Creative Labs has just rolled out what looks like the first real competition for Apple’s iPod — the NOMAD Jukebox Zen. Same tiny form factor, same FireWire connectivity, same brushed-aluminum look, but $349 scores you 20GB of storage with the Nomad. (The same size iPod for Windows runs a hefty $499.) I’ve been a fan […]

If you’re a Windows user who’s been intrigued by Mozilla’s power and standards-compliance, but you’ve been turned off by its “bloat” (providing a browser, mail client, newsreader, HTML authoring program, etc. in one app), now you’ve finally got an alternative! Phoenix 0.1 has just been released. Phoenix strips out all the ancillary functionality to provide […]

The World War II attack is back, in full force, with the release of Day of Defeat version 3.1. The whole 3.x series adds some new features, like “paratroop battles” (in which players get one life each, as in Counter-Strike, instead of the traditional Day of Defeat “infinite spawning” reinforcements), and tweaks some elements of […]

So the Mozilla Organization, the open-source project launched by Netscape in 1998 when they released the source code of their Web browser, has after four years of development (!) finally managed to release version 1.0 of their new-from-the-ground-up browser. The good news? It ROCKS!

It’s been a long, hard road back to relevance for Apple Computer, but they seem to have made it through. Today’s announcement of the XServe rack-mounted Mac server marks their graduation day from the realm of the desktop powerhouses to the rarefied territory of the server world. It’s a welcome move, and one more notch […]

Sony’s “Clie” line of PalmOS-based organizers have been the standard by which others are measured in terms of style and polish for several years now. But now they’ve gone and outdone themselves with the PEG-NR70, a killer device with a high-color, high-resolution display, built-in MP3 player and keyboard, optional integrated digital camera, a unique “flip-and-rotate” […]

There’s already a jillion and one blogging tools out there, I know. But here’s some news about one that’s an interesting new twist on the whole idea of blogging itself. It takes blogging into a whole new world — by connecting bloggers directly with each other. And in doing so it opens up whole new […]

Haven’t got SOAP quite working under PHP yet — but I’m making progress…