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| Sony Releases Firmware Version 3 for Sony DSLR-A700 |  | Announced in early September 2007, the A-700 is Sony's DSLR model competing in the semi-pro league, which also includes the Nikon D300 and the Canon 40D (both released this year, but a bit earlier).
Recently, Sony released version 3 of the camera's firmware and judging from what the manufacturer mentions, it looks l ... [read more >>] | | Category: Photo & Video Cameras Date: 27 December 2007, 06:54 | (c) 2007 Softpedia |
| Live Search No Longer Listing Google Ads |  | This year, Google got an early and unexpected holiday gift from Microsoft. Whether it was the Christmas spirit or merely a glitch in the Redmond company's search engine indexing process, the result has been the same: Live Search, a direct Google competitor, served users Google ads. Homer Simpson's D’oh! trademark onomatopoeia, repeated in the situation by ... [read more >>] | | Category: Windows Live Date: 27 December 2007, 06:28 | (c) 2007 Softpedia |
| Apple to Shake Intel's Hand over Handheld Devices |  | Apple and Intel have walked the same path since early 2005, when the computer manufacturer agreed to include Intel's processors in the Mac product line. At that time, the news shocked the entire[ADMARK=1] market, especially the PowerPC chip manufacturer IBM, who was enjoying Apple's whole attention.
Intel quickly took advantage of the new position and formed an internal department to help Apple engineers in developing Intel-related technologies. Intel has got beyond the Mac P ... [read more >>] | | Category: CPU Date: 27 December 2007, 06:27 | (c) 2007 Softpedia |
| Mother Sells Wii for Boob Job |  | While other parents are desperately (still) trying to get their hands on a Wii for their children, this mom we're talking about wanted to give herself a nice Christmas present, a boob job, but she had to sell a couple of Wii consoles in the process. She's the mother of 4 children and she's been having 2 Wii-s and 7 ... [read more >>] | | Category: Nintendo Date: 27 December 2007, 06:26 | (c) 2007 Softpedia |
| The Story of How It Felt to Be Banging Lindsay Lohan |  | You gotta love Lindsay Lohan. Really, she's just about the most fascinating celebrity out there. No, I'm kidding, of course she's not – but at least she's one of the celebrities that have managed to keep me guessing over the past couple of months, which is just about the biggest compliment I could possibly pay to her. I mean, we kept seeing photos of her doing... well, pretty much the same things she used to do before she went into rehab and became a "saint" ... [read more >>] | | Category: LIVE Celebs Date: 27 December 2007, 06:21 | (c) 2007 Softpedia |
| Light Polarization Reveals Exoplanet Characteristics |  | While twelve years passed since the first planet that orbits around another star was discovered, we have developed multiple detection techniques such as studying the wobble of the star produced by[ADMARK=1] the gravitational pull of the planet, or comparing the light emitted from the star in the hope that we might catch the object as it passes in front of its sun. However, the ability to actually study the planet has been mostly reduced to studying the light reflected from the planets atm ... [read more >>] | | Category: Space Date: 27 December 2007, 06:10 | (c) 2007 Softpedia |
| One More Christmas Infection Exploiting Windows Vulnerabilities |  | In case you thought you're safe this Christmas because you have applied the latest definitions for your security software, I'm sorry to disappoint you, but you're [ADMARK=1]not safe at all. And a recently-spotted worm comes to support this statement. WORM_DLOADER.TBW is a Windows infection discovered by security company Trend Micro, which affects most versions of the Microsoft operating system including 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP and Server 2003. What's worse is that the wor ... [read more >>] | | Category: Virus alerts Date: 27 December 2007, 06:02 | (c) 2007 Softpedia |
| ZenEdu Live Christmas Edition |  | The Zenwalk team, with the occasion of this holiday season, is proud to announce a special Christmas edition of ZenEdu Live:"Zenwalk community, on the occasion of this festive season, is pleased to offer you a Special Edition of ZenEdu Live. A LiveCD based on Zenwalk snapshot and majoring on educational & fun contents which can be used independently by educational institutions, families, students & children alike."
