Al presentar Sprinkle Safari, un juego de aventura web

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El logo de Safari Sprinkle, el juego web impresionante finalmente lanzado al público.

Tengo un pequeño secreto sucio. Bien, no tan sucia, realmente, más… cremoso. Azucarado. Helado. Sprinkle-y.

Aquí lo tienes: para el año pasado y más(búsqueda computadora revela desde enero 29, 2011 – incluso antes de que se fundó hathix.com), He estado trabajando sin parar en un “poco” basado en la web de juego de aventura. Y nunca ha sido oficialmente lanzado al público – hasta ahora.

He aquí un vistazo a la haciendo de el juego. Ha tomado 16 meses y más 100 horas de desarrollo.

Can’t get enough Angry Birds? Play it online

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A red bird crashing into a structure, killing a pig in the process

If your phone’s battery keeps dying on you because you spend all your time playing the wildly popular mobile game Angry Birds (or if you’re too cheap to buy Angry Birds), you should be pretty excited about this latest development.

You can now play Angry Birds online here. Here’s what you need:

  1. A decent browser (lo veremos más adelante)
  2. Adobe Flash (arrepentido, iDevice users)

As the URL (chrome.angrybirds.com) might hint, Angry Birds works best in Chrome. I’ve tried it on several browsers and here’s what I’ve found:

Nueva estrategia de lanzamiento de Firefox

Back in the day (and by that I mean a week ago), new versions of Firefox were releasedwhen they were ready” – es decir, when all the features they wanted to put in were in it. That’s called feature-based releases, and most developers use that strategy.

But there’s another release strategy that focuses on releasing new versions every so often. Some features might not make a version, but that’s OK; a new version is coming in x weeks so it’ll be included then. This is called fixed releases.

La búsqueda de una página de inicio decente

I’m not sure why home pages were even invented in the first place. Quiero decir, sure, you need a page to open when you boot up your browser, but they just make things, bien, awkward. Plus they’re not very useful: most of them just serve as a landing page; you don’t really use them except to read news about how kids can’t bring bagged lunch to school (*cough* Yahoo *cough*.) And when you do that kind of stuff, you just get distracted from what you were originally meaning to do all along.

I want to know why that is and how I can help fix it.

Firefox 4 is out

It’s been about a year in coming (it was in beta for a full year), but Firefox 4 is finally out and can be downloaded at firefox.com. The open-source web browser’s latest version is a gigantic step forward from the 3.6 version (the old stable version from a year ago, which is pitifully outdated by now.)

What’s changed

  • Firefox 4 is about 3 times faster in page loading and JavaScript performance than 3.6. This means your favorite web apps and websites areget ready for this – 3 times faster than before.