All of us who’ve registered our Wiis are getting our VC games automatically registered on MyNintendo.com. And if the past is any indication, those of us burning through Virtual Console points may be getting a surprise gift in the mail as our collections grow.
“DiggStatus is a small utility that calculates the average usage statistics of Digg users and compares them to the statistics of a selected user. It utilizes PHP, MySQL, Flash, and XML.” Type in your Digg user name and see how you compare to other Digg users, in terms of story submissions, Diggs, comments, friends, etc.
The Tech Report put Intel’s “Woodcrest” and quad-core “Clovertown” Xeons up against AMD’s Socket F Opterons in a range of applications, including tests from fields like computational fluid dynamics and proteomics. They’ve also quantified power efficiency in terms of energy use over over time and energy use per task, with some intriguing results.
Over 200,000 power cords with the tag “JRC” have been recalled in Japan — both DS and DS Lite customers are affected. This is an English translation of the press release of the Japanese web site.
The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today launched BadVista.org, a campaign with a twofold mission of exposing the harms inflicted on computer users by the new Microsoft Windows Vista and promoting free software alternatives that respect users’ security and privacy rights.
Apple has just realeased a creative new holiday ad, one that doesn
’t involve a Mac and PC bickering. What are your thoughts?
This is for the orginal NES System. It is the Nintendo World Championships 1990 GOLD Edition. There were only 26 of these given out-and you had to win them to receive one. There are 90 Gray editions made. These are hard to find and is a great item for anyone who is a NES lover!
NASA’s proposed 2024 moon base will be a steppingstone to Mars, but it may also be a mining outpost. The moon is an abundant source of helium-3, a potent fuel for next-generation nuclear reactors. Trouble is, China, India and Russia have their eyes on it too.
“The first glitch for Wii Sports: Tennis has come in and, when diving for an unplayable ball far to the outside of the court, the opponent Mii became stuck …”
Two of Computerworld’s top operating systems editors, a Mac expert and a Windows expert, compare notes on what Apple should reconsider as it develops Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. Mac OS X 10.4, or Tiger, is a noticeably better operating system than XP or Vista. But it’s not perfect. OS X has its own quirks and flaws…
IBM and Yahoo! have partnered together to offer a free, downloadable search engine that is easy to set up and use. This article describes four methods using IBM OmniFind Yahoo! Edition search functionality to integrate a search engine into your website.