Opera Coming to the DS in the US

Browser, Nintendo, Video No Comments »

Opera has been available for the Nintendo DS in Europe and Japan for a few months now but it is coming to the US on June 4th. The browser works very well on the Nintendo DS and is really cool.
My birthday is right around the same time as the release so I’m sure to be [...]

Matte Screen MacBook

Apple, Displays, Hack, MacBook, Notebooks No Comments »

I have a MacBook and I actually love the glossy screen but I do know that a lot of people out there hate the glossy screen and prefer a matte screen. One MacBook owner hated the glossy screen so much that he decided to put a new screen into his MacBook from a Sony notebook.The [...]

Nintendo Keynote at GDC

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A couple of the big blogs were at Nintendo’s Keynote at the Game Developers Confrence.Gizmodo
Engadget
They were both there live blogging during the keynote. they both have posts up with the key points. Go check’em out.

Apple is America’s Best Retailer

Apple, Links of Interest No Comments »

According to CNN Money, Apple Inc is America’s best retailer. I’m not sure if I totally agree, but they do have a pretty good arguement. Most of the article is talking about the ideas behind the stores and just talking about the retail stores in general.
Anyway the article is here.

Web Annoyances

Ads, Internet, Rants No Comments »

No one like intrusive advertising, a few banner ads aren’t bad but when the advertisment gets thrown into the content as if it was part of the content that is just too much. One of these items is intelliTXT, that advertiser that looks at the words on your web site and double underlines some of [...]

WoW hits 8.5 Million

Digg, Gaming No Comments »

While digg.com was hitting its 1 miiiiiillionth user World of Warcraft was looking at numbers eight and a half times that much. According to ComputerAndVideoGames.com World of Warcraft has hit 8.5 Million users. Along with that comes word that The Burning Crusade which was the much anticipated expansion pack to the game has already sold [...]

Playstation 3 Home Trailer Looks Amazing

Gaming, Playstation 3, Sony, Video 2 Comments »

This does look amazing but I am afraid that this could just be a second life clone with better graphics.
it is no doubt a closed system not like Second Life because there will be no user generated items from what I know so far, but it does sound promising and I have to say even [...]

Receipt hints at $150 off iPhone with 2Yr Agreement

Apple, Cell Phones, Cingular, iPhone 2 Comments »

A blog called 5THIRTYONE is claiming to have a receipt from a recent Cingular transaction for a new Blackberry Pearl that stated: “iPhone for Derek Punsalan 2 YR Agreement SAVINGS $150.00″
Now Derek stated in his post that he did not purchase an iPhone but does this mean that the iPhone purchasers will get $150 off [...]

Real Picture of Optimus Keyboard?

Prototypes, Random Tech No Comments »

On the Optimus Project blog Tema posted a picture of what might be the actual Optimus keyboard, possibly no longer Photoshop mockups.
Tema said that the keys are 2×2cm which is decent sized and that the product is no longer called “103″ saying that “Details will be revealed on the first day of CeBIT.”
The infamous Optimus [...]

Blu-Ray May Be Selling More Than HD-DVD

Blu-Ray, Format Wars, HD-DVD, Home Theater, Rants No Comments »

According to a story on InformationWeek, Blu-Ray seems to be selling more disks than HD-DVD is.
“Since the week ended Jan. 7, Blu-ray sales have ranged from a low of 63.3% to a high of 69.6%, VideoScan said Tuesday. On the week ended Feb. 18, the latest figures available, Blu-ray accounted for 65% of the market, [...]

AutoPatcher, a Geeks Friend

Downloads, Microsoft, Windows No Comments »

For all of you out there that have been appointed the family tech geek against your own will know how difficult it is to deal with going to, lets say, your grandmothers house and updating her computer because she keeps getting a pop-up in the lower right hand corner saying that her anti-virus is out [...]

iTunes 7 updated to 7.1 but no Vista support yet

Apple, Apple TV, Vista, Windows, iTunes No Comments »

iTunes was updated to 7.1 yesterday but it still doesn’t have full support for Windows Vista yet.
The update that has fixed some of the problems that occurred with Windows Vista along with some other bugs, but most notably added a full screen CoverFlow view along with support for the AppleTv.
If you are running Windows Vista [...]


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