BringIt, a company that offers gamers the opportunity to challenge friends and earn prize money, announced Friday that it has launched its open beta to users across the world, allowing them to wager cash on BringIt and challenge others to head-to-head gaming on a selection of console titles.
“Gamers have shown great interest and support for competitive gaming, so we are pleased to offer BringIt as a player-driven service that quickly connects gamers, allowing them to play legally for cash while getting a more intense competitive rush,” said BringIt CEO and founder Woody Levin in a statement.
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A new Firefox extension aptly named “Flash Game Maximizer” is a must-have for any Flash game enthusiast. It does one thing, and does it well: letting you toggle between standard- and full-screen modes on any game–regardless of whether it has been coded with such an option.
Considering that Flash games are hosted all over the place, and rarely with a ubiquitous user interface, you’re likely to run into a good number of them that must be played in whatever space they’ve been given on a Web page. With Flash Game Maximizer, however, you don’t have to worry about this at all.
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Microsoft plans to offer one more public test version of Internet Explorer 8 before releasing the final version of the updated browser, the company said late Wednesday.
The next test, essentially a “release candidate” version will come in the first quarter of 2009. That means the final release won’t hit Microsoft’s initial goal of finishing the browser this year.
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Here’s what to do:
Step 1: Copy this code and paste it to wherever you intend to embed the video:
<object width=”630″ height=”380″> <param value=”http://www.youtube.com/v/zlfKdbWwruY&ap=%2526fmt%3D22″ name=”movie” /><param value=”window” name=”wmode” /> <param value=”true” name=”allowFullScreen” /><embed width=”630″ height=”380″ wmode=”window” allowfullscreen=”true” type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” src=”http://www.youtube.com/v/Mgan4rt7ZHw&ap=%2526fmt%3D22″></embed></object>
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On Thursday, Apple released Safari 3.2. Although the update affects both Mac and Windows users, many of the Mac updates were provided in Apple’s October update for Mac OS X users. The update includes eight fixes specific to Safari and three specific to Webkit.
Safari 3.2 is available via the Apple Software Update application, the Apple Software Downloads page, or Apple’s Safari download site.
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StumbleUpon, an online discovery site that competes with Digg, Mixx, and Reddit, announced Tuesday that it has expanded its Partner Program to include Funny Or Die, Atom, Scientific American, and 5min.com.
StumbleUpon’s Partner Program launched in October with HowStuffWorks, National Geographic, RollingStone Online, and HuffingtonPost. According to StumbleUpon, its Partner Program offers “premier” partners tools that allow them to help their users find desired content through the StumbleUpon index without surfing to StumbleUpon’s website, downloading its toolbar, or registering for an account.
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It was probably inevitable given what Google did with Gears, but Yahoo said Tuesday it’s releasing BrowserPlus software as open-source software.
BrowserPlus and Gears are aimed at improving browsers’ native abilities so Web applications can better match those running natively on a computer’s operating system, and Gears already is open-source software. Yahoo announced its intent to make BrowserPlus open-source software on its Yahoo Developers Blog on Tuesday.
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Wikimedia CTO Brion Vibber
What is the significance of Sun Microsystems‘ announcement Wednesday that Wikimedia is buying truckloads of Sun servers? It’s that the Wikimedia team, which runs Wikipedia, Wikinews, Wikibooks, and other sites, is gearing up to change the nature of the reference services. Wikipedia, in particular, is going to get a lot more visual. Limits on the size of upload files will be increased to 100MB. Video–hosted by Wikimedia–will soon be part of the mix.
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Google says it aims Gmail at the technological elite, knowing that the information overload problems they have today will be the problems mainstream users have tomorrow. But apparently the company isn’t above appealing to those who are willing to judge a book by its cover as well as its content.
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