September 2007

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• Gaming

  Local retailers screw Halo 3 release up

  09.24.07 | Permalink | 29 Comments

  Last week Wednesday Microsoft invited a select few community members to their offices to pre-play the latest in the Halo series, Halo 3. To protect the millions of dollars invested in the various international and even local launch efforts we were required to sign an NDA (non-disclosure agreement) which prevented any of use speaking […]

• Gaming

  Halo 3 Game Guide and Silverlight

  09.22.07 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  I can’t figure out if this post is about Microsoft’s Flash killer, Silverlight, or the most anticipated game of the year, Halo 3. Tim Sneath posted about the new Halo 3 Game Guide that has gone live and its using Silverlight to get the message across.
  With the local launch of Halo 3 this coming […]

• South Africa

  Are you gonna braai?

  09.21.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  On the 24th of September 2007 its a public holiday, Heritage Day in face. But a bunch of people have decided that is really just a great day to have a braai and are encouraging all South Africans to get friends and family together and to cook up a storm in true South African […]

• Entertainment, Gaming

  Halo 3 and The Parlotones launch together

  09.21.07 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Yes, Halo 3, the hottest video game of the year is going to be launched next week and The Parlotones are launching their new album, A world next door to yours, at the same time. The launch is going to be taking place on the 27th of September 2007 at the Partyhouse at The […]

• Development

  Silverlight 1.1 UserControl C# template code does not follow best practices

  09.20.07 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  Why does the Microsoft Visual Studio team not follow the best practices internally? When creating a Silverlight 1.1 UserControl under Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 it generates the following code by default.
  System.IO.Stream s = this.GetType().Assembly.GetManifestResourceStream(“Project1.UserControl1.xaml”);
  this.InitializeFromXaml(new System.IO.StreamReader(s).ReadToEnd());

  Most developers would realise that this is not good code. Why do […]

• Entertainment

  Disturbia review

  09.20.07 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  I was lucky to be invited to a pre-screening of Disturbia by Ster Kinekor this evening. I took my good friend Tim along and I must say that I was pleasantly surprised by the pace of the movie and it kept me on the edge of my seat.
  To be honest I hadn’t read much […]

• South Africa

  Telkom in the dwang for claims

  09.19.07 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  It looks like Telkom is in a bit of a pickle over its recent “Do Broadband” advertising. A post on MyBroadband details the complaint from a consumer that says its false advertising.
  Mr Moorad lodged a consumer complaint against Telkom’s “do” broadband campaign, arguing that the advertisements claims of being suitable for ‘movies, gaming and […]

• Gaming

  Wanna win a copy of Halo 3 Legendary Edition?

  09.18.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  Every serious gamer out there should already know that the most anticipated game of the year, Halo 3, is launching worldwide next week. It launches on the 25th of September 2007 in the United States and South Africa and Europe will get it on the 26th of September 2007. With apparently over 4 million pre-orders […]

• Software

  Windows Live doesn’t support Vista x64, yet!

  09.15.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  As you may have noticed earlier this month, Microsoft released new builds of the Windows Live series of programs that it seems are destined to form the Windows Live Suite 2008. The individual components and their build numbers are listed below for prosperity

  Windows Live Photo Gallery Beta (12.0.1193.815)
  Windows Live Mail 2008 (aka Beta 2) (12.00.1365)
  Windows […]

• Gaming

  Zero Punctuation review of BioShock

  09.14.07 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Last night Andre introduced me to some very funny video reviews over on The Escapist. Thanks to James Francis for the original link to this video review of BioShock.

   
  He has some other very cool zero punctuation reviews including Tomb Raider Anniversary, Console Rundown, Psychonauts and Heavenly Sword and Other Stuff. Go check them out, they really […]

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