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A personal blog by Alex Lee

Browsing Posts published in December, 2006

I’m heavily into my MMORPG and recently I stumbled upon a little gem. My first MMORPG was SWG or Star Wars Galaxies run by SOE. This was a great game unfortunately it was run by fools who, in a word, ruined? a good game. I left just as ‘Jump to Light Speed’ came out. Having [...]

It seems Microsoft have announced the official launch date for Windows Vista and Office 2007 a day early. “On January 29th, Microsoft will celebrate the launch of two amazing products that represent the culmination of a tremendous team effort,” an email message from Microsoft reads. “Millions of people –Microsoft employees, developers, valued customers, bloggers, families, [...]

Apple has a new seasonal ad to add to its ‘I’m a Mac and I’m a PC’ series – [ Javascript required to view QuickTime movie, please turn it on and refresh this page ] If you liked that and haven’t seen the others, check them out at Apple.com and Merry Christmas whether you are [...]

An article over at newscientisttech.com caught my eye. It is regarding a new search engine that uses sophisticated facial recognition to allow users to identify and find people in online images and it is due to launch next month. Civil liberties groups say the biometric-style tool could compromise the privacy of anyone who has their [...]

All you Firefox users – Firefox users need to upgrade their browsers following the discovery of multiple security vulnerabilities. The flaws affect both Firefox 1.x and the latest Firefox 2.0.x releases. Surfers need to upgrade to version 1.5.0.9 or 2.0.0.1 of the browser, respectively. Users also need to upgrade to a new version of the [...]

Well I’ve been using b2evolution for a bit but it just wasn’t doing it for me so decided to try out a few others. Well it’s WordPress I have settled for and the transition over has been smooth, suprisingly. So just a few tweaks to be made and maybe a theme change and we will [...]

Found an excellent add-on for Firefox that no web designer/ developer should be without. It is called FireBug and is packed with features to make your lives easier. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page. Here is a quick snippet of features taken from the developers site [...]

I know I promised this a while ago, but I’ve been too busy playing with it to write you a review on the 2nd generation iPod shuffle. To start with, I know it’s not the most feature packed mp3 player on the market, and certainly not the cheapest for 1gb by any stretch of the [...]

RegHardware have posted an article about the upcoming launch of PS3 in Europe. The Sony PlayStation 3 European debut – due to take place in March 2007 – will be accompanied by a major firmware update, a senior Sony Computer Entertainment (SCE) Europe executive has revealed. No one is clear on what this might update [...]

To kick off this IA section I thought I would re-post something that was originally posted by Jesse James Garrett I think it is a great starting point. Every Web team has its own take on dividing up roles and responsibilities and implementing processes for design and development. Formal titles, job descriptions, and reporting structures [...]