Archive for April, 2006

Xbox Live 3.0 Tuesday

Xbox Live is set to go offline from 02:00 - 15:00 Tuesday Pacific Time (10:00 Tuesday - 01:00 Wednesday GMT).
While no official word on the reasons for the outage other then the downtime time, odds are this is for the Xbox Live spring update that will allow for marketplace downloads in the background just in [...]

REVIEW: “Civil War” #1

CBR’s Hannibal Tabu takes a break from his Comic Reel Wrap and THE BUY PILE duties to bring you an advance review of the kick off Marvel’s big summer event, “Civil War” #1. What did he think?
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Firefox Extension - Download videos from Youtube and other 60 sites !

VideoDownloader add a small icon on the status bar. Just click that and download the video you are watching ! Download videos from Youtube, Google, Metacafe, iFilm, Dailymotion… and other 60+ video sites ! AND all embedded objects on any webpage (movies, mp3s, flash, quicktime, etc) ! Directly ! Example: http://videodownloader.net/help/vd04.htm
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Gears of War website online

We don’t have to introduce Gears of War anymore. Together with Halo 3 this has to be the Xbox360 game people are most looking forward to at the moment. For those of you who want some information on the game : the website is now online.
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Half-Life 2: Episode One Preloads

A new Steam Update announces that Half-Life 2: Episode One will begin preloading over Steam next week.
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Finally: A Bucket To Hold Your Gadgets

A stylish European BUCKET performs four jobs with style. A tray on top holds everything you carry in your pockets, including your gadgets. Under the tray are outlets for plugging in the devices, and the bucket holds all the cabling. Oh, and it’s an LED lamp. (props to Personal Tech Pipeline and The Red Ferret [...]

NY Times, Microsoft Build Vista App

The New York Times has joined up with Microsoft to build a new standalone application for reading the newspaper’s content on a PC. The tool, called Times Reader, was unveiled Friday in prototype form and takes advantage of the Windows Presentation Foundation that will ship in Vista.
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Superman Trailer Confirmed with M:i:III

ComingSoon.net’s Superhero Hype! has confirmed that the new Superman Returns trailer will be enclosed in the can with Paramount’s Mission: Impossible III , opening next Friday, May 5th and will also be attached to all prints of WB’s Poseidon the following week, [...]

Seagate Releases 750 GB Hard Drive

Seagate Technology surged to new levels of areal density and storage capacity leadership with the introduction of the world’s first desktop hard drive to hit the 750GB capacity mark.
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New Rise of Legends Demo

An updated demo for Rise of Nations: Rise of Legends is now available, offering the promised (story) revised sample of Big Huge Games’ mythological RTS game.
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