If you can’t wait a few more days for Valve to unlock Half-Life 2 (even if you “bought it”:http://forevergeek.com/games/buy_halflife_2_now.php already), run out and buy “this”:http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=twotallsocks-20&path=tg%2Fdetail%2F-%2F0761543643%3Fv%3Dglance 288 page book covering the making of Half-Life 2, and the forming of Valve. It features a lot of sketches and concept art, and details about how the game came […]

Even though the street launch date is the 16th, some stores are breaking that and selling them now. In most cases I would say if you are lucky you can go find it in your area. However, I won’t say that because that wouldn’t be true. Even though you might find the game now, you […]

EA is getting a bit of bad press lately from disgruntled employees, and spouses of disgruntled employees. The first was an anonymous posting on a LiveJournal account by “ea_spouse”:http://www.livejournal.com/users/ea_spouse/. The posting got Slashdotted, Gamespotted, and probably every other site-name-as-verb you can get. The entry has well over 1,000 comments, many of which are from current […]

Yesterday we reported the fact that MSN has a new search engine out and I proceeded to rip it apart over at Whitespace. Well if you would like to bypass all of that nonsense for your own site and show the world how to really design a search engine then install ht://Dig and get digging […]

Really you can never get enough online comics to satisfy your thirsts and further prevent you from getting any work done at all. Rarely though do you get to come across a comic that caters to the geek community. PC Weenies just so happens to be that rare comic that caters to you people (hehe, […]

GTA is a great game and San Andreas ups the ante (hopefully it doesn’t become dull and antiquated like Tony Hawk *ducks*) by providing an environment very similar to that of Los Angeles. To see just how similar checkout this Rockstar site showing images from real-life and the game and see how well they modeled […]

I read about Amazon’s new Simple Queing Services somewhere and wanted to provide my own insight into what it is and how it will effect the Internet. However, the Ars’ guys are much smarter than me and they do a much better job of explaining it. I highly recommend you check it out. Good read […]

Halo 2 is the fastest selling product in history of the American entertainment industry. After 2.38 million copies sold, 125 million dollars were made just in the first 24 hours of the release! The game leaked a couple of weeks before (not only the English edition, but also the French one), but that didn’t seem […]

If you haven’t read about it elsewhere well then remember you read it here first. Microsoft has put into beta (again I believe) their Google-killer. It’s as ugly as ever. Looks amateurish. And ummm, I don’t know what else to say. It’s another search engine. Not the most exciting of topics.
So I guess I will […]

Ever feel like the textbooks or references for Java leave a few things out? Yeah, me too. Apparently Fred Swartz feels the same way. He has put together Java Programming Notes to fill in some of the missing topics.

The notes cover everything from Java tools, introductory examples, and garbage collection to sounds, […]

Watch “movies” on your ipod… in the 1900 sense… congratulations on your purchase of a 500 dollar flipbook!

ExtremeTech has an article about the extensions they like to use for Firefox. The article covers:

Adblock
Image Zoom
FoxyTunes
easyGestures
Gmail Notifier
Image-Show-Hide
Web Developer
fireFTP
WebmailCompose
Homeland Security Threat Level

I use a couple of those and they make Firefox that much more enjoyable. Of course Firefox was much more enjoyable before I even touched those extensions.

A few days ago, I posted a list of the best wifi hotels. Now HotelChatter has gathered their opinions of the worst wifi hotels.

HotelChatter noticed a skew in the data, remarking that it seemed lower priced hotel chains offered better wifi access than much pricier chains.

Wyndham, Four Seasons, etc. y’all wanna explain to us […]

Just wanted to let Halo fans know that I got my Halo 2 game today and am signing onto Live right now. My gamertag is BleakCorpse if you wish to find me. If you have a Gamertag leave it in the comments.

Well, since Scrivs apparently hasn’t pulled the appropriate strings to get all of the FG editors an advance copy of the Nintendo DS to review, I’ll have to link to “Engadget’s”:http://www.engadget.com/entry/8783670602491113/ and “IGN’s”:http://ds.ign.com/articles/564/564540p1.html articles instead.
IGN has a picture of the game cards, which are extremely tiny. They look about the size of a SD or […]

It is finally here! I know you were all waiting. You won’t be disappointed for it is the best browser ever! Go Firefox!