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FuhQuake 0.3 – the new version of the definitive QuakeWorld client – has finally been released.

For some odd reason, I – literally – woke up today and visited mozilla.org to check their latest browser incarnation, Firebird. I had heard a bit about this new browser – most notably Jonas Galvez comments and softwaregod Joel Sposky’s opinnion – but I wasn’t really thrilled to test it. I’ve been a diehard Netscape user for quite sometime – my browser lineage goes like this: Mosaic, Netscape 1, Netscape 2, Netscape 3, Internet Explorer 3, Internet Explorer 4, Netscape 4, Internet Explorer 5 – but I have gave up long ago on the whole browser issue and selected MS’s beast for speed and compatibility’s sake. I had tried Netscape 5+ and some Mozilla releases, but dismissed them as mere pieces of bloat software with a mere resemblance to what Netscape once was.

So I decided to try Firebird today and, to my surprise, they’ve really pulled a good browser with this one. There are some new features, yes, such as the ability to use tabbed browsing or whatever – but that’s not the case. For me, more than new features, the most important aspect is that Firebird didn’t blow my browsing experience down the drill. It’s fast, it doesn’t have weird skins installed as default (as a designer, I prefer a neutral field of vision when browsing and working), it has many of the good features that Internet Explorer has, and also has the features that made Netscape my favorite for ages (Ctrl+U — eat that source obfuscators!). Also, it’s only 6mb.

I tested this browser for one day and I’m pretty surprised and satisfied with it. It has its little quircks (why pop-up blocking only has a “non-block” list, and not the other way around?), but it’s showing it has the guts to compete on the browser market (for users which select their browser anyway) seriously. Score a point for the free world.

Mike Chambers from Macromedia has a new poll at his site, asking what’s your videogame console of choice. It’s a demonstration of the pollster component, available at Macromedia’s Developer Resource Kit CD release 4.

I’ve modified the internal RDF 1.0 template so it won’t include news items with no “Flash” category in it anymore. This way it won’t add misc/general items to MXNA‘s Flash category and contribute to the flood of off-topic articles. A full RDF feed will still be at this new location.

Today – June 15th – is Famicom‘s 20th anniversary, as it was made obvious by Nintendo and the release of the new GBA SP weird-famicom-color edition. Famicom – short for Family Computer – was the first “third generation” game console. It was later released on the western world as the NES – Nintendo Entertainment System – and the rest, like they say, is history.

I remember back in the day when all my neighbours had this weird, toy-looking game console – they were all of Japanese heritage and had relatives in Japan, from where they could send the latest electronic gadgets years before it hit the western market – while I was the only one around with a local clone of the american NES console. We had such a mixed console market that we needed all kinds of 60-72 pins adapters to be able to exchange games with each other. Those were the days.

Update: here’s a really special link about this date, via rednuht.org.

Jonas Galvez – brazilian Flash developer and Macromedia Team member – has opened his blog, in brazilian portuguese and english flavors.

Jonas has been writing articles and news posts at OnRelease.org, but finally decided to create a place of his own. Also worth mentioning is the page design (and way cool illustration) by Irapuan Martinez.

While there are no other news, here’s something to entertain the masses. More hilarious than the Zelda/Link music movie, at least to people who can recognize the games.

That guy is insane, by the way. Check his other Flash movies.

Ok. This is the first official post, after I’ve set most of the templates and the whole site doesn’t look like cr*p… just a part of it does now.

Anyway: the idea of this entry collection is to talk about actionscript coding, games, typography and sprite art, everything strictly Flash-related. Yeah, I hate obtuse entries on Flash-based logs too; and even though I think that there are way too many Flash stuff out there, I believe just a few to none of them are covering gaming and typography. I hope I’m up to the task.

The entries are divided into categories, shown at the left side of the title. Each icon indicates the entry’s related categories, and clicking the icons will take you to the category archive. There’s also a “Misc” category which I’ll try to keep usage to a minimum.

There are also just a few links and menus on the sides of the page. I’ll keep it that way. I don’t think I have to link the whole internet on this page. You can go to Google if you will and type whatever you want to find. I’ll keep my focus on related stuff thankyouverymuch.