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  • Travel Like A Local: Be a $5 Culture Vulture
    By on October 22, 2010 | Comments Off  Comments

    Travelling is expensive. But if you look hard enough, you can find some great activities in cities around the world that cost less than a fiver.

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  • Making Ubuntu Look Like Windows 7
    By on August 26, 2010 | Comments Off  Comments

    DeviceGuru writes “Although it won’t help Linux run Windows-specific software applications, this easy hack produces an Ubuntu desktop that looks and feels a lot like Windows 7. It’s particularly suitable for reviving older PCs or laptops on which the main activities will be web-browsing, email, document writing, and streaming music and videos from from the web. The process installs a Windows 7-like GNOME theme on an otherwise standard Ubuntu 10.04 (more…)

  • Microsoft: Kinect Feels Like Mario Bros.
    By on June 29, 2010 | Comments Off  Comments

    The easiest way to explain the situation is to show it. Here’s what Kudo Tsunoda, creative director for Kinect at Microsoft, has to say regarding the often difficult task of explaining Kinect in written form:

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  • Video Games Aimed at Girls are Just Ridiculous – Like O.M.G!
    By on June 2, 2010 | Comments Off  Comments

    Video Games seem to be mostly based for males but when they try to create female games, they seem so horrific, stupid, and poorly made… but that’s just when us guys look at it from our point of view.. Just try not to let your girlfriend talk you into playing these games.

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  • New Touchscreen Technology Like Writing On Paper
    By on January 30, 2010 | Comments Off  Comments

    An anonymous reader writes “A company claims it has the technology to make writing on touchscreens more like writing with pencil and paper, when the harder you press the thicker the line you produce. The technology uses a material called Quantum Tunneling Composite (QTC), the resistance of which is extremely sensitive to pressure, unlike today’s touchscreen phones, which might be fine for basic finger-pointing, but they are poor at gauging the pressure (more…)

  • Top 10 Video Game Titles That Sound Like Porn Titles
    By on December 16, 2009 | Comments Off  Comments

    Sometimes companies should stand back and make sure their game title has no double meaning.

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  • Disney Will Make Over Mickey — Why? To Make Us Like Him.
    By on November 8, 2009 | Comments Off  Comments

    For years, the Disney character was squeaky clean. His makeover will start with the release of a video game in which he can be cantankerous and cunning. But Mickey won’t be bland anymore, either. “I wanted him to be able to be naughty — when you’re playing as Mickey you can misbehave and even be a little selfish”…

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  • What Would The DS Look Like With a Four Inch Screen?
    By on October 30, 2009 | Comments Off  Comments

    The current DSi screen is 3.25 inches. Rumor has it that Nintendo will be releasing a new DS with a 4 inch screen. What would that look like? Time to bust out the ruler and additional screen.

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  • Bears ‘are not violent and do not like honey’
    By on October 29, 2009 | Comments Off  Comments

    Bears are not violent and do not like honey, according to Lynn Rogers, a biologist who spent thousands of hours studying the animals.

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  • Do Girls Like Video Games?
    By on October 27, 2009 | Comments Off  Comments

    Despite the presence of females in gaming today there are often instances of them being hassled during online matchups and this is a problem if we hope to include them permanently. With these things happening at the rate they do it would be understandable if women did not like gaming.

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