Orgoo

So here's a new web app that might interest some of you. It's called Orgoo, and it supposedly integrates web mail and instant messaging into one web page. Think of using a mixture of Outlook and MSN Live Messenger, or GMail and GoogleTalk, or Yahoo....oh wait, who uses Yahoo?! I mean, come on, their Yahoo Mail Beta is utter shit...

Anyways it apparently supports most of the popular IM clients and web mail hosts, so should be good if you have many different accounts. Think of it as like Meebo, but with email.

Check it out: www.Orgoo.com (sadly the open BETA is full at the moment)

and here's an article about Orgoo (just so you can read about what you're missing).

Seacrest out!!!


Thanks to Digg for linkage.

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Mario Paaaiinnnt is Awesome

Holy Crap!!

Upon reading my RSS feeds today I came across this post from joystiq.

Basically some guy has re-created some memorable video game themes using Mario Paint on his SNES. Now, I've never played Mario Paint (mainly because it's not a game as more of a creativity application), but I always thought that you only used it to paint pictures, hence the name Mario Paint. But it seems you can actually create simple musical pieces using the SNES hardware.

You can check out his youtube profile here, and his video submissions here.

And here's an example of his work, using the Tetris theme:


Thanks to joystiq for the linkage and TomBobBlender for the awesomeness. And Russell Peters for the laughs(see below).

For the paaainnint reference, see here:

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Ahh...good ol' Web design

So...I like doing web design.
Recently I've tried to use the new Microsoft Ajax framework. There are others, but it integrates into Visual Studio, so you know, ease of use an all.

But if you're looking for some free ajax stuff check out:
miniajax.com

There's a showroom of ajax stuff that you can download and use for yourself.

Also check out this article for 6 Tools for Web Design. It's pretty good....although written by a Mac fan.

Peace out....work to do

Thanks to Digg for the links.

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High Delivery - Awesome Flash Game

Well, its been a while since I've found a game like this....



At least there's something to post about now huh?



This game is just so.....not really a game. Basically there's a bottle attached to a balloon that rises up into the sky. As the bottle floats, flowers start falling from the sky. Your mouse cursor represents a fan of sorts and you use it to indirectly push the balloon and bottle towards the falling flowers, which then get attached to the top of the bottle. You finally reach the end of the game (a gate on a cloud - heaven??), and your score is displayed.



The thing about this game is that it looks 'different' to most games these days. The graphics are soft and pastel like pictures. The music is soothing and there is no real competition or objective, just catching flowers.



For some reason I felt like blogging about this game.....and I don't know why. It's one of those 'artsy' games like Shadow of the Colossus and Ico, both of which I enjoyed.

So if you're interested, peep the links...



Play High Delivery



Read more from Joystiq

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GMail is Vulnerable

Well, the first official post of the New Year (2007, for those that missed it), and its not good news :(

Apparently there is a vulnerability in GMail that lets people view your contacts list. So when you log in to GMail, a javascript file is cached that allows malicious scripts to be run. So if your logged into your GMail account and browsing the web, a malicious script can be run that calls the 'google' function and can retrieve your contacts list.

So be careful when using your GMail folks. Hopefully this gets fixed soon.

Read more at Engadget and Tech Reads

101 Easy Ways to use Google's New Website Optimizer

Well apparently Google has some New Website Optimizer thingy, and here's an article that gives you 101 easy ways to use it.

Read it here

I can think of a few people at work (especially that one guy) who may need to read this.

Peace out.

Sucks to be Swedish, Awesome to be a Pirate

So there's been all this controversy about www.allofmp3.com, and the mp3 downloading thingy that it does. I've never personally used it, so wouldn't know what all the fuss is about.

But it seems that a Swedish ISP called Perspektiv has bowed to pressure from somewhere, and has banned allofmp3's ip's from its servers. So now, none of its users are able to access and download songs from allofmp3.

Did they think that would be the end of it?

Oh no, no, no.....

The awesome piratebay heard about this and have now banned all of Perspektiv's ip's from accessing their servers. HAHAHAHAHA!!!

Check out the story here, which also includes the PHP code to block Perspecktiv's servers. So do your part and join the Pirate Party.

Aaarrrrgggg!!!!

Awesome Tenacious D Guitar Hero Game

So here's a cool little flash game based on the Guitar Hero series of games, to celebrate the release of the Tenacious D movie: "Tenacious D and the Pick of Destiny".

Check it out