Kotaku’s impressions of the new Grand Theft Auto IV from Rockstar Games.
“We decided we wanted to go back to the basics and reimagine the world,” Jeronimo Barrera, Rockstar Games Vice President of Product Development, says. “The results have been incredible.”
“The beauty of our games is that we don’t hire a research firm to figure out what we should be making games about.”
“IE7 is a JavaScript library to make Microsoft Internet Explorer behave like a standards-compliant browser. It fixes many HTML and CSS issues and makes transparent PNG work correctly under IE5 and IE6.”
Now, only if users, designers, and developers can stop using and enabling IE, so it can follow Netscape into retirement, and put an end to that generation of browsers for good.
Niall Kennedy shares a neat little trick, along with examples, for improving user experience by using JavaScript to sniff visited links from a user’s browser history.
“Sniffing a visitor’s browser history has good and evil implications. An advertiser can determine if you visited Audi’s website lately, drill down on exact Audi models, and offer related information without ever placing code on the Audi website.”
Or, someone could check if you visited any sites you shouldn’t be visiting!
CNN, your Political Ticker blog which is hosted under WordPress.com’s VIP Hosting is still using the default WordPress favicon, rather than the CNN favicon.
Republican presidential candidate, Mitt Romney, drops out of the race amid fears of Democrats winning the White House.
“Barack and Hillary have made their intentions clear regarding Iraq and the war on terror. They would retreat and declare defeat,”
What a lame excuse!!
Jon Hicks shares his guidelines and workflow for Icon Design:
If the internet is one big copy machine and the copies are free, then Technium tell us how one can make money selling free copies. Brilliant insight.
“When copies are super abundant, they become worthless.
When copies are super abundant, stuff which can’t be copied becomes scarce and valuable.”
Yahoo! is now an OpenID provider. Your Yahoo ID can now be used to login to sites supporting OpenID. If you have a Flickr account, Yahoo OpenID service will allow you to use your Flickr URL to login to OpenID supported sites.
Business week takes a look at the precision with which LEGO bricks are made.
LEGO bricks look exceedingly simple. But their precise production process is nothing to scoff at. Each LEGO brick must have that perfect grasp — strong enough to hold onto another brick but easy enough for a child to pull apart.
PMOG, this could be the next big thing for the web, a passively multiplayer online game, which works within Firefox as an extension, transforming you web surfing into ongoing social play.
Players play without playing; clicking around the internet turns into experience points and currency. A battle between Order and Chaos rages online, between people tagging and people spamming; this game gives people the weapons they need to wage that war in real-time in their browsers.
United Airlines will start charging domestic passengers $25 to check in a second piece of luggage if they are not part of its most-frequent-flier programs
Don’t you love the airlines in US, they are so innovative when it comes to how much they can squeeze out of the passenger!
Even though there are new reports that Yahoo might reconsider an alliance with Google over a take over by Microsoft
In a memo to Yahoo employees on Friday, which was obtained by Reuters on Sunday, Yahoo leaders wrote: “We want to emphasize that absolutely no decisions have been made — and, despite what some people have tried to suggest, there’s certainly no integration process underway.”
Google is starting to feel the threat of a Microsoft empowered with the user base of Yahoo.
In addition, Microsoft plus Yahoo! equals an overwhelming share of instant messaging and web email accounts. And between them, the two companies operate the two most heavily trafficked portals on the Internet. Could a combination of the two take advantage of a PC software monopoly to unfairly limit the ability of consumers to freely access competitors’ email, IM, and web-based services?
NYTimes’ Noam Cohen compares the design of barakobama.com to a Mac and that of hillaryclinton.com to a PC.
An amazing collection of Photoshop tutorials put together by 3DTotal.com
While Microsoft plays catch up to Google, Google is playing catch up to Facebook, with the release of a new Social Graph API.
“The API returns web addresses of public pages and publicly declared connections between them.”
