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Entries from May 30, 2010 - June 5, 2010
Friday
Jun042010
Ricardo TrejoRumor - Dead Space: Extraction coming to XBLA and PSN
Rumor - Dead Space: Extraction coming to XBLA and PSN
Dead Space was my pick for Game of the Year back in ‘08, but I never got a chance to try out the Wii exclusive on rails prequel, Dead Space: Extraction that released earlier last year.
Well, if a recent rumor is to be trusted, EA will be porting over the once Wii-only title to Xbox Live and the Playstation Network, incorporating Natal and Move support, as well as putting it up for a highly affordable $14.99 price tag - Find Out MORE
Friday
Jun042010
ITG xpPhone: its roomier than a Mini Cooper
Isn’t it funny how fashions come back into play? Take this for instance: it’s the ITG xpPhone, and minus its slide-out QWERTY keyboard, touchscreen, and OS — which just so happens to be Windows XP — it looks as though its circa 1980. Wait, we take that back; it’s not fair on the gargantuan phones of the 80’s and early 90’s. Sure, you could argue that the Dell Streak is similar in size, but at least that thing’s thin — ultimately, resulting in a more phone-esque user experience. Despite its inexcusable, utterly ridiculous size, we do have two positive points to make about it. Instead of living in fear that you’ll inevitably be mugged someday (although we pray you aren’t) you could simply pull out your ITG xpPhone and throw it at your attacker(s) — problem solved, their unconscious. Secondly, this device has finally given us a reason to buy that gold plated Stuart Hughes brick phone (after all, if you’re going to waste your money on basic housing materials, you may as well end up with a gold one). Video after the break.
Friday
Jun042010
Video - 4chan creator's TED talk finally gets posted
Video - 4chan creator's TED talk finally gets posted
We wrote an article a while back when Christopher Poole, otherwise known as moot of 4chan, was invited to give a talk at a TED conference.
At the time TED hadn’t given permission to allow the bootlegged, low quality Youtube versions of the talk, so we had to wait for them to finally upload it themselves. Well, finally they’ve put up the official video in all its high quality glory, and we’ve updated the original story’s page as well - See it HERE
Friday
Jun042010
EVO 4G gets OTA Update - already?
You just have to love HTC; On the eve of what is arguably their biggest launch to date, they already have an OTA (Over the Air) update in the works for Sprint’s EVO 4G according to the good folks over at AndroidCentral.com. There seems to have been a bug in the software that causes the phone to crash and data not save to the included SD card. And just to prove how awesome HTC is, they say, “we expect to have a software solution available very shortly that will be automatically pushed to phones over the air.” Phil Nickinson, of AndroidCentral.com, says he’s “ only experienced this a few times, and a reboot clears it right up, but it’s still a pain.”
Good show HTC! Though you could always say this kind of bug shouldn’t have existed in the first place, but you could also say that this was some sort of Machiavellian scheme by HTC to close root access to the hottest device NOT from Cupertino. All in all, as an early adopter, I’m glad to see I’m taken care of here.
Friday
Jun042010
Customize your Google Homepage with new Wallpaper Feature
“Make it your own” - We’ve had customization tools like this before with iGoogle, but that only made the experience much more cluttered, and felt reminiscent of the way old sites back in the early 2000’s used to set up their homepages - with as much information mushed within a single page as possible; think Yahoo! and AOL. Now it appears that Google has gone into a whole new direction and is now ripping out a page from the book of Bing. For those unfamiliar with the Bing search engine why not hop over there for a second just to see how aesthetically pleasing it all appears compared to the boring and plain Google logo.
Now, however, when you go to Google’s homepage you’ll be given a new option underneath the search bar to A.) choose a wallpaper from their gallery or B.) upload your own wally to accompany that lonely text field. I’ve actually toyed with the different styles for the past few days and I gotta say that I really dig the new look. Now I don’t feel I’m missing anything from the Bing experience.
Thursday
Jun032010
Don't Hotlink to Images - We Can Change Them
Look at the top left
Here at T3ch H3lp, we have had a bit of a scuffle with the competition - who will remain un-named*, but we don’t see why we can’t share a little anonymous info. A certain site has decided to copy and paste a large portion of our custom CSS code and Javascript, which make up our template, and is licensed under creative commons.
Unfortunately for them, they were too lazy to re-upload the images linked in the CSS and Javascript to their own servers, and thus we have full control over what images show on their site. We thought the “Sharing” images would be the most fun, and how we did this was we just looked at the images they were linking to, which was to our servers, and all we had to do was add a different file with the same filename - replacing the old one. Their site is still linking to the same file, but its not the same if you catch my drift…
Thursday
Jun032010
Acer and Ferrari make a limited edition Liquid E
It may not be a Ferrari Scuderia, or an Enzo, it may not even have a top speed of 240mph, but if you’re in the market for a limited edition Ferrari branded handset, then Acer’s prepared to hook you up. What we’re looking at here is the same Acer Liquid E with Android 2.1 that launched forever and a day ago; its not overly special (and we’re actually surprised Acer turned it into a limited edition handset), but if you’ve always wanted to own a Ferrari (and lets face it, at some point you have) then this handset will get you where you need to go… GPS permitting. By now you should know what makes this thing tick, but in case you’ve forgotten, let us refresh your memory. Inside you’ll find a 1GHz Snapdragon (underclocked to 768MHz), a 3.5-inch WVGA touchscreen, 5-megapixel camera, and an included 8GB microSD card. There’s no word on pricing or availability, but knowing Ferrari and Acer it’ll probably be a case of “too much” and “too late.”
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