Being based on Zenwalk 4.0, this L ... [read more >>] | | Category: Linux Date: 27 December 2007, 06:01 | (c) 2007 Softpedia |
| The Settlers: Heritage of Kings Cheats (PC) |  | The Settlers: Heritage of Kings (also known unofficially as The Settlers V) is the fifth installment of The Settlers series of real time strategy games on the PC. Heritage of Kings breaks off from the typical pattern that Settlers ... [read more >>] | | Category: PC Date: 27 December 2007, 05:56 | (c) 2007 Softpedia |
| Midway's Board of Directors Undergoes Changes |  | Not all is jolly and merry in the video games industry this time of the year as Midway's Kenneth D. Cron has resigned from the Company's Board of Directors having completed over 3 years of service. Mr. Cron joined Midway's Board of Directors in 2004, according to an o ... [read more >>] | | Category: Games Date: 27 December 2007, 05:56 | (c) 2007 Softpedia |
| Intel's Penryns Going Down: Yorkfield Delayed Due to Board Issues |  | Chip manufacturer Intel should enjoy a smooth ride, since rival AMD is struggling with the Phenom TLB errata. Things are, however, more complicated, and Intel is beginning to feel a little[ADMARK=1] of AMD's disappointment.
Intel's Yorkfield 45-nanometer quad-core CPU line has been slated for official unveiling on January 20, but the chip manufacturer may be forced to push back the launch date because of Yorkfields having some compatibility issues with the supporting motherb ... [read more >>] | | Category: CPU Date: 27 December 2007, 05:49 | (c) 2007 Softpedia |
| Xbox Games Teach You About the Danger of DUI. Sorry Paris Hilton... |  | In-game advertising is a hit and there are already employment ads for intelligence agencies implemented by the British government in Splinter Cell:Double Agent. Seems that this time, the British have come up with something new: they're going to implement anti drunk driving billboards in games like Need for Speed: Carbon and ... [read more >>] | | Category: Xbox Date: 27 December 2007, 05:47 | (c) 2007 Softpedia |
| Beetles Are Much Older than Dinosaurs |  | There are more described beetle species than all the other described animal species. And it is believed that there are even more undescribed species, by the order of millions, to be included into the beetles' Coleoptera Order, with 17 "superfamilies" and 168 families. Many will disappear before description, as we destroy their environments.
But, a new research published in the journal "Science" explains this tremendous diversity amongst beetles: their age. It ... [read more >>] | | Category: History Date: 27 December 2007, 05:46 | (c) 2007 Softpedia |
| Microsoft Getting Ready for Security as a Service - in the Cloud |  | As 2007 comes to an end, the focus moves on the coming year, with predictions aiming to anticipate the favors of 2008. Microsoft makes no exception to this rule, as the Forefront team, courtesy of David Burt, Product Manager, Communications, presented its forecast for 2008, from a security perspective. Burt has a list of no less than five predictions designed to anticipate the trends of the u ... [read more >>] | | Category: Security Date: 27 December 2007, 05:45 | (c) 2007 Softpedia |
| Eva Longoria Scandal Update: The Incredible Truth and The Non-Existent French Model |  | Who knew that it's actually amazingly simple to turn yourself from an ordinary girl into a supermodel? And no, I'm not advertising a weight-loss plan here or some magic "shed half your body fat in a week" revolutionary cosmetic treatment. I'm actually talking about the whole "did Tony Parker cheat on Eva Longoria?" scandal that broke a couple of weeks ago. And yes, to be honest, I've been looking forward to seeing how it would evolve, as ... [read more >>] | | Category: LIVE Celebs Date: 27 December 2007, 05:42 | (c) 2007 Softpedia |
| Swing Lamp, Good For Dead Ones Too! |  | Swing Lamp should be voted the spookiest invention of the year. In fact, this item looks like taken straight from the Blair Witch village. Just imagine walking down the alley in total darkness and see one of these illuminated.
