Yes, that’s right, I said adorable. Because Cueboy Quest really is! You play an 8-bit cowboy whose goal on each level is to get to the door (and thus to the next level), but the door is often locked. To get it to open, you must shoot at one or more targets, and those targets aren’t always in your line of sight. For example, on one level the the target is a balloon which is [...]

Years of computer use have taught us that the mouse cursor is “above” the windows. It doesn’t push anything around; at least not without you clicking anything. Balance takes that ingrained bit of knowledge and cancels it out. Suddenly your cursor (a blue dot) is solid – and if it touches the blue block, it pushes it around. Your job is to use your cursor to nudge the blue block over to the orange block. [...]

Bots — like the kind which automate IRC rooms and Google Wave — are a good thing to know about. There are plenty of useful bots worth knowing about, too, including the Google Talk Guru. Just add guru@googlelabs.com to your GTalk buddies, and you can start firing off questions. Lifehacker suggests that the same types of queries supported by Google SMS will work, though we didn’t have any luck getting a response out of the [...]

There was a small comics alley in the exhibit hall at Wordstock, including a booth for the Stumptown Comics Foundation. I spoke to Indigo Kelleigh, the Director of Stumptown Comics Fest, a yearly comics convention in Portland, Oregon. The next festival is in April. Despite my somewhat gloomy picture of Kelleigh, he was actually quite [...] Source: http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2011/10/wordstock-interview-indigo-kelleigh-and-stumptown-comics-fest/ Paris Hilton Patricia Velásquez Paula Garcés

TripAdvisor, the popular travel planning tool, has just launched an app for Windows Phone 7. Just like the mobile website, the app allows you to search for anything travel-related — from hotels and flights to restaurants and points-of-interest to visit once you reach your destination. Geolocation is supported, which allows TripAdvisor to quickly locate places nearby. But while that’s a neat feature, it’s also a bit of a downer — because, really, it’s about the [...]

It's been a few weeks since Verizon first released the Gingerbread update for the HTC ThunderBolt, only to pull it without official explanation. (Hint: Things were borked.) Looks like the updates set to roll out again, though, with an updated support PDF now live. There's no mention of "things been fixed," so let's just hope that things been fixed. Check out the image above or the link below for the full changelog. Source: Verizon (pdf); [...]

Adobe Systems has announced it’s in the process of fixing a security vulnerability in Flash that would allow malicious web sites to remotely operate a user’s webcam and microphone. The vulnerability is on Adobe’s server side, not on client-side software, and therefore does not require users to update their software. Adobe told CNET it was hoping to [...] Source: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/10/flash-vulnerability-webcam/ Melissa Howard Melissa Joan Hart Melissa Rycroft

Wladimir Palant, developer of the most popular add-on in the world, Adblock Plus, is also an active contributor to the Planet Mozilla blog community. Over the last few days, in response to Mozilla’s new name and shame list of slow add-ons, Palant has been investigating whether Mozilla’s testing methods are actually accurate. Rather surprisingly, it turns out that Mozilla’s numbers could be significantly wrong — and if they’re not wrong, the factors that Mozilla uses [...]

This morning, Corel released VideoStudio X4. We’ve already published a quick overview and hands-on of the application, and now is the moment you’ve all been waiting for: We’re giving away ten full licenses of this new version, each worth $99.99! To enter our random draw, you just have to leave a comment. Full terms and conditions are after the break. Continue reading Corel VideoStudio X4 giveaway Corel VideoStudio X4 giveaway originally appeared on Download Squad [...]

Full Fat Games is back after having launched the popular Flick Golf. They've taken up a different sport this time around — Soccer. Flick Soccer has been released for Android and is now available worldwide on the Android Market bringing one of the most feature rich soccer games to the platform. Features: Full Fat Flick Controls mean everyone can play? Shoot for insane scores in Quickshot mode, it's you vs the keeper Take it to [...]