Before this generation, gaming gave us quite a bit of pain to suffer through before enjoying the pleasure. Nowadays, it seems as though we’re being served everything we wished for on a silver platter. Here’s seven new advances in gaming that have made us happier, yet lazier.
Firefox 3 Beta 2 shows some nifty new tools we can expect in Mozilla’s next browser
Sony is dropping its money-losing rear-projection TV business worldwide to focus on two flat panel technologies — liquid crystal display and organic light-emitting diode, the company said Thursday.
If a new iPhone or iPod touch found its way under your tree and you just can’t wait until Apple officially supports third-party application development to extend its functionality (who can wait until February?), it’s time you jailbreak your favorite new portable device.
Warner is making all of its music available as MP3 files for sale at Amazon’s music store.
Developers have received their first pre-release build of the Mac OS X 10.5.2 updater, and it’s a biggie. Weighing in at over 350M, the wide-ranging update affects many different visible and under-the-hood aspects of Leopard’s operation.
During this years CES, Uniden will be the first company to introduce a MapTrax GPS navigator with radar detection built in. It is still unclear how the radar detection might be represented on a map, or if detection could help mark speed traps on the screen, but it’s sure a nice start.
Microsoft just rolled out the first publicly available release candidate for SP1 of Windows Vista, and we snapped it up, eager to see if it’s faster than the currently shipping version of Vista. To test its speed, we ran a series of benchmarks on exactly the same machine, first with the original version of Vista, and then with the RC of SP1
Apparently the Grinch hasn’t just stolen Christmas; he also steals PS3s too. According to a story by Fox11 news of Thousand Oaks, California, the parents of a lucky 13 year-old decided to buy their son a PS3 with some sweet games. That’s the good news. The bad news is when he opened his PS3 box; he found a phonebook instead.He took the in…
Flash storage is the component that makes low power electronics so flexible. Unlike RAM, flash memory will stay written for about 10 years without power. However, we pay for that convenience in access times, which are much slower than those for RAM.
Also in Apple’s movie rental deal yesterday with Fox: Apple will license its FairPlay copy-protection technology to Fox for DVD movie releases. This will allow DVD purchasers to easily — and legally — rip movies to their computers for playback on iPods and iPhones.
A DVD-player that has been designed to prevent DVD-screeners from leaking to the public will be phased out because industry insiders say the DRM hurts their viewing pleasure. It seems that DRM is fine when it’s annoying the public but unacceptable when it’s affecting them.
