One in Three Advanced PC Buyers Dumps Vista (3)
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I don’t want to keep hating on Windows Vista, but it’s hard to stop. Despite Microsoft’s insistence that users love Vista, it’s hard to find much good said about the operating system. Now InfoWorld’s analysis of tracking data shows that, of those that install their performance tool, 35% switch away from Vista, most to Windows XP. The data comes from about 3,000 users of Windows Sentinel, a free program that monitors the user’s system and ...
A look at browsers and music (5)
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My friend (and mesh 2008 interview subject) Ethan Kaplan, the vice-president of technology at Warner Brothers Records, has posted an interesting analysis of the browsers and devices that have been accessing the websites of Warner artists. Internet Exploder still makes up the majority of the traffic, but the interesting part is what has been happening in the bottom 1 per cent or so of the access logs: a growing proportion of devices that aren’t computers. ...
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Eric Rice said:
google started integrating with ps3 and psp in a few ways, incl YouTube. Who noticed?
iPhone 2.1 Beta 4 Seeded, Apple Removes Push Notification "For Further Development" [IPhone Apps] (10)
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Apple has just seeded iPhone 2.1 beta 4 to developers—uninteresting, really, except for the fact that the push notification service has been pulled from the release "for further development." Targeted to hit your iPhone in September, the push service allows apps to receive notifications in the background while they're not running, a godsend for AIM and other messaging apps. Hopefully this doesn't mean it'll be delayed, but we've all learned what happens when iPhone software ...
Viva Piñata: Trouble in Paradise to allow four player co-op garden editing over Xbox Live (2)
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Filed under: Microsoft Xbox 360, CasualThe obsession began as most obsessions do -- with a simple observation. Perhaps it was the perfectly arranged row of tulips, or the masterfully grown monkeynut trees. Perhaps it was the stunning flock of Chewnicorn that resided in that breathtaking place. One is never sure of how or why these feeling develop, but the end result is always the same -- your neighbor's piñata garden is too beautiful to exist, ...
Final Fantasy XIII demo could be two hours long (3)
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Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360, RPGs A recent issue of Famitsu revealed a startling fact about the upcoming demo for Final Fantasy XIII -- the playable preview will apparently last longer than the film that it is packaged with, Final Fantasy: Advent Children Complete. For those of you keeping score at home -- the original Advent had a runtime of 101 minutes. Assuming this length will only increase with the director's cut ...
Windows Storage 1.0 Feature Pack Adds Blu-ray Burning, Smart Card Drivers [Windows] (3)
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Microsoft's prepping a "Storage 1.0" feature pack for Windows XP, Vista, Server 2003 and Server 2008 that adds a few useful storage options for people who really love storing things. None of these are groundbreaking, but they are fundamental to those of you who would like to master Blu-ray discs natively, or read/write ICCD/CCID smart cards. It's one of Microsoft's "feature packs", which are more than just updates in that it pushes new features out ...
A Silent Alarm Clock (17)
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Alarm clocks usually jolt us awake leading us to reach for the almighty snooze button. Silence is a conceptual alarm clock that allows you to program multiple alarms and wakes you without any sound. Each person wears a wireless rubber ring with an integrated vibration device that generates a tactile alarm. The snooze function is engaged by shaking your hand. However, each successive time you want to snooze, more movement is required, making sure you ...
‘Perfect World’ — The Only MMO With ‘Devil May Cry’’s Dante Riding On A Velociraptor (1)
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Even though I’ve yet to sit down with an MMO, the genre fascinates me. I often find myself sitting in on demos of MMOs, knowing I won’t try the finished game. But Perfect World Entertainment gave me a compelling reason to try “Perfect World International” when it launches into beta next week: the possibility of witnessing “Devil May Cry”‘s Dante riding a velociraptor and — wait for it — “Tekken”s Heihachi on a giant snake. ...
Intel apologetic about broken G45 HD decoding (1)
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What do you do with a drunken sailor? Wait, I mean, what do you do with a chipset that boasts hardware Blu-Ray decoding, but stutters every 15 seconds and uses 100% of the CPU? Well, Intel has avoided having its belly shaved with a rusty razor by acknowledging that its G45 chipsets (their latest integrated graphics setup) are having serious issues with Blu-Ray playback among other things. AMD wasted no time in pointing out that ...
MS vows to avoid Vista mistakes in Windows 7 (1)
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Microsoft today started a Windows 7 blog with the objective of avoiding the perception issues for its next operating system that it believes have hurt Vista's reputation in the past. The project's senior engineering managers Jon DeVaan and Steven Si...
First Peek Under Windows 7's Hood in October [Windows 7] (4)
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Sure we know about some of Windows 7's more eye-catching features like multitouch and sweet maps, but Microsoft hasn't reveal a whole about what's under the hood, other than that it'll use Vista's foundation. According to the new Windows 7 dev blog, we'll get our first peek at the Professional Developers Conference on Oct. 27 and the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference the week after. Make it good is all I've got to say. [Engineering Windows ...
Back to School: Academic software (2)
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Filed under: Software, Education, DealsTUAW's going Back to School! We'll be bringing you tips and reviews for students, parents and teachers right up until the bell rings in September. Read on for tips on saving money on software. At the start of every school year, students, teachers and parents have a seemingly-endless list of "to-buy" items. It gets expensive, and software is often the last place people want to plunk down money. Fortunately, the world ...
Prepare For WAR (1)
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WAR is Coming!And so we must be ready...Tomorrow the Mythic Account Center will begin accepting all Open Beta and Head Start Keys allowing all Pre-Order customers to register their accounts and prepare for the weeks ahead.We'll provide instructions and let you know when it's open tomorrow, but we wanted to announce tonight that up to the first 50 thousand Standard Edition Open-Beta keys registered will be invited to the upcoming Preview Weekend in addition to ...
NVIDIA ships out beta OpenGL 3.0 drivers in record speed (4)
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Filed under: Gaming While boasting a fraction of DirectX usage in the gaming market, OpenGL hasn't been sitting around while Microsoft eats its lunch. Long favored as a foundation for cross platform games like World of Warcraft, and historically used by id Software to famous effect, the API just hit the 3.0 in a major reworking of the library. NVIDIA has had a hand in the API, and has wasted no time in releasing graphics ...
Chandler wants to set you free from Outlook, takes 6 years to do it (8)
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Filed under: Internet, Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Productivity, Open Source, Social Software About six years ago Mitch Kapor, the guy behind Lotus 1-2-3, started a new open source project called Chandler. The goal was simple enough: Create an personal information management tool that would allow users to store, share, and collaborate. It would have things like a calendar, address book, and to do list. In other words, Chandler is a lot like Microsoft Outlook. But there ...
Cryptic evolves their mission system (1)
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Filed under: New titles, News items, Champions Online The newest Ask Cryptic for Champions Online is out and you know what that means: more information! This time around, we start off with some news about weaponization of objects within the game world. The short answer is that players will be able to grab all sorts of stuff and chuck it into the faces of their enemies Next we've got confirmation that players will indeed be ...