[ADMARK=1]Even if the fellows from BCXSY claim they've invented the lamp to help users get rid of the feeling of being alone in the dark, I don't really see this happening. It does create a"comfortable ambiance through lighting and movement", ... [read more >>] | | Category: Daily gadget Date: 27 December 2007, 05:36 | (c) 2007 Softpedia |
| High Blood Pressure Also Threatens Computer's Security |  | OK, I get it, Christmas is one of those times of the year when all sorts of infections rise up and become extremely dangerous for every unpatched system. There have been so many security reports that it makes me think no one is safe these days. But, let's [ADMARK=1]see one more threat which seems to be placed among the most important ones. BKDR_HUPIGON.MER is that kind of backdoor that attempts to open a port and wait for commands sent by the attacker, in order to control all sorts o ... [read more >>] | | Category: Virus alerts Date: 27 December 2007, 05:32 | (c) 2007 Softpedia |
| Asus M930, Prepared to Defy Nokia E90 |  | Asus M930, announced more than a month ago to be a tough competitor for the Nokia E90 Communicator, will be commercially available at the beginning of 2008, for a price that is unknown yet.[ADMARK=1] Several real photos of the handset recently appeared on the Internet, showing us that the handset is really capable of standing bes ... [read more >>] | | Category: Telecoms Date: 27 December 2007, 05:32 | (c) 2007 Softpedia |
| Midway's Revival Plans |  | This wasn't a great year for Midway, which entered the holiday shopping season with delayed releases and lowered revenue forecasts. The company, which hasn't pos ... [read more >>] | | Category: Games Date: 27 December 2007, 05:30 | (c) 2007 Softpedia |
| Escaped Zoo Tiger Kills One, Mauls Two! |  | We expect to hear these news from the villages of India. But this crime scene occurred Wednesday at the San Francisco Zoo: an escaped Siberian tigress killed one visitor and mauled two others. The 300-pound (136-kilogram) Tatiana had been already involved in an attack on a zookeeper last Christmas. That incident made the Zoo improve the pen where tigers were kept.
"The three men—one of them 19 years old and the others in their early 20s—were attacked just after 5 p.m. Tuesday on t ... [read more >>] | | Category: Behavior/Humans Date: 27 December 2007, 05:16 | (c) 2007 Softpedia |
| Facts About Comets |  | The past civilizations on Earth mostly regarded the comets as messengers of destruction and rarely as bringers of good or prosperity, while the scientists today[ADMARK=1] think they might have played a key role in the formation of our planet and view them as carriers of possible information about the galaxy, and the formation of the solar system.
These dusty-icy objects were presumed to have delivered the water on Earth during collisions with our planet, but when comparing water colle ... [read more >>] | | Category: Space Date: 27 December 2007, 05:15 | (c) 2007 Softpedia |
| 10-50% Off for All Steam Games! |  | So you're sad that Christmas is gone and there are no more presents to be had, huh? Well, if you have let's say... 20 bucks on you right now, you can head over to Steam and make yourself a nice present, consisting of a popular video game. As the headline clearly says (and it's no lie) ... [read more >>] | | Category: Games Date: 27 December 2007, 05:11 | (c) 2007 Softpedia |
| Intel's 45-Nanometer Technology, Too Hot to Handle? |  | The 45-nanometer technology seems to be the source of CPU manufacturers' headache. AMD has completely failed in delivering the new processors built around the 45-nm technology, and it seems that there[ADMARK=1] will be some other couple of months until they get the first working CPU.
