MAG: Comming Soon

MAG, the 256 player FPS for the Playstation 3 is being released at the end of January & definitely looks worth getting. For more News about the Beta release on January 4th go here.

thinBasic 1.7.9.0 BETA

A new version of thinBasic has been released & can be downloaded from this thread on the thinBasic forum.

New Search Engine

Microsoft has developed a new search engine called Bing.

Google Earth Mandriva Linux

I've just tried using the new beta version of Google Earth (v5.0) in Mandriva Linux, the results were my XServer crashed & I had to hold down Ctrl, Alt & Del to reboot my system. I decided to uninstall the beta version & install version 4.3 which can be downloaded from here. Version 4.3 seems to work fine & I've had no problems with it, albeit it's a little slow when compared with the windows version. Installation instructions can be found here on the Ubuntu wiki, don't worry there's no real difference between the Mandriva & Ubuntu installations.

Atmosphir: Game Engine

Free Game Engine available here, I found out about it here on the thinBasic forum. Currently it's a Beta Signup & you'll need to wait about 3-4 days but it looks like it'll be worth it.

Safari 4 Beta for PCs

It's available to download from here, it can now render JavaScript 30 times faster than IE7 & 3 times faster than Firefox.

Opera passes the Acid3 test

The newest Alpha version of Opera which can be downloaded from here, successfully passes the Acid3 test with 100%. Please make sure you read the warnings on the download page before you install the Alpha version.

Universal Extractor 1.6 Beta

Universal Extractor is a brilliant utility that I've been using for some time. It enables you to extract files from pretty much any archive, whether it's ACE, RAR, ZIP even Installers can be opened. The version which is available on FileHippo & the LegRoom website is the older version which is incompatible with Vista. But you can download the Beta version from here which works fine with Vista.