Cody Taylor

Here are 15 sites that demonstrate excellent use of Flash technology to create beautiful photo galleries.

The iPhone’s biggest weakness is its 2-megapixel camera. Not to worry, though—we’ve put together a whopping 22 tips and apps to help you get the most out of Apple’s underpowered shooter.

Demigod is an RTS/RPG hybrid developed by Gas Powered Games and published by Stardock, a company notable for their progressive and lenient stance on DRM. The game was set to be released on April 14th, and shipped without any form of copy protection. Unfortunately, retailer Gamestop broke the street date and released it earlier in the week. A day after pointing this out, Gas Powered Games posted some numbers about the players hitting their servers. Roughly 18,000 connections were made from legitimately purchased copies; over 100,000 were made from pirated copies. Meanwhile, the servers, which were not yet ready for that level of traffic, buckled under the strain, resulting in poor experiences for people trying to participate in multiplayer. While some reviews were positive, others criticized the game for the connectivity issues. After another day, they were able to stabilize the servers to the point they’d planned on for the original launch.

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Their dominance in the web browser market has had a markedly negative impact. Bill Gates freely admits that one of his biggest strategic errors was his failure to foresee the rapid rise of the internet in the early 1990s. To make up for their relatively late entry into the game the company used it’s monopoly position in the operating system market,

Looks like Intel isn’t slowing down. What is AMD doing, by the way???

Neveldine: “We always stay in touch with Canon or Sony or Red about what’s coming out, and we’ve been talking to Red about the latest incarnation of 3-D. We’re on the internet all the time just seeing who’s got the latest thing. Pretty soon, I think we’ll both walk to set with Blackberries that have HD capabalities, and then we’ll just shoot…”

It looks like Windows Mobile 6.5 will arrive a little earlier than expected. A post on the WinMo team blog says that the update to Redmond’s smartphone platform will officially launch on May 11, the first day of the Tech Ed conference.