According to the rumors emerging from the industry, Intel is almost in the same weak position. It is true that it has already achieved some working processors that have flawlessly passed all the tests ... [read more >>] | | Category: CPU Date: 27 December 2007, 05:09 | (c) 2007 Softpedia |
| Duke Nukem: Land of the Babes Secrets and Codes (PSX) |  | Duke Nukem: Land of The Babes is a 2000 video game in the Duke Nukem series. This game is a direct sequel to the 1998 title, Duke Nukem: Time to Kill. Set mostly in a dystopian future, the game begins in modern day Los Angeles, when Duke is interrupted at a strip club by the sudden teleportation of women and pig-co ... [read more >>] | | Category: Playstation Date: 27 December 2007, 05:08 | (c) 2007 Softpedia |
| When Will the Right Time Come for XP SP3 vs. Vista SP1? |  | By offering both Windows XP and Windows Vista concomitantly, Microsoft is catalyzing the comparison between the two Windows iterations. In this context, although Vista was introduced as the natural evolution from XP, the latest Windows client, barely one year old, is losing ground in the operating system measuring contest against its predecessor. There are, of course, multiple facets to the Vista vs. XP face-off, from market share, to the pace of adoption, to corporate uptake and to relia ... [read more >>] | | Category: Windows Date: 27 December 2007, 05:08 | (c) 2007 Softpedia |
| Yahoo! Messenger Plug-In Updated |  | The old Movie Trailers Plug-In was obsolete and was way below what the public demanded and could find using other means and other places. Because user comfort is one of the more important features that determine whether he/she stays on a site or continues using a service or [ADMARK=1]migrating to another, at least for that particular aspect he/she is less satisfied with, the Yahoo! Instant Messenger development team decided that a face lift and a shot of technology right in the vein shoul ... [read more >>] | | Category: Yahoo News Date: 27 December 2007, 05:07 | (c) 2007 Softpedia |
| Happy New Infected Year! |  | Christmas is only history now and we're all expecting the New Year celebrations. Hackers, attackers and scammers are also preparing for the new event, but, as usual, they like to do it in an unique way: by building Trojan horses, infections and other types of malware designed to be installed on people's computers.
A new worm has already been discovered by security vendor Trend Micro, after [ADMARK=1]malicious emails containing a link to a malicious page attempted to deploy a ... [read more >>] | | Category: Virus alerts Date: 27 December 2007, 05:00 | (c) 2007 Softpedia |
| Doom Codes and Passwords (PSX) |  | Doom (or DOOM) is a 1993 computer game by id Software that is a landmark title in the first-person shooter genre, and in first person gaming in general. It is widely recognized for pioneering immersive 3D graphics, networked multiplayer gaming on the PC platform, and support for custom expansions (WADs). Distributed as shareware, Doom was downloaded by an estimated 10 million people within two years, popularizing the mode of gameplay and spawning a gaming subculture; as a sign of its imp ... [read more >>] | | Category: Playstation Date: 27 December 2007, 04:57 | (c) 2007 Softpedia |
| Google News Going Political |  | I’m already tired of all the products coming out on the market in order to get a slice of the election cash pie. I wish that they would just have a meeting and come together one day and decide something like "a week from now, at 12 o’clock, we’ll all release our election gadgets, [ADMARK=1]pages and anything else we’ll possibly think of by then, in close connection to the main event of the political stage in the US for 2008."
That’s obviously just utopia, but it would still b ... [read more >>] | | Category: Google News Date: 27 December 2007, 04:43 | (c) 2007 Softpedia |
| Critical Depth Codes and Unlockables (PSX) |  | Critical Depth is a vehicular combat game made for the PlayStation, developed by the game studio SingleTrac and published by GT Interactive. It was released on November 22, 1997. Critical Depth is based on concept and engine of SingleTrac's original Twisted Metal hit game series. The game is b ... [read more >>] | | Category: Playstation Date: 27 December 2007, 04:40 | (c) 2007 Softpedia |
| Dolphins' Language, Much More Sophisticated Than Believed! |  | It has already been known that each dolphin population has its own dialect or even "language", which cannot be understood by a "foreigner" dolphin, as it is learned. But a new research made by PhD candidate Liz Hawkins, from Southern Cross University's Whale Research Centre, in Lismore, revealed that the dolphin "speech" is much more sophisticated than previously believed.
