Archive for July 23rd, 2008
Featured Windows Download: Glary Utilities Optimizes Your Windows PC
Windows only: Free application Glary Utilities performs vital maintenance on your system to keep it in tip-top shape. Glary Utilities performs six key functions, from optimizing your registry to clearing out that spyware you accidentally installed. The application also removes dangerous entries from your Start Menu, fixes invalid shortcuts, erases your web browsing and application usage history, and frees up space on your hard drive by deleting temporary files. Glary Tools was voted a user a favorite by many of our readers in our best Windows maintenance tools Hive Five, and with all these features and functionality, we’re not surprised. A free version of Glary Utilities is available for download for Windows only, though there is a professional version available for $39.95.
Featured Windows Download: Glary Utilities Optimizes Your Windows PC
Live Mesh Goes Mobile
Yesterday, the Live Mesh team surprised everyone by opening up the service to all and today they’ve gone mobile. That’s right – it’s official – the mobile portal is now available at m.mesh.com. From this mobile website, you can access all your meshified folders and files from your browser and read the news feed about the changes that have been made to the various folders. You can even add a new folder from m.mesh.com to your mesh, which can then be used to move your mobile content to – for example, images and videos you took with your mobile phone. There’s also a homepage link that can be used to create a Mobile Pictures folder for you. To see a bunch of screenshots of the mobilized version of Mesh, check out LiveSide, who broke the news (img courtesy of LiveSide)
Live Mesh Goes Mobile | Sarah In Tampa | Channel 10
Make Money with Xbox Live Community Games
Turn your XNA projects into cash with Xbox Live Community Games.
Coming holiday 2008, Xbox Live Community Games will give XNA game developers (that’s YOU!) the opportunity to publish and sell their projects to millions of gamers worldwide via the Xbox Live Marketplace.
Here’s how it works. XNA game developers (again that’s YOU!) submit their titles to http://creators.xna.com for peer review. Once approved the games are then made available for sale on Xbox Live Marketplace for a price point that you set (between 200 and 800 points). You then receive up to 70% of the games total revenue!
So let’s say you create a game that you sell for 200 points (which is approx USD$2.50). The game is then purchased 10,000 times. That’s $25,000 in total revenue of which you stand a chance to receive up to 70% or $17,500!!! WOW!!
More info: http://blogs.msdn.com/xna/ & http://creators.xna.com/
Make Money with Xbox Live Community Games | Nic Fillingham | Channel 10
Games For Windows LIVE is Now FREE
Kevin over at Gamerscore Blog has the details:
I love getting achievements when I play games. I love having the same friends list shared between my PC games and my XBOX 360. And I love not having to pick games from a list of servers, but just having matchmaking that puts me into a game. And today, we made some announcements that are going to make that much more common in Windows games… Games for Windows – LIVE – our online multiplayer gaming service for Windows, now offers completely free multiplayer. No exceptions – multiplayer is completely free, even cross-platform gameplay with XBOX 360 users.
Full post: http://gamerscoreblog.com/team/archive/2008/07/22/560107.aspx
More info: http://www.gamesforwindows.com/live
Games For Windows LIVE is Now FREE | Nic Fillingham | Channel 10
WordPress app hits the iPhone fashionably late
Just a week and a half ago WordPress for the iPhone was announced with a pretty killer screencast detailing what you could do with it. Tuesday morning it finally showed up on the app store (download it here), and I’ve had ample time to play with it. The good news is that it’s very enjoyable to use and quite capable for creating posts on the go. The bad news? You’ve got to have an iPhone or iPod Touch to take advantage of it.
The key benefit to using this app is writing and publishing quick posts on the go. What I found after using it, though, is that it offers up far more to the discerning user who wants to use it as a very powerful publishing tool. You can upload photos either from your existing library or snap a quick shot with your phone’s camera. I can see this leading to many food-related photo blogs. Also nice is that whatever you write can be saved on your phone, so you can work on dozens of posts at once and only publish when you want. There’s also a great preview function that will show you what your post will look like without kicking you off to Safari.
I successfully connected two Wordpress.com hosted blogs to the app in just a minute or two, although I ran into problems connecting my personal hosted blog that uses the software install from WordPress.org. It’s worth noting you’ll need version 2.5.1 or higher to hook it up to a hosted blog, although updating to the recently released 2.6 is definitely worth it for all those extra publishing goodies.
