Month: October 2006

Firefox 2 Browser Released

For the love of all that is holy, people, upgrade your browser to the latest and greatest on the planet:   Firefox – Rediscover the Web Sure, Internet Explorer 7 was released by Microsoft recently, but it’s too little, too late.  This review from Download.com gave it a 7.0.  In comparison, Firefox got an 8.3…


Console Gamers are not Hardcore Gamers

As I’m reading the latest issue of Electronic Gaming Monthly talking about Gears of War, I saw the words “hardcore gamers” in a sentence.  I scoffed at the notion of console gamers as hardcore gamers.  There’s nothing hardcore about console games and the gamers that play them, with maybe a very slight exception to fighting…


The National Broke PC Gamer Month

This is the time of the year when game publishers start releasing their games, mostly to take advantage of the upcoming holiday seasons.  Games that come out in late October/early November that turn out to be really good gets added on gift lists.  For us gamers, this can be both a blessing and a curse….


SteelSecurity Review

SteelSecurity is a suite of applications put together into a single interface. It is aimed at the hardcore gamer who wants his/her computer secure while not having it eat away precious resources while gaming, either offline or online. In fact, I’m the type of gamer that has eschewed antivirus software for years entirely because I…