The three years research was made on bottlenose dolphins off the coast of Byron ... [read more >>] | | Category: Behavior/Humans Date: 27 December 2007, 04:36 | (c) 2007 Softpedia |
| Japan's Video Game Development is 'In Trouble' |  | An interview with Konami's sound director Akira Yamaoka has revealed one of the most surprising aspects surrounding video game development in Japan: that it's becoming too sophisticated of a task for them every time they have a new project on their hands. More than that, Japanese d ... [read more >>] | | Category: Games Date: 27 December 2007, 04:35 | (c) 2007 Softpedia |
| Quad-Core Phenoms Delayed Yet Again |  | American chip manufacturer AMD is drawing the bottom line over what should be regarded as a bad year for business. This year was marked with a series of disappointments in delivering the world's "first native[ADMARK=1] quad-core processor". The Phenoms are affected by a design mistake that renders the computer useless, should it reach full load.
This is the result of a translation lookaside buffer erratum, a glitch that emerges especially in virtualized environments. Al ... [read more >>] | | Category: CPU Date: 27 December 2007, 04:27 | (c) 2007 Softpedia |
| Croc 2 Codes (PSX) |  | Croc 2, released in 1999, is the sequel to Croc: Legend of the Gobbos. Developed by Argonaut Software between 1998 and 1999, and published by Fox Interactive, Croc 2 was released on Game Boy Color, Windows and PlayStation (planned for a release on Sega Saturn and Sega Dreamcast but both got cancelled). The plot revolves around Croc's missi ... [read more >>] | | Category: Playstation Date: 27 December 2007, 04:24 | (c) 2007 Softpedia |
| Oh, Joy: Britney's (Nipples) Just as Crazy This Side of Christmas... |  | I'm truly and honestly very sorry that my first post-Christmas article is about Britney Spears – but hey, no one can deny that Brit Brit was one of the biggest highlights of the year (in the crazy trainwreck department, I mean) and we've all had out moments of "wow, that girl is crazy" or "she definitely needs help" when it came to her. No, don't get me wrong. I'm not in a giving, generous post-Christmas mood here (actually quite the opposite), but ... [read more >>] | | Category: Celebrity scoop Date: 27 December 2007, 04:23 | (c) 2007 Softpedia |
| The Zune Universe Grows |  | With the advent of Zune 2.0, at almost a year after the introduction of Microsoft's digital media player devices positioned as an iPod competitor, the Redmond company has made yet another step designed to prove that it is ready for the long haul against Apple. Since the October 2nd launch of Zune 2.0, the company has been building a consistent ... [read more >>] | | Category: Zune Date: 27 December 2007, 04:20 | (c) 2007 Softpedia |
| Games Cause Brain Damage! |  | We know this is not the kind of news you'd like to hear, especially now, during the holidays, but that is what Doctor Chou Yuan-hua, from the department of Psychiatry of Taipei Veterans General Hospital claims to happen if you play ... [read more >>] | | Category: Games Date: 27 December 2007, 04:16 | (c) 2007 Softpedia |
| Did You Know There’s Also an Address Bar? |  | I just love the way people don’t ever pay attention where they are typing whatever it is they are typing. This is the way many passwords are revealed to the people around you and how it comes to be that you've just find that you can’t use your account anymore. This actually happened to me, I didn’t strike the TAB key hard enough and somebody that was behind me saw my password and kicked me out of my primary mail address.
I thought that it was just a "me" special, but Go ... [read more >>] | | Category: Google News Date: 27 December 2007, 04:09 | (c) 2007 Softpedia |
| Suzaku Explains Massive Powerhouse |  | We used to think that Quasi Stellar Objects or quasars are the most energetic structures in the Universe, but this doesn't seem to be the case with the Milky Way, and why would our galaxy be more special than the others?[ADMARK=1] The quasar is a special type of black hole, which goes through a 'feeding' process as it swallows massive amounts of gas and dust, spinning around it in an accretion disk. The friction between the gas and dust particles raises the temperature of t ... [read more >>] | | Category: Space Date: 27 December 2007, 04:08 | (c) 2007 Softpedia |
| Rock Band Codes (PS3) |  | Rock Band is a music video game developed by Harmonix Music Systems, published by MTV Games, and distributed by Electronic Arts Partners. The Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions were released in the United States on November 20, 2007, while the PlayStation 2 version was released in North America on December 18, 2007. The ... [read more >>] | | Category: Playstation 3 Date: 27 December 2007, 04:01 | (c) 2007 Softpedia |
| Mini Tongue Needs No Mouth...Open Up and Say "Ahh!" |  | Christmas is the perfect time for buying chocolate, perfume or lingerie. But, those are wonderful options for desperate men that want a guaranteed hit with their sweethearts. However, there's nothing wrong if you want to spice up your Christmas holidays and buy your lady a good old sex toy. It's true, you may not be able to open the gift in the morning with all the family around and say "Look what we got you, honey!"
