Join Movie rentals from Disney on Xbox Live
Disney-ABC has teamed up with Microsoft to allow Xbox 360 owners to rent movies online, courtesy of the Xbox Live service. Since the Xbox 360 already comes with integrated networking capabilities, it makes sense to give them access to online game demo downloads, simple arcade games, videos, and movies. Movies from Disney studios aren’t the only fare up on offer, as the spread includes titles from Miramax and Touchstone Pictures.
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Intel comes up with anti-cheating technology
Games are supposed to be fun, even more so computer games. Unfortunately, it loses its fun factor when cheats fall into the equation. The computer folk at Intel share your pain of meeting a person in an online server who seems to have unnatural reflexes and superhuman aim, and yet do not carry the handle Fatal1ty. How does Intel confirm your suspicions that this isn’t a really skilled player but someone who has been hiding behind the facade of aimbots? Let us read to find out more on how Intel develops technology that detects cheating in online games.
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USB HDTV tuner for your computer
Most people don’t realize that you can usually get free HDTV if you use an antenna. Really, you don’t have to pay the cable/satellite company too much money for too little content– it’s probably easier to simply pony up that $15/month, but if you’re willing to do some tinkering, a gadget like the Laptop HDTV receiver is for you. And, be warned, it will cost you a bit of money up front, to the tune of $200, but in the long run, you’ll be saving money.
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10 minutes with Safari for Windows
Safari is Apple’s answer to Internet Explorer, it’s the default web browser that ships with OSX. And it now runs under Windows – so I thought I’d give it a try.
Installation was painless and it hasn’t (so far) taken over all my file associations to become the default browser. It automatically picked up both my IE and Firefox bookmarks too which is handy.
Could this be the first step into tempting me away from my Wintel bias and onto the Mac bandwagon? First impressions after the jump…
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Russian ATM runs on illegal Windows
Now this is truly hilarious – an ATM machine in Russia “pleading” with users to activate this particular copy of Windows within seven days. What a hoot! I didn’t know banks in Russia actually used the services of street vendors who are known as notorious software pirates. Do you have any funny ATM stories to share with us? Kindly leave a comment below if the answer is in the affirmative.
Source: The Raw Feed
Getting organized, what organizer to use, & what’s next from Palm?
Staying organized, its a difficult task that all of us are involved in, one way or another, EVERY SINGLE DAY.
There are a ton of options: Moleskine, Palm Pilot, Blackberry, Online with Google Cal, Yahoo Calendar, Scrybe, Plaxo, the old standby Outlook, Highrise, and many more.
As I began writing this article I found this note (and this one), indicating Mr. Hawkins and the team at Palm are releasing a new product tomorrow morning (11:30 Pacific Time)
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Windlight atmospheric beauty to light 2nd life
Sunrise, Sunset,,, enough of that Tevia, now in Second Life you can see much more natural (and depending on how your local environment is set,, un-natural skyscapes.)
The folks at Linden Labs are using the Windlight atmospheric renderer. It takes your boring sky to monstrously gorgeous levels (take a picture why don’t you!)
Linden Labs has acquired Windward Mark (do you think that company likes sailing just a bit?) Their rendering package is now a part of everybody’s favorite other life and now, well, the future looks bright (hang on, I’m going to put a few more bad puns in here.
Continue reading » Don’t miss the awesome Flickr group of these new images produced with the Windlight package, they look great! Windlight atmospheric beauty to light 2nd life
YouMail, individualized voicemail to freak out everyone you know
So I called my best buddy from the age of 5 the other day, and this is what I heard, “Hey Fred! I’m kinda busy right now,, what’s up? Short Pause,,,,Leave a message!” BEEP!!!
Doh! Did I feel stupid,, then I felt really cool. Hey, he’s set up a whole phone just for me (mainly due to the fact that I call incessantly, cause he’s super busy, so I just routinely call and sometimes we get to talk (its easier that way). I was fooled by YouMail!
The best part is, the basic plan is free. That’s right totally personalized voice mail messages (and easy setup,, apparently the trick is to set up a speed-dial key on your mobile to call the Continue reading » YouMail VM. You can also use it to check your voice mail online! YouMail, individualized voicemail to freak out everyone you know
