Here’s something that might keep you amused if you’re at home for the next few days. In fact if you have a slow internet connection it might take the best part of a day to get hold of America’s Army. It’s a free ‘first person shooter’ online game developed by a team working for the US Army in an attempt to encourage recruitment. The download is a whopping 2.9Gb but according to seasoned gamers it is well worth the effort. Read the rest of this entry »
Being single for the Holidays ultimately sucks as many know. It brings that emptiness feeling of turning your head when you’re passing under a bouquet of mistletoe, and there’s nobody there to kiss, that just wears you down and leaves you with a bitter memory of what should have been the most joyous time of the year.
Enter the online dating sites that match you with somebody in your vicinity, who is also single and perhaps it won’t be so sad after all. It won’t be a match made in heaven, but it will be a match nevertheless. The popularity of these sites is soaring around the Holidays, for the reason I said above, and they are ready to welcome the traffic. After all, they make a living out of it.
The sites vary in what they offer and in many aspects, so I’ll just write about some of the more popular ones and their features; so here it goes: the most interesting one I’ve found is True.com that niches on safety in online dating. What it does is that it screens its members and boots off those that have criminal backgrounds. Not only that, but it also turns them in to the Feds and to their state parole boards. How about that? Oh, not to mention the married folks that pose online as singles who also get the boot. Read the rest of this entry »
We’ve all been there… You find yourself at some exotic location, trying to take a once in a lifetime picture of a famous landmark or some picturesque scenery when a gormless tourist, car or bus wanders into the frame. There’s nothing like an articulated lorry or daft-looking stranger to spoil a classic, potentially award-winning photograph, but what can you do?
The answer is simple, keep still and shooting. Take as many pictures as you can then when you get home run the images through a piece of software called Tourist Remover. It’s ingenious, it checks the images, finds all of the bits without moving objects, tourists and so on, then stitches them together and hey presto, a clean photo with no hideous holidaymakers spoiling the view.
Following the availability of Internet Explorer 7 in October 2006 for Windows XP SP2 and Windows Server 2003, and together with Vista in November 2006 and January 2007, Microsoft debuted work on the next version of its proprietary browser. But at the same time, the Redmond company remained almost completely mute regarding the future of Internet Explorer. In early 2007, due to the scarce details from Microsoft, speculations pointed to both a 7.5 version and a 8.0. version, this is in fact being one of the issues that have been clarified at this point. The Redmond company will evolve Internet Explorer directly to version 8, and there will be no major interim updates. Early builds of IE8 are being dogfooded, but outside of Redmond, the browser version is as well as inexistent. Dean Hachamovitch, IE General Manager, confirmed that Internet Explorer 8 would succeed IE7 and that the browser was in the works, after Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates mentioned it first. Read the rest of this entry »
Windows Live Messenger 9.0 has been leaked to the web and is available for download right here! Version 9.0 is designed as the successor of Windows Live Messenger 8.5 released in its final form at the beginning of November. The past week, Microsoft began sending out invitations to the private beta testing program of Windows Live Messenger 9.0. Read the rest of this entry »
