Continuing the D&D and ebook themes, Wizards of the Coast — who own and publish D&D — recently put a stop to digital sales of their games. That is to say, within a day, they told all resellers of WotC PDF’s to discontinue sales and to halt (for now at least) redownloads of already purchased products. Though WotC products are responsible for 20% of sales in eRPG’s, WotC cite rampant piracy as the reason for their move.
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Dave Arnesen, co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons, alongside Gary Gygax, has died.
As I also wrote when Gygax died last year, what I’ve gotten from Dungeons & Dragons is what I surround myself with every single day. My job, my hobbies and the D&D campaign I play in every other week.
I salute you gentlemen, with the finest mead of the kingdom.
Facing the worst nightmare for any man — a worm under the skin, according to H.R. Giger; figuring out what reading material to bring along for our trip home over Easter according to me — is all the more reason to creave a Kindle. It is of course still not available outside the US, and given the adoption rate of the non-rythmic parts of the iTunes Store in the EU, it’s unlikely to see the light of day until just before the Event Horizon eats us all up. And then what’s the point really? Well, I guess it’s better late than never.
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At work, where I’m forced to use Windows Vista, I use Google Chrome exclusively. And a thing I’ve grown to love about Chrome, is how it handles moving tabs, which is slightly different — and better — from Safari 4b, which I use at home.
In Safari, you grab the small lined area at the top left of a tab to start dragging, something introduced with Safari 4, where before the entire tab was draggable. Once you start dragging, the semi-transparent tab follows your mouse arround until you let go of it, whereupon it either integrates itself into a row of tabs or into a new window. Most annoyingly, Exposé doesn’t work while dragging tabs.
In Chrome, you can initiate dragging anywhere on the tab, and if the tab is the last remaining member of a window, that window will disappear when you start dragging. This allows you to move a tab into a window behind the current, without first rearranging windows; quite nice in Windows’ maxmized windows regime.
Dear Apple: Please steal some of these interface tricks for Safari.
PS: I would switch to Chrome on OS X in an instant, if I could; extensions or no.
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