The Wii frenzy knows nothing of reason or rationality. It is relentless, ruthless, and maybe even ridiculous. It is not, however, causing a considerable problem for Nintendo. Why? Here it is, Sunday February 4, and around Boston, it’s almost as though today is the launch day for the Nintendo Wii.
It’s only in Europe at the moment, but coming to the US soon. For
A company called SecureIX is offering a free VPN service which allows you to hide your IP address from peers in a BitTorrent swarm or P2P network. Not only that, the service also encrypts and tunnels your data, making it extremely difficult for your ISP to sniff or shape it.
Apple Inc. and The Beatles
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In September 1991, when Linux Torvalds, a student at the University of Helsinki in Finland, released 10,000 lines of code on the Internet, nobody could have believed that it would spark off a revolution. In the 15 years since then, Linux has grown into an enormously capable operating system that contains more than 100 million lines of code.
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In a recent interview with Game Informer, Ed Boon drops some interesting details on their next title.
Absolutely blown away by the look of Gears of War, the team has decided to adopt the Unreal 3 engine to power their next title, presumably the eighth iteration of Mortal Kombat.
Can you believe how small this guy’s office is? Mine is bigger than that.
GameStop/EB is selling GameStop brand Wii component cables for $49.99, while they are listing the $29.99 Nintendo brand cables as being on preorder! I’ve been to several stores; not a single one had the Nintendo brand ones (supposedly not even in their system) but they all had the GameStop brand ones! This is price gouging, plain and simple!
The concept of Media Center applications has been around for ages on the Windows and Linux side. However, not many developers have created Media Center apps for the Mac. Here we take a look at the options for the Mac. iTheater, CenterStage, Front Row, and MediaCentral. Which one comes out on top?
Amarok 1.4.5 has just been released. This version adds some long requested features: A shoutcast stream browser and support for user defined labels (aka tags). The developers have already started to work on the next major release based upon Qt4/KDE4, which is going to run on Linux, OSX, and Windows!
