Archive for January 7, 2007

New Wii Game “Sadness” to Be “Adults Only” Rating?

The official website for the game “Sadness” ,which is to be released in 2007, asks if you are 21 or over before continuing on the website. (Go to Projects, then to Sadness). Gamespot has information on the game here or you can read it on the official site. The game is going to be entirely in black and white. It looks like it will be Horror.

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Apple quietly fired lawyer who wrote Jobs option award

Wendy Howell, the former in-house Apple lawyer responsible for option paperwork, probably won’t be attending Steve Jobs’ eagerly awaited MacWorld speech Tuesday. Late last year, she became the lone person to lose her job as a result of the company’s well-publicized options problems.

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PSP owner decides that you have to remove CD from UMD. Hilarity ensues…

…Wow. Just click.

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Game Companies Don’t Really Love You

Fanboys: they walk amongst us. They’re in our schools. At the workplace. Even at your neighborhood grocery. In fact, odds are that someone you know might be a fanboy. There’s no denying they exist, but SHOULD they? Fuck no. And here’s why.

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Screenshots of Sim City DS

“Today I saw the first screenshots of something that should have been on the DS a long time ago; Sim City DS! And what

Get More Google Chat Emoticons

You can add a bigger range of graphical emoticons to Gmail Chat (the browser-based variant of Google Talk) using Jim Wilson

CiteBite - Link Directly to quotes instead of blogs!

This is getting alot of press today. With CiteBite, you can paste in a quote to link to, rather than clumsy URL’s. Although not exactly a revelation, it is a useful and interesting tool, especially when putting together summaries and referring to wikipedia entries.

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“One Helluva Combination”…Steve Jobs may announce Apple/Google Alliance

The latest rumor, generated by analyst Steve Arnold, is that Jobs will announce some kind of deal with Google, whose CEO Eric Schmidt sits on Apple’s board. “Google is architected as a server company best suited for global delivery of bits anywhere in the world. It could be one helluva combination; a new type of global, multimedia content network

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Vista Business released on pirate boards

The latest Vista release to hit the pirate boards is the Vista Business Upgrade DVD — the version which takes Windows XP Pro up to Vista Business Edition.

It can be installed without using a key (as can any version of Vista), and it

‘Elebits’ allows the Wii to really shine

Addictive new game uses the console’s controllers in truly creative ways

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TextMate cheatsheet desktop

Using MacroMates wonderful app “TextMate”. Here is a cheatsheet for some of the myriad of shortcuts in the shape of a desktop image. This’ll probably be the first image I stick with for an extended period.

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iPod vending machine…..Running on Windows?!

This group of ‘hackers’ have found that iPod vending machines are actually running Windows. That’s right Windows. The article describes how they came across this little exploit, and what they’ve been able to do with it so far. I bet it won’t be long until we’ll be able to grab free iPods!

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