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  • WoW: Cataclysm – Guild Leveling and Talents

    Hi everyone, Following up from my post on World of Warcraft: Cataclysm being announced, I thought I’d expand on some of the new guild features. In this post, I’ll specifically be touching on the subject of Guild Leveling and Talent Points. Guilds will level up similar to the way players... (more...)

  • Ulduar: Flame Leviathan Easy Mode.

    Since the release of Ulduar back in World of Warcraft patch 3.1, I’ve come across a lot of people, both in Guilds, and in PUGS, that don’t know you can activate Flame Leviathan in “Easy Mode” (that is, starting it so you don’t need to destroy all the towers to disable them). These... (more...)

  • World of Warcraft: Cataclysm announced!

    Blizzard have announced their next exciting World of Warcraft expansion pack – “World of Warcraft: Cataclysm” packed full of exciting new content! From new zones, to new raid encounters, to reworks of the classic zones, including Flying in Kalimdor and the Eastern Kingdoms and a full... (more...)

  • Burger King “Mens Fragrance”

    Fast food chain Burger King has released a men’s fragrance with a scent of meat. The fragrance, called “Flame” is described by the company as “the scent of seduction, with a hint of flame-broiled meat” The fragrance is on sale in New York for $3.99 (£2.65) or is available... (more...)

  • Youtube moves to widescreen!

    Youtube recently announced they would be changing the size and aspect ratio of the standard video player on their site. We’re expanding the width of the page to 960 pixels to better reflect the quality of the videos you create and the screens that you use to watch them. This new, wider player is in... (more...)

A bunch of new Firefox goods!

Jamie On November - 30 - 2005

Mozilla has indeed released Mozilla Firefox 1.5. It features.. well, they haven’t told us a whole lot of info yet really, just a download link on the site.
Speaking of the site, Mozilla has now started mozilla.com, a new site from mozilla bringing together Firefox and Thunderbird all in one place. There is no word of [...]

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Mozilla Firefox 1.5 Released…

Jamie On November - 29 - 2005

…maybe not! Actually, Mozilla Firefox 1.5 is supposed to be released today, Tuesday November 29th. All we can do is hope for it and wait. If, and once Mozilla does release this I will make a new post about it. Until then.. enjoy!
Oh, and thanks to my friend Jared, we are back online good as [...]

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I have come across this great web service called Meebo. If you are like me, you have multiple IM protocols in order to stay in touch with all your contacts. It is near impossible to have everyone conform to one single service (Yahoo! Messenger, AIM, MSN, etc.).So when on my computer, I use the great [...]

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Talk to a live human!

Jamie On November - 26 - 2005

Ever been stuck on the phone for hours trying to use a stupid dial-a-number menu system, or worse a voice activated menu system? This will save you time. This page has indexed hundreds of ways, or extensions to talk to a live human for many major companies. Try it out!
http://paulenglish.com/ivr/
Thanks to Edit This from Broadbandreports [...]

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Visual Studio 2005 Express

Jamie On November - 24 - 2005

Microsoft has released a free version of their Visual Studio 2005 program, called Visual Studio 2005 Express Edition. Visual Studio 2005 standard/enterprise/etc can be anywhere from $200-$5000, so this is definitely something you should get into, especially if you want to get into programming, or simply want to experiment. Unfortunately, due to this being an [...]

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Combining Nerd News

Jamie On November - 24 - 2005

I found one of the coolest sites on the net (in my opinion, of course). Checkout Slashdigg.com, which combines news from slashdot.org and digg.com, all integrated into one site. It features multiple viewing options (frames, side by side, etc). They also have super nerd news, which combines news from various large news site on the [...]

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Some Changes, and Updates

Jamie On November - 22 - 2005

I apologize that there have been no updates lately. I have been very busy with school, and not feeling very well. I am currently in the process of moving tech this out onto a dedicated server and to get some IPB issues settled out with somebody, so it may be a few days before a [...]

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Firefox: Switch tabs like never before!

Jamie On November - 15 - 2005

If you’re like me, you have a lot of tabs open at a time. I find myself searching rapidly through atleast 8+ tabs on a regular basis. While browsing the net today I accidently found out that if you hold Control while pressing a number (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, etc), [...]

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Get free AMD Bezels, Banners, Posters, and more straight from AMD. Just enter your information, select the item numbers you want, and there you go. Unfortunately, you can get only 6 items per address. Though, you can just ship it to your neighbor, put your name on it, and hope they give it to you. [...]

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Cool Firefox extension: Tab Sidebar

Jamie On November - 9 - 2005

I came across a very unique extension for Mozilla Firefox while reading through digg.com
It is called Tab Sidebar, and it enables you to have a small sidebar (you can change the size later) on the left of your screen that shows a preview of all your tabs in it. You can also set it so [...]

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