It seems safe to assume that, at this point, the majority of you are NOT playing DemiGod. The lackluster launch combined with some balance issues caused most PC gamers to stay clear or drop the game after a few weeks. However, for those who were able to wrap themselves up in it, it proves to be a solid game full of excitement and action with clans and tourneys finally starting to pop up.
If you have yet to give it a shot and don’t care to invest the cost to just try it out, stop by Impulse’s website and check out the newly released demo! While it’s true (in my opinion) that the demo should have been made available even before launch, it’s nice to see that they’ve finally got one out and are trying to get some new blood into the game.
If you’re not familiar with the game, check out my DemiGod review posted a few months earlier.
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Microsoft Office 2010
By now, most of us have heard bits and pieces about what Microsoft is planning to do with their next iteration of Office, 2010, including extending the ribbon interface to Outlook and any other program that were without and the collaboration enhancements allowing multiple users to not only edit a document together, but even display PowerPoint presentations in a remote web browse.
However, some interesting news came out earlier about a completely new method of access and use of (most of) the software suite – nearly full featured online versions accessible on any of the major web browsers. This isn’t a particularly revolutionary move, which is not uncommon when it comes to Microsoft, with Google Docs being so well developed for the past few years, but there is the potential for Microsoft to make a major splash with this release… and did I mention it will be free?
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Upgraded the Rediretion plugin, all is well again.
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Just an FYI, the nav bar at the top of the page here was broken when going to the new version of WP. It should be back up and running in a short time, but, in the mean time, you can get to the forums at http://www.muchgeek.com/forums
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Google has just announced on their blog that they are currently developing their next phase of internet domination by moving into the PC operating system market. Chrome OS, which Google claims will be shipping on devices in 2010 will be an open-source light-weight operating system designed for users who spend more and more of their computing life on the web. For some time now, Google has been making a push to take the workload of computing off of the machine and into the cloud by launching services such as Google Docs, Apps and Mail. With their announcement of a new light-weight OS, it seems that they are furthering their push to get users to become more cloud centric.
“Speed, simplicity and security are the key aspects of Google Chrome OS. We’re designing the OS to be fast and lightweight, to start up and get you onto the web in a few seconds. The user interface is minimal to stay out of your way, and most of the user experience takes place on the web.”
It would seem that Google’s intentions are pretty clearly spelled out. They want to put out an OS that users can boot into quickly and reach out to the internet/web/cloud near instantly to get done whatever work they need. Personally, I am excited at the prospect of a new challenger in the old OS ring, especially a new one that isn’t set firmly into habits based around a pre-webcentric world and feel that coming from Google, it may actually have a chance.
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For those of us who missed the first round (or weren’t awesome enough to get a Grand Central account way back when), Google is providing another opportunity. It would seem that Google is expanding the userbase they are using to test Voice by allowing users to opt in to receive an invitation. To throw your hat in the ring, head to https://services.google.com/fb/forms/googlevoiceinvite/ and fill in your name and e-mail then go sit by your inbox and feverishly F5 until you see an invite show up.. as we will all be doing.
Hopefully we’ll have an invite, if we do – expect an in depth feature run down to follow shortly.
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ATTENTION WEB SURFER: WHERE ARE YOU GOING?!?!
Is basically the message I was greeted with after restoring a Firefox session following a version update for a few of my saved tabs on sites I visit regularly. It seems that with its most recent version, Firefox has teamed up with Google in an effort to protect presumably unscrupulous users from accidentally stumbling upon sites that they seem to think will maliciously install software on your system (or, at least, try to). Seeing a few of my tabs load with a “NO” icon instead of what I would normally expect was quite a shock as these sites it had flagged are not any that I’ve ever considered particularly malicious. (I’ve been accessing them with no issues for some time now, though my continued use of Adblock Plus and No Script may be the reason for my lack of suspicious activity).
My initial thought was that a random addon would be the cause of this alert, but upon clicking the “Why was this site blocked?” button, I was surprised to see the real answer
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It’s been about two weeks now since we’ve installed and been playing Popcap’s newest hit – Plants vs Zombies! and over those weeks, many hours have been spent vigilantly growing a monster garden to defend my house (and brain) from a never ending zombie onslaught. As with their previous hits, most recently, Peggle, Popcap has pulled through again delivering a great game that can be played in short bursts and is full of humor, clever graphics and classic Popcap-style music.
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One of the new features that will be introduced in certain skews of Windows 7 is an application knows as XP Mode, a virtualized install of (generally) Windows XP that allows users to run Windows XP apps side by side with programs running on Windows 7. This seemingly opens up a whole new world of potential when it comes to using virtualization as security. Having a program running streamline with your main operating system while being completely isolated from the system itself would be quite a boon. Unfortunately, however, Microsoft may come through and chose convenience over security and leave a few holes open.
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I’m calling this a quick review because I haven’t put very much time into the game, but I feel it warrants some discussion and there isn’t a WHOLE lot to it. In fact, there might not be enough to it.. I’ll get into that later.
Demigod is the new PC game released by Gas Powered Games (demigodthegame.com)which has a playstyle that anyone who played custom games in Warcraft 3 should be familiar with. Demigod is basically a full game based around the classic Defense of the Ancients. Two teams of up to five players push through lanes and attempt to take over the other teams base by capturing strategic points including defensive towers, spawn points and walls while playing as one of eight Demigods (heroes) and being assisted by an autonomous army of smaller scale units.
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