Archive for June, 2009:
Happy Birthday Tetris! Love, Google.
25 years ago – June 6th, 1984 to be exact – Alexey Pajitnov created a simple puzzle video game where you moved blocks around (called tetrominoes) to create horizontal lines of blocks to eliminate rows and gain points.Know what game I’m talking about yet? I’m referring to Tetris, one of the world’s most popular and best-selling video games of all time.
Subscribe to the comments for this postFacebook Used to Nail Bail Violator in DUI Case
20-year-old Erika Scoliere of Campton Hills, Illinois has been awaiting trial for reckless homicide and aggravated DUI since she was allegedly involved in a July 2007 crash that killed a motorcyclist. Now, thanks to being reckless on Facebook (and, some would argue, continued poor offline judgment), the rest of her time spent awaiting trial is about to get a whole lot more restrictive.
Phishing Scam Targets YouTube Partners
Some YouTube partners are being hit with e-mails seemingly coming from Google / YouTube teams attempting to trick them into replying with their login credentials and other personal information. One partner contacted us with screenshots of the phishing messages, the first received at the end of May and the second on June 3rd, coming from and delivered to different accounts.
Opera 10 Beta Now Available
Opera has just released the first beta of the upcoming major new version of its web browser, Opera 10. It’s free and available for Mac, Windows and Linux; get it over at opera.com/next/.
Read more »
YouTube for Large Screens
YouTube’s special interface for large screens, available at youtube.com/xl, has been updated to include bigger buttons and navigation controls. Now you don’t have to worry about picking the next video to play: YouTube automatically plays all the videos from a list.
Read more »
