I read the headlines too, and yawned just like you did. But I took it one step further…I clicked. High Def Tubes Dude, it looks good! It really does. Not sure if you can see it here - but this looks good, at regular scale and also at Full Screen. Yes - it looks good when you click the window in the window. This was all spurred when I read blogmaverick’s post called “Youtube’s Desperation” Where does that leave Youtube ? Actually in a far better place. Two websites. One of which becomes a video search engine , with out...
One maker of sexualized children's toys has gotten a judge to crush another, on the grounds that Bratz' creator violated its copyright and probably came up with the idea on Mattel time. A judge on Wednesday granted an injunction sought by toy maker Mattel Inc. that bars rival MGA Entertainment Inc. from manufacturing or selling its popular pouty-lipped Bratz dolls. The ruling, filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Riverside, follows a federal jury's finding that Bratz doll designer Carter Bryant came up with the edgy concept while working for Mattel. The same jury later awarded Mattel $10 million for...
Image via Wikipedia Great post at Social Media Times about Facebook Connect: It was an inevitable that a company would come along an release a standard for single sign on that had the financial backing to go build strong partnerships and more importantly, mainstream buzz. Yesterday Caroline McCarthy highlighted some of the challenges facing OpenID and I have to say the battle between Facebook and the open standards community is about to get pretty fierce. I really think it might - not because Facebook is “better” - but it is really hard to explain OpenID, ecpesically to non-technical people. ...
Section: Gaming News, Consoles, PS3, Wii, Xbox-360, PCs, Windows, Handhelds, DS, Genres, 3D, Action Afraid there was gonna be no one to call when ghosts were eventually going to haunt your video game console? Well fear no more gentle citizen, for Atari has officially announced that the upcoming Ghostbusters: The Video Game will be warming up the proton packs for June 2009. After the Activision-Blizzard merger, Atari bought up the license to the Ghostbusters: The Video Game which, at the time, had fans drooling at the mouth with how good it looked. Then we were severely disappointed when Vivendi, now...
Image by via CrunchBase Back when I started this site, it was completely free. Built on Blogger, images hosted at photobucket, and email provided through a service that had just sprung up at AOL: My eAddress. At the time this was fantastic because I could pick an email for the site which was close to the domain that I would eventually purchase. It turned out that AOL was not going to give users access to the domain outside of emails, so I bought up a couple of domains anyway. Still ended up continuing to use the emails since the...
There’s a new version of Songbeat, a simple but powerful desktop application for discovering music online, and I like it. When it was first released earlier this year, the client only enabled you to search for music online using Seeqpod, but the updated version lets you search more engines at once and also lets you easily play, export and download songs. The music industry will be interested to know that the new iteration of Songbeat supports integrated search for Seeqpod, Project Playlist, SpoolFM, iASK ‘and more’. You can use the client to listen to music over the web, or listen...
Google Chrome was an awesome toy when it first appeared on our internets. Then came the talk of how it has an identifier and how it means that Google knows even more about you. Some people became frightened and ran away from Chrome, seeking solace in her older counterparts Firefox, Safari, and Opera. Others, who were on Mac and other platforms chose to work with the Chromium backbone and build there own browser. Far be it from me to rain on those folks ideas, but I decided I wanted a portable version of the browser and waited patiently for...
Section: Features, Gift Guide, Gear, Books, Ads & Media, Movies, Web-Sites Over at Crispy Gamer, writer Troy Goodfellow recently posted a fantastic list of the best books about gaming (all published within the last year), which make perfect stocking stuffers for gamers. On the list is the oldster-friendly Wii for Dummies and the incredibly intriguing sounding Rogue Leaders: The Story of LucasArts. Everything on the list is totally worth a read, especially for brainy gamers who like to know a bit more about their hobby of choice. Also on the list are the season’s best game-related flicks, from the long-awaited...
