Grooveshark is an amazing online media player with a vast library that contains music from practically any artist imaginable. Grooveshark works with most any modern browser and seems to be embracing the new HTML5 standard, having been slowly ditching Flash for some time. They’re new interface is an absolute pleasure to work with, and has actually surpassed the Adobe Flex/Air Desktop application…
Update: With much sadness, Glitch was shut down. Most of the resources from the game are now available under an open source license. You may not have heard of it yet, but Glitch is beginning to turn into an interesting platform-based MMORPG with enough content to pull people away from Runescape and enough cute to drag the middle-aged folk away from farmville.…
OK, so, first of all you need to realize that I LOVE Eufloria. It’s pretty much my all-time, no-holes-barred, favorite casual game, ever. It’s simple to learn to play, the music and effects are relaxing and the problem solving skills needed to solve the levels are just complex enough to be interesting, but not make you tired of playing. If you don’t…
A short while ago after doing some personal investigation I wrote a post about VIAddress. At the time I had no idea just how many other people were affected by the business practices of this company, or what a string of events would end up occurring. I originally started this quest when I was planning to write a blog series on various…
The popular mail drop provider VIAddress.com — who had in the past been under some scrutiny by its clients for changing higher shipping rates than would be normal for shipments around the world (1) — has been quarantined by the USPS due to not following postal regulations. All packages sent to VIAddress are currently being held by USPS (a local postal worker…
Michael B. from the Mozilla Marketing list recently posted an hypothesis on why Google Chrome may suddenly start taking a much larger chunk out of the browser market now that Microsoft’s browser selection screens are appearing in the EU. “I’ve a hypothesis to explain Chrome’s recent and sudden surge of usage share the last couple months. Let me first say that almost every time I ever ask what web browser someone uses, the answer I get is Google….”
We might finally get more people off of IE, FINALLY. It might seem like a minor thing, but it isn’t. Microsoft has been fined billions over browser choice (or lack thereof) in Windows, and the solution that finally satisfied EU regulators was a browser choice screen, which would let users choose a web browser rather then having Internet Explorer installed as the…
A recent PCworld story, suggests in a measure to prevent hardware modding (which does have fair use purposes as well, such as making backups of content) they have banned up to a million Xbox 360 consoles from the Xbox LIVE service, and may have rendered the machines mainly unusable. DailyTech’s sources claim the ban blocks game installations to the hard drive and…