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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, [...]

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 [...]

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 posted this back in March on another blog I was contributing to but really like the idea and so wanted to post it again here. It is a really interesting concept and for anyone who watched and loved the Minority Report this should interest you. While touch sensing is commonplace for single points of [...]

IE and Firefox 2

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So what’s the deal? What’s different from previous versions, is it worth the upgrade, what separates these two browsers and which one is better…? These are all valid questions, although some not as easy to answer as others. Hopefully this breakdown won’t be me trying to influence you one way or another because quite frankly [...]

These are interesting times in the software world. We have just had the release of IE7 and Firefox 2 which has got mixed reactions, but more on that later. First I want to talk about another major release that is looming and if you are reading this, no doubt you will have heard of Vista [...]