Archive for January 19, 2007

Mystery sequel for Wii to be announced shortly

According to Nintendo Dream, a successor to a famed and well-known Nintendo franchise is coming to a Wii near you.

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Scratch your Blu-Ray discs with steel wool and they still work!

A PS3 owner puts Blu-Ray’s scratch resistance to the test… with STEEL WOOL! These discs are very durable!

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Sealand Wont be Sold to Pirates

His Royal Highness Prince Michael of Sealand said in an interview with

Microsoft announces direct downloads of Vista, family licensing

North American Windows users will be able to eschew physical media with Windows Vista. Microsoft will sell the OS online along with a limited-time family licensing program to upgrade multiple PCs with Vista Ultimate.

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What Diggers want to hear: Video game playing may fulfill innate human need

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) Playing video games can satisfy deep psychological needs and, at least in the short term, improve people’s well-being, new research shows. The more a game fulfilled a player’s sense of independence, achievement and connectedness to others, the more likely he or she was to keep playing, Dr. Scott Rigby of Immersyve…

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IBM to launch corporate social networking software — ‘Ventura’

Ventura includes a set of Web 2.0 applications for enterprise use including BluePages, IBM’s directory for , Roller, the open-source blog server, and Dogear social bookmarking.

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Stephen Colbert made Firefox possible!

Stephen Colbert is listed in the credits for Firefox.

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Quick hack to disable USB Flash drives - perfect for public machines

A simple hack to disable all access to USB drives on XP, without disabling USB mice, or keyboards - Plus a special trick discovered to make it work across all versions of Windows from NT to Vista.

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Price cuts on Apple iPhone likely, analysis finds

The consulting firm on Thursday released an analysis of what the total component budget will likely be for the Apple iPhone. The US$499 iPhone, which comes with 4GB of memory, will likely have a component budget of US$229.85. Assembly costs will raise the total manufacturing price to US$245.83, according to the analysis.

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New New Wii Remote Straps [image]

Seems like some new Wii Remote Straps have popped up. Maybe they’re 3rd party?

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Inroduction of the First Apple iMac (video)

Steve Jobs introduces the very first Apple iMac in 1998. I had a blueberry mac and it was awesome (for the time).

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Microsoft to Sue Apple over iPhone

Microsoft founder Bill Gates demonstrating the zPhone, the idea for which he claims was stolen by Apple for the iPhone

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