http://netgeex.net Your Internet Jargon Sat, 22 Nov 2008 17:49:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://netgeex.net/bringit-launches-open-beta 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 ... http://netgeex.net/firefox-extension-makes-flash-games-full-screen 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 ... http://netgeex.net/microsoft-ie-8-wont-be-done-until-2009 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> Step 2: Grab the direct link to your video. In case you've ... http://netgeex.net/tweak-youtube-embeds-for-hd-playback 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 ... http://netgeex.net/apple-updates-safari-with-11-security-fixes 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 ... http://netgeex.net/stumbleupon-adds-premier-publishers 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. ... http://netgeex.net/browserplus-to-become-open-source 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 ... http://netgeex.net/wikipedia-gets-ready-to-be-flooded 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. On ... http://netgeex.net/gmail-gets-a-new-look