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Filed under: Gaming “Touching is good,” but hacking? Not so much. Nintendo has gone on the war path against five Japanese companies that make their living helping users rip off DS games. Of course, a primary use for such hardware — such as the R4 Revolution, pictured — is homebrew and emulation, but good luck [...]

Gaming

Filed under: Gaming If you’ll recall, the evolution of homebrew on the Wii started out quite similar to this. First comes the Hello World proof of concept, then comes Pong. It would just be wrong to unfold otherwise, right? Dragula96, the same guru who whipped up the original homebrew hack, has now introduced 2 Player [...]

Gaming

Filed under: Gaming, Laptops So yeah, quite a few NVIDIA GPUs have been acting up. Nothing new there. However, Dell’s attempting to help its laptop owners out by making a few notable BIOS updates readily available for download. Apparently the issue “is a weak die / packaging material set, which may fail with GPU temperature [...]

Gaming

Filed under: Gaming, Wearables digg_url = \'http://digg.com/nintendo/NES_Belt_Buckle\'; Just as Mr. Adams wrote of the summer of ‘69, some heralded pop star decades from now will pen a smash hit recalling the summer of two-thousand and eight. Oddly enough, the tune will likely focus on the revitalization of the Nintendo Entertainment System, which has somehow wiggled [...]

Gaming

Filed under: Gaming We’re going to guess you’ve never heard of the Weemote, a tiny blue remote control made by a company called Forbis. The egg-shaped remote control and its parent company are reportedly in financial trouble ever since another company came out with something a lot of people are calling the “Wiimote.” While the [...]

Mobile

Samsung Omnia II coming to Austria in September, WinMo 6.5 included

Posted on 03 July 2009

Filed under: Handsets, Samsung, Windows Mobile, GSM, EDGE, HSDPA, UMTS Samsung’s already committed to offering Windows Mobile 6.5 upgrades to Omnia IIs released with 6.1, but just how necessary is that commitment going to end up being in practice? Microsoft’s Austrian outpost has announced that the Korean company’s latest WinMo superphone will be launching in [...] Continue Reading

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Laptops

Shadowy modder gives Eee PC a risky back alley trackball implant

Posted on 03 July 2009

Remember that guy who uber-hacked his Eee Computer with a GPS, Bluetooth, draft-n WiFi, FM transmitter, SDHC card reader, modem, USB hub, 2GB RAM? Well, we got one more for him. This enterprising gentleman, fed up with suffering through the three-finger scroll of his Eee PC 901, integrated the trackball of his Apple Mighty [...] Continue Reading

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Home Entertainment

PlayOn media server adds local media browsing to go with Hulu & Netflix, goes on sale for half price

Posted on 03 July 2009

Filed under: Media streamers, World wide web In a rather timely update considering recent events, MediaMall’s pumping up its latest additions to the PlayOn media streaming software. In addition to access to Netflix, Hulu (still working) and other streaming video (new ones being added through plugins) on your PS3, Xbox 360 or other DLNA-compatible device, [...] Continue Reading

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Apple

AptBackup 1.1-3: backup your Cydia-installed iPhone apps

Posted on 03 July 2009

Backing up your iPhone before you install new apps or upgrade is always a good idea. AptBackup makes this process a lot easier. While it doesn’t actually make backups of all your Cydia-installed apps, AptBackup does make a list of everything you installed from Cydia and reinstalls them all when you restore. To use it, just [...] Continue Reading

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