Yearly Archives: 2008

Hello PlayStation 3

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Christmas has come early… Thanks to my mother-in-law, I know own a Sony PlayStation 3. And because a PS3 just wouldn’t be much use without some games, I also picked up Metal Gear Solid 4 and Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune.

No, I haven’t picked up any Blu-Ray movies yet. While I will probably start picking up things on the format now, I’m not in a rush at the moment, considering I don’t have an HDTV. Though, Christmas isn’t over with yet, so who knows what will happen. ;)

Right now the system is in the process of updating the system software. Which means, it’ll actually be tomorrow before I get a chance to actually play either of my games. Work sucks. :P

Feel free to add me on the PlayStation Network. As you might expect, my name will be “d3bruts1d”.

Volitans Software Contest

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The OCC Christmas Contest puts every other contest to shame, but chances to win free stuff is still good, right? By way of TUAW comes word of a contest by Volitans Software.

This contest is open only to U.S. residents and gives you the chance to win either a Barracuda 7200.11 SATA 1.5TB hard drive or a Momentus 5400.6 SATA 500GB laptop hard drive. You can enter the contest here. Winners will be announced on Christmas Day. Good luck!

Overclockers Club Christmas Contest

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It’s been a long time since I’ve even mentioned OverclockersClub.com here on my site. It feels kind of strange. But this post isn’t about the past. It’s about, well as the title suggests, the OverclockersClub.com Christmas Contest. And one heck of a contest it is at that!

There are currently over 50 prizes available to registered members, and they just recently added more.

If I’ve done my math right, the grand prize itself is worth nearly $5K. More on the prizes in just a moment. Continue reading →

Google Chrome Out Of Beta

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Google announced yesterday by way of the Official Google Blogthat the Google web browser, Chrome is now officially out of beta. Introduced only a few months ago, Google Chromehas had probably the shortest public beta period out of any Google product. Take Google’s GMail for example, it came online in March 2004 and is still in Beta.

Google Chrome is available for Windows XP & Windows Vista only (right now), which is a shame considering it is based on webkit, the same engine used by Apple’s Safari web browser. You’d think they’d be able to release a OS X version fairly easily. Hopefully that’s not to far off now that Google Chrome 1.0 is out.

Will this spice up the browser wars? How will Internet Explorer, Opera, and Firefox handle the Google browser? Things should get interesting as new versions of each are prepared.