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I don’t play Blizzard’s World of Warcraft, but I hear that the players are experiencing a small crisis, and Blizzard is “in a panic to keep things under control”. Apparently, Hakkar (the “god of blood”) likes to infect all of his challengers with a highly fatal plague. However, the players did not count on the possibility that this plague might be both highly fatal and highly contagious. “[Game Masters] have started to quarantine players in an effort to control the spreading, but players keep leaving the quarantine areas. Unless you’re above level 50, you more or less immediately fall over dead from the disease.”
(hat-tip: Owen)
The Opera Web Browser is now both license-free and ad-free. I’m not much of an Opera fan, I prefer Firefox, but I do believe that having a fair choice of browsers is a good thing.
MacMerc has announced the launch of a re-vamped .Mac service.
.Mac has come out from the darkness with 1GB of storage (2GB in a Family Pack). All that space would make a handy place to back up your files and Apple has also posted an updated to its Backup utility. Its got one-step iLife backups, Spotlight integration, schedules and ways to share files automatically between all your Macs.
A new “.Mac Groups” feature has also been added to the list of new features.
Now you can extend your .Mac experience to your team, club, class, or family. Create a group, complete with email address, home page, calendar, and more and invite anyone to join.
Finally, .Mac’s $99.95 price stamp is beginning to make sense. To sweeten the deal, there is a new family pack available with one master account and four sub-accounts for only $179.95.
The Web Developer Extension for Firefox and Mozilla has been updated to v0.9.4. This update adds support for Firefox v1.5, which is currently available as a beta release. The release notes are available here. Read the Favored Freeware entry for the Web Developer Extension here.
Here are the highlights from today’s Blogroll dive:
Owen encounters his first openly hostile support requester.
Bonnie moves her blog to bonniewren.com’s root directory.
Brian discusses Microsoft and quality.
Khaled compares Photoshop to The Gimp.
Jon discusses Google’s new blog search engine.
Michael takes a moment to discuss his other blogs.
Orson ruminates on the social damages of Hurricane Katrina.
Sarah publishes a new page dedicated to recommended purchases for “anyone starting out in music.”
Mark discusses progressive taxation.
And, Tom discusses the possibility of flash drives replacing hard disks in laptop computers.