[ADMARK=1]With so many deluxe sex toys on the mar ... [read more >>] | | Category: Daily gadget Date: 27 December 2007, 04:01 | (c) 2007 Softpedia |
| Christmas Storm Makes New Victims |  | Remember the latest Storm that infected a huge number of computers? Well, it's back. This time, it comes with Christmas-related offerings. Just like usual, the most dangerous threat is delivered by email, so in case you receive suspect messages, you're [ADMARK=1]advised to delete them as soon as possible. Most emails claim they offer season greetings and attempt to deploy Trojan horses on the vulnerable system. Usually, the Storm aims to exploit vulnerabilities found in the soft ... [read more >>] | | Category: Spyware Threats Date: 27 December 2007, 04:01 | (c) 2007 Softpedia |
| Sony's Cyber-shot S730, a Little Bit of After-Christmas Point and Shoot |  | A little behind the rest of the pack, Sony today has announced a new Cyber-shot compact aimed at beginners who don't ask too much out of their digital camera.
[ADMARK=1]The Cyber-shot S730 boasts a 7.2 megapixel resolution, which should be enough for A3 prints. It's actually a good thing that this model's resolution has been kept at reasonable values, since most compact cameras with tiny sensors and huge resolutions have a poorer performance in terms of high ISO perform ... [read more >>] | | Category: Photo & Video Cameras Date: 27 December 2007, 03:52 | (c) 2007 Softpedia |
| Intel: Get Ready for the 2008 Launch Frenzy! |  | The year that is about to end in a few days has been extremely generous to chip manufacturer Intel. It has been the first to switch to the 45-nanometer technology, and has been momentarily left without[ADMARK=1] any competition on the CPU market. The next year may be even better and Intel has already unveiled the launch schedule for its new goodies.
Intel's new year will debut on 7th of January, when the chip giant will officially launch the 45nm 'Penryn' mobile processo ... [read more >>] | | Category: CPU Date: 27 December 2007, 03:51 | (c) 2007 Softpedia |
| Gearing Up to Ship Office 2008 for Mac |  | Having postponed the equivalent of the Office 2007 System for the Mac platform from the second half of 2007 all the way to 2008, Microsoft is now gearing up to ship Office 2008 for Mac in mid January of the coming year. Earlier this month, on December 12th in fact, the Macintosh Business Unit (MacBU) at Microsoft announced that it had released Office 2008 for Mac to manufacturing. The RTM date came just one month before the scheduled launch of the productivity suite that would deliver to ... [read more >>] | | Category: The Office System Date: 27 December 2007, 03:37 | (c) 2007 Softpedia |
| Lost Odyssey Unlockables (Xbox 360) |  | In Lost Odyssey the player takes control of Kaim, a man who has lived for 1,000 years. The game's story revolves around the many generations of which Kaim is a part, his loves and losses and conflicts in a world nearing a "mystical industrial revolution". Lost Odyssey's story is being penned by the award winning Japanese novelist, Kiyoshi Shigematsu who is working directly with the game's producer ... [read more >>] | | Category: XBox 360 Date: 27 December 2007, 03:34 | (c) 2007 Softpedia |
| No N-Gage This Year, Nokia Delays It For 2008 |  | N-Gage, the mobile gaming platform from Nokia, initially planned to be launched in November this year, was delayed again,[ADMARK=1] after a first delay that postponed its launch for this month (December 2007). Although mobile gamers and Nokia fans were eager to try the N-Gage platform this holiday season, the Finnish co ... [read more >>] | | Category: Services Date: 27 December 2007, 03:24 | (c) 2007 Softpedia |
