Nintendo has confirmed with CNN Money, that Revolution titles will be priced under $50, and that the 2 USB ports can be used to expand the system's 512MB internal flash memory, so be ready to download those virtual console games with no worries! (reported by IGN)
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Microsoft is expanding its licensing to the keyboard and mouse, marking the first time the software giant is also signing up licensees for its hardware technologies, the company said Wednesday.
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Most of the spam filters use a technique based on Bayesian analysis of the content of the message. As spammers know this they try to modify their messages so they don't get detected as spam.
There are different ways to do this and some of them are explained in this post.
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Apple's Final Cut Studio is now available as a Universal Binary and will run natively on both PowerPC and Intel Macs.
These apps include Final Cut Pro, Motion, SoundTrack Pro and DVD Studio Pro.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Surgeons operated on a 2-month-old Pakistani girl Tuesday to remove two fetuses that had grown inside her while she was still in her mother's womb, a doctor said.
Go Nintendo reports that "the DS Web Browser has been announced to come out for the DS in America in December...in the latest issue of Nintendo Power."
5 pages of outstanding tweaks to maximize performance in one of the most gorgeous PC games ever released. Page 5 has links to some of the early mods out as well.
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This site combines Google Maps with information from the 2000 (not outdated, next is 2010) census information and gives you an analysis of the entered area. The average income is 75k within a 1 mile radius of my house! :(
KGB Archiver is the compression tool with an unbelievable high compression rate. Unfortunately although it has a powerful compression rate, it also has high hardware requirements.
It can compress a 430MB MS Office ISO to a 1.4MB file, which is small enough to fit on a floppy disk. (If you don't believe me see comments for link to the archive)
Someone has discovered a glitch in the 360 version that gives you an unlimited amount of gold.
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Redwood City, Calif. – March 22, 2006 – Fight an all-out war for survival in the year 2142. Electronic Arts (NASDAQ: ERTS) and Sweden-based developer, Digital Illusions, today announced development of the next installment in the award-winning Battlefield™ franchise, Battlefield 2142™. The ground-breaking first-person shooter is scheduled to ship this fall for the PC.
The year is 2142, and the dawn of a new Ice age has thrown the world into a panic. The math is simple and brutal: The soil not covered by ice can only feed a fraction of the Earth’s population. Some will live, most will die. In Battlefield 2142, players will choose to fight for one of two military superpowers in an epic battle for survival, the European Union or the newly formed Pan Asian Coalition. Armed with a devastating arsenal of hi-tech assault rifles, cloaking devices and sentry guns, players will also do battle using some of the most imposing vehicles known to man. Massive battle Mechs wage fierce combat on the ground, while futuristic aircraft rule the skies. When facing one of these new behemoths, players will need to use their wits and an arsenal of new countermeasures like EMP grenades to level the playing field.
"Battlefield has long been synonymous with innovative, best-of-breed online multiplayer action," said Sean Decker, Executive Producer, DICE. "By stepping into the future with Battlefield 2142, the team at DICE has reinvented the rules of engagement for the next century.”
Team play features allow up to 64 players to enter the action on the front lines as part of a formal squad, or work behind the scenes in Commander Mode to direct the strategic assaults of their teammates. With in-game success, players increase their rank and unlock awards, including new weapons, medals and more, delivering the most comprehensive and flexible persistence in the Battlefield universe to date. For more information about Battlefield 2142, please visit http://battlefield.ea.com/ or our press web site at http://info.ea.com/
To celebrate the imminent arrival of Duke Nukem Forever 2 in the year 20X6, we here at Kotaku are pleased to present this nostalgic rememberances of the game that never was, Duke Nukem Forever!
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At a recent study by Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) shows that adults spend more time playing games than teens, which is startling (to some degree).
"The fact that adults are racking up more gaming hours than teens is startling, but there are several associated findings that shed light on this," said CEA's Senior Manager, Industry Analysis Steve Koenig. "Interestingly, a greater percentage of 12-14 year olds spend time gaming than older teens ages 15-17. Older teens simply may not have the free time for extra hours of gaming or they could be gaming on wireless handsets since 81 percent of teens own or use a wireless phone."
