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Hey, folks! Just wanted to quickly let everyone know that we have made it easier for you to send in your hankering questions. If you click on ‘Ask the Olive’ in the sidebar, you’ll notice that all you have to do is type in your question and smash the Send button. Pretty easy, eh? We’ll answer every question that we get and you can view the archive of questions on our Formspring.me page.

If you have any questions about this, you know where to go.

Plain and simple, Dropbox is a freeware application that automatically syncs files over the internet and also to any computers that you own. This is a dream if you have multiple computers in your household or if you share files constantly with your friends. The one thing that makes Dropbox unique from a lot of other syncing and sharing services is the ability to simply drag and drop files into the Dropbox folder on your computer and have them instantly be available to any computer that you give permission to. Any file that you put inside the Dropbox folder will automatically be synced and monitored for changes, so each time a change is saved, it backs up and syncs the file again. Best of all, it works with Windows, Mac, and Linux, so you can share files easily across different OSes. They also have an iPhone app available for free as well.

In this quick tutorial, I’ll show you how to get started using this extremely simple application and what features are the most useful.

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When I first read about Snake Worlds, it was a very intriguing idea: A simplistic remake of the original Snake game, but with a nice 3D twist and a spherical gameplay world. It was time to see how this modern remake of a classic game fares in today’s gaming world.

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In a move that hardly surprises us, Activision has officially announced that PC gamers will have to pay for Modern Warfare 2 DLC, starting with the May 4th release of the Stimulus Package. The good news, however, is that by pre-ordering through Steam, you can save 10%.

The Stimulus Package DLC for Modern Warfare 2 on PC is 10% off on Steam if you pre-order before the May 4th release! — Robert Bowling on Twitter.

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Yesterday was the six month anniversary of Windows 7 and Microsoft has sold more than 100 million licenses of the new OS. According to the company’s Windows Team Blog, that’s more than 10% of all PCs in the entire world.

It makes sense that so many users are quickly making the switch. Thanks to the beta program and Release Candidates, Microsoft rebounded from Vista and made a more solid OS.

[Windows Team Blog]

It comes at no surprise that other ex-Infinity Ward members would join West and Zampella at their newly formed studio, Respawn Entertainment. According to Game Informer, previous Infinity Ward workers Mackey McCandlish, Jon Shiring, Todd Alderman, Rayme Vinson, Chris Cherubini, Mark Grisby and John Paul Messerly have all joined Respawn with their same job titles as they previously held with Infinity Ward.

It’s exciting to see what the awesome team behind the Modern Warfare titles will create under their new employment at Respawn. Here’s hoping they don’t go console exclusive.

via [Game Informer]

This weekend’s special deal over at Steam is two-parts awesomeness. For starters, they’ve got Left 4 Dead 2 for 33% off in honor of the just-released (free!) DLC. As if that’s not awesome enough, they’ve also cut the price of CoD4 by 50%. So, if you don’t already have the games, grab L4D2 for $20.09 and answer the call by purchasing CoD4 for $14.99. Deals will be running until Monday the 26th.

Always a sucker for a good indie game, I had to give Beat Hazard a try. Not only because of its indie roots, but also because it takes a lot of inspiration from Audiosurf‘s winning recipe. Between epileptic seizures of my own, I decided to write a quick review on the game.

Beat Hazard is a top-down, classic arcade-style, space shoot-em-up game with a twist: The levels are created around the music that you choose, just like Audiosurf. This concept alone is enough to make the game endlessly replayable.

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According to the LA Times, Hulu will launch ‘Hulu Plus,’ a $10/month subscription service that will offer additional episodes of TV shows beyond the five most recent episodes. The free Hulu that we all know and love will still be with us, but starting as early as late May, we’ll see Hulu Plus start to show up in select markets for testing. As far as any more details, that’s all we know.

Personally, until they get all of my favorite TV shows on Hulu, I won’t be paying the $10. And where is this Hulu iPhone app?

via [LA Times]

If you haven’t read Part I of our two-part Spring Cleaning series, read it here.

So, you’re finally tired of your PC gasping for fresh air and you also want to start charging rent to those spiders that have built their webs running from your GPU to your RAM. No problem. With about an hour, you can bring your PC back to its full cooling and airflow capabilities and if you prefer, you can take a little extra time to manage some of those internal cables that are beginning to resemble a botany class gone wrong.

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