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IGN Video: Mortal Kombat Armageddon: Wii Controls


I wasn’t sure how they were going to pull off a game like Mortal Kombat on the Wii…and while I still haven’t played it…so I can’t really tell you for sure how it’s going to work…this video looks like it’s going to be awesome…
also…IGN’s embedded player is really cool…

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Firefox Quick Tip: Status Bar Download Manager

Today’s tip comes from Bloggy Network sister blog LifeSpy. Thanks for the tip guys!

If there is one thing that drives me nuts it’s pop-ups. Thanks to the built-in pop up blocking in Firefox it’s rarely an issue these days…except when I’m downloading something. The Download Manager pops up, and drives me crazy. […]

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Hitachi launches 1 Terabyte Hard Drive

Although 1 Terabyte hard drives aren’t really new (Alienware and Dell already offer 1TB options for their systems), they are certainly becoming more common. At approximately €315 (more or less $420), this new Deskstar 7K1000 Toshiba hard drive offers a pretty ratio between capacity and price.
It spins at 7200 rotations per minute, has 32MB of […]

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Intel gives details on Core 2’s successor: Penryn

Intel revealed, a press conference a few days ago, some details about the 45nm successor to the popular 65nm Core 2 Duo Processors. Besides the further miniaturization of the components, the new processors will also have a bigger cache and the capacity to do calculations more efficiently.
If you want to read more details on what […]

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Apple Buyer’s Guide

One of the things that always upsets Apple customers is when they buy a product and a couple of weeks later Apple releases a new model and brands theirs as outdated or even obsolete. One of the examples of this, was when Apple released the iPod Nano and took the iPod Mini out of the […]

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17 year old teenager builds homemade fusion reactor

A 17 year old teenager from Michigan, who wanted to win a science fair, decided to build a fusion reactor in his basement… talk about overkill!
The project was no easy task, and required over 1000 hours for research and design (that’s over 2 months and a half of studying and planning if he spent all […]

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Blades of Glory Review

“Blades of Glory” isn’t what I would call a particularly geeky movie…but it does feature super-geek John Heder, and Jenna Fischer, who seems to get the geeks blood pressure up, so I decided to check it out.
Let me start by saying that I am a fan of Will Ferrell. I enjoyed “Anchorman” for what […]

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Is Buffy going to be in Batman?

Aint-It-Cool points us to a rumor that Buffy herself, Sarah Michelle Gellar, may be in “The Dark Knight”. I’m kind of surprised that no one seems to be speculating who she would be if she did have a roll in the film…it seems pretty obvious to me…hot blond chick? In a movie where The […]

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Linda Carter on Smallville

Hey fans of superheroes on television, Smallville has dipped into the DC comics on TV past yet again and this time brought in the lovely and beautiful Linda Carter to play Chloe’s mother in the upcoming episode “Progeny”.
Krypton Site has all the info on Smallville you could ever want, include the pic above. If […]

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Firefox Quick Tip: Change Live Bookmark Refresh Rate

Firefox is our favorite browser around here at Forever Geek…on Windows, Macs, and Linux. So we’re going to be showing you some quick ways to customize the browser so you can get the most out of this versatile IE killer.
First up…changing the Live Bookmark Refresh Rate.
I love live Bookmarks. It’s a great […]

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Fantastic Four #544

(w)McDuffie (a) Pelletier
Reconstruction: Chapter One
So, the first thing you’ll notice about this issue is the cover featuring Thing, Johnny, Storm, and the Black Panther with the text “The NEW FANTASTIC FOUR”.
That’s BS.
They ARE NOT the new Fantastic Four. Are all four of them going on a mission together? Yes…but inside the […]

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Best. Transformers Costumes. Ever.

Now this is some seriously talented costume making….

Oliver Queen Chronicles now Online

Well, at first these videos were only available to Sprint customers via their cellphones, but now you can watch “The Oliver Queen Chronicles” online at the CW website.
The episodes feature the origin of Green Arrow, and - while cheaply produced and poorly acted - are interesting if you are a hardcore Smallville fan.
It is unknown […]

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The Ninja interviews Farrell and Heder

This is just too funny. The Ninja from Ask a Ninja interviews Will Ferrell and John Heder from the upcoming “Blades of Glory”…

If you want to know more about Ask A Ninja…it’s one of the best video podcasts out there. You can check it out here.

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International Spider-Man 3 Trailer shows even more Venom!

With all the additional Venom footage that we’re seeing as we draw closer to the release of Spidey 3, I’m beginning to think the black costume won’t be on our web-head for more than one act of the film.
I think I’ve go the story pegged at this point, and that we’ll be seeing […]

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How to access a Windows Shared folder on a Mac

Another day and another Windows-to-Mac migration tip… anyway, if you’ve recently upgraded to Mac OS X from Windows, one of the few difficulties you might have come across is how you can transfer your files from one machine to the other, without resorting to external storage devices or “advanced” techniques such as setting up an […]

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