December 15, 2004
Geeking Out
Colby Cosh is noticing an increasing number of his readers use the Firefox browser. I'm seeing something similar, with a little more than 27 percent of my readers using Firefox.
As much as I love my TiVo, the company seems determined to create reasons why I would want to get rid of it. Anybody got a used ReplayTV they want to trade?
Tired of competing with cut-rate NFL-branded video games, EA Sports decided to bribe the NFL into an exclusivity agreement. And as much as I bash ESPN, you have to give their interactive division some credit for designing a game that could compete with Madden 2005, and cut the cost of sports video games by more than half. Grab those $19.95 copies of ESPN's ESPN NFL2K5 while you still can.
John Dodge of EDN.com is looking for design blogs. Thanks to reader Bill Lenihan for the link.
And finally, if you have an iPod and a broadband connection, download iPodderX right now and discover the world of Podcasting. You'll be glad you did.
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My friend Eric at Off Wing mentions that he is getting more hits from Firefox. I?ve mentioned how much I love Firefox but hadn?t bothered to check my logs. So just now I went and, holy cow, 21.5% of my hits are coming from Firefox! Anoth [Read More]
Tracked on December 15, 2004 03:44 PM
About 17% of my readers use Firefox, 77% using MSIE...
...As for ReplayTV, I have one and love it, but I am afraid I've purchased the Beta of DVR's, TiVo being VHS. Walk into a Best Buy or a Circuit City and the clerks will tell you they haven't had a ReplayTV to sell since March.
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at December 15, 2004 03:10 PM
I'm at about 34% Firefox, around 55% MSIE, and the rest are various other breeds. Interesting.
As for the NFLPA and the League going solo with EA, it's kind of beat. As much as EA is going to have a 'variety' of football games, they all come from the same shop. Plus, now you're almost guaranteed to have to drop 50-60 bucks to get a football game.
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at December 15, 2004 03:38 PM
Keep on bashing ESPN. They aren't invovled in the design of the NFL2Kx series or the pricing. It's Sega, who has the game developed by Visual Concepts, that's responsible for that.
I hope Sega will keep making the game without the NFL license. It's been as good as, if not better than the Madden series, in addition to causing EA to bring their price down. Though it will be tough selling a game with the Philadelphia Greens quarterbacked by Landon McCabe etc.
Posted by:
at December 15, 2004 05:05 PM
Steve, no worries....like 1990 Tecmo, the QB of the Eagles will be no other than QB Eagles. He was almost as good as QB Bills!
Posted by:
at December 15, 2004 05:08 PM
QB Eagles could really run.
Posted by:
at December 16, 2004 03:52 PM
Having spent part of my vacation reading the tech coverage in The Wall Street Journal, all I know is that I'm missing out by not paying $89 per month so that I can browse the Web on an oversized cell phone.
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at December 18, 2004 08:51 PM
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