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Xbox Live Black Friday Deals

Posted by Aaron Zollo on Nov 26, 2008 in News | 0 comments

  Xbox Live is having a Black Friday sales event themselves.  If you thought some of their items were a bit overpriced, now is your chance to get them for a discount.  The deals include Arcade Games, DLC and Themes.  See the full list below:

 

 

Xbox Live Arcade Games
Rez HD – 500 Microsoft Points
Arkadian Warriors – 500 Microsoft Points
Assault Heroes – 400 Microsoft Points
Catan – 500 Microsoft Points
Brain Challenge – 500 Microsoft Points
Boogie Bunnies – 500 Microsoft Points
Golf: Tee It Up! – 500 Microsoft Points

Paid DLC
GH3 Metallica “Death Magnetic” Full Album – 1000 Microsoft Points
Forza – March Car Pack – 400 Microsoft Points
Crackdown – Getting Busy Bonus Pack – 500 Microsoft Points
Rock Band All That Remains Pack 01 – 290 Microsoft Points
Lips – The Remedy (Jason Mraz) – 100 Microsoft Points

Themes
Gears of War 2 – Last Day – 180 Microsoft Points
Sonic Unleashed – 180 Microsoft Points
Castle Crashers Premium – 180 Microsoft Points

 

 

[via Major Nelson]

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Google Busy on Browser of its Own, Called Chrome

Posted by Aaron Zollo on Sep 1, 2008 in News | 0 comments

 

  Google today presented Google Blogscopped with an announcement of their new web browser called Google Chromed.  They received this via mail in the form of a comic book drawn by Scott McCloud.  

 

The new browser from google is packed with Google Gears and is based on the existing rendering engine Webkit.  

 

 

 

The support for JavaScript is custom made in Denmark and is called "V8".  Google says they are using a “multi-process design” which they say means “a bit more memory up front” but over time also “less memory bloat.”  

 

Chrome has tabbed browsing but has placed them above the address bar instead of below as Firefox and IE.  

 

 

 

The address bar includes your search box which Google calls "Omnibox".  This allows not only your web addresses to be entered but your searches to take place inside of it.

 

The Default Homepage is a presentation not unlike Opera.  The homepage gives you the 9 most visited sites in a graphic view and on the right sidebar shows your top searches.

 

 

Google Chrome also has a built in a private browsing modes, anti-phishing software and also allows you to launch web apps from within the browser.  

 

Right now there is no time table for release, but time will tell if this proves to be more popular than Firefox.

 

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Google Gears 0.4 Releases

Posted by Aaron Zollo on Sep 1, 2008 in News | 0 comments

  

 

  Google Gears 0.4 was just released.  This is an update to the current project from Google which allows you to use applications normally accessible from the "cloud", directly on your desktop without a connection.  The application makes Google’s online service such as Google Documents function without having to connect to the internet.  

 

Google Documents is a Document editor like word, but not quite as robust.  It was designed to allow you to create documents from your browser.  The addition of google gears allowing you to create and edit the documents offline has great appeal and saves from the cost of expensive word processing clients.

 

From Google: 

The latest version of Gears adds:

  • The Geolocation API, which provides access to the user’s geographical position
  • The Blob API for handling blocks of binary data
  • Access to files on the client machine through the Desktop API
  • Support for sending and receiving Blobs with the HttpRequest API
  • Localization of Gears dialogs to 40 languages

More details about the improvements in 0.4 can be found on our API history page.

 

 

Get it [Here]

 

 

From Google Gear’s Site:

 

Google Gears is an open source browser extension that lets developers create web applications that can run offline. Gears provides three key features:

 

  • A local server, to cache and serve application resources (HTML, JavaScript, images, etc.) without needing to contact a server
  • A database, to store and access data from within the browser
  • A worker thread pool, to make web applications more responsive by performing expensive operations in the background

 

Google Gears is currently an early-access developers’ release. It is not yet intended for use by real users in production applications at this time.

 

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