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Wednesday, April 11, 2007

Man plays Halo PC with Xbox 360 Guitar Hero 2 X-plorer, Looks hard as hell.

Play HALO with your Xbox 360 X-plorer Guitar. Sure its hard but if you master it you are the l337 n00b pwn3ner



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Guitar Hero 1 will cost you $97.76 at this rate on the Xbox 360.

Today, 3 Track Packs were released on the Xbox 360's Marketplace. The 3 track packs feature 3 songs a pop. Each pack is 500 MSP ($6.25), which puts each track at $2.08. These are Guitar Hero 1 tracks which, when compared to the 47 songs on the PS2 release of Guitar Hero at $40, are .85 cents a track. At this rate, Guitar Hero 1 will cost $97.76.



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2007 will have more SPAM than HUMAN EMAILS!

"Spam volumes are growing faster than expected due to the success of image-based spam in bypassing antispam filters and of email sender identity spoofing in getting higher response rates," said Mark Levitt, the VP in charge of IDC's Collaborative Computing and Enterprise Workplace research. "Instant messaging, joined by free and low-cost VoIP....



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Tuesday, April 10, 2007

Ninja Warrior: Makoto Nagano

Xbox 360: now with H.264, MPEG-4, PlaysForSure

The new spring update will enable Windows Media Connect or Media Center streaming MPEG-4 up to 8Mbps, H.264 up to 15Mbps, and PlaysForSure WMV videos (and, as we understand it, PlaysForSure audio as well)



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Losing Weight with the Nintendo Wii - 6 Weeks Later

So I submitted this a while back when the plan was still young. I've taken a few diggers' advice and made some modifications. 6 weeks into it and the results are pretty amazing so far, now only 4 pounds away from the lightest I have ever been. Take a look to see what I have done and how I am doing so far by exercising with the Nintendo Wii.



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PHOTOS: 4 stories of Donkey Kong, made from 6,400 Post-Its!

Check this out! Late Sunday night, a group of UC Santa Cruz students came together at the Engineering 2 building to recreate a level of Donkey Kong on four stories of windows made out of Post-Its. Complete with oil barrels, rolling barrels, ladders, Mario, Penelope, and of course, Donkey Kong!



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Monday, April 09, 2007

The FanBoiz - Smoke The Wii

FINALLY ! "Tray and play" (Like console games) comes to the PC !

With a PC game it’s a radically different process: unwrap the game, put in the disc, start clicking ok, figure out where to install it, make sure my DirectX version cuts the mustard, start watching the install progress, flip through the manual a bit, whip up a bologna sandwich, check on progress, start eating bologna sandwich, play the game – ..



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iPod did not save the soldiers life, It told him he was shot -Update

Update to iPod saves Soldiers life. I talked to Kevin Garrad this afternoon and here's the story firsthand: The armor stopped the bullet. The iPod was how Kevin Garrad found out he was shot. This is the real story of what happened to the iPod.



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Women who plays World of Warcraft prostitutes for epic flying mount gold!

With the release of The Burning Crusades, players have been forced to do monthly grinds or buy from illegal gold selling sites for a rare flying mount, one of the most expensive items in World of Warcraft. This may be the most desperate attempt to attain that goal ever. (Maybe NSFW.)



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Sunday, April 08, 2007

The Best Double Kill Ever In Halo 2

A simple and fast but extremely FUN flash game!!!

Make the Jelly Man jump from key to key on your keyboard and get all the green keys....very easy at first, but once you get to level 20 it gets a lot harder!!!



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Student starts Firefox campaign on campus

When students use on-campus computers, they have various browsers they can use, including Internet Explorer and Safari.If one Appalachian State University student has his way, all students would only use Mozilla Firefox



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Funny Bathroom Graffiti (pic)

Saturday, April 07, 2007

The dangerous effects of World Of Warcraft

For Die-Hard Halo Fan's Only: The Rainbow Theory

Bungie is obsessed with the number seven. There are seven Halos, seven Moniters, seven is the holy number of God, and a whole other mess of sevens. But what part does this play in the Halo series? This guys got a great theory that's so crazy that it makes a lot of sense. Warning; This article is only for the TRUE Halo fan!

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The Worst Games of the Past Decade

I have played the Kiss-less Kiss Pinball game, and it definitely sucks hard. That and nine others round out the list.

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360's Guitar Hero II guitar works in Windows, Frets on Fire

The USB-equipped X-plorer guitar that ships with the just-released Guitar Hero II for Xbox 360 works with Windows XP and Vista right out of the box. Yup, it even works with the freeware Guitar Hero clone Frets on Fire. Mac OS X was something of a mixed bag -- the controller was recognized immediately, but wasn't recognized as an input device.

