to everybody who helped us along that
long road!
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Team Fortress 2 Pyro Update Coming This Thursday
Valve has announced that the Pyro class update for its online multiplayer shooter Team Fortress 2 will be released this Thursday. To celebrate the update, the company is also doing a free TF2 Weekend, starting this friday.
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MySpace Wins Another Verdict Against Alleged Spammer
An arbitrator has ruled that Scott Richter and his Web marketing company, Media Breakaway LLC of Westminster, Colo., must pay MySpace $4.8 million in damages and $1.2 million in attorney’s fees for barraging MySpace members with unsolicited advertisements.
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Power User’s Guide to Firefox 3
You already know about Firefox 3’s marquee new features, but now it’s time to dig deep and unearth the shortcuts, tweaks, and even Easter eggs that Mozilla marketing doesn’t mention. In honor of today’s official release of Firefox 3, let’s dive in past it’s most talked-about feature-set into its lesser-known power uses, tricks, and customizations.
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Stop Canada from passing US-style restrictions on technology
Join citizens from all over the world by stepping up to stop this act
before it becomes law. The American DMCA has already imprisoned a
Russian software developer for developing a tool to help you make use
of ebooks you’d legitimately purchased. At a time when consumers are
moving away from DRM media, do we really need another unjust law?
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Firefox Download counter
The number of people that actually got through before the crash.
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Firefox 3 exceeds a million downloads
The download counter here at Mozilla headquarters shows that Firefox 3 has passed a million downloads. Ars reports live from the official release party.
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