Monthly Archives: February 2006

25 Free Grunge Fonts

WebDesignTimes has a nice collection of Grundge fronts, which seem to be all the rage with the kids these days. So head on over and check it out, 25 Free Grunge Fonts.

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RSS, flickr and del.icio.us on a Mobile Phone

Engadget reports that Mobileglu is offering an interesting new service that gives users the ability to read RSS feeds, flickr, del.icio.us, and other sources of content in a mobile friendly format. Think this will lead to smarter content developers making their own sites more mobile friendly, or just a few lawsuits?

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17 in. MacBook Pro in June?

According to AppleInsider, Apple will release its 17 in. MacBook Pro this June. This comes just two months after the predicted April launch of the company’s consumer-oritened Intel-based iBook. Though work on the two models had been done in parallel, the scant availability of slimline 8x DVD drives for the high-end 17” MacBook Pro created [...]

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How To Block Fasterfox Requests

The latest version of Fasterfox, v1.0.3, checks the for the robots.txt file on the site the viewer is visiting to check whether it should pre-fetch or not. This new feature allows webmasters to add the following text (in bold) to their robots.txt file to prevent Fasterfox from pre-fetching links. Text To Add To “robots.txt”: User-agent: [...]

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Xbox 360 + DIRECTV = HD Bliss?

Details of Microsoft’s partnership with DIRECTV is starting to slowly come to light. At CES, the two announced a joint agreement that would provide DIRECTV content for PlaysForSure portable media devices, Media Center PCs and Xbox 360 game consoles. Now according to the Official Xbox Magazine, DIRECTV content may be available directly through the 360′s [...]

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Apple Pushes Back Ship Date of MacBook Pros

Launched with a bang and originally slated to ship in February, Apple has now changed the shipping date for its MacBook Pro line of notebooks to anywhere from 3 to 4 weeks out. This indicates that March will be the MacBook Pro’s shipping time, but it’s still uncertain on exact dates. When Apple launched the [...]

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IE 7 CSS Hack

It takes advantage of an unusual combination of implementations – IE7 and Opera 9 support CSS3 substring-matching attribute selectors, but they don’t support the negation pseudo-class; other current browsers which support one or the other, support them both. We can further distinguish Opera 9 from IE7 by the former’s support for CSS3 media queries. The [...]

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Microsoft confirms Office 12 will be Office 2007

Microsoft announced today the lineup for Microsoft Office Suites 2007. Alongside the product branding, Microsoft has also revealed pricing for the different versions of Office 2007. Microsoft Office Enterprise 2007 (Available through Volume Licensing, no price announced) Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2007 (Available through Volume Licensing, no price announced) Microsoft Office Professional 2007 (Retail $499, [...]

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Graffiti Game Banned in Australia

The Sydney Morning Herald is reporting that ‘Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure’ has been banned in Australia. The game involves battling the authorities to overthrow corrupt officials using only street fighting skills and graffiti. From the article, “The decision was endorsed last night by the Federal Attorney-General, Philip Ruddock, who had asked the board to [...]

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PS3 Release Has Been Set

Next Generation has the hot scoop—the PS3 will probably be hitting the streets on September 21st in the US, September 16th in Japan, and include a new XBox Live-alike system, HUB. According to well-placed industry sources.

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