Monthly Archive for October, 2005

OpenOffice 2.0.0 Stable

The stable version of OpenOffice 2.0.0 seems to be appearing in some mirrors.

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Visual Basic 2005 Free Book

Visual Basic 6.0 Resource Center: Free Book - Introducing Visual Basic 2005 for Developers

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Mobile GMaps - Google Maps and MSN Virtual Earth on your mobile phone!

Mobile GMaps - Google Maps and MSN Virtual Earth on your mobile phone!

Lazy mode ON…

Games and Stuff

Nintendo announced today a partnership with Wayport, the company that provides wireless access in McDonalds restaurants in the US, meaning you can eat your BigMac while playing DS games online for free. I’m really hoping that Sony can think in something like this for the PSP, though you can use your PSP with any wireless network.

Speaking of PSP, some great games are comming up, GTA: Liberty City Stories looks awesome and the playability hasn’t change from the original, wich is good. Can’t wait to play it!

Other game that is looking good but still in development is Field Commander, a turn based militar strategy game, much like the Nintendo Advance Wars without the kiddy looks, more like the Command and Conquer series.

One of my favorite movies will be available in UMD format, The Nightmare Before Christmas. This is probably the first UMD with real extras that I know of. Check the review here and then check this site - PSP UMD Movie Reviews. Hollywood really adopted the UMD format…

VIM 6.4 Released

VIM get’s updated :D

[2005-10-15] It has been more than a year since version 6.3 was released. Dozens of bugs have been fixed, runtime files were added and updated. There are no new features, these go into Vim 7 now (still under development). This is a stable Vim release, everybody is encouraged to upgrade to version 6.4. Release notes can be found in the announcement. Or do “:help version-6.4″ after installing. Happy Vimming! (Bram Moolenaar)

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Gaim 2.0.0

Gaim developers posted a news update. Looks like version 2.0.0 will be Google Talk compatible, including voice and it will support a few other protocols.

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Home at last!

Well I just got home from my weekend out and it seems I’ve lots of stuff to update since friday, so I guess it will be quicker to just list things out without much detail.

  • PSP 2.5 firmware is out, correcting the WPA TKIP bugs and adding support for AES, as well as support for the LocationFree Base Station.
  • Pedro has a new blog called The Games of My Life. As a gamer I hope he updates it frequently, the classic gaming history is a wonderful subject.
  • From what I’ve been reading around, the new iPod Video seems that’s not getting a good aceptance. The screen is very small and the video quality could be better (like the PSP :P ) and the portuguese iTMS video section is still to be seen, they might be waiting for the iPod Video to be sold in Portugal.
  • OpenOffice.org 2.0 RC3 is available.
  • I finally got my Opera Birthday T-Shirt. I love getting free stuff from the web…
  • The weekend movie was Serenity. Very good eye candy and excelent plot leaving your mouth watering for more.
  • This is hillarious, some guy just bought a PSP BOX for $202.50!!!

And that’s it for today… My bed is calling me!

I know…

I don’t post since the 12th but I’m lacking the time to write a decent post.

Apple Innovates

iMac

Apple released today the new iMac. It has three new features: it’s thinner, it’s got an iSight videocamera built in and a new applications bundled, one called Photobooth and the other is Front Row, a media center with a bundled remote. Two models are available a 1.9 GHz with 17″ screen and a 2.1 GHz with 20″ screen.

iPod

The other “star of the day” is the long waited iPod Video, the format is similar to the old iPod but with a bigger screen. A 2.5in TFT display with 320×240 pixels with MPEG 4 and H.264 video decoding. It has only 260,000 colours but it can output video to a TV. Available in 30 and 60 GB capacities, but thinner than the current 20GB Pod. The 30GB will be $299 and the 60GB will be $399 and it comes in black like the nano.

Apple innovates once again, and as usual a new iTunes 6 is available. You can now buy TV shows, movies and videoclips. Soon podcasting will evolve to screencasting… :)

My 2 cents.? I’ll wait and see. It looks good, but the screen size is very small compared with the PSP screen. As for the screeen quality I’ll have to see it for my self, the photos “can’t do the trick”. Oh and like Rui, I was hoping for some wireless connectivity…

Google Purchases

Welcome to Purchases

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Google will introduce a new addon to Google Accounts - the Google Purchases. Google has removed the page but you can see a screenshot and more details in this article.