The war between Horde and Alliance has spilled onto a new arena. As resources are spent waging battle, both sides must find new territories to plunder in order to feed their ongoing war effort. The League of Arathor and the Forsaken Defilers have both been tasked with conquering the resource-rich Arathi Basin…and you have been…
Daily Archives: August 12, 2005
“Supergirl #1″ Gets Second Printing With New Cover
DC Comics issued a press release today with a report that “Supergirl #1″ has sold out at a retailer level and will be re-offered with a new Mike Turner cover. Tweet comicbookresources.com
Hands-Free Calls and Music. Great. But What’s That on Your Shades?
The Razrwire, which is available online at hellomoto.com and at Cingular stores for $249, consists of a small Bluetooth headset attached to a pair of Oakley sunglasses. Tweet nytimes.com
Is that you? Writing Better Software for Cool USB Hardware
In this fourth installment of the “Some Assembly Required” column, Scott Hanselman and Bryan Batchelder find a piece of hardware so compelling – and with included software so bad – that they write their own version using the .NET Framework 2.0. Tweet microsoft.com
Firefox lost market share in July to Internet Explorer
Microsoft’s Internet Explorer Web browser halted the steady market share advance of The Mozilla Foundation’s Firefox browser last month, according to NetApplications.com, a Web site monitoring company. Tweet computerworld.com
StarOffice 8 Faces Delays, MS Pressure
A British executive for Sun said on Friday that the release date for the company’s StarOffice 8 suite would now be September 12, almost two months later than originally anticipated. The office productivity software sees wide use in the Linux community, and includes word processing and spreadsheet applications. Tweet betanews.com
The 40 Year Old Virgin
Steve Carell’s first star turn has plenty in common with “Wedding Crashers,” for good and ill. Crude, sophomorically homophobic but frequently funny, pic also overstays its welcome a bit and indulges in some juvenile excesses. All told, though, “The 40 Year Old Virgin” delivers enough belly laughs that it should score pretty consistently. Tweet variety.com
Microsoft’s Greatest Invention: The iPod?
Apple has been making a lot of money on Microsoft’s invention, the iPod, and may owe the Redmond Giant some BIG BUCKS in royalties, according to a story posted at Personal Tech Pipeline. OK, maybe that’s overstating it. In reality, some Apple patents related to technologies already integrated into the iPod were rejected by the…
Batman The Motion Picture Anthology 1989 -1997
All Four Films Available for the First Time Ever as Two-Disc Special Editions. Tweet superherotimes.com
Google Puts Library Project on Hold
Search giant Google said late Thursday that it would stop an ambitious project to scan and index the entire catalog of five libraries until November. The project originally launched in December and quickly came under fire from several groups, including one that accused Google Print of promoting a “unipolar world view.” Tweet betanews.com
