Did Treyarch jump the gun? Not satisfied to let Call of Duty: World at War fade into the long, dark quiet of obscurity (well, that’s an exaggeration, given the intense love a lot of gamers have shown toward the title!) while Infinity Ward turns up the heat on Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, the [...]
July 2009
Natali del Conte (you remember her, right?) has mentioned in today’s Loaded episode that Verizon [VZ] is preparing to receive Palm [PALM] Pre devices on their network, sometime in 2010. Of course, this makes sense, since there is not much retooling required for Palm, since both Sprint and Verizon run their cellular networks on CDMA/EvDO [...]
After several weeks, the long-awaited update to NetBeans 6.7, now with JavaFX support, is finally released to the general public. As you may recall, it was our expert recommendation to NOT uninstall or replace your NetBeans 6.5/6.5.1 IDE if you are actively developing for the JavaFX platform, since it was not available as a feature [...]
Although there was a sort of “mini” upgrade a couple of weeks ago, it certainly was not to the extent of upgrade early this morning for Javamancy the Weblog, Javamancy mini, and all of the other Web applications running at javamancy.com (that most of you don’t have to interact with, or even worry about!). Since the [...]
If you’re like me and sometimes really tax your Mac (this is assuming you are, in fact, a Mac owner), you may experience a kernel panic. They’re not fun. Some people have observed that they have occurred while using seemingly innocuous applications like Firefox 3.0.x, or a mixture of PowerPC-based and Intel-based applications. But, unfortunately, [...]
Starbucks [SBUX] is at it again: July 21, 2009 is their new Free Pastry Morning*. Of course, given the lil’ asterisk you see, you’re probably wondering, “What’s the catch?” And, yes, there is a catch(es): You should probably print out the invitation from the Web site; You will need to get to your local Starbucks [...]
This evening, Walter Cronkite died in New York, after being serious ill for several weeks, at the age of 92. His body of work has been huge, and he has lived through, and covered, so many momentous events in the 20th century, all the way to his retirement. And even then, people frequently sought his [...]
The Setup Are you hankering for a soothing, cool summer drink, as you are strolling/saundering/wandering/slacking around town? Passing by a bunch of retail food chain stores but just wanting something either free-ish or relatively cheap? The two usual suspects, approaching from two different price point levels, have got offers for you…
