So, every few years there’s a new Ratchet and Clank game on the market for Sony fans. The series itself has always had its up's with great games like Up Your Arsenal, and down's with Ratchet: Deadlocked. Despite all the problems some of the games had, they were all still pretty entertaining enough to warrant a nice weekend rental.
So the question is - Is this game worth more then just a rental?
Nick Mahar Nov 17, 2009
Apple, Applications, Design, Gadgets, Hacks, Hardware, Internet, Linux, Microsoft, Websites, breaking 
Sadly, it's looking like the Chrome OS won't be coming out this week as earlier speculated. But there is good news. This upcoming Thursday in Mountain View, CA headquarters, Google is hosting an event to showcase its progress on the anticipated operating system, Google Chrome. Most importantly, though, is they will be releasing information on its launch plans for next year.
Google Chrome is slowly on it's way and we'll all soon find out if it's amazing or not.
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Everyone has seen external chargers for your iPhone, Blackberry, or what ever, but those usually cost a fortune and only last a certain amount of time. This, however, isn’t one of those. Instead, the Duracell Instant Charger defines awesome. This works with any USB-compatible devices with your adapters.
The two models are Instant Charger ($20) and Powerhouse Charger ($50). Both are lightweight, very easy to use, and perfect, since they are battery operated. Once the batteries die just put in 2 new ones and you’re good to go - no more need to recharge the extra device. With no unnecessary buttons, you’ll only need to navigate an on/off switch, and a simple indicator light (red when charging, green when charged).
The Powerhouse stores enough power to charge an iPhone 3G or Blackberry Curve 1.2 times, or an iPod Nano 4 times. Most iPhone charging solutions have their own special cases, but this thing is portable and costs less than $100.
I’ve been using it for a while and for me one word says it all: perfect. The device is small, functional, and cheap - Why wouldn’t you want it?
Wouldn't you like to change everything on Facebook into Pirate talk? For some people who didn't know (like me), you can change the language of your Facebook to be Pirate talk! Simply go to your settings, language, and select English (Pirate) and you're all set.
This is just a fun little tool that gives Facebook a little bit more flavor, and as you can see with the pictures above, it become your own little pirate ship. You'll learn to love it and find more and more funny things you didn't notice before. Beware though, you might catch yourself typing a regular status update or message in Pirate.
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PirateBay has moved on from the tracker game, and is now sporting a new logo, and new tech. DHT, or distributed hash tables, will replace the way in which PirateBay interects with torrent files. This really doesn't change anything on your end - you'll still click a link, but now a magnet link, which will open up in your BitTorrent client and download as usual.
From the PirateBay Blog:
“Now that the decentralized system for finding peers is so well developed, TPB has decided that there is no need to run a tracker anymore, so it will remain down! It’s the end of an era, but the era is no longer up2date. We have put a server in a museum already, and now the tracking can be put there as well.”
I'm sure there's a lot more to it then that, but it's really over my head the technical aspects of this change. What I do know is that DHT used to be utilized by direct peer to peer applications, like Napster and Gnutella. From what I've read and understand of this development, PirateBay is doing this to get out of some loophole legal stuff - since they want to be likened to Google, in terms of being just a search engine of torrent files. By not going through a tracker, and instead going forward with DHT, they no longer are tied to the host file itself, although this is a bit debatable.
[PirateBay Blog via TorrentFreak]
A new study published by SquareTrade revealed that the smaller name brand notebook manufacturers are usually more reliable than their larger rivals. This should either make you cry, or laugh at the other people who got the crappy laptops. This chart is the 3-year service history of more than 30,000 laptops, which you know you're dying to know more about. Firstly, netbooks have shown themselves to be on average 20 percent less reliable than entry-level laptops. On the other hand, entry level laptops are 10 percent more likely to break down than [...]
Nick Mahar Nov 17, 2009
Apple, Design, Gadgets, Hardware, Humor, Internet, Mobile, Personal, Pictures, Videos
We've all seen tons of different iPod cases, but have ever been this cool - or stylish. Made from 45 different types of cases gutted from cassette tapes, these puppies fit the 4th gen iPod Nanos.
Just looking at this makes me want to go out and buy a Nano.
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