I gave up using Windows on my home machines not long after I stopped being a PC gamer. I owned a copy of Windows XP that required help to operate on any recent machine since it was missing the necessary SP3 to make it functional. When I built a new PC some 3 years ago [...]
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May 20 2009
OnLive – A New Gaming Paradigm
The gaming arena is in constant flux with innovations on all fronts to produce games that are visually captivating and reach a large base of gamers. Having been a gamer for nearly two decades now, I remember the days of games arriving on 360K floppy disks to the more rigid 1.44MB 3.5″ floppy disks. Apart [...]
Apr 10 2009
One Billion iTunes Apps Contest
The success of the iPhone and iPod Touch is unprecedented and nothing exemplifies that like a counter of the number of applications downloaded to these two devices. Apple, recently announced that nearly 25,000 applications were hosted on the App Store, and now with nearly one billion of those apps have been downloaded. To commemorate this [...]
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Jan 30 2009
Gears of Wars Expires on the PC
Owners of Epic’s Gears of War were in for quite a interesting predicament when they tried to play the game on January 28th. Turns out that the DRM that came bundled with the program had a digital certificate that deactivated on that date and thus rendered the game useless. If we’ve learned anything from the [...]
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Jan 17 2009
Windows 7 Beta
Microsoft decided to unleash their Beta of Windows 7, the successor to the abysmal Windows Vista last week. After the initial hoopla caused by the arbitrary download limit of 2.5 million which cause the servers to crash, Microsoft wisely decided to remove the limit and allow one and all to download the Beta. I grabbed [...]
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Dec 31 2008
My iPhone 3G
My iPhone 3G is finally here and I’m having a blast using it. I was able to move the SIM card from my previous Nokia phone into the iPhone and get going immediately. Cheers
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Nov 04 2008
Vote Today
Be sure to vote today to make your voice heard during this historic election. Cheers
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Oct 31 2008
Blog Scraping
For the uninitiated: Blog scraping is the process of scanning through a large number of blogs, usually daily, searching for and copying content. This process is conducted through automated software. The software and the individuals who run the software are sometimes referred to as blog scrapers. Scraping is copying a blog that is not owned [...]
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