Sounds like the Revolution has been renamed to Ninento GO.
New Disney DVDs include a thoughtful new feature: "Fast Play". The film (and "a selection of bonus features") will begin playing automatically unless you hit the menu button.But is this actually the fastest way to start the movie?
(Hint: it takes more than 7 minutes to reach the opening credits of the feature film using Fast Play.)
Official Microsoft Xbox 360 and PC game development handed out at GDC 2006, download the DVD here @ microsoft.com
Looks like someone has posted some new google screen shots...
I don't think I would cancel that land line yet !!
Watch your back Microsoft, Mozilla's Lightning is approaching Outlook! Check out the screenshots of the just released Lightning 0.1
Music labels, film studios and television bosses are now cracking down on the site, and others like it, amid fears they are becoming a virtual breeding ground for pirated material.
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GameDaily BIZ shall be in attendance at Satoru Iwata's Game Developers Conference keynote. The Nintendo President is delivering a speech titled "Disrupting Development."
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WarCry is reporting that a griefer in the MMORPG Roma Victor has been punished by being crucified for 7 days in-game while his account was banned for the same period of time. I like this better than the standard "we cannot discuss disciplinary actions" you get from other games.
This photograph of Jupiter looks like it was taken by Hubble or Voyager, but it was actually taken by Australian astronomer Mike Salway using a 10-inch telescope. Mike took 450 separate frames and then combined them on computer to produce this final image.
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HardOCP gets the scoop on behind the scenes information regarding Dell's Quad SLI beast, its immediate availability, and more.
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So, its true, that Dell is going to aquire Alienware....this does fit with Dells move of releaseing the Renegade XPS, a very-very high end machine. It seems they are becomming more competitve in the field of very high end gaming/content-creation machines.
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STARTING at $9930, the PC has a Pentium Extreme Edition processor that has been overclocked from 3.73 to 4.26 GHz, 2GB DDR2-667 memory, a 160 GB 10,000 RPM WD Raptor as well as a second WD 400 GB 7200 RPM hard drive. PC also comes with a FOUR GeForce 7900 GTX graphics processors with a total of 2 GB of GDDR3 memory.
Skype, get ready. Yahoo just released their lower-cost, SIP-based VoIP service today dubbed Yahoo Messenger with Voice. The version 7.5 Beta launch follows on the successes Yahoo has seen in five other countries since December
"Linus Torvalds released a new Linux kernel on Monday that supports features in IBM's Cell processor, includes Oracle software for clustered databases and improves how the open-source operating system runs on multiprocessor systems." (taken from article)
New pictures of Nintendo's Revolution console have surfaced from GDC today. Personally, I think it looks pretty nice.
Apple Serial Numbers have always been cryptic to the untrained eye, but this guy has figured it out. Just enter in the serial number and it will return all the data that can be wrung from the SN (model, date of production, etc...).
"NetBurst's long and arduous journey likely comes to an end with the Pentium Extreme Edition 955. We take a look at the history of NetBurst, including its successes and failures. We also put the new dual-core Pentium through its paces."
According to American Research Technology analysts, Apple is indeed looking to replace their high end iPod with a new video iPod in the next quarter. New to the rumor is information that the new "widescreen video iPod' would come with Bluetooth headphones.
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Microsoft has delayed the release of its forthcoming Windows Vista operating system to 2007.
Strategy Page columnist James Dunnigan says that "CROWS," which are big guns manned by remote control using a joystick and video system, are highly successful in Iraq because the soldiers operating them grew up playing video games. It's first-person shooter for real.
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"A beta version of Internet Explorer 7 and the first alpha of Firefox 2.0 look promising, but aren't yet ready to rumble."
A video Half-Life 2 Running on Windows XP on a MacBook Pro. This is slightly interesting, but the odd thing is that he didn't enable widescreen in settings to take advantage of the MacBook Pro's widescreen..
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Samsung's putting out a 32 GB Flash-based HD repaclement unit. 3X faster that a HDD. Connects on a UDMA SATA bus, 5% of the power of a normal HD.
While not enough to store all my music, I'd love to run Windows off of this sucker!
Here's a round-up of several next-generation Linux games. These games feature modern graphics and innovative gameplay that'll keep you coming back for more.
