2 web browers recieve secruity updates today.

The web browsers Opera and Firefox both recieved updates earlier today.
The updates boost secruity and fix a couple of performance issues.

Opera moved to version 10.1 while Firefox upgraded to 3.5.4.

Sega is lighting up!

These Sega Saturn and Sega Genesis themed lighters are available only through pre-order from Zippo till November 6. They are worth 10500 yen, which is $114 USD.

Star Wars wedding cake makes my stomach feel wrong.

This post on Gizmodo really made me want to send some bodily fluids their way, but I made it through all the pictures of this Star Wars themed wedding cake.

Will Apple approve Mozilla's secret iPhone app?

Mozilla is releasing a new, secret iPhone application in a few weeks. 

Om Malik of gigaom.com interviewed John Lilly, CEO of Mozilla, at the Play conference, a discussion organized by the students of Haas School of Business at the university of Berkeley. Lilly told Malik about a new app that Mozilla is working on for the iPhone. “Mozilla will release an app to the iPhone App Store in the next few weeks," Lilly said, “It’ll surprise people.”  

He also talked with Mozilla's Vice President of Mobile Jay Sullivan who, along with Lilly, hinted at the app being Weave, a project Mozilla started a few years ago that was created for users who want to store their history and bookmarks in Mozilla's servers. 

Apple has a reputation for denying any apps that compete with its own. Weave would be stepping on the toes of MobileMe, another "cloud" system that Apple uses to share media through their hardware.   

Apple released new app feature:In-App Purchases for free apps

Applications in Apple's app store now have In-App purchases.

Buyers who purchased the "lite" version of an app and upgraded had to download a new app all together. Now, users can buy an app right from the app and it will turn from the lite version into the paid version. 

Developers have also released some of their premium apps for free.

The Update: First Log

The Update is a post I just created where I will be posting my next planned article. The last one was my Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days review. Maybe my next review will be on Bowser's Inside Story. I've been meaning to buy that game for a while, but...well...no luck. That was The Update.

The Key is within your Heart: Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days Review

How would you feel if you found out your secretly a person’s hallow heart with a mind full of memories that are not yours? Roxas, one of the main characters in Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days, has to live with that reality every minute of his eventful life.

This new installment in the Kingdom Hearts timeline has you playing as Roxas, a copy of Sora, the main character within all of the Kingdom Hearts games before 385/2 days, who is trying to find out about himself while at the same time unraveling the intent of Organization XIII and the search for Kingdom Hearts, which is the key to the Organization’s plan.

Game play is just like the Playstation 2 versions of Kingdom Hearts 1 and 2. The controls are pretty solid. You move with the directional pad while attacking with A, jumping with Y, and navigating the menus with X. Camera control is pretty decent. You control the camera with the R and L buttons. Touch screen integration is almost non-excitant. There is nothing new to the game play, but for fans that enjoyed the regular style of controls compared to Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories, you will be pretty content with these.

There are some new features in Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days such as the new panel system. Before, the player would have to go into different menus to equip abilities, magic, and equipment. Now, players use panels for everything. These panels have slots where you put items and abilities you earn through missions.

The missions are the meat of the game. You continue the story through missions which the Organization gives you as days go by. There are a variety of ways to play these missions, like search and destroy or sneak around town to grab Intel before the civilians spot you. The game play in this title is enough to keep a hard core fan satisfied while keeping new comers a little confused.    

The graphics are pretty decent for a DS title. They are, at times, muddy in appearance, but overall moderate. The cut scenes themselves look like they came out of the PS2 titles and they also include voice over which was something of a surprise.

The bond that drives the story is between Roxas, Axel, and Xion. The whole timeline between Kingdom Hearts and Kingdom Hearts 2 has been pretty unclear so far, but now its revealed what occurs to the fourteenth member of Organization XIII and Roxas, along with his relationship with Axel.

            A person’s heart is what makes them a person, without it they are nobody. Kingdom Hearts 385/2 Days is a game about nobodies who are looking for a heart, while some are looking for a purpose. Kingdom Hearts fans who are looking for a deeper look at what really happened inside of Organization XIII and also want to see what happened between Kingdom Hearts, Kingdom Hearts 2, and Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories will find a great experience in 358/2 Days.

Sidekick data officially gone

T-mobile and Danger, the Sidekick data services provider, announced yesterday that Sidekick users who have lost media due to the data failure will most likely not get it back

T-mobile, as posted on their forums, said "Regrettably, based on Microsoft/Danger's latest recovery assessment of their systems, we must now inform you that personal information stored on your device - such as contacts, calendar entries, to-do lists or photos - that is no longer on your Sidekick almost certainly has been lost as a result of a server failure at Microsoft/Danger. That said, our teams continue to work around-the-clock in hopes of discovering some way to recover this information..."

Facebook and Youtube have technical issues.

Youtube and Facebook are both having a pretty bad Saturday.

Youtube is having problems with videos creating downtime, even with embeded ones.

Facebook is also having trouble with it's updates not updating.

Hopefully this problem will be finished soon because I want to watch more Michael Jackson videos and posting on Facebook that I favorited "Scream."