Have you notice Steam’s new catch phrase.

Posted by nephi513 in Crazy People, Software on June 24, 2010

So Valves Steam is having the summer sale and I was just dying because I have no money.  Check out the site if you don’t know what steam is.  http://store.steampowered.com/

As I was browsering though I saw this at the bottom of there page.

If you can’t read it it says: There have been more than 2,251 unprovoked shark attacks reported worldwide.  There are no reported deaths or injury as a result of playing steam.

Couldn’t help but laugh and thought I would share.

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Browser war heating up again. This time IE 9 vs Chrome

Posted by nephi513 in In the News, Software on June 24, 2010

Things are getting better.  I love this browser war that is currently going on.  For those that don’t know.  Ever since Google Chrome has come out, things in the browser would have heated up a lot.  If you want to be a browser of the future you need two things;  HTML 5 Compatibility and speed.

Why does this matter, for one, if you’ve never created a web page before you don’t understand the headache you get from trying to make very browser happy.  HTML 5 compatibility means less headache and more cool features.  Second speed, is always good.

So why am I making this post.  Because I just read an article at Maximum PC on how IE 9 Beta is beating Chrome on Canvas speed.  We are talking an HTML 5 aspect better on Internet Explorer.  Now I really don’t support Internet Explorer because Microsoft has never really done a good job with it.  Most people use it, just because it is already on there computer.  But with IE coming around, this will make web developers life easier and users life full of more fun.  To me it is a win, win.

Again post with videos always seem to do better. So here is a video showing the IE 9 Beta vs Google Chrome.

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I’ve upgraded to WordPress 3.0. Nice!

Posted by nephi513 in About The Blog on June 22, 2010

I’ve taken the time to upgrade my blog to WordPress 3.0.   It went smooth.  No hiccup’s.  Even though there were no really outward changes.  I can already feel the inward changes.  The admin interface is much smoother and load time is greatly improved.  In fact the load time on the main website was so smooth I disable caching.

I even took some time to upgrade the theme.  I hope you think the look of the website is more well rounded.  Let me know if you like it or not.  Or even if you can see or feel the changes.

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Found a free music composition and notation program.

Posted by nephi513 in Cool Gadgets, Software on June 22, 2010

I’m not musician, but I know my dad has been wanting a copy of Finale for a long time.  He is just to cheap to buy it and I’m to cheap to buy it for him.

Then today, I ran across this opensource version that seems to be perfect.  The software is called MuseScore and it is completely free (Well of course it is free, it’s opensource, I just know some of you people don’t know what opensource means.)

I know you people like videos so here is an into to it and here is the link to the homepage.

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Google Voice is now available for everyone.

Posted by nephi513 in Computers, Cool Gadgets, In the News on June 22, 2010

I have been using google voice since it started.  Actually longer, since I started with Grandcentral before google bought them.  I have always loved it.  Now you don’t have to wait for an invite from someone to get your own google voice phone number.  If you don’t know what Google voice is, check out the video below.  Or you can check out the Google Announcement here.

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