For those of you who are Star Trek fans, you can now preorder Star Trek Season 1 on Blu-ray for only $64.99. That’s a huge 50% off the SRP.

You can also preorder the full Star Trek Blu-ray package (includes Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Star Trek III: The Search For Spock, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, The Captains’ Summit Bonus Disc) which has also been reduced by 43% to $79.99.

Order now while the deal lasts.

One of the things I dislike the most when creating the layout for a website is trying to find a good place to put the login/register details. You can never quite find the right spot to put it. However, Jeremie Tisseau from web-kreation.com, has developed a sliding login panel using jQuery which overcomes this problem.

The login/registration panel sits at the top of the screen, only showing a small tab.

When a trigger in the tab is clicked, the hidden portion of the panel slides down over the current screen contents, displaying login and registration fields.

Not only does this function well, it looks great too. Jeremie has also done a tutorial explaining how to integrate his sliding panel into Wordpress.

For more information: www.web-kreation.com

I’ve been using EXT 2.0 for some time now having created reporting systems and even a full blown Administration System. EXT produces Web 2.0 styled content all within your browser. Now comes EXT Core 3.0 Beta,  a subset of the soon to be released EXT 3.0.

The developers of EXT 3.0 have gone through the code, stripping out everything except for the core functionality, optimised the code and gzipped it to bring it down to a modest 25kb in size. They have also changed the licensing to use the MIT License (which drew some ire from some developers but was generally accepted by the majority).

Some of the features of EXT Core 3.0 are:

• DOM manipulation and traversal
• CSS management
• Event handling
• Dimensions and Sizing
• AJAX and JSON Support
• Animations
• Classical Inheritance Class System
• Observable Class
• Markup generation and Templating
• Timed code execution
• URL encoding and decoding

EXT Core 3.0 Beta core functionality contains:

• Carousel
• Lightbox
• Menus
• JSONP
• Simple Tabs

For those of you that need more extensive features, then EXT 3.0 is more your ticket. However, for anyone else who needs to put together a lightweight interface that has the Web 2.0 look and feel, then EXT 3.0 Core is definitely worth looking at.

For more information: EXT Core 3.0 Beta

Firefox 3.0.9 is now out with quite a few security fixes and improvements. To update, go to Help -> Check for Updates or grab it from http://www.mozilla-europe.org/en/firefox/

Here is the list of changes:

• Fixed several security issues.
• Fixed several stability issues.
• Many users experienced an issue where a corrupt local database caused Firefox to “lose” its stored cookies.
• Fixed an issue where, starting with Firefox 3.0.7, inline image attachments on popular webmail services (like AOL and AIM) would not display.
• Large forms would sometimes take a long time to submit.
• In certain cases, new windows would not have proper focus.

It seems after years of denying any support for Blu-ray, Microsoft may be finally softening their stance. Check out this Microsoft TV commercial (the interesting part is at 0:43):

Interesting stuff. We may even see a Blu-ray addon for the XBOX 360 in the coming months.

You can read more at CNET.