Introducing Sprinkle Safari, a web adventure game

Elephant with donut icon png
The logo for Sprinkle Safari, the awesome web game finally released to the public.

I’ve got a dirty little secret. Dobro, not so dirty, Res, morecreamy. Sugary. Frosty. Sprinkle-y.

Here it is: for the last year and more(computer searching reveals since January 29, 2011even before hathix.com was founded), I’ve been working nonstop on alittleweb-based adventure game. And it’s never been formally released to the public until now.

Here’s a look at the making of the game. It’s taken 16 months and over 100 hours of development.

Can’t get enough Angry Birds? Play it online

Playing Angry Birds 1-1
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 (več o tem kasneje)
  2. Adobe Flash (Žal, 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:

Nova strategija za javnost Firefoxa

Nazaj v dan (in s tem mislim na teden ago), nove različice Firefoxa so izpustili “ko so bili pripravljeni” – da, ko so vse funkcije, ki jih je želel postaviti v bilo v njem. Ki se imenuje ki temeljijo na celovečerni javnost, in večina razvijalcev uporabo te strategije.

Toda obstaja še ena strategija za javnost, ki se osredotoča na sproščanje nove različice vsako tako pogosto. Nekatere funkcije morda ne narediti različico, ampak to je v redu; Nova različica prihaja v X tednov, da bo treba vključiti nato. To se imenuje osnovna javnost.

The quest for a decent home page

I’m not sure why home pages were even invented in the first place. Mislim, sure, you need a page to open when you boot up your browser, but they just make things, dobro, 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.