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Archive | January, 2008
iPhone SDK 3rd Party Application Key Leaked
Uh oh… TUAW reports that the secret iPhone SDK 3rd party application key was leaked… and by “leaked” I mean, click here, and write down what it is. Is it just me, or is everyone else still surprised that companies (HD-DVD, Blu-ray, Apple) rely on these “1 secret master password” security designs, that so far have [...]
Continue reading...Shoot ‘Em Up Movie Review
29. January 2008
Summary [7 out of 10] Shoot ‘Em Up is a ridiculously paced, non-stop action movie that is a collection of surprisingly cohesive scenes that provide excuses for the director to realize constant over-the-top action sequences that are a blast to watch ending with a great cheesy one-liner from the main character. Setup If you plan on watching this [...]
Continue reading...4100 Lumen Flashlight Starts Fires
29. January 2008
Do you need to see the fuck out of what you are looking at, at night? Do you need to shine your flash light into a deer’s eyes not just to see if the “Deer in the headlights” trick is real, but to see if the deer’s eyes turn white and it’s retinas detach? Do [...]
Continue reading...Grand Theft Auto 4 Like Gears of War
28. January 2008
As the GTA4 marketing campaign livens up for a Q2 release of GTA4, IGN got some poop about how the shooting mechanics in GTA4 will be much more like Gears of War (with a proper cover and aiming mechanic) that gamers have come to expect from shooters (cough COD4) like Uncharted and Gears of War. That’s [...]
Continue reading...Nokia Buys Trolltech, Snubs Google’s Open Handset Alliance
28. January 2008
Nokia has agreed to purchase Trolltech (creators of the QT cross platform GUI Toolkit that KDE is based on, as well as the Qtopia cell phone platform) for $150 million. This is an interesting move as all the hub-bub surrounding Google’s announcement of the Open Handset Alliance and the new cell platform, Android, was surprisingly devoid [...]
Continue reading...Create Customized Windows Vista ISO with vLite
28. January 2008
For the folks that have used nLite with Windows XP and love it, stop right there… vLite is for Vista and works just as awesome. For folks that have no idea what nLite or vLite are, they are these badass programs written by Dino Nuhagic that are used to take the install files for Windows XP [...]
Continue reading...New York Seeks to Ban Geiger Counters & Air Monitoring Hardware
28. January 2008
The Village Voice is running a story that New York officials are lobbying to remove Geiger counters (and any other kind of air quality or asbestos detector) from the hands of citizens unless authorized to carry them by the police: And it’s not just devices to detect weaponized anthrax that they want the power to control, [...]
Continue reading...Resident Evil: Extinction Movie Review
28. January 2008
Summary [4 out of 10] Resident Evil: Extinction is a terrible, terrible movie. For fans of the games or even of the 1st or 2nd movie, just turn and walk the other way. Hidden deep in this script are literally 2 good ideas that get 3 mins of screen time, while the remaining 87 mins is garbage [...]
Continue reading...Resistance 2 Screenshots
26. January 2008
Ted Regulski sends in news of simply “This is why you own a PS3″ then points to the NeoGAF thread with the new released screenshots for Resistance 2 are. Given what Insomniac did with Resistance: Fall of Man, and the expertise they showed to create the best launch title for the PS3, then following that up [...]
Continue reading...SmugMug Just Gave me an iPhone
25. January 2008
How cool could a Friday get? I’ll tell you how cool… you get an email in your inbox saying “Congratulations, you won”… an iPhone. So a few months ago SmugMug, awesome photo sharing site, decided to hold a contest to promote usage of their extended and enhanced developer API. I had been working pretty heavily for [...]
Continue reading...Windows 7, Extensive Detailed Revealed
23. January 2008
Grant Gochnauer sends in a link to the istartedsomething blog where a commenter, rumored to be an insider from Microsoft, left a comment that equates to an essay covering the development, design, features and strategy all coming in Windows 7. We’ll try and highlight the juicy parts below, but if you love this stuff, you are [...]
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Humor & Funny
- Are You Pregnant Ref? Cause You Missed the Last 2 Periods!
- Dwight, from The Office, Undergoes Serious Nerd-Torture
- Let’s All Pray for the Stupid People…
- Britney “Southern Gut” Spears is… Looking Good? New “Womanizer” Music Video
- Creepy Gay Kid Happy Birthday
- 82-year-old Hugh Hefner’s Heart Broken by GF Who’s, Like, “OMG what?? We won’t have kids!?”
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29. January 2008
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