Impressive, only 1 day after the iPod Shuffle’s were announced, Gratis has setup “FreeiPodShuffle.com”:http://www.FreeiPodShuffle.com/?r=13886889. It’s the same setup as all of the other free sites, but with this one you only need *3 referrals*! Everyone knows 3 people… This should be very easy to get. The current free offers that I saw were for eFax, a thirty day trial, and PeoplePC trial. Blockbuster is on there, but it looks like you’re supposed to pay for a $9.95 1 month subscription, and then you get credit for the offer instantly, rather than the previous 30 day trial period offer which took forever to complete. And of course this is legit… Check Read more »
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Apple Keynote Stream is Up
The delayed stream of today’s Apple keynote has been “posted”:http://stream.apple.akadns.net/ and is ready for viewing. Start your stream quick before it gets slammed like the Apple store. :) Read more »
iPod Shuffle Comparison Pics
“iPodLounge”:http://gallery.ipodlounge.com/ipod/displayimage.php?album=20&pos=15 has some pics of the iPod Shuffle in real life already, including pics of it compared to the original and Mini iPods. Needless to say, _holy crap_ that thing is small. Read more »
Official Sony PSP Price: < $200
“GameShout”:http://www.gameshout.com/news/012005/article277.htm is reporting that Sony executive Howard Stringer has confirmed the price of the Sony PSP to be less than $200 at CES. He didn’t give an exact price, but that is close enough to the DS price to be some serious competition, especially because it can play movies and music as well. Not that it matters. You’ll all just get free ones anyway from psp4free.com whenever it launches. Read more »
Customize the World of Warcraft Interface
As many of you have probably gathered, World of Warcraft is simply one of the best games ever and most of the FG staff are totally absorbed by it at the moment. If you play as well, check out these interface mods for the game. Thanks to some forward-thinking on Blizzard’s part, you can easily modify pretty much the entire “2D” interface of the game to your liking, whether you are using the PC or Mac version of the game. Because of the immense amount of spells, abilities, and weapons available in World of Warcraft, it can be a challenge to manage them all and have them all accessible at Read more »
eXeem – Suprnova.org successor?
After a few days of having a teaser on their site, Suprnova’s Sloncek did an interview with NovaStream.org about a new P2P app and network called eXeem that will be released for download in a couple of weeks. It’s being developed by a new, unnamed company, which asked Sloncek to be a representative for them. It will be Windows only, with no Mac or Linux versions planned at this time. It will be ad supported, and not just banner ads either. It will be full of adware, most of which you can opt out of, according to Sloncek. Some of the less intrusive ones will be required for the application Read more »
Make Firefox Faster
After you get past the “beginner” stage with Firefox, try this “power-user” trick to make it download pages faster by allowing multiple connections so it can download more than one file at a time. It’s only useful for broadband users, so if you’re still on dial-up you can just skip this one for now. Here’s something for broadband people that will really speed Firefox up: 1.Type “about:config” into the address bar and hit return. Scroll down and look for the following entries: network.http.pipelining network.http.proxy.pipelining network.http.pipelining.maxrequests Normally the browser will make one request to a web page at a time. When you enable pipelining it will make several at once, which Read more »
A Beginner's Guide to Firefox
The author of the “Whitehart”:https://addons.update.mozilla.org/themes/moreinfo.php?application=firefox&version=1.0&os=Windows&id=364 Firefox theme has written a Beginner’s Guide to Firefox which covers everything from what exactly Firefox is, to what themes and extensions are and where to find help if you have questions. Send it around to your non-tech savvy friends after you convince them to switch, so they’ll have a point of reference for their questions. Read more »
World of Warcraft – Coming soon
Blizzard has posted a “coming soon” page on their community site to let players know what to expect in the coming months for the game. Mostly it’s more high-level quests and some class tweaks right now, but there are a few interesting things like “meeting stones” to help you find a party to take on a more difficult dungeon which should be pretty handy. There will also eventually be Player vs. Player battlegrounds, and Hero classes for characters that have reached the level 60 limit and would like the continue to improve their character. But one tweak should make fellow FG editor JC happy, the druid class will receive a Read more »
Suprnova.org Shut Down
The largest and best BitTorrent site on the ‘net, “Suprnova.org”:http://www.suprnova.org/ has been shut down. From the site: As you have probably noticed, we have often had downtimes. This was because it was so hard to keep this site up! But now we are sorry to inform you all, that SuprNova is closing down for good in the way that we all know it. We do not know if SuprNova is going to return, but it is certainly not going to be hosting any more torrent links. We are very sorry for this, but there was no other way, we have tried everything. This is a big loss for the Bittorrent Read more »