| Ninja Gaiden Dragon Sword Dated for DS |  | First Atlus U.S.A. now Tecmo is announcing the launch date for one of their DS titles. Ninja Gaiden Dragon Sword is scheduled to ship for Nintendo's handheld in March next year. Players will again be thrown into the shoes of Ninja Master Ryu Hayabusa and control the little guy on screen like ne ... [read more >>] | | Category: Nintendo Date: 27 December 2007, 03:24 | (c) 2007 Softpedia |
| The Eye of Judgment Unlockables (PS3) |  | The Eye of Judgment is a turn-based card battle video game for the PlayStation 3 platform, which utilizes the PlayStation Eye camera peripheral. It is the first game to use the peripheral, with which it is available in a bundle in Japan, Europe, the Middle East and North America. Once planned for release close to the PlayStat ... [read more >>] | | Category: Playstation 3 Date: 27 December 2007, 03:22 | (c) 2007 Softpedia |
| Psst! The Queen Has Her Channel on YouTube! |  | Every year around the holidays, all the presidents or monarchs give a speech for their people and this has been a tradition for a very long time, going back to the 19th century. The media it has been transmitted to the crowd, though, has evolved a bit since then.
First printed on paper for more than a hundred years, [ADMARK=1]the message reached the telly in 1957, in Great Britain, when Queen Elizabeth first broadcasted hers. She said in the message: "I very much hope that this ne ... [read more >>] | | Category: Google News Date: 27 December 2007, 03:22 | (c) 2007 Softpedia |
| Microsoft's Live Search on Google's Orbit |  | Microsoft's Live Search is, at the end of 2007, nothing more than a satellite on Google's orbit. This while the Mountain View-based company has positioned itself at the center of the search engine market. In the fall and winter of 2007, Microsoft introduced the first major update to Live Search since the service debuted back in 2007. But, taking Live Search to ... [read more >>] | | Category: Windows Live Date: 27 December 2007, 03:07 | (c) 2007 Softpedia |
| Sexy Parodius Codes and Unlockables (PSX) |  | Sexy Parodius is a scrolling shooter arcade game. It is the fifth in the Parodius series produced by Konami. Like the rest of the series, it is a parody of the Gradius series and other Konami games. The gameplay in Sexy Parodius is similar to the rest of the series, but with a new catch. Inst ... [read more >>] | | Category: Playstation Date: 27 December 2007, 03:06 | (c) 2007 Softpedia |
| Where and Why Did Skating Appear? |  | The oldest skate crime and Tonya Harding may have lived 5,000 years ago. This is the age of the most ancient archaeological proofs of bone skates (carved of animal bones), which are also the oldest human powered transporting means that have been [ADMARK=1]discovered so far. But, the reason that made people start skating on ice is still not very clear, as ancient bone skates have been discovered in various locations spread across Central and North Europe.
A recent research, published in ... [read more >>] | | Category: History Date: 27 December 2007, 03:06 | (c) 2007 Softpedia |
| Quantum Dots to Bury Both Flash and DRAM |  | The flash storage has been one of the technologies that have undoubtedly changed the face of consumer electronics appliances. It can store a large amount of data on a tiny surface, at the cost[ADMARK=1] of only a few milliwatts.
