Steam have recently released a new client for their users to opt in and test, boasting a heap of new functionality for managing friends as well as cometic interface improvements. However, files with macoOSX identifiers have been found in the new beta client which is indicative that we could possibly be seeing a launch of steam for mac users. Big news definately, we will have to wait and see.
Posted March 4, 2010 by chade under Games
The popular web-based centralized email and social networking application “inbox” has now gone into beta for their desktop client (windows only).
The innovative email platform allows you to plug-in your existing email accounts (Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail, Exchange) or any custom IMAP/POP3 accounts and social networks (Facebook, LinkedIn, Hyves, Yammer, Twitter) in one application.
With all the different accounts that we have these days it was inevitable that central management from one executable was going to be in popular demand. Try it out!
Posted February 25, 2010 by chade under IT
Starcraft II has finally gone into beta, a much awaited announcement by fans of the series. If you happened to get a beta invite Packetaddict would love to hear from you… as unfortunately my beta invite must have been lost in the ether 
Posted February 19, 2010 by chade under Games
There a massive concern for security when dealing with social networking sites such as facebook. Since Websense aquired Defensio, they have been working hard on v2 of the product. Free to users, Defensio 2.0 will monitor your facebook site for malicious posts, spam and viruses. The application cross-references content posted to users pages against their correlated threat databases. If a threat is detected it logs it and advises the end user who then makes the decision to block or not. I would imagine this would then feed into a Bayesian database for a smarter for automatic protection mechanism.
You can sign up for the service and the Defensio website.
Posted January 27, 2010 by chade under Security
There’s no humour like British humour and John Cleese is the master!
Posted January 13, 2010 by chade under Funnies
Controlling an RC Helicopter from your iPhone or iPod once upon a time may have seen a little far fetched. Not anymore!
http://ardrone.parrot.com/parrot-ar-drone/en
Cool!
Posted January 13, 2010 by chade under General
EA have announced that they will be expanding on the NBA Jam classic series for the Wii. Hopefully they do a lot better than the 2004 release for Xbox and Playstation that belly flopped into the market and disappointed fans globally.
Boomshakalaka!
Posted January 12, 2010 by chade under Games
Google Wave invites are going out at the moment and Packetaddict was lucky enough to get their hands on one to get a hands on impression on what google is coming up with in the project. The biggest problem thus far is, it’s yet another Inbox to deal with and remember to check.
However being a thunderbird user and having recently upgraded to version three I caught onto the guys over at Quetzalcoatal have hacked together a piece of code that will let you open google wave within one of Thunderbird3’s new tabs.
To get it to work:
Launch Thunderbird > Tools > Error Console. Then paste in the following line of code and click Evaluate:
Components.classes['@mozilla.org/appshell/windowmediator;1']
.getService(Components.interfaces.nsIWindowMediator)
.getMostRecentWindow(”mail:3pane”).document.getElementById
(”tabmail”).openTab(”contentTab”,{contentPage:
“https://wave.google.com/wave/?nouacheck”});
Paste it into notepad or your favourite text editor and make sure it’s all on one line. It will open a new tab and prompt you to login to google wave.
Posted December 11, 2009 by chade under IT
