Enjoyed Final Fantasy VII? You’ll probably want to take a look at this (2nd) promo trailer for Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children, a CG movie that looks to be totally awesome. It should be out soonish (either this month or early January). (6)

Google Labs releases LiveSearch-based enhancement

December 11th, 2004

Kevin Gibbs, software engineer at Google, has written a bit of an enhancement to Google Search that uses LiveSearch. His post on the Google Blog was probably written to make me feel jealous I wasn’t working at Google. Anyway, check out Google Suggest over at Google Labs - it’s kinda useful but I guess no longer cool (since this isn’t new).

Screenshot of Google Suggest in action


And would you look at that: “muvee autoProducer crack” comes up when I enter “muvee”. And of course typing “chu yeo” in there doesn’t give “chu yeow”. More on how it works in the Google Suggest FAQ.

Posted by Chu Yeow at December 11, 2004 SGT | Permalink | Comments and TrackBacks (5) | Category: Neat Stuff

Blogbloxes - widgets for your blog (or website). Smells like Konfabulator, et al. What will they think of next? (2)

New iPod Updater - finally, something for iPod mini owners

November 22nd, 2004

Apple has released iPod Updater 2004-11-15, the software that updates your iPod’s firmware. Notable in this release is a whole bunch of features for the iPod mini that were previously only available to iPod users. Nothing for G3 iPod owners though.

Stuff like Delete songs from On-The-Go playlists and Create multiple On-The-Go playlists should have been there out-of-the-box, while Hear Click Wheel clicker through headphones is nice to have. Can’t wait to try it out tommorrow when syncing in the office.

Ugh. You need to use the charger (the Firewire one) to flash the firmware. Now I’m stuck with a useless iPod mini for the rest of today and the long commute home.

Posted by Chu Yeow at November 22, 2004 SGT | Permalink | Comments and TrackBacks (3) | Category: Neat Stuff

Firefox avatars and a centralized forum avatar system

November 20th, 2004

rakaz, maker of some very nice Firefox wallpapers, also has a set of forum and IM avatars. Very nice if you want to show your support for Firefox and perhaps get a few IE-using friends to ask you about your avatar. Anyway, that wasn’t the reason I was looking for avatars. The reason was me coming across Tom Werner’s Gravatars (or Globally Recognized Avatars).

Screenshot of Gravatar in action


Looks like a cool thing to implement on this weblog. There’s a WordPress plugin, but plugins don’t work on the nightly I’m using so I’ll probably wait until WordPress 1.3, or if I ever get my butt off to try to get a CVS version to work.

(And yes, this is a concise, rushed entry because I’ve got my Half-Life 2. It’s Half-Life 2 weekend!)

Posted by Chu Yeow at November 20, 2004 SGT | Permalink | Comments and TrackBacks (10) | Category: Mozilla, Neat Stuff
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