New Harry Potter book announced for July 2005

If you’re a Harry Potter fan, then you’ve probably already heard the news that the sixth Harry Potter novel will be published on July 16th 2005. The title of this new opus will be “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince”. I’m a bit behind in my Harry Potter reading myself, but my wife is eagerly awaiting this one.

Nouvel album d’Astérix en Octobre 2005

Le site officiel d’Astérix annonce la sortie d’un nouvel album des aventures du célèbre Gaulois le 14 octobre 2005. Encore sans titre, ce nouvel album sera sûrement un plaisir à lire comme à l’habitude.

New Zelda Game for the Game Boy Advance

Back in February 2003, I mentioned that an original Zelda game was being developed for the Game Boy Advance. Well, this game is not getting very close to its January 10th 2005 release date. The Minish cap will find Link on a new adventure trying to help the Minish, a race of tiny people. The game is being developer by Capcom and released by Nintendo. This will be a fun game to play after the multiple Zelda remakes that were released on the GBA.

Gmail adds POP support

In the last few days, gmail has added POP support directly to their online mail service. So people who were desperately looking for an application to be able to POP their mail no longer need to worry. Simply go to the settings section, select Forwarding and POP and activate POP for the account. There are also instructions on how to configure your mail client to work with gmail.

Firefox 1.0 released

The 1.0 version of Mozilla Firefox has been released yesterday. If you have not tried this incredible browser yet, download it and give it a shot. It has many convenient features like tabbed browsing and a nice download manager, and the download is less than 5 MB! Once you get used to it, you won’t be able to use IE again.

New Guano Apes music coming soon

Through their Mailing List, Guano Apes has announced that they are soon coming back with a new CD. The first single will be released on November 15th. It has been quite a while so we heard from them. They have been on a break since early last year and released a Live CD/DVD since then.

Besides this, the band is also working on a Best Of compilation, along with a documentary DVD.

François Pérusse DVD

François Pérusse, the french humorist, is releasing a DVD containing the best segments from the two TV series that he worked on, namely ‘Le série du peuple’ and ‘Le Jour’nul’. This DVD will be released on November 16th and should have a price tag similar to a CD according to the author. A lot of fun in perspective

Barenaked Ladies back with Christmas Songs

The newest Barenaked Ladies CD has been announced for release on October 5th. Titled “Barenaked for the Holidays“, it will contain 20 classic holiday-season tracks. Having heard some of the Christmas songs they recorded previously, this should be a fun CD to listen to.

Delay in Omerta – Season 1 Release

The release of Omertà on DVD has been delayed from September 14th to September 21st. Not that big of a change, but still a bit longer to wait before it arrives.

Disappointment in Father of the Bride

One of the new TV shows that looked interesting this fall was Father of the Bride, a computer-animated sitcom starring the animals that Siegfried and Roy use for their Las Vegas shows. The lead character, Larry the lion, is voiced by John Goodman. The animation is superb, but the humor is questionable. Quite a few gags are for a very mature public and others are plain stupid, making you wonder if they were written by a grade-school student. Too bad. We could have used a good new animated sitcom.