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jOG @ Toys R Us This Weekend

Patrick Quek — Sun, 03 May 2009 07:12:31 +0000

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

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jOG @ Toys R Us This Weekend

My Preferred Firefox Add-ons

Jason Bean — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 14:32:53 +0000

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?

Snagit of Firefox Add-ons Administration in 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 my browser experience. The ones I’ve bolded are those that I don’t think I could really live without and have become almost crucial to my online existence as I know it.

Browser User-Interface Improvements

Better Gmail 2
coComment
Google Gears
Google Notebook
Google Toolbar for Firefox
IE Tab
New Tab Button Position (love this one but can’t find it anymore)
Snagit Firefox Extension (available as part of Snagit)
StumbleUpon
Tab Scope
Tab To Window

Business Tools and Features

Alexa Sparky
CodeBurner for Firebug
ColorZilla
Domain Details
FireFTP
Live Writerfox
Web Developer
Zemanta (just installed so still playing with this one)

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My Preferred Firefox Add-ons

Two Bad Open Source Add-ons

Sravan — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 16:45:56 +0000

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 hosts) movie releases, and view the movie trailer directly. I don’t mind the subtitles and movie trailer really; they are useful functionalities.

A few years ago music industry lost billions to piracy and has recently limped back to apparent normalcy. There are many who don’t give a damn one way or the other about piracy and those who justify it do so by claiming that the stars get paid way too much for their work. As a writer who reads more publishing news than any other kind of news, I have been reading about thousands of people losing their jobs in the publishing industry. Behind the highly-paid stars are legions of faceless people whose livelihood is at stake in any industry. No part of the economy is immune to the current slowdown and this is a worse time for irresponsible cheating of one another than any other. Please show restraint.

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Two Bad Open Source Add-ons