PSP / EA Online Spam
Kotaku is reporting that Fight Night Round 3 for the PSP prompts you to either sign up for e-mail spam from ESPN and other Walt Disney subsidiaries, or pay a $2 fee when you try and play the game online.
Apparently this also occurs with other EA sports games for the PSP .
Obviously this is what [...]
Review: Nokia 7380
The new Nokia 7380 is fashionable, there is no doubt about that - but is it functional?
Reviews:
MobileBurn: (Recommended) “The Nokia 7380 s certainly not a phone for everyone. Heck, it probably isn’t even a phone for 1% of everybody. But there are going to be those that will appreciate its slim form factor and unique [...]
Google Releases Web Page Creator
If you are looking for a simple solution to developing web pages online, check out the new Google Page Creator.
According to the Page Creator homepage - “Google Page Creator is a free online tool that makes it easy for anyone to create and publish useful, attractive web pages in just minutes.” No technical knowledge is [...]
Shuttle X100 Media Center
It is about time that Shuttle has made a serious contender in the small form-factor media center arena. Coming in at only 2 1/8 inches high, it looks to have all the hardware you would expect. From an article in The Register, “A typical spec, said Shuttle, is a 1.83GHz Core Duo T2400 processor; 512MB of [...]
D&D Pre-Order Problems
From the Official Dungeons and Dragons Online forum:
“The Gates of Target beckon you! We have partnered with Target’s “Get Into the Game” Program (www.getintothegame.com) to give Target customers a special in-game item! Every person who buys their retail copy of Dungeons & Dragons Online™: Stormreach™ will receive the Brooch of Underwater Breathing.”
Unfortunately [...]
Banned Yahoo! Mail Handles
Apparently,Yahoo! is banning the use of names like Allah, Yahoo , and Osama - even if they are contained within another name - like Callahan.
On the other hand, it is perfectly acceptable to use names like “God, Messiah, Jesus, Jehovah, Buddah, Satan and both Priest and Pedophile.”
One Ed Callahan responded thusly: “On one level this [...]
Sony Unveils New HD Camcorder
Today Sony introduced the world’s most compact HD camcorder - the HDR-HC3.
The new camcorder is the successor to the HDR-HC1, which was touted as offering professional quality without the professional price ($1700).
The HDR-HC3 is a full 26% more compact than the HDR-HC1 (5.5 inches long / 18 ounces) and it is set to go on [...]
EA Games Dropping Some Prices
Another sign that the delays in shipping the newest game consoles is having an effect on those that manufacture games, EA Games has dropped prices on some of its games for the old school Xbox to a price of $39. From a Reuter’s article, “$39 is resonating with consumers given the transition,” EA spokesman Jeff Brown [...]
Review: Evoluent Vertical Mouse
The guys over at Evoluent claim that the Vertical Mouse can help those suffereing from repetitive stress injuries (RSI) in the hand and the wrist by eliminating arm twisting.
But the question is - does it work?
Reviews:
ExtremeTech: “We really only used the mouse for a few weeks, and that is a short amount of time to [...]
Sorting Out the Vista Versions
As many of you may have already heard, Microsoft is offering 6 or 7 core Vista versions at launch.
The launch lineup includes: Windows Starter 2007; Windows Vista Enterprise; Windows Vista Home Basic, Windows Vista Home Premium, Windows Vista ultimate, Windows Vista Business, Windows Vista Home Basic N and Windows Vista Business N (N editions being [...]
