Chris Hunkele just sent in a picture of his screen after he found a glitch on the Queen level at the end of Gears of War 2; apparently you can dive off one of the lifts at a certain point out into mid-air, and walk your way around the level without the enemy AI reacting [...]
Archive | November, 2008
Ragdoll Kittens – A Vacuum of Pure Precious
Do you like cute kitten videos? I can phrase that a different way… do you have a soul? If you do, then enjoy this: It is very perturbed at the leather ottoman and has to destroy it. This is also the first time I had ever seen the term “ragdoll kitten” or “ragdoll” cat, after [...]
How To Get Crazy Hair Colors For Your Avatar on the New Xbox Experience
With the New Xbox Experience and its Mii like Avatars releasing this week a lot of people are spending countless hours tweaking their Avatars to get them just how they like them. Personally, I wish their were more options for clothing to wear, but Microsoft has said more will be coming soon. It is only [...]
Get Banjo Kazooie (XBLA) Early Plus More
Can’t wait until Wednesday to get your Banjo fix? Thankfully with the new Xbox Live Experience, you don’t have to! All you have to do is log into your account on Xbox.com and vist this url. Just hit “Download to Xbox 360″ and the next time you log into Xbox Live it should start automatically [...]
Honey, Where's the Remote?
I just found out that I have to have some stupid surgical procedure, and I feel about anesthesia the same way I do about flying… I don’t like it. I realize it’s a necessary evil, but nevertheless… As anyone would, I began searching the internet (which I just typed as “internest”) for anesthesia horror stories. [...]
How to Use T-Mobile $20 BlackBerry EDGE Data Plan with Android G1 Phone
Update #2:As a heads up to anyone wanting to try this out, please read this post first before continuing. As you may know the new T-Mobile G1 Android phone is out, and requires some potentially expensive-ass data plans to function fully ($24.99 for unlimited “data”, but 400 messages including “SMS, IM and email” or $34.99 [...]
Floola as iPod Management Software
Looking for that great iTunes replacement app to run on Linux? Have you ever heard of Floola? Offering most of the features of iTunes, Floola now gives Linux users the ability to copy Music, Photos, Movies, and even YouTube and MySpace videos to their treasured ipods. For those whose music is encoded in ogg or [...]
XNA Community Games Off to a Huge Start
On Wednesday this week, November 19th, XNA Community Games launched on the Xbox 360 with the new dashboard updated – The New Xbox Experience. Just three days after launch there are already 45 games available in Xbox Live’s XNA Community Games (ranging in price from $2.50 to $10), and that number continues to grow daily. [...]
Black Friday Deals
God… I had forgotten what this time of year gets like around Black Friday; well it’s getting closer, which means “Black Friday” deal leaks from now until the night before. Dealsea has summarized all the known ads thus far, here are the good ones: HDTV Deals of Black Friday 2008 Costco Black Friday 2008 Ad [...]
Working Around Gmail Contact Importing: Oops. An unknown error occured while importing your contacts.
If you are like me and trying to get your contacts all organized in Gmail, you may likely be running into the god-forsaken phrase: Oops. An unknown error occured while importing your contacts. … over and over again; no matter what you do. I was trying to import some CSVs from Windows Vista Contacts (exported [...]
AjaXplorer: a Web-based File Manager
AjaXplorer is quite a unique tool, and if you haven’t heard of it you might want to check out the latest 2.3.8 version. Essentially, AjaXplorer creates a web-based file manager using, you guessed it, Ajax. You can upload and view files, edit text files, create folders, and move or rename files and folders. Standard stuff [...]
Competency. Try it.
It’s Friday, thank god. As anyone who has ever worked a phone job can attest to, that amazing invention with the buttons and the dial tone attracts some total nutjobs that grace one’s daily life on this end of the telephone cord with some truly awesome glimpses at humanity at its finest. For example, the [...]
Grand Theft Auto IV DLC Announced… and No One Cares
Rockstar finally announced their Xbox 360-exclusive DLC for Grand Theft Auto IV: Lost and Damned, focusing around a brand new main character, “Johnny”. Apparently Johnny is part of a bike game and does cross paths with Niko in a few bit pieces in the game, but otherwise it’s basically just another story told in the [...]
Mirror's Edge on the PC Gets NVIDIA PhysX Material Enhancements
Ouch… right after Mirror’s Edge was released on consoles as either a love it or hate it ordeal (I’d say I lean towards the first) it looks like they are sprucing up the PC launch of the title with full physical material rendering done by the NVIDIA PhysX engine that was recently integrated directly into [...]
Why Halo 3's Loads Slower With The New Xbox Experience
Microsoft’s newest update to the Xbox 360, the New Xbox Experience, released today. As we reported last week one of the cool new features is that games can be saved to the hard drive. For most games this allows them to load faster and in some cases helps alleviate graphical glitches like “pop in.” The [...]
Street Fighter HD confirmed for Realease This Month
For those of you Street Fighter fanatics that haven’t heard, Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix will finally be making it’s way on to the PSN and Xbox Live. PSN owners will be able to start honing their skills when the game releases November 25th(Tuesday), an entire day before 360 owners will get a [...]
Dying on a Budget?
Hey Mom, guess what I got you for Christmas this year? I know its a little bulky, but one day you’ll be glad you have it. Oh yes, folks. Everything you want, need, can think of plus the exact opposite of all of those things is now available at Costco. From presents for your grandparents for the [...]
PSN Cracks 14 Million Active User Mark – Michael Pachter Eats Feet
In the most recent Bonus Round episodes (Online Services – Part 1, Part 2) analyst Michael Pachter, and all around good-dresser, proported that PSN was a complete Sony-fail with, what he guessed, was less than 1 million active users; part of his reasoning for stating this was that Sony never announced numbers for the service [...]
Warning: Lips Mic Not Cross Game Compatible
There was a time in the not to distant past where music game peripherals were not cross game compatible, but with the current iteration of Guitar Hero: World Tour, Rock Band 2, and Rock Revolution the developers and publishers involved listened to the consumers complaints about having to repeatedly buy new plastic instruments with each [...]
Roomba Riding Cat
Thanks to Robert Heron for sending this in. Sometimes your pets just want to help you clean around the house… and sometimes they are super precious… and sometimes they do both at the same time:
ClamTk 4.04 – A GUI Front End for ClamAV – Released
ClamTk just released the latest version of their frontend to Clam AntiVirus which “brings back the Debian builds.” If you’ve never heard of Clam AntiVirus (aka ClamAV) before it is an Open Source antivirus solution for Linux. Over the years ClamAV has gained much popularity, and has been used by many companies small and big [...]
Remembering Jonestown
It was 30 years ago today. Reverend Jim Jones taught the band to play. All 900 plus of them. And play they did. November 18, 1978 was the day of the Jonestown Massacre in beautiful, sunny Guyana in South America. Jim Jones and his Peoples Temple took a little field trip – no permission slips [...]
NETGEAR Releases XAVB101 & HDXB111 200 Mbps Powerline Adapters
Update #1: We reviews these adapters! Check out our NETGEAR Powerline AV 200 adapter review. We have been waiting for revised, higher performance Ethernet-over-Powerline adapters since our “How to build a high performance Powerline home network” article in June of 2007. It seems that after the initial HomePlug 1.0 spec which was a 4 or [...]
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