French lawmakers have voted to approve the online music interoperability bill that would force Apple to open its copy-protection technology and break the exclusive tie between downloads from the iTunes Music Store and the iPod.
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Microsoft released the Microsoft MechCommander 2 Shared Source, offering everything needed to compile a working version of the 2001 strategy game. It is about 1 GB. See http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=11830312 for reasons.
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Finally, it's official. From Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Ubuntu.
New Release date. 1 June 2006.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DapperReleaseSchedule
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Will Wright explains how games cultivate the player's mind through experimentation and trial and error. He argues that games are not always violent, addictive, and childish but they can inspire creativity, community, self-esteem, and problem-solving.
The Wallace v. FSF case has been dismissed, with Mr. Wallace ordered to pay the Free Software Foundation's costs.
Wallace sued the FSF claiming the GPL violated Section 1 of the Sherman Act.
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This is a tutorial on how to use iTunes to back up your music to CD or DVD, and automatically keep track of new music that has not been previously archived... making future backups almost effortless.
Planning your next PC upgrade or new system build? ExtremeTech surveys the landscape for memory, chipsets, graphics hardware, and CPUs, and tells you what to expect----and when.
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This is extremely cool. You can now one-click load music into a free locker, and stream that music to yourself wherever you get an Internet signal. Watch out, Steve Jobs, you are no longer the coolest! I do not work for this company, unlike many pro-Microsoft posters here!
Apple may be phasing out its 60-gigabyte Video iPod, according to one analyst who tracks the company. He believes this could mean the company is readying a wide-screen video iPod with Bluetooth headphones that could be ready as early as the June quarter.
News has now been leaked that Microsoft has enabled support for OpenGL to work with the Windows Vista compositing desktop, as of the most recent preview build. Previously Microsoft's plan had been force OpenGL to be translated to Direct3D, reducing performance by 50% and locking the OpenGL version to 1.4 only.
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... will usually take down small sites running on relatively low end hardwares (small RAM, slow CPU, HDD). To prevent this from happening to your site (specifically, WP blogs), there are things you can do ...
Reports are trickling through this evening that Sony has indeed lost its patent case against Immersion technologies and will be forced to halt sales of its PS2 console.
SUPER, Simplified Universal Player Encoder & Renderer
"If you need a simple, yet very efficient tool to convert (encode) or play any Multimedia file, without reading manuals or spending long hours training, then SUPER © is all you need."
A bit too much of toolbars, don't you think? :)
Web-based FPS shooter with bots, cool weapons and online multiplayer! Made with Macromedia's Director (not flash). Check it outs.
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After a digg story posted yesterday got so much attention, that Apple requested to have the images removed after offering to replace the Macbook.
Fedora Core 5 (FC5) is slated for release next week.
A nice site with 70+ different designs you can do for your html tables. Click on the design name on the left to change the appearance. All are free to download and use on your own sites.
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A step-by-step text and picture guide explaining how to set up every aspect of home theater PC from the hardware all the way down to the software level. If you have been thinking about making your own PVR and you want more power than a Tivo you may want to take a look at this.
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A new microchip can wirelessly give you a dose of your medicine inside your body.
For all those Web 2.0 hungry people, here is a link to all the web 2.0 websites.
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"Talk about a rip-off," a user by the name of 'Eel' ranted in the review section for the download. "I'm sorry, but $1.99 is perfect for an iPod format. When you get to $10, you're basically paying for a DVD without getting the DVD extras or quality."
As per the community meetings that took place yesterday - it looks like June 1st is the new release date.
YouOS is a snazzy new javascript-based operating system that is unlike many of the web "desktops" you currently see. Instead of just cobbling together some draggable windows, this seems to be a serious effort to create a javascript OS that contains both back end and front end functionality. The tutorials and IDE are particulary interesting!
These are Russian soldier action figures made entirely out of cabling with an arsenal of 23 weapons. I have no idea what the page says, but they are fun to look at.
Ever want to add drag and drop to your website? How about a cool animation or fade? Rico is an free, open javascript library that makes adding these features easy. Check out the demo, it's pretty slick.
