Monday, May 7, 2007

Windows live hotmail available


Usually I don't blog about email clients, but I've been using live mail beta for a long time now...

Microsoft offers it to all regular hotmail account holders. I suggest upgrading to it, it features 2gb of storage, better spam management, and the best feature is non-page refreshing browsing ; which means you cycle through your emails and folders without the wait times!!!

Upgrade HERE

Spiderman 3: hell combo

You might ask yourself what the title is all about!?
Well, let me tell you my experience with Spiderman 3, the movie and game...
**spoiler alert**

First off, I went to see the movie this week end and left wondering how could they ruin it this bad!? I mean the guy (Tobey Mcguire), cries all along the movie, to a point you just want to leave.
They managed to stuff in 3 villains, it could of been good but you are thrown a place to another without really knowing the back story ; a good example is the venom liquid... It appears in the middle of the movie catching spidey (with is suit on !!!) in the middle of the night without knowing where it came from!

The most stupid scene of all is when Peter Parker starts to wear the black suit and suddenly, is hair turns black and has some kind of black crayon around the eyes. From there he becomes attractive to women and starts to dance a la James brown on the sidewalk, what the hell?!
All that to say the movie is bad, but still managed to break yet another box office record...

On top of that I decided maybe the game will be better, you never know!
The game won't run with a Saitek Eclipse keyboard attached to your PC. Yet another game with that bug. I was able to disable some Human interface device in the device manager and that fixed the startup issue. When I was able to run the game, it looked fantastic ; this is the best looking spiderman game to date. The menus are well done. Controls are intuitive, the gameplay is kind of like Ultimate-spiderman . The problem is the game is so buggy ( 1.0 ). It crashes randomly. Black screens to a point it's not playable. So I hope Activision are working on a 1.1 patch soon.

So as you can understand I can't make a review since I can't play...
This is a screenshot of one of the rare moments the games runs without crashing...

Wednesday, May 2, 2007

Behold the Geforce 8800 Ultra

Ultra is back!
Its got 768MB of RAM. 612/2.16 core-memory.
You get some 10 to 20% (rarely) fps gain from the GTX version at 800$ ( yep 800$)!
Worth the cash, nope, get a GTX!!!

Two of them, better have a deep pocket (1600$)!


nVidia also released new drivers 158.18 Vista
and there 158.22 XP (not WHQL)