Archive for December 11, 2006

Stalker: Shadow of chernobyl - Release date March 2007 (Finally!)

A new trailer clearly indicates that the release date for the post catastrophic meltdown shooter Stalker:Shadow of Chernobyl is intended to be released in march 2007.

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Make Money With Blogs And Affiliate Programs

You spend hours every day with your weblog. It’s become a labor of love. Wouldn’t it be nice to find a way to earn some extra money with your weblog?

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ASUS V2 Notebook Series

ASUSTeK Computer Inc. (ASUS), announced a new notebook line up, The ASUS V2 Notebook Series which offers 3.5G HSDPA support with speeds up to 3.6Mbps. Asus claims that the notebooks are ideal for the professional on the go as it includes a cutting edge feature set.

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Oblivion beats Gears of War to ‘Game of the Year’

This year
’s Spike TV Video Game awards, which went down this past weekend, revealed that critical reviews for Gears of War, citing it as a possible ‘game of the year’ may well be some way wide of the mark.

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Wii sells 50,000 UK units in first twelve hours

The Nintendo Wii finally launched in the UK (and also across the rest of Europe) at the close of last week, and it would appear that
—true to Nintendo’s prediction—the buying public were indeed chomping at the gaming bit when it came to securing the industry’s smallest, cheapest, and most underpowered console.

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Google Earth Adds Wikipedia, User Content

Zooming around Google Earth is always mesmerizing, but it just got a little more informative. The product added user descriptions and photos, pushing a “Geographic Web” layer on top of the landscape. Many such mashups are currently available, but community-powered markups previously required downloading a separate file.Little icons now indicate sel

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Portable 7.1 Sound?

The USB 7.1 Channel Sound Adapter has a sorround output and microphone input which you can use in making VOIP calls or voice chat. It is just a little bigger than 2 AA batteries.

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Review Round-up: Rainbow Six: Vegas

“Frag and clear!” is an in-game line that
’s almost as welcome to the ears as Michael Caine’s legendary “Your only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!” (The Italian Job), and the action that Ubisoft drives home in its tactical shooters is almost as thrilling as racing a Mini through the sewers of Turin.

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Mandriva allies with IBPhoenix to support Firebird 2.0

Thanks to a collaboration between IBPhoenix and Mandriva, Mandriva Linux is now the distribution offering the best integrated support for Firebird 2.0.

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Chance to win World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade beta

The good folks at Wowhead are asking participants to submit their very best tips, comments, screenshots or game data in order to win a chance at a World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade beta and a grand prize of a 20″ Widescreen LCD monitor. For more information on their contest, click here.

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Should I Switch To Apple?

During past 11 years I bought at least 4 new PCs and two notebooks. I
’ve paid Microsoft/Intel/AMD campus at least 9 thousand US dollars total, about $820/year (not counting software).

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Digg, Facebook and Newsvine link up with The New York Times

Readers of NYTimes.com will now be able to add headlines and a small portion of text to the social media sites by clicking on the logos of Digg, Facebook and Newsvine. Those logos began appearing next to The Times’ stories today in the same box as the print and e-mail tools, although they’re initially hidden until users click the “Share” link.

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