jOG @ Toys R Us This Weekend
May 3, 2009 by Patrick Quek
Filed under Gaming
If you are in the UK, you can try out jOG, the Wii add-on by New Concept Gaming at certain Toys R Us stores this weekend. The Wii peripheral allows one to control the game character by jogging. You run, your character runs. You stop, so does the character.
It is like Wii Fit jogging on many Wii games.
Consumers can visit the following Toys R Us outlets to try out jOG this Bank Holiday weekend:
• Brent Cross
• Medway
• Croydon
• Southampton
• Cardiff
• Oldbury
• Warrington
• Metro Centre
• Edinburgh
• Leeds
Image: New Concept Gaming
My Preferred Firefox Add-ons
April 12, 2009 by Jason Bean
Filed under Computers
The main reason I prefer using Firefox over other browsers is because of the extendability available through the use of the various Add-ons that can be downloaded to customize and enhance the browser for your own personal needs. I believe if Microsoft would increase this functionality and availability it would drastically improve their efforts. However, is the real challenge just because people aren’t developing extensions for IE like they do for Firefox?
Here’s my list of preferred add-ons. I’ve grouped them by those that I use for business tasks and those that I use just as an extension and improvement of …read more
Two Bad Open Source Add-ons
There have been posts circulating the blogosphere about a couple of add-ons recently: Pirates of the Amazon and IMDB Pirated Version. I believe they are a bad thing to have come during particularly bad times.
Pirates of Amazon is a Firefox add-on. Whenever a user visits a media page in Amazon (movies, TV shows, games, music), the add-on gives alternate torrent links from where the same product can be illegally downloaded for free.
IMDB Pirate Version is another general script that crossreferences titles on IMDB allowing users to search directly from the imdb page for subtitles, torrents and http (rapidshare,megaupload, and other …read more




