Archive for August 28, 2007

Gran Turismo 5 Prologue will be free

Taking some inspiration from Gran Turismo HD, SCEI revealed that the upcoming racing title Gran Turismo 5 Prologue will be released for free on the PlayStation Network for the PS3. It looks like they were toying around the idea of attaching a price tag but for now, it’ll be free. Among other things, Prologue will feature 16-player online …

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Google Celebrates First Year of WiFi: Where Else Would You Like Free Wifi

It’s been a year since the folks at Google successfully knocked off WiFi in Mountain View California. Transmitting all those great 802.11 b/g signals to the grateful residents, businesses and visitors at absolutely no charge at all. They are still trucking along on the San Francisco wireless deal with EarthLink

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Mac OS/OS X Welcome Movies Through the Ages

There you are, folks. That’s the OS X Leopard welcome movie that you’ll be watching in the next few weeks once Leopard is launched. The new OS is sure to cure cancer, AIDS, and IBS, so you might as well go buy an iMac right now

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65 Nanometer Microprocessors Coming to an Xbox 360 Near You

Dean Takahashi has a write-up regarding the upcoming 65nm microprocessors reportedly shipping on new Xbox 360 units.

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1up Reviews Metroid Prime 3: Corruption, get’s 9.0

“Corruption takes advantage of the Wii’s biggest strength (with its unique controls), and minimizes its greatest weakness (through astounding art direction), while otherwise maintaining or improving upon the high standards and overall polish the series is known for…surrender a week of your life to Corruption — you won’t be sorry.”

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Completely Transparent Shell on your Ubuntu desktop with Compiz Fusion

This is HOT!! have your terminal right on top of your wallpaper (screenshots included)

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Tera-Discs To Blow Away Blu-Ray and HD-DVD?

Tech UK is reporting a startling new disc storage technology that could end the HD war between HD-DVD and Blu-Ray: the Tera-Disc. How much data? On a 1TB disc, you could store 212 DVD-quality movies, 250,000 MP3 files or 1,000,000 large Word documents. Holy flarging snit!

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UniquePhones indefinitely delays release of iPhone SIM unlock software

The interesting (and possibly telling) bit comes up at the end of their release, where apparently UniquePhones is “evaluating what to eventually do with the software should they be legally denied the right to sell it.”

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IGN reviews Metroid Prime 3 - Gives it a 9.5

IGN delivers a glowing review of Metroid Prime 3: Corruption, saying that the game is “an absolute must-have on Wii”.

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As Web Fuels Bike Thefts, Victims Turn Vigilantes

By the time he got the call last month, Martin Moulton had given up on his stolen $3,000 bike. The caller, a friend, had been browsing through bike ads on Craigslist when he spotted Moulton’s 2005 Cannondale with its unmistakable, custom-ordered Spiderflex saddle.

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Lets Talk About iWork and Office for Mac

David Weiss is an employee at Microsoft’s MacBU, and while he has makes it clear that he doesn’t speak for Microsoft or the MacBU, his recent post about iWork ‘08 is interesting from a couple of directions.

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Ubuntu-Users Social Network BETA

The Ubuntu Community continues to go from strength to strength and hopefully this new project aimed to develop a fully fledged social networking site with free email addresses, specifically for Ubuntu users, will become a busy and thriving facility. It will be a totally non profit entity for Ubuntu Users and run by Ubuntu Users.

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