Archive for August 22, 2007

PCLinuxOS gaining more popularity than Ubuntu (Distrowatch chart)

Change the date range on the Distrowatch hits-per-day ranking chart and Ubuntu won’t be at the top anymore. This post discusses maybe why that is considering PCLOS hasn’t released anything since May.

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Demo for Silent Hill Origins Leaked Online

A couple days ago, a demo for the upcoming PSP game, “Silent Hill Origins,” began to appear on various torrent sites for download. It has been confirmed by developer, Climax, to be legitimate, but Karl Jeffrey, CEO and founder of Climax, swears it wasn’t leaked by his company…

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Blizzard negotiating with researchers for virtual epidemic study

An accidental plague that wiped out cities in World of Warcraft has drawn the attention of epidemiology researchers, who are negotiating with Blizzard about future studies. The next virtual horror might be intentional.

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Games That Defined The Super Nintendo: The Big N’s 16-bit Powerhouse

Nintendo knew that in order to take back market share from Sega, the Super Nintendo would have to provide gamers with piles show-stopping titles. To this day, The SNES still lives on as one of the most popular and collectible consoles of all time.

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Flash Beta Version Released for Linux too!

“There is a new beta of the Flash Player Update available. That’s right: the beta is even available for Linux (same time as Windows and Mac)” - Watch out for the click bug (I have it).

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Leave your laptop behind with iPhone Web apps

I started doing this myself. It’s weird. But for the basics, it works OK.

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Comcast Denies Limiting BitTorrent Traffic

Comcast says the rumors that they aere actively slowing bittorrent transfer are false. Who knows.. maybe they don’t want to lose a few million customers.

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Top 5 Video Editing Software For Linux

We know our video editing applications for Windows (read Adobe Premiere, AVID, Ulead Video studio etc) and Mac (Final Cut Pro), but what about video editing on a Linux powered system? Well here’s a list of video editing applications for your Linux PC…

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EA: Xbox 360 our top priority

Several sources are reporting that an Electronic Arts representative has confirmed that its Xbox 360 games take priority over other systems as multi-platform titles near completion.

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Play Wii Tennis, Win A Lexus IS F

Visitors to the US Open in New York will get a chance to bring home a big prize for playing tiny tennis. From the 4th through the 6th of September, Lexus is setting up a scaled down tennis court in Rockefeller Center (rendered above) where players can participate in a Wii Sports Tennis competition, complete with color commentary from ESPN

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AT&T Shareholders Alarmed by Pearl Jam Controversy

As citizens we are alarmed whenever the free marketplace of ideas is impeded by political censorship. As shareholders we are most concerned about the impact such controversy can have on AT&T’s reputation among consumers…

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Warhawk receives 6.5/10 from PSM!

“A third-person shooter that never quite gets off the ground.” While PSM’s current editor in chief previously worked for Official Xbox Magazine does this spell bad news for the anticipated PS3 title?

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