Archive September 2005
Fire! Fire!
…which is also known as the second level of Jumpman Jr. (after Nothing To It and right before Sreddal). Then there was Hellstones, Figurits Revenge, Walls, Zig-Zag, Hurricane, Blackout, Here There Everywhere, Hatchlings, and Spellbound, and… nevermind. I'm just doing what I can get get the idea of these new California Fires out of my [...]
SOCOM – US Navy Seals Fireteam Bravo
I was thrilled to be accepted into the PSP SOCOM- US Navy Seals Fireteam Bravo beta test team. I received my UMD the other day and fired up the ol' PSP (which hasn't collected a single speck of dust). This is an Internet-enabled game, so a WiFi connection was mandatory. No big deal, I thought. [...]
Microsoft: Better Listen to Your Beta Testers
As a Microsoft beta tester, I'm forced to use the 1995'esque (lynx optimized) Beta Place and/or the halfhearted Connect sites to manage program acceptance and feedback. Dumb. Dumb ditty dumb ditty dumb-dumb-dumb. Nobody should be leaving ANY kind of constructive feedback in a newsgroup anymore, neither in a Web-based forum nor through a mildly-antequated NNTP [...]
DivX Creative Bundle: Free Software
Normally, the DivX Create Bundle comes with a free 15-day trial of the DivX Converter and a free 6-month trial of DivX Pro. You must purchase the full DivX Create Bundle if you wish to continue using DivX Pro or the DivX Converter after your trial periods expires. The DivX Player does not expire at [...]
Major Nelson on Xbox 360 Hour 1
Major Nelson dropped by the swanky studio where we record The Chris Pirillo Show to show off his prototype Xbox 360 hardware and talk about the most anticipated game console in ages. Holding the code-named Radon controller made my thumbs twitch for some HD gaming, but we were denied by the lack of a power [...]
Revisiting Vista
I'm not sure if this is for public consumption, but I've learned about a workaround for my Windows Vista build 5219 LCD resolution hiccup (wherein the screen won't slide past 800×600). I've confirmed through a new digital friend that this registry hack indeed works for our laptop, the IBM Thinkpad T41p: Run REGEDIT Locate HKLM [...]
To Animate, or not to Animate
That is the question. Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous animations, Or to take arms against a sea of pixels. I've recently taken to including animated GIFs in some of my posts, but believe that too many of them have rendered a single page annoying. One or [...]
