F-i has announced the upcoming release of kontain, formerly known as Propod. It seems that this application could may be a serious competitor for content management systems, designed for ease-of-use. The information provided on the product-website is not too much, but some screenshots are displaying media-features and there is a statement about a WYSWIG-editor.

I am planning a major retouch for this website and i am still collecting the requirements for the CMS behind it. I think i will give kontain at least a try (if F-i will release it early enough).

It happened only 1 hour ago. We (the devil himself, Wolfgang Teufl) have finally mastered the big boss of the game . Approx. 12h of pure gaming-time with heavy use of “the force”. For me, the best Star Wars game ever, especially because of the story. I always liked games with a nice accompanying story and if the game is called “Star Wars” it is maybe one of the most important things.

If the story sucks, the complete game is useless. But, in TFU every fan of the series would love the attention to detail, discovering known characters and the total immersion into the Star Wars universe.

The game itself is well designed and for me the matte-paintings are one of the most beautiful ever seen. The graphics-engine makes heavy use of post-effects, especially distortion(waves, heat-waves, etc.) every time you use the force. The force is great to handle, HAVOC physic-engine allows you to put up nearly every piece from walls and floors. Breaking wood, glass and bend metal are features you will need very often if you want to go safe threw the levels.

One thing that is very annoying and some magazines and posts in different forums also have mentioned it, is the 3rd person camera. 3rd person is ok and in most cases i would prefer it, instead of a 1st person one, but for players it is much more difficult to play, if the camera is not perfectly balanced and intelligent enough to avoid crappy perspectives. F.e. Assasins Creed has a very similar way of looking at this problem. A lots of narrow lanes and corners and they have done their job much better than the guys from Star Wars TFU. Hopefully there will be an update on this issue, so i could enjoy the game 100% for the next time, when i will play it as a “Sith-Master” .

For me, already now, one of the best games in 2008.

I only want to contribute the following issue. If a user have a Google Toolbar installed (and those are many) and the Auto-Fill feature for form-input fields is activated (this is “on” by default) will overrule CSS-background-colors for input fields.

A practical solution is to use the !important statement (it works well for me).

#inputText {font-family: Verdana; background-color:#666666 !important; color:#ff....}

Overruling S**CKS!, this is no good practice and Google should restore the behaviour of the toolbar to what it should be, an unobtrusive addition to the browser.

It’s no secret. I am a Star Wars Freak. Only 2 weeks left for the most important game this year (in my opinion). Go and get it.

In earlier Firefox versions it was common for me to click on a bookmark and to open it in a new tab. This is also possible by now, but only if the current site has already started to render. If the site is not initialized you will get a “greyed menu”. I never had this issue before and i really hate it. Is there any possible tweak for the about:config to change this behaviour?

One of my favourite AS3 libraries is Flint Particles, a flexible library for creating stunning particle-effects. I have used it in a running project (more about that soon) and i was totally satisfied. The one and only thing i missed is particles in 3D-space. But this issue is now resolved, the guys from bigroom.co.uk have released a new version of their fantastic project. Get the update from Google Code and start to play with it.