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Halo 3 Release Date Set for March ‘07


IGN.com is confirming that the next Halo game is set for release in Spring of 2007. IGN is saying that their source was an anonymous one at Microsoft. Luckily for Nintendo and Sony, Halo 3 will not coincide with their release of the Playstation 3 and the Nintendo Revolution. There are not really any details […]

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A Collection of Apple Ads

Wired as made a quick trip down memory lane and took some of the best, or most well known, ads from Apple. If back then they were already considered great, in my opinion they’re even better now.
This isn’t one of the best ones, but it’s certainly one of the weirdest, knowing what we do today.

Yes, […]

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First HD-DVD Player Released

Toshiba has announced today the very first commercial HD-DVD player, the HD-XA1.
The features are pretty basic, but then again, there’s not much room for improvement in video players, unless you make a console out of one, or vice-versa.

The player will be released April 27th for 795 USD and will support the 30 GB HD-DVDs as […]

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Ballmer Admits Brainwashing his Family

Microsoft’s CEO, Steve Ballmer, admits that he has brainwashed his family and doesn’t allow any products from competitors in his household.
When he was asked in a recent interview whether he owned an iPod or not (sheesh, journalists sure luuuuv to ask this question) he answered:
“No, I do not,” he replied. “Nor do my children. My […]

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UMD Dying

It looks like Wal-Mart might stop selling UMD movies, as they become less of a popular seller in the marketplace. Everyone is pointing fingers at Sony, laughing at them for going with a proprietary media source once again.
More bad news for Sony’s UMD format: after word last month that several studios were cutting back […]

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Duplicating your Firefox profile

If you use several computers, then you’re likely familiar with the frustration of having to re-input your settings, passwords, bookmarks, history, extensions, and form auto-fill information into your new Firefox installation everytime you re-install your operating system, or get a new computer altogether (lucky you!). I recently got my hands on yet another extra laptop, […]

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Nintendo Revolution Specs Revealed

And it’s weaker than both the PS3 and the XBox 360. This shouldn’t however be a surprise to anyone as Nintendo had already announced this. And they’re betting more on innovation and low prices instead of a graphic powerhouse.
The overall system memory numbers we reported last December have not greatly fluctuated, but new clarifications have […]

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Enigma for sale on eBay

Here’s your chance to get yourself an Enigma machine and relive World War II in the comfort of your own home. Current bid price is EUR 12,250.00, but the owner is reportedly rooting for a final bid of EUR 40,000.00.
The enigma is a portable rotor-based cipher machine used by the Nazis during WWII to encrypt […]

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10.000+ frames Sonic fan-made animation in the making

Well, this is a nice break from the fan-made Nintendo animations that come out almost every month. Or perhaps Nintendo fans are just starting to like Sega more because they’re working together now. Regardless of which is the case, a team of talented flash animators are creating what I believe that will be the longest […]

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Toshiba introduces new gamer laptop: P105-S921

Toshiba introduced a new laptop meant for the US market with really juicy specifications:
Duo Core T2400 (1.83GHz), 1GB of PC5300 DDR2, a SATA HDD, S-Video, DVI-I and a 256MB GDDR3 NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GS

This isn’t very surprising, seeing as laptops are selling much more than desktop computers (and other laptops with similar specifications have […]

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Run IE7 Beta Alongside IE6

Here is an article detailing how to install the IE7 Beta and still have a usable version of IE6.

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OS X Leopard likely to have Windows support

Gearlog reports that the upcoming edition of Mac OS X (10.5 or “Leopard”) will support virtualization and is likely to also support Windows.
This is significant because it means that Apple has now committed to Windows-based performance testing, and it will influence industry-standard testing methodologies going forward, possibly including Mac OS X testing. We speculate […]

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Apple’s chief software technology officer leaves

Avie Tevanian, joined Apple in 1997 as head software engineer and was responsible for Apple’s software strategy since 2003.
When it comes to strategy, everyone should be taking note of Apple’s latest actions. And when it comes to Apple’s software is almost equally as good. Well… let’s not make this moment any sadder than it is. […]

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Fujitsu Announces Sata 200GB 2.4″ Laptop HDD

And not a minute too soon, my 100GB one is almost filled up!

Yeah, you’ll probably be able to get an iPod with this capacity soon.

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Google Blog Taken Over

This morning I read my Bloglines, and under Google’s Blog, I saw the latest post on the site was ” Google, fix your blog pleeasssee!”
It looks like Google accidentally deleted their blog, and someone else was able to register it.
“P.s Just to clear things up, I’m not associated with Google” the student said. “I just […]

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Sony Walkman goes Shuffle

Sony enters the low-end portable music player market with its latest E-series Walkman-branded players.

With a starting price at approximately US$ 180, the new E-series will sport a one-liner OLED screen, 512MB, 1GB or 2GB storage sizes, and will come in five colors (none of them white). Don’t count on this new Walkman eating up a […]

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