http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2008/12/23/braid-pc-coming-early-next-year/1
Braid coming to PC… my plan to use my PC as a 360 is becoming more and more possible!
Archive for December, 2008
Braid for PC
Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008EA on Steam
Monday, December 22nd, 2008EA has signed on with Valve’s highly popular digital distribution program Steam to distribute their games including recent releases, and with some added good news. Titles such as Spore and Mass Effect that have come under heavy fire for DRM usage, will no longer have any SecuROM protection. All games will use Steam’s DRM.
http://www.n4g.com/pc/News-250052.aspx
Hellz Yea!… now I wish I had waited to get spore…
Search images by type, Google
Friday, December 19th, 2008
More specific results for image searches, thanks to Google.
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/12/new-search-by-style-options-for-google.html
So some time ago we launched face search, which lets you limit your search results to only images containing face…
More recently we also rolled out photo search, which limits results to images that contain photographic elements, ignoring many cartoons and drawings which may not be useful to you…
Today we’re pleased to extend this capability to clip art and line drawings…
Great apps for PC
Thursday, December 18th, 2008Just a long list of apps that do various things. But all great apps! Have a looksy through and find something you didn’t even know you needed!
SnapPages, web pages for noobies
Thursday, December 11th, 2008
Great place to make a web page for people who know NOTHING about web programming. VERY easy to use. I plan on sending this to my parents! Allows for pictures, video, calendars, maps, and others.
home live!
Thursday, December 11th, 2008http://blog.us.playstation.com/2008/12/11/playstation-home-is-now-live/
now we can all move ourcouches and crap on top of chairs for no reason.
Tasks and Texting on Gmail
Thursday, December 11th, 2008http://mail.google.com/mail/help/about_whatsnew.html
Tasks
Keep track of what you need to do with a lightweight task list right inside of Gmail. Just click and type to add new tasks, convert emails into tasks, and (most satisfyingly) check them off as you’re done. Once you turn on this Labs feature, look for the Tasks link to the left of your inbox under Contacts.Text Messaging in Chat
Send SMS text messages right from Gmail. You chat from your comfy computer and reach your friends on the go; they get your messages as texts and can peck out replies on their little keyboards.To get started with these Labs features and more, click Settings and go to the Labs tab. Then select “Enable” next to the features you want to turn on and click “Save Changes.” Learn more
Google Friend Connect
Tuesday, December 9th, 2008
Fans of OpenID will be excited to read about this:
We’re pleased to share that Google Friend Connect is now available in beta to any webmaster looking to add a “dash of social” to his or her site. This service lets webmasters add social features to their sites by simply copying and pasting a few snippets of code — no advanced coding or technical background required.
We know that people want to be social on the web, and Friend Connect makes it easy for anyone to sign in to a website, share a little bit about themselves through a personal profile, discover other people with similar interests, invite their contacts, and interact with friends. Even better, you don’t have to deal with the hassle of creating yet another username and password — Friend Connect lets you log in using an existing account from Google, Yahoo, AOL, or OpenID. Similarly, you can choose to either establish a new profile or use profiles and friend sources from other social networks that have opened up their services, like Plaxo and orkut.
Read the full artical here: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/12/google-friend-connect-now-available.html
Password Unmask
Tuesday, December 9th, 2008Very cool. Also a reminder that you’re never safe and some hacker somewhere will rob your entire bank account!
http://www.pendriveapps.com/2008/12/09/password-unmask-unmask-hidden-passwords/
Password Unmask enables a user to Unmask Hidden Passwords (Passwords shadowed by asterisks etc) on almost any Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000 or XP program. Use it to reveal any passwords you may have lost or forgotten. More importantly, this Portable Password Unmasking tool can be stored and run from a portable device such as a USB Flash Drive. Please note that this Password Revealer will not work on most applications in Windows Vista.
black friday purchases
Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008Black Friday (the day after thanksgiving) is known for outrageous sales, long lines, and insane parents buying a bunch of crap at 5 am “door busters”. I have participated in these events in the past, though my recent experience as a circuit city sales engineer 
has opened my eyes to the level of crap they shovel through the doors on this truly awful shopping day.
this year I decided to to something different, I shopped online. Newegg was my store of choice and had the best offers, as usual.
I am not a person of seasonal gift giving as I believe that a gift can be given any time and the holidays are hardly a real reason to give. so I purchased these for myself.
Here is what I got:
- OCZ Fatal1ty Edition 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 1066 (PC2 8500) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model OCZ2F10664GK - Retail
- Item #: N82E16820227364
- * Canon VIXIA HF100 2.7″ LCD 12X Optical Zoom High Definition Camcorder
- Item #: N82E16830120239
- Transcend 16GB Secure Digital High-Capacity (SDHC) Flash Card w/Compact Card Reader S5 Model TS16GSDHC6- S5W - Retail
- Item #: N82E16820208377
- Canon SC-2000 Black Camcorder Soft Case
- Item #: N82E16830999162
- Proline by Dolica AX620 Aluminum Professional Tripod
- Item #: N82E16830997652
- ERGOTRON 33-299-195 LX Dual Display Lift Stand black - Retail
- Item #: N82E16824994003
The total after warranty for the camera, tax, and shipping was just about 1200. I needed it to be above 1000 for no interest/no payments for 1 year.
I am interested in the rest of you, what did you guys purchase (you might not want to mention gifts, though I am pretty sure whoever you bought them for isn’t reading this…)
-Shegs
