23 Aug, 2007
We understand there has been some concern about the implementation of widescreen mode in BioShock. Hopefully, we can clarify how we’ve chosen to do this.The first thing we want to make clear is the mode we developed the game on and the optimal mode for playing the game is the widescreen mode. 90% of our development stations were widescreen displays
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23 Aug, 2007
Robinsod managed to successfully boot his Xbox360 with one flashed eFuse with kernel 1888 using the timing attack. This means it is now possible to downgrade any Xbox360 kernel to one of the vulnerable kernels that will allow you to boot unsigned code like homebrew and linux on your xbox360.
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23 Aug, 2007
When Justine Ezarik, a video blogger in Pittsburgh, saw that a box from AT&T had been delivered to her doorstep a couple of weeks ago, she thought that perhaps she had been sent a complimentary accessory for her new iPhone. Instead, she found a 300-page, double-sided, excruciatingly well itemized bill.
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23 Aug, 2007
Peter B. was an out-of-work PHP developer looking for contract work in early 2005. A recruiter he’d worked with in the past emailed him some information regarding a possible position. Reading the job description, Peter thought he’d be a good fit, so he submitted his resume and got a response via email a few days later. See their reaction…
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23 Aug, 2007
You may call it Lightbox, or Greybox, or Thickbox, but it’s always the same effect.
When you are on a page, and click on a photo or trig some event, a Lightbox is an effect that fades the pagein the background to show you new content in the foreground.
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23 Aug, 2007
We thought we’d seen it all until we came across the jWin iLuv i1055, which is designed to be both a portable DVD player and an extension screen for the iPod with video.
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23 Aug, 2007
Convert RSS feeds to voice and topic requests to voice instructions with VoiceXML
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23 Aug, 2007
Nikon’s two new flagship DSLRs are officially announced. D3- $5000, November release. D300- $1800, November release
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23 Aug, 2007
During the Games Convention 2007 in Leipzig, Digital Extremes and D3 Publisher confirmed that a Dark Sector demo was on the way, ready to hit Xbox Live and PlayStation Network this October or early November.
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23 Aug, 2007
While YouTube’s announcement that they will start including ads in video comes as little surprise, there are already dozens of companies vying for a piece of the video advertising industry, which is expected to grow to $2.9 billion by 2010 according to eMarketer.
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23 Aug, 2007
Paramount’s decision to abandon Blu-ray in favor of HD DVD has raised many, many questions, especially after it came to light that Paramount and Dreamworks received a combined $150 million as part of the deal.
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23 Aug, 2007
“Shiva Rajaraman, product manager for YouTube, said internal tests show more than 70 percent of people give up when they see a pre-roll. By contrast, less than 10 percent decide to close an overlay, which they can exit by clicking on an “X” in a corner.” Don’t we use YouTube in part to AVOID the commercials? Overlay … still sucks.
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