Woohoo Go Shatner

Shatner hopes new game will revive “Trek” (Reuters)

Reuters – The Starship Enterprise is in trouble and, as usual, Capt. James T. Kirk has a plan to save it.

Ooo Penguin Vs. Penguin

Ubuntu vs. Debian: What Canonical Doesn’t Want You To Know

“Debian and Ubuntu. Ubuntu and Debian. How are they different? How are they the same? Well, most of the differences lie in the target userbase of the OSes. Debian is attempting the unattemptable by making a distro that’s right for almost every use imaginable. Servers use it, workstations use it, monkeys I’m sure could use it too. That comes at a price.” More here.

Gotta Love Apple

Leopard first looks: iCal

When iCal undergoes an update for OS X 10.5, expect a calendaring application that’s a lot smarter about group scheduling.

FireTune Firfox's Best Friend Next To FasterFox Methinks

FireTune v1.1.2 for Firefox available

FireTune for Mozilla Firefox v1.x was developed for an easy and fast optimization of your browsing experience with Firefox. It is based on a collection of popular and well working optimization settings used and tested by the experts. Usually you have to optimize Firefox manually, which can be time consuming and difficult for the novice user. FireTune helps you here – it includes all the performance optimizations. The only thing you must do is: make your selection. FireTune does the work for you.

According to your specific computer speed and internet connection speed, FireTune will optimize several internal settings of Firefox for better performance. FireTune does NOT modify the Firefox executable, or any other Firefox binary file. Everything can be undone easily provided you saved your original profile configuration file with FireTune’s profile backup feature before.

In most of all cases you’ll notice an improved browsing speed after optimizing Firefox with FireTune. FireTune is Freeware and can be downloaded from the link below.

Download: FireTune 1.1.2
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Sounds Good For Linux Users

AMD To Open-Source ATI Drivers?

AMD is strongly considering open-sourcing at least a functional subset of ATI’s graphics drivers. It’s time for X Window System, OpenGL, and client virtualization for which ATI binary drivers aren’t available to escape the ghetto of the 1980s-era framebuffer. And what a boon for PR. If AMD’s graphics cards were the only ones with open device drivers, it might affect a buying decision or two.

Install Install Muhahaha

GNOME 2.16.0 Beta 2 Released

The second GNOME 2.16.0 Beta (2.15.91) release which leading up to imminent release of 2.16.0 has hit the shelves and is going fast. You can find a changelog and download locations here.

Ahh NVIDIA Sweetness

NVIDIA Do-It-Yourself Quad SLI Launched

Spinnerbait writes “Today, NVIDIA will be releasing their Forceware v91.37 drivers and with them will be officially endorsing Do-It-Yourself Quad-SLI. HotHardware has put together an article detailing the steps necessary to assemble and configure a high-end Quad-SLI rig, and they give some thoughts regarding XHD Gaming and its associated costs. Those of you that are hell-bent on gaming ultra-high resolutions (1920X1200 or 2560X1600 for example), along with the highest available image quality, might want to give one of these setups a look.” Before making a purchase I would recommend building that water-cooled credit card first.

Yay! Go Rockstar!

“Bully” video game to be released in October (Reuters)

Reuters – Rockstar, the maker of best-selling video game series “Grant Theft Auto” said on Wednesday it would launch in October “Bully,” a game with themes of school fighting that has anti-violence critics up in arms.

Goooooooaaaaaallllll!

Fifa 07 Announced

It was only a few weeks ago that EA bought us Fifa World Cup, and a couple of months before that, Fifa 06. Well now, guess what, the cash cow has announced… you guessed it, Fifa 07. Ditching the world cup format, Fifa 07 will take advantage of the hundreds of league licenses it holds, and will probably have some new ball colours to keep the game fresh.

Apart from a load of new balls expect Fifa 07 to take advantage of those extra servers EA now has lying around with a new Sports Interactive League, which allow fans to square off in online leagues based on real-world schedules. The game will be released on the PlayStation 2, Xbox, GameCube, PSP, DS, PC, and the Game Boy Advance on September 29 in the UK, but there is yet to be an announcement of a US release date.

No announcement has been made on the next generation console versions, but owners of the DS version will be able to improve gameplay immensely by creating their own football chants using the DS mic…. Interesting.

View: EA.com

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For The Future George Lucas's Out There

Mac OS X Hints: Enable time-lapse date stamps with DV cameras

Rob Griffiths’ inability to embed date and time data for iMovie projects shot with his DV camcorder has him revisiting iMovie’s Time Lapse mode one last time.