There are quite a few online companies that offer to monitor your website and alert you when it becomes inaccessible from different places around the globe. They send you email and SMS messages along with reporting features. And there are a few good ones that offer this service in a limited function for free.

Also, the studio that made Homefront is the same company that made Frontlines: Fuel of War. That game was pretty fun, but seemed incomplete and had control issues, I remember.
Here’s hoping they tweaked and tightened.

The biggest reasons seem to be stability and performance utilizing some features of OpenGL. It’s about time someone takes the big leap and wrangles the X monster. If you were to start from scratch right now, designing GNOME, KDE, XFCE, etc., all without Xorg’s quirks and limitations, would it come out the same? I don’t think so.

Remember the old days when Counterstrike was fresh and ground breaking in the fps genre? Perhaps the latest release of Call of Duty is nothing but a rehash of past success, but digging up more game types is definitely a step in the right direction.

ImageMagick falls short here. You can convert between the different pixel formats, and you can convert a vector file to a bitmap type, but it doesn’t convert pixels to vectors. Inkscape can convert pixmap to vectors. There’s also an online tool called Vector Magic.

Google recently updated the look & feel of their image search. Once you click on an image, instead of framing the source website, you see the image front and center like a Polaroid picture. Meanwhile the source page is displayed behind the image with a grey-ed out tinge to it.

Check out the images from what the F-35 pilot sees when he’s wearing his new headgear. Assuming the pictures given to the public are anything like what the real pilots see, the view from the controls of a Nintendo Entertainment System and the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter are about the same quality. What’s a Nintendo NES go for on ebay these days anyway?

Since so many websites use flash, and most computers you come across have adobe flash installed, this vulnerability is kind of a big deal due to the sheer volume of potentially affected computers. Install Google’s Chrome browser. It’s faster than your browser, and while you’re at it, head over to youtube with this link, and try youtube through html5.

Tilt-shift photography is pretty amazing, but have you ever wondered what a video would look like where every frame renders this same effect? Well then, check this out…

Is the recent acquisition of Bumptop going to make its way to Android in some shape or form anytime soon? This week is your last chance to pick up a copy of BumpTop, the 3-D Desktop for Mac and Windows.