For the most part OpenOffice.org does what an office suite needs to do and thus far it has served me well. Recently however, I came across two features that affected me as an average user of spreadsheet applications.
Firstly, I wanted to draw a chart of data that wasn’t located in contiguous regions of the spreadsheet. [...]

A different look to the List view and a whole new Compact view in Nautilus. Connecting to the Internet (especially with 3G modems and cell phones) is also a whole load easier with the new overhauled NetworkManager Applet (nm-applet).

Sequels can be such a messy business.
Crytek, the studio that brought us the original Far Cry and the more recent Crysis, isn’t developing Far Cry 2. The game won’t be built on CryEngine 2 (the engine behind Crysis) but on Dunia, a custom-built engine that re-uses only 2-3% of the original CryEngine code. Lush island [...]

How many First Person Shooters can be praised for its compelling single-player storytelling? How many of those boast a multiplayer component potentially capable of displacing the most entrenched shooter in competitive gaming?
The single player game seizes your attention from the first mission and the intensity doesn’t let up until the closing credits roll. It’s almost [...]

A lesser author would feel guilty at such blatant plagiarism. But Steve Jobs, quoting Picasso, says, “Good artists copy, great artists steal.” That said, I still extend my heartfelt apologies to Chuck Palahniuk.
By the measure of Picasso (and Jobs) I am the Leonardo da Vinci of the blogging world. If you would dare to call [...]