Archive for August 27, 2007

Roads? Where we’re going, we don’t need roads.

The latest builds of Leopard are showing further signs of Apple phasing out the Aqua user interface that has been the mainstay of the OS X interface since 10.0 for something more futuristic. Rest in peace Aqua. Hello outer space.

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Sony’s back for more, running BioShock DRM with a rootkit

BioShock is undoubtedly a critical darling, but it’s not without its share of technical woes.

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Corpnews: Bioshock Isn’t Installing a Rootkit, You Idiots

Mr. Rasputin offers an explanation on the difference between a rootkit and Bioshock’s SecuROM DRM system for the clueless.

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Retro MacOS Theme for Wordpress - In Full 1-Bit Glory!

Nothing like a spot of retro, chunky-grade pixellated graphics to evoke some serious nostalgia, eh?

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AT&T Cracks On Commercial iPhone Unlocking Groups

It was bound to happen: AT&T is going after the commercial snakes groups trying to profit from the iPhone unlocking. Apparently they can hunt these mercenaries down. You can still 100% unlock with the TurboSIM method but, once again, there is only one way to really blow up the Death Star: Support the iPhone Dev Team to get the FREE software unlock.

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Blockbuster Manager Curses Customer Who Refused Rewards Program

A Blockbuster manager responded to reader Sarah’s refusal to sign up for Blockbuster’s rewards program by declaring: “Fucking customers, I’m tired of everyone not listening when they don’t even know what they’re talking about.” Sarah had politely declined to enroll in the program several times before the outburst.

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Adobe! Where is 64-bit Flash player for Linux?

Some days ago Mr. Mike Melanson of Adobe Flash’s Linux port fame posted in Penguin.SWF blog about the news of H.264 coded support in Flash. Nice, a new codec. But there’s a question that doesn’t want to be silenced: What about a nice, clear and objective answer about the availability of a 64bit version of the Flash plugin?

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Halo 3 - 18 Minutes of Video! - Stream or 1280×720 Video Torrent Available

Watch campaign footage that hasn’t been shown before. Watch the video playback function in action, see alien blood in mid air as you pause during playback, take a screenshot and save it to your hard drive, share with your friends. Graphics are easily better than the Halo 3 Beta that was out. 1.2 gig 1280 x 720 torrent available!

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Arm-wrestling game recalled in Japan because it broke 3 arms

Lose a game of chess to a computer, and you could bruise your ego. Lose an arm-wrestling match to a Japanese arcade machine, and you could break your arm

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Stéphane Rodriguez rips OOXML a new one.

Self professed as “Independent software vendor, file format expert, Not affiliated to any pro-MS or anti-MS party/org/ass”, Rodriguez gives us a compelling look to why OOXML shouldn’t be adopted as a Standard by any organization.

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Nintendo Power calls Metroid 3 “Incorruptible”

Since its introduction, gamers have seen great potential in the Wii remote as a natural controller for first-person action games. But while several titles have pulled off the method adequately, Corruption is the first that doesn
’t leave any room for you to consider whether it would be better with a traditional controller.

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Halo Wars (Halo RTS game) demo to hit Xbox Live in the next few days

“In an exclusive interview via Playtm and Gamespot during Games Conventions in Leipzig 2007, with Harter Ryan, Ensemble ’s executive producer, he revealed that a demo will be hitting Xbox Live within the few days.”

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