Interesting set of images on Flickr of a burned up magsafe power connector.
Mobo manufacturer iWill introduces two very interesting boards at CeBit that took quite different approaches to the same problem, big memory.
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This is hilarious! These guys play Frogger with a Roomba and successfully get across 40 lanes before getting crushed!
Online collaborators have successfully cracked the second of three recently discovered German WWII encrypted messages, as part of the M4 Project.
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Type in any message and see it displayed live via webcam on a HP printer display. This is much more amusing than it sounds. The more this is dugg, the funnier the content will be.
The code allowing text to be displayed is linked from the website.
Really amazing write-up by the guy who has been chasing Narf in a nerdy quest to boot XP on a Mac.
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A World of Warcraft player was banned from the game for using Logitech's new gaming keyboard. The keyboard allows you to program macro's that can make playing the game easier.
this is the PS3 press conference, with many updates.
DIGG THIS ONE STORY to get this news to the front page and not spread over 100 stories
Sony has finally come clean: PlayStation 3's "Spring 2006" launch is now "November." The company cites complications with its proprietary Blu-Ray technology as the source of the trouble.
A few researchers from IBM are working on a new BIOS emulator for EFI based on the Boch's x86 emulator. This BIOS emulator is essentially an EFI application which serves to load and execute an emulated BIOS for older operating systems, including Windows, to use.
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Happy Pi day! "Written in the USA date format, March 14 is an unofficial celebration for Pi Day derived from the common three-digit approximation for the number π: 3.14."
It appears Apple is now offering the first full-length movie for sale on the iTunes Music Store. High School Musical is a 1hr, 39minute Disney Channel original TV movie that is now available on iTunes!!!
Looks like Dell will be selling AMD systems after all, through Alienware that is. Reports comfirm the deal has gone down and is closed.
The say immitation is the best form of flattery. Featuring Matt Dilion as an Alex look alike, not sure who the Kevin-ish guy is, and Andy Samberg as a haggard Dan-like person.
Here is an excellent concise guide to master how to use apt-get to manage your linux machine and keep it up-to-date. A truly informative read.
(xbox-scene): Microsoft has released a statement with specifications showing that the foil found on Xbox 360 GPU heatsinks is a part of the assembly process, and aids in thermal transfer. This apparently is not the source of any overheating.
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The popular swiss army knife of Windows Video players has had it's first release in almost 6 months. Files are available in both 7z and Zip compressed versions this time. Download away!
Google, LEXIS-NEXIS, and other online search databases can be used to find information about CIA agents and operations. Pretty amazing that you can find this stuff so easily.
If you are into tech, like me, you are cursed [or blessed, depending on how you look at it] with wondering how everything works... Well today I plan on answering one of your questions [if you didn't already know] how movies are played in the movie theatre.
Thanks to this simple web tool which allows you to save video files from 40 sites to your computer.
Nintendo has published some new screens and tons of art work for New Super Mario Bros. and it instills so much old school confidence.
Ever wonder how Google stays so reliable and quick? Did you know that they use a stripped down version of Red Hat? Did you know they built their own file system? This article explains it all.
How are they gonna sell this one?
Russ Writes: "After the cover broke off my Cruzer 512 MB USB drive, I decided to fashion my own case. I cast the USB stick in clear casting resin used to make paperweights out of scorpions or flowers. I picked it up at my local Hobby Store for about $15. It comes it two parts: the resin and the catalyst."
Everyone gets Gold access to Xbox Live for 72 hours for free!
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PSP-Hacks.com reports that PSmonkey has released the first installment of Monkey64 - the N64 emulator for the Sony Playstation Portable! It is available for download right now!
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A really nice screensaver which renders whatever is captured by iSight in realtime in a rotating cube (which whirls around when someone claps their hands!). Just tried this in the office and managed to get quite a gathering around my new MacBook!
This game looks to be AWESOME. Page includes link to HD trailer. Note: disable adblock if you're using FF. I have to laugh, the ad before the trailer is for DnDO.
True to industry-wide speculation, the event is expected to fall around the iPod maker's 30th anniversary, which takes place on April 1, 2006. However, Apple is considering holding the event immediately before or after the 1st -- not on that date -- because it falls on a Saturday, people familiar with some of the company's plans have said.
