Aside from a few screenshots and videos out of E3, and a demo at PAX, there has been little concrete fact about the new Xbox 360 interface. The Gamerscore blog, written by the Xbox360 developers themselves, has announced that throughout the next few Wednesdays they will be posting about the new interface.
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Every modern browser has a text finding feature, and today, i stumbled across the one in Chrome. When you press Ctrl+F, a little find box slides down in the upper right hand corner. As you type, results are highlited. This is nothing new. What is new is on the scroll bar, chrome adds bands of color for areas with search results. The only other place i have ever seen this is in Merge/Diff tools, and i absolutely love it.
There are many tutorials, downloads, and other tricks on the internet for getting Google Chrome on a USB Stick or Thumbdrive, but there is a much simpler solution. Download a nightly binary. Google offers these up for download, just click on the folder with the highest number, and then download the included zip file. If its buggy, go back one number. These are direct from the horses mouth, and by downloading these binaries, you might actually get a feature or 2 that aren’t in other downloads[1. This is only speculation. In all probability, these will get more features as development goes on.]
http://build.chromium.org/buildbot/snapshots/chromium-rel-xp/
Yes, I finally made an update to the p-g-qvm project. This one adds a number of new features that are sure to make the qvm more useful and keep it present. There are also quite a few bugfixes and things of that relation that should make it more stable.
Continue reading ‘P-g-qvm 1.6.5′
Google chrome was released today, and i have been using it for a while now. It is different than most other browsers, but almost all the changes are good. It is speedy, clean, well built, and doesn’t crash. They seem to be missing a few things, but for beta software, its incredibly complete.
Continue reading ‘Chrome: First Experience’
Google has announced that it will be releasing a browser tomorrow, for beta testing. Named Google Crome (likely a beta name), it will mix elements from Webkit and Firefox, as well as a new javascript engine, and other google technologies.
Each tab will be isolated in its own “sandbox”, so one crashing tab doesn’t bring down your whole browser.
Read more at Google Blog: Official Google Blog: A fresh take on the browser.
Android, also known as the Google Phone, will be coming out sometime soon, Google is showing off signs right and left, and over this past week, they have released a whole pile of data about it. This includes some 3rd party apps that will be available out of the box, and do some pretty impressive things. Some of these things could change the entire way we use our Cell Phones, and even change how we act and behave.
Continue reading ‘How Android could change our whole world’
Facebook is great. It lets you share things with your friends, and does a good job by doing so. One problem is that many people have fairly boring profile pages. Usually they have one or 2 annoying apps, and nothing that is actually useful. There is a way you can integrate the various services you have an account on into your facebook, to make your page truly say who you are.
Continue reading ‘Integrating facebook and other services’
Well, E3 is over, and it was fun this year, better than last year, but not as big as previous years. However, Microsoft made some pretty big announcements, but little about said announcements was shown at the show. Perhaps the biggest was the news about a new dashboard for the Xbox360. Now, since images may not be enough for some people to understand this interface, there are videos.
Continue reading ‘More in-depth Xbox360 dash view’
One concern many gamers had with the new Xbox360 interface was their ability to use themes. Major Nelson has dissapated any stresses with a recient blog post, revealing what the themes “could” look like. The current preview looks really nice, so thats probably what microsoft will do.
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I think that is a great improvement over the current theme system. The current system only changes the background, and as such can render text and other UI elements hard to use. The new theme looks as if it will not only change backgrounds, but change text color, images, and other UI elements.
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