LOS ANGELES, California (Reuters) — Google Inc. Thursday will launch a long-awaited service called Google Checkout, which some analysts said could help online merchants boost sales and convince them to commit more advertising money to the Web search leader.
Analysts were mixed on whether the product, initially available only in the United States, puts eBay Inc.’s [...]
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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...)
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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...)
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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...)
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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...)
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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...)
Google to offer ‘easy’ payment service
On July - 4 - 2006
Categories: General
Make your PC a playstation!
On July - 3 - 2006
I was just thinking the other day, how difficult it was trying to play GTA:Vice City on my laptop, and now I have the perfect solution!
The USB Playstation2 controller converter allows you to plug PS2 controllers straight into your PC via the USB port, ready for you to start playing your favourite games without having [...]
Categories: General
I apologise for not posting much since I took over, I’ve been doing alot of stuff behind the scenes. I can’t thank 2shae enough for fixing this theme and making sure everything worked properly and look how it should! He spent hours making me custom php files and editing templates so everything looked just [...]
Categories: News
Microsoft Windows Vista Build 5456 released to Beta Testers
On June - 29 - 2006
It was released earlier on this week to Connect users, and although I am not using it, it sounds good!
There were alot of general bugfixes, and after many requests for this, the “List” view option has been put back.
Several other changes have been made:
The system clock no longer changes when you set your timezone.
The behavior [...]
Categories: General
Links
On June - 27 - 2006
Just a quick note to say I’ve gone through the links on the right, and any sites not linking back to TechThisOut! got removed.
If you wish to have a link contact me using the “Contact” button at the top right. You’ll ned to say:
- The URL of your site
- Whatever you want the link [...]
Categories: News
Opera 9 Released
On June - 20 - 2006
After months (weeks?) of beta, Opera 9 is out of beta and the final version is available to download on the Opera website. Included in Opera 9 is bit torrent support, widgets, and much, much more. Check it out for yourself.
Opera / Download [by Opera]
Categories: General
Next target: microsoft.com
On June - 18 - 2006
A subdomain of Microsoft french has been hacked. And, incase Microsoft gets it back up to normal, you can view a screenshot here.
Categories: General
Google Earth for Linux Released!
On June - 12 - 2006
Google Earth has been a popular sattelite imagery program this past year and is available for both Macintosh’s OS X, and Windows. Now Google has released a beta version of its software for the Linux operating system. Download your copy today!
Direct Download [by Google]
Google Earth [by Google]
Categories: General
Stunning review by Jake Jarvis on Vista beta 2
On June - 10 - 2006
Jake Jarvis of WireCatcher, a long time OSX fan, has installed Windows Vista Beta 2 on his Dell Inspiron 600m and has wrote a stunning review with a whole lot of screenshots. Jake Jarvis is a great friend of mine and I’d appreciate it if you would check out the review!
Vista Beta 2 Review [by [...]
Categories: General
Flip4Mac Now Universal
On June - 7 - 2006
The universal version of Flip4Mac, the program to allow WMV files to be ran through Quicktime, is now being redistributed throughout a closed beta. Although just a little buggy, you can now play embedded clips on web pages, along with the standard Quicktime player. Unfortunatley, because it is a closed beta, it is not public [...]
Categories: General