Hoping your Intel Mac will easily run Windows Vista? Don't bet on it, one Apple Computer engineer said Thursday. One of the big obstacles is that although both the Macintosh OS and Windows now use Intel chips, the two operating systems have different ways of booting up.
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The perfect accessory for the geek who has everything; a TFT monitor arm with 6 degrees of freedom.
iPodMame lets you run MAME games on your iPod. This guy build an arcade cabinet for his Nano. Pretty funny.
a random gnome's random lair: They don't make 'em like they used to... Right.
Today's PC Games are much more than a danger to our youth. Beside turning society's future to sadistic madmen, kinky murderers and sex-crazed heretics, contemporary games try to bore the rest of us to death. Sad. But, that's is where philosophy can help us. The future is written in the poetry of the past, said one of the well-educated full-bearded brigade. Same thing goes with games. You can corrupt yourself and the neighborhood kids using older games, without getting bored. This time it will not be just another Dune 2 or Wolfenstein 3D clone. It will be something totally different and (usually) inspired. Problem is your average 2006 PC doesn't look like this....
a random gnome's random lair: Sam and Max: Freelance Vids
A very interesting blog post that I found, that includes a hilarious video involving Sam and Max. I've never personally played any of the games, but from what I know about them they were very hilarous, as well as this clip. Enjoy :)
Sam & Max Hit the Road is the funniest adventure ever crafted. Yes. It's funnier than Monkey Island, funnier than Bone, funnier than my aunty. Sam and Max: Freelance Police, was supposed to be even funnier, but was quite unfortunately murdered by Darth Vader. Not everything was lost though, as Obi Telltale Kenobi is currently working on the new (episodic) Sam and Max game, and as I am presenting you with a genuinely silly and quite pointless (but relevant) video...
You have to check this baby out. Samsung's 10 mega pixel phone, and it's only twice the thickness (if that) of the Motorola V3 razr!
INSANE!
Cuba blocks internet access
"...With its translucent windows, such comparisons are going to be hard to avoid. But Vista's similarity with OS X goes well beyond window dressing. Certain applications, such as Calendar, Sidebar, and Photo Gallery, appear to be directly, ahem, influenced by similar applications in OS X," Thurrott writes.
This is a flash back to the early days, when this sort of design would have been THE SITE.
"New video compressions standards demonstrate...higher compression rates in comparison to older video compression standards. This leads to smaller storage capacity requirements and lower bandwidth needs. Since the applications overlap...there is a strong trend towards multi-standard compliant solutions."
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This is the latest in a long line of awards that Ubuntu has racked up over the last six months, an impressive achievement considering that the distribution is less than two years old.
"I took a look at 10 clocks currently on the market. I spent an evening getting to know each clock (reading their instruction manuals, fiddling with their buttons and knobs) before I took them to bed for a one- to two-night stand (depending on how well we got along)."
Take away Xbox360's graphics and you have the same gameplay as you have on the Xbox. As much as we all like to believe, video games are still not mainstream. Will Nintendo change this thinking? Interesting read!
NASA's Cassini spacecraft may have found evidence of liquid water reservoirs that erupt in Yellowstone-like geysers on Saturn's moon Enceladus. The rare occurrence of liquid water so near the surface raises many new questions about the mysterious moon.
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NASA is not going to be making a "huge" announcement regarding evidence of life somewhere else in our solar system today as is being erroneously reported on the Internet
How cubicles escaped their original intention. If we didn't have cubicles, would we still have Dilbert?
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These are amazing new screenshots from the new Office 2007 UI. Finally Microsoft is making a beautiful product.
Word 2007 - Click to enlarge picture
Excel 2007 - Click to enlarge picture
PowerPoint 2007 - Click to enlarge picture
Outlook 2007 - Click to enlarge picture
Access 2007 - Click to enlarge picture
The link shows pictures of pac man on a nano. This is all done via iPod Linux.
Using LEDs and a "persistence of vision" technique, ladyada has created an animated Pac-Man scene on the spokes of his bicycle. (Using the LED sign illusion technology; Pacman going for a ghost is displayed on a bicycle's wheels)
Ok I know everyone was mad that I submitted this site but there wasn't any real info. Well. Looks like it IS a Zombie MMO!! Now I'm really excited.
