Captain Kirk’s Guide to Women (Star Trek) (Paperback) The Legendary Men Of Romance -- Casanova, Don Juan, James Bond, move over because only one man can teach us how get every woman we want, even if it's anywhere on the planet or the whole freaking universe. "one man can boast that his seductive powers take him boldly where no man has gone before: James T. Kirk." Captain Kirk’s status as an interstellar stud is proven by his ability to seduce any woman, in any situation, in any part of the galaxy. From high-society princesses to unbalanced Orion slave girls, from gender-switching shape-shifters to emotion-deprived androids — they all swoon, acquiesce, ...
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Pranksters Invade Starbucks With Desktop Computers Oh man, I love this article on Engadget. Got me snickering as pranksters bring their desktop computers to Starbucks to mooch WiFi. We all know that we usually get the limelight if we bring out our laptops, but this is so funny and plus its great publicity for Starbucks. And the funny thing about is they're using Windows 95, yeah hello nostalgia. pic courtesy of Engadget We've already seen the confusion and hilarity some so-called "portable" computers can cause when taken out into public, but those shenanigans are nothing compared to the scene stirred up when the folks from Improv Everywhere lugged some ancient desktop computers ...
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While waiting for SP1 or the Tuesday Patch on October 9, though I'm waiting for the SP1 for quite some time, I'm starting to think if it would do me any good to wait for it. Microsoft has wordlessly release four updates for Windows Vista which will improve the performance and reliability. Although these "hotfixes" are not yet available on Windows Update. But You can download them and install them on your own. Here's the Detailed List of the Windows Vista(KB941649) update improvements: It extends the battery life for mobile devices. It improves the stability of portable computers and of desktop computers that use an uninterruptable power supply (UPS). It improves the reliability of Windows Vista when you open the menu of a ...
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Amidst all the cries of ecstasy over Mac OS X Leopard at the WWDC07, we have a little surpsrise: Safari is released for Windows. It's a public beta, to be exact. That's great news, coming not from someone who wants Apple to take over the world, but as a web designer who wants to test web pages in all kinds of browsers. I haven't been able to do that on Safari since it's always been released on the Mac exclusively. It's also a great idea to discover a new browser every once in a while. Find out which one has features that best suit your taste. After all, Steve Jobs claims it's twice as fast as Internet Explorer and 1.6 times as fast as Firefox. Problem is, right after downloading and installing Safari for Windows I ran into two major problems right away.
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Before Netscape.com turned into a social voting website (read: Digg clone), before Firefox graduated from the Mozilla Application Suite and became the darling of net geeks and casual surfers alike, before Internet Explorer emerged victorious from the First Browser War using the classic Microsoft tactic, and before people understood the value of a web browser, there was Netscape. It was actually called the Mosaic Netscape browser then, since the company started out as the Mosaic Communications Corporation. Netscape---both the company and the browser---has gone through ups and downs but today it stands tall, having released version 9 of the classic browser this June 5th. Here are some highlights of the latest version of Netscape Navigator:
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There were many interesting things to discover and enjoy at this year's D conference, D5. One such example was Microsoft Surface. But surely the biggest highlight of the event was the interview with Bill Gates and Steve Jobs for the first time in twenty years. Paying Tribute Before turning into the two icons representing the two biggest rivals in the computer industry, Bill and Steve were first and foremost pioneers and visionaries whose work catapulted them and their companies into great success. D5's interview quickly reminds us to cease the hostilities if at least for one night, and simply be in awe ...
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Star Trek fans rejoice. "Surface" has been unleashed, Microsoft's fancy nombré for the years-old-kept-secret project-turned-platform-turned-hardware cheekily manufactured in the traditional Apple closed-system delivery of hardware+software to achieve the most oomph effect. The idea is you have a touch-sensitive display spanning the breadth of a small meeting room table. Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer demo-ed at D: All Things Digital Conference. A phone was put on the surface (pun not intended), and you get an image of the phone and item details onscreen. It's as if Surface scanned the item and recognized it.

And recognize it did. I get all psyched ...
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There is so much news regarding Microsoft's new Xbox Live Video service that is due out on November 22nd, it is rediculous, and a bit hard to seperate the fact from the fiction. Here are some details given out by popular news sources. Don't give any of them too much weight. Try to hold off on getting too excited until the service is launched and we have all had a chance to try it out. Engadget has a great point by point list on everything that's going on with the upcoming service: Microsoft has not yet disclosed pricing for downloads, but it will be in Microsoft points. Movies will be "rental" only, ...
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Atari has pledged their support to the Xbox Live Arcade by letting it known that several games will be released throughout 2007. Games including Centipede, Asteroids, Battlezone, Missile Command, Warlords, and Tempest. As we've seen with Konami, they'll feature the usual visual and auditory facelifts, but with options to play the classics in their original forms. It should be a fun time on the Arcade next year, though I really hope they look good on the 360. (Also, I wouldn't mind some new original properties on the Arcade.)
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My favorite game ever is coming out on the Xbox 360 arcade this wednesday: Contra! I thought I would have to wait and play the Konami classic on the Nintendo Wii, but for 400 Microsoft points I will be able to get the game. It is going to be based off the classic Arcade game, not the NES one, but who cares? Microsoft says Contra will appear on the marketplace starting at 1:00 a.m. PST on Wednesday.
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