By Craig Lloyd on Jan 11th, 2010 at 9:28PM
Yet, another true story from the awesome comic website known only as The Oatmeal. This time around they explain the bitter truth about printers and why they “were sent from hell to make us miserable.” This is why I don’t have a printer of my own, folks. Hit up the link below to view the LOLness.
By Craig Lloyd on Jan 11th, 2010 at 2:51PM
According to MSI chairman Joseph Hsu, the company expects to ship approximately 50% more notebooks in 2010, while their all-in-one business PCs will follow suite. They plan to accomplish this by offering a vaster range of notebook models with different specifications instead of focusing on just a few models.
Hsu said that this shouldn’t be too hard to accomplish and even though they took a hit in 2009, sales were still higher that year than 2008.
via [DigiTimes]
By Tim Hage on Jan 11th, 2010 at 12:04AM
As I sat here searching for something new to blame my low-scoring Modern Warfare 2 matches on (we can’t all continue to blame lag, or that new mouse), I figured why not blame myself? Now, I know what you’re thinking, and you’re wrong; I’m not admitting anything! You see, rather than actually admitting that someone is better than me, I am merely pointing out the uselessness of a gamer’s mouse-handed ring finger. Seriously, what do you use it for when gaming?
By Craig Lloyd on Jan 10th, 2010 at 7:04PM
CES. CES. CES. That was the biggest part of this past week. While there wasn’t really anything spectacular at the show this year, we still saw some nifty products being announced and unveiled. Join us after the break for a quick recap of the week.
By Craig Lloyd on Jan 10th, 2010 at 2:04PM
Firefox 3.6 finally has a release candidate out, which means the final release should be right around the corner. This RC has over 70 fixes from the last beta and also has more HTML5 improvements. For those eager beta testers out there, hit up the link below to get your RC groove going.
By Andrew Kershaw on Jan 10th, 2010 at 1:04PM
Some confusion has been going round about Blizzard’s policies on hacked accounts on World of Warcraft, namely the new ‘care package’ offer that they have introduced. If a player’s account gets hacked and they lose all their items, normally that player would put in for an account restore. This entails Blizzard going and finding out exactly what was lost and then bringing the character back into a pre-hacking state. This new care package — which is being offered to players as an alternative to getting a full restore — takes a significantly shorter amount of time to execute and helps get the players back into the game faster. Here’s some quick advice: If you don’t want to get your account hacked, then get a Blizzard authenticator or if you own an iPod Touch then download the Blizzard authenticator app. They’re very easy to use and make your account 100% safe.
via [Inc Gamers]
By Craig Lloyd on Jan 9th, 2010 at 3:06PM
A few months ago, Toshiba unveiled 30GB and 62GB models of 32nm SSDs that used the mini-SATA interface. The company has now announced a 128GB flavor with a max read speed of 130 MB/s and a write speed of 70 MB/s. You might think there’s nothing special about these drives, just another line of SSDs, but the 128GB model is said be one-seventh the size and one-eighth the weight of your normal 2.5-inch SSDs. No details have been given about price , but they are expected to ship Q2 of this year.
By Tim Hage on Jan 8th, 2010 at 11:52PM
Although PS3 gamers have been enjoying the Bad Company 2 beta for several weeks now, PC gamers have heard nothing but delays for their chance at the beta. However, DICE has finally announced the official, solid PC beta opening date. Running only from January 28th to February 25th, the beta seems to be somewhat exclusive with the allowed members being those that have preordered the game or gamers that are lucky enough to get a beta key when IGN or GameSpot start their giveaways.
If you’re not lucky enough to get into this beta, fear not. DICE has assured gamers that there will also be a multiplayer demo that will be released to the public before the game’s retail release on March 2nd.
via [Cinema Blend]
By Craig Lloyd on Jan 8th, 2010 at 10:49PM
Intel recently announced their Wireless Display technology where you can stream HD video of your choosing wirelessly to your TV. Sounds like a sweet deal to us, but according to the requirements you need either an i3, i5 or i7 Intel processor. Maybe this is just a marketing thing, but we hope it works with any processor or at least any Intel CPU.
The box will cost you $100 and it will be available at Best Buy starting January 17th.
[Intel]
By Tim Hage on Jan 8th, 2010 at 2:54PM
An independently-developed MW2 iPhone/iPod Touch app has released to the public. While it doesn’t offer any actual gameplay, the app serves as an informational tool for the multiplayer aspects of MW2. Compiling everything from lists of challenges to top-down views of the game’s maps. This app is packed with information and graphics from the game. At first glance, this seems like a cool idea, but how long will you really keep this on your iPhone, let alone use it? Follow the break for some screenshots.