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Tivo will no longer be offering the lifetime subscription after next week. Looks like I just bought my last Tivo, time to build my own.
Hamilton Chu, Michael Evans, Andy Glaister, and Steve Theodore have joined forces to form a new independent development studio, Giant Bite Games. These four have extensive experience in the industry having worked on Halo, Halo 2, Half-Life and more.
Needham & Co analyst Charles Wolf believes Apple is in position to achieve a massive growth in its market share - with consumers very ready to make the switch. Wolf's survey showed that if Apple was to make it easy for Macs to run Windows applications the number of students who would buy an Apple computer would double
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Sure, the Oscars made for juicy Sunday-night entertainment---but where, amid the glittering gowns and flash bulbs, were the geeks? Here's our rundown of the honors the Academy forgot to hand out...
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Live.com got a pretty nice...site update.
Microsoft is smoothing over the UI which is reflective of Windows Vista and Media Center OS themes.
The new functionality and design looks pretty sweet.
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No modchip required. With this little workaround you'll be playing your "backup" Gamecube games in no time.
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It's never been easier to assemble a versatile personal video recorder, but the entertainment industry is scheming to make DYI boxes less useful. One reporter tries building a homebrew TiVo clone.
This weekend, in Atlanta's airport, I happened across an Ipod vending machine. If you have a credit card, this vending machine will spit out a video ipod, a nano, a shuffle, or any number of accessories to go along with it. There was a crowd of geeks surrounding the machine just gawking in the clever marketing of our dear friends at apple.
Creepy!
For weeks, gadget lovers have been dreaming of Origami--and they've been dreaming big. CNET News.com got the chance to tinker with a few prototypes of the highly anticipated series of devices expected from Intel and Microsoft today at the Intel Developer Forum. Hoping for one portable machine that could handle video, audio, photos, word processing, games and Web access, many technophiles were disappointed with what we saw. And if Microsoft is working toward a device like this, it's taking baby steps to get there. Origami More details will come to light Thursday at CeBIT in Germany. But today's prototypes feature 7-inch touch screens, x86 processors and weigh 2 pounds. But Microsoft is readjusting expectations on price, saying they'll come in under $1,000 (not the $500 goal they had previously set). And the devices have a battery life of only about three hours, not exactly the all-day-on-the-road action some were hoping for. Intel showed off a prototype of a device with a swivel-out keyboard that may ship in the future, but the first-generation version won't have that feature.
Intel gave us an hour alone with Conroe and an overclocked Athlon 64 FX-60. And you better believe we bench-marked it... Turns out Intel has regained the performance crown.
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Download free ebooks on a huge list of categories ranging from fiction,espionage,pulp,science and games for iPod,PDA and PC...(worth digging)
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Four projectors covering the whole 750 square meter front of a townhall building at night. The amazing images/animations being projected make use of the shape of the building. Really nice!
Experiments by the BBC Programme 'Get Smarter in a Week' show that making simple changes to your lifestyle can help with memory, decision-making, & confidence, by improving your brain's functioning.
"Doing 'brain exercises' such as watching Countdown, playing Sudoku or taking a shower with your eyes closed can make us all up to 40 per cent cleverer within seven days, according to research by a BBC programme this week"
A group of boys who posed as a 15-year-old girl for an Internet prank ended up helping police arrest a 48-year-old man who tried to meet the fictitious teenager for sex, authorities said.
A mouse with arthritis runs close to $200; two pairs of epileptic mice can cost 10 times that. You want three blind mice? That'll run you about $250. And for your own custom mouse, with the genetic modification of your choosing, expect to pay as much as $100,000.
In the battle for your instant messages, it's AIM+Google vs. MSN+Yahoo. Who will win?
Homeboy got his hands on a DS Lite, straight from Japan. Gratuitous zooming pictures and video review with quirky, almost-whispered narration. This thing looks freaking sweet.
A good article with more pictures than I've pictured, as well as a video review. It is definatly worth a look, beacause the pictures conver almost all the view that you could possibly get for the new DS lite!