DRAM memory needs permanent refreshing to preserve its contents, but Flash storage can do without power for about ten years, and yet the data will still be there. However, Flash memory is handicapped by large access times. The ideal candidate for tomorrow' ... [read more >>] | | Category: Memory Date: 27 December 2007, 03:04 | (c) 2007 Softpedia |
| US Music Pirates Blacklisted |  | In case you're one of those users who are willing to remain on the safe side, you surely pay important amounts of money for genuine content purchased from legitimate sources. But what if the music files that you have just bought are not so genuine as you think? A few days ago, it has been confirmed: there are too many websites out there attempting to trick you and steal [ADMARK=1]your money for so-called genuine music, which is actually pirated. The CDT (Center for Democracy & Te ... [read more >>] | | Category: Digital Rights/Piracy Date: 27 December 2007, 02:59 | (c) 2007 Softpedia |
| NASCAR Rumble Passwords and Unlockables (PSX) |  | NASCAR Rumble is a racing game by Electronic Arts for the PlayStation. The player or players can race through 18 different courses set in six different areas collecting powerups to aid them. The game was met with fairly positive reviews, and currently has an 80% on GameRankings. In NASCAR Rumble, the main object of the game is to wi ... [read more >>] | | Category: Playstation Date: 27 December 2007, 02:58 | (c) 2007 Softpedia |
| The Universe Might Have Originated in a Big Splat! |  | Current theories about the beginning of the universe predict that all the observed matter originated in a single point in space, a singularity, which suddenly expanded in space-time provoking the so-called Big Bang.[ADMARK=1] The light emitted by the glowing matter in the beginning of the universe slowly shifted towards the infrared spectrum and is currently detected in the microwave wavelength as the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation, that can be used to create a map of matter distri ... [read more >>] | | Category: Space Date: 27 December 2007, 02:52 | (c) 2007 Softpedia |
| Drone Tactics Dated for DS |  | Atlus U.S.A. have recently announced a game blending turn-based strategy and RPG warfare elements, for the Nintendo DS< ... [read more >>] | | Category: Nintendo Date: 27 December 2007, 02:45 | (c) 2007 Softpedia |
| Sharing Time from Google |  | It still is the season to be jolly and the Googlers everywhere decided to act on it and give something back to the communities they are a part of. Christmas was the first of the official holidays and as such it was the first to be greeted by the engineers with the will and desire to help others, be it that they helped kids craft public service announcements, contributing to toy drives, [ADMARK=1]gathering donations for food banks, working with high schoolers on their college apps, writing ... [read more >>] | | Category: Google News Date: 27 December 2007, 02:41 | (c) 2007 Softpedia |
| NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams Secrets and Unlockables (Wii) |  | Nights: Journey of Dreams (or, put properly, NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams) is a video game for the Wii console. It is a sequel to the 1996 Sega Saturn title Nights into Dreams.... Sonic Team USA developed the game, with Takashi Iizuka, one of the designers of the original, as producer, director, and lead game designer. Like the o ... [read more >>] | | Category: Nintendo Date: 27 December 2007, 02:40 | (c) 2007 Softpedia |
| Game Factory Interactive Goes Casual |  | There were times when the games in the Jagged Alliance series were played and enjoyed by people all over the world, with Ivan or Rusty bringing delightful ... [read more >>] | | Category: PC Date: 27 December 2007, 02:38 | (c) 2007 Softpedia |
| Blogger Websites Full of Fake Codec Trojans |  | The fake codec Trojans that affected so many websites are back. These days, they are being spread through Google Blogger's pages that host all sorts of content. Yesterday, Alex Eckelberry of Sunbelt informed that an avalanche of fake codecs was discovered on [ADMARK=1]numerous Blogger accounts, which looked similar to the old scams conducted on malicious pornographic websites. Searching for common keywords, such as "NFL playoff bracket video" or "deviled egg recipe vid ... [read more >>] | | Category: Spyware Threats Date: 27 December 2007, 02:26 | (c) 2007 Softpedia |
| How To Duplicate DVDs On the Go, in a Matter of Minutes |  | Although duplicating DVDs is not exactly a very good idea when we're talking about copyrighted materials, there are certain situations when we need to make a copy of a certain DVD or CD as fast as possible and in the absence of a computer. And this is exactly the reason why the people over at EZ Dupe have rolled out the DVD Coach Single Target Duplicator, a device that can take care of this problem fast and easy.
[ADMARK=1]Thus, the DVD Coach is touted to be the world's firs ... [read more >>] | | Category: Peripherals Date: 27 December 2007, 02:01 | (c) 2007 Softpedia |
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