Over this week, Blizzard.com featured in chronological order game after game that Blizzard produced. Last game was under a big question mark, and somewhere during the European night Blizzard announced the new title. Over the last 24 hours bandwidth of the world was humming with Blizzard's server's data, as millions of people (by millions i mean trillions, and by people i mean mostly Korean) were hitting REFRESH button.

New game is Starcraft II, check it at StarcraftII.com, be sure to download the trailer.

Alright, now to the fascinating part.

When you pool up all the stuff that was done for this release, and here is a quick overview; 3D animations rendering, engine screenshots, website, entire launch event, statue of one of the heroes (limited edition), all the background work, bla bla bla bla bla bla, ... you realise that there were A LOT of people involved in this so far.

Now, isn't it fascinating that NOT A SINGLE ONE leaked? Of all those people working, not anyone gave a faintest clue. How is that statisticaly possibe? Screw statistics, how is that HUMANELY possible? "Hi honey, yes, i rendered Starcraft 2 animation today at work". The next day postman and neighbour knows, and the next day Digg knows. But noone leaked a single grain of information. Even if you do not like games, if you do not like Starcraft, you have to admire this MEGA success of keeping secret. Amazing.

Last Transformers trailer just hit the net.

I have a feeling this movie is either going to: a) Suck bigtime because trailers pumped up the expectations, or b) Live up to the trailer power and be one of the best action movies ever created. I vote for b).

The level of detail and care that guys put into CGI is so immense, i cannot believe it. A small example in this trailer, somewhere nearing the end, when Starscream (jet) transforms to robot at high speed, he fires his engines for a brief moment to slow him down. I mean, c'mon, kudos to the designers that put so much effort into animation. Must ... see ... big ... robots ... NOW!

According to PC World, FreeHand is so gone. To help ease the transition, Adobe has created a FAQ and is offering a special upgrade path to Illustrator CS3. What I don't understand, is why they kept Fireworks going, when they got it all covered in Photoshop.

LOL! :)

One nice thing after another. Last week Google announced redesigned Analytics, and this week they introduced some new experimental search features! New timeline search is nice! Now, if I could use it to define how old entries should google search for. Check out Google's latest ideas!

I found this application which will enable tab browsing within your windows explorer. It's freeware and can be downloaded here.

I really wouldn't mind having this on all the walls in our office. The demo below involves 3 client computers, 6 LCD screens, and 2 video cameras and a Processing.

I found this little application a while back, it's called D-color Xp ideal for solving desktop clutter problems. It's basically a desktop icon manipulation program which can do a range of different things. You can change the desktop icon label and text color but the more interesting feature is changing the size of the desktop icons. You can actually change the desktop icon to a really small size (16x16 px) and have the icon label on the right side of it. Pretty nifty, I say...

Have you filtered your user input today? Check out interesting SQL Injection Cheat Sheet. Please, don't try it on our sites. :) We off course, do our best to make them secure as possible, but many of them have some open source components (eg. forums) which are big monstrous pieces of code - an programming accident just waiting to happen.

After initial swfObject madness , I really started to like jQuery. Cody Lindley wrote ultimate hybrid modal window plugin called ThickBox. Today, however, I encountered little problem with ThickBox. ThickBox checks a href tag for class called thickbox. If that classname is found, script checks for href filename extension and if it is one of known image formats, it shows picture as a picture. If not, it shows content as a plain text.

I wanted to use it on a pictures that are handled dynamically via server side code. I inserted simple param check, to be able to force file extension.

        var queryString = url.replace(/^[^\?]+\??/,'');
        var params = tb_parseQuery( queryString );
        if (params['forceExtension'] != '') { 
            urlType = params['forceExtension'];
        }