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Friday, April 06, 2007

Shutdown Day 2007- Alternative Uses for your Laptop

Confessions of a Game Store Customer

It’s time for me to come clean to all of you Game Store clerks out there, I
’ve been holding this in for a really long time and I need to get it off my chest. Hopefully this doesn’t violate the non-disclosure agreement that I and the other 20 million Game Store customers signed, otherwise I could loose my license.

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The Top 10 Nintendo 64 Games

Well, we all know it deep down. The Nintendo 64 had some of the greatest games ever. While it may not have had the Controller for shooters, like the Playstation did. It had what I felt the playstation seemed to lack, fun games. Which is what this list is dedicated to, the best games of the Nintendo 64.

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15 Year Old Designs AMAZING Concept Phone

Of course, anything this cool would have to be a concept, but one with an amazing twist: its designer, Andrew Kim, is just 15 years old. This kid's in high school, for crying out loud, and he's pulling off design concepts that would put the pros to shame, complete with detailed spec sheets.

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Thursday, April 05, 2007

Halo Music Video Hell

Desktop Tower Defence Updated !!! HIGHLY ADDICTIVE FLASH GAME

The highly addictive Desktop Tower Defence has been updated to version 1.2. Includes new creeps, maps and weapons. Great Stuff !!

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Chick Chick BOOM

Addicting flash game. Draw the weapons to attack the other chicks. The better your drawing, the stronger your attack or defense. You can win real downloadable prizes!

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Ipod saves Soldier's Life -pictures and story

"his IPod was in his jacket pocket. It slowed the bullet down enough that it did not completely penetrate his body armor. Fortunately, Kevin suffered no wound."

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Wednesday, April 04, 2007

Noobs On Tape: Yoda Glitch

Kansas Board of Education Bans Pokemon

The people in Kansas have banned Pokémon in schools.

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Play hundreds of classic Nintendo 8-bit games on-line

Super Mario Brothers, Zelda, Mega Man, Castle-Vania and most of the other classic Nintendo titles playable directly in the browser without download. Gotta digg this!

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Stolen Xbox 360, Microsoft refuses to assist police

About two weeks ago, my friend's place was burglarized. The thieves stole his Xbox 360 and all of the games for it. After getting enough information for a warrant, the police lost their lead and now Microsoft refuses to help the police track down the stolen 360 even though the thieves are connecting to XBox Live on a regular basis. Help my friend.

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Tuesday, April 03, 2007

Serenity bombs a World of Warcraft funeral

5 Minutes To Kill (Yourself)

When you die, you win!

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HOW TO: Make a wallet made from a computer keyboard

In all likelihood there is a keyboard within a few feet of you. Inside that keyboard there probably is a circuit sheet that makes for a surprisingly durable and thin material for making a wallet.

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Google Suggests You Swim Across The Atlantic Ocean

Google, either encouraging physical fitness or zero population growth, offers the above helpful suggestion when mapping the route from Chicago to London.

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Monday, April 02, 2007

The Original Halo 3 Trailer

HUGE List of Free Games

This guy put together the biggest list of free games I've ever seen. It's geared towards the PC, but many of the games also work on Linux and Macs. A few are web-based (including a few good flash ones), but most are desktop-based. The page is simple, but the games are good. Who said free gaming wasn't fun?

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Guitar Hero II Effects Pedal Confirmed

Instruction manuals be praised! The Guitar Hero II manual reveals the function of that mystery port on the X-plorer Guitar -- an effects pedal.

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Two New Halo 2 Maps Unleashed

It's true! here's the digest version: Two new maps, both available on April 17th through the Halo 2 downloader in the game itself, and it's just $4 for the pair.The maps ar Tombstone and Desolation - remakes of Hang 'Em High and Derelict, respectively.

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Sunday, April 01, 2007

World of Warcraft BigBlueDress

Skywire - Addicting web game!!

Take control of the cable car and get the passengers to safety..

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Why a $100 XBox can be better than the Apple TV

Apple TV certainly has its uses, but the original XBox is easier to hack, cheaper, and has much more support from the hacking community right now than Apple TV. If you've not looked into XBMC, it's absolutely worth it.

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Wii Bowling Lego Robot: A Perfect Game

So I got a Wii this week and figured, why not build a Lego NXT Mindstorms robot to play Wii Bowling? I call it the WiigoBot.

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