Amcpblog had the chance to take a closer look at one of those xbox 360 systems coming out soon. They played Call of Duty 2 and wrote about their impressions of the game, the controller and the system in general.

The guys over at extensive mods reviewed new hardware like the SilverStone Nitrogon NT02 cpu cooler, always worth a look if you are interested in computer hardware.

And finally some promotion for one of my other sites, deny.de which is a great hacking community site that hosts most famous software authors of this segment and also provides a good active forum for knowledge exchanges.

Update:

The majority of partner sites that have been linked in this article are either non-existent anymore or have had a change in ownership. Links have been removed if it does not make sense anymore to keep them up. The first article on the Gmail Tools blog for instance was published in July 2011 which indicates that the site was either dropped or deleted before it was put up anew.

Geekblue found an interesting Firefox extension that makes it possible to view open pages with Internet Explorer in a new tab within Firefox. This is useful when you are trying to view sites that don’t render properly with Firefox, such as secure sites that may require ActiveX.

You can read a good article about stream ripping over at primehacks. For those who don´t know, stream ripping means that you save the streams of internet radio stations to your local computer. Most programs offer additional features that also save artist information, song titles etc. if the radio stream supports it. This is the easiest legal way to add music to your collection.

Update:

The links are all no longer available and have been removed from the site as a consequence. Lets take a look at recent news about the discussed topics.

The MSN Messenger (or Microsoft Network Messenger) has been renamed to Windows Live Messenger. It can be downloaded from the Live website as part of the Windows Life family of free programs that extend the functionality of the Windows operating system.

IE Tab is the name of the Firefox extension that Firefox users can use to embed Internet Explorer into the browser. The add-on allows Firefox users to access sites designed for Internet Explorer in the browser.

As far as recording Internet Radio goes, there is a great tool available for the Windows operating system. StreamWriter can be used to record multiple radio streams at the same time. The program comes with a large list of Internet radio stations that can be recorded right away.

Extensive Mods reviewed an rather unusual keyboard, the Wolf Claw Type II Gaming Keyboard, it has no numpads on the right but a large addon to the left. It really looks strange and I´am not sure if I´d be able to play with this keyboard.

Tech News Online have a nice article about Googles latest installment to conquer the world, Google Base. If you wonder what Google Base is head over to them, they also provide some screenshots of the service.