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It’s official: Geek.com has been acquired by Ziff Davis, the company behind PCmag.com, Extremetech.com, and a number of other technology sites. Geek.com will operate a standalone site within the Ziff Davis family, with the same commitment to excellence in technology reporting the site has had since it was founded in 1996. Geek.com’s entire editorial team [...]
Remember the game booths in carnivals and circuses? You can now play Angry Birds in real life! And purchase plush dolls!
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Handbrake has been updated to version 0.9.5. Available codecs have been updated but this update is only now supporting Intel-based Mac. Many new features and bug fixes have been added:
Core Library
* BluRay disc structure support. (No decryption support)
* Updated Libraries (x264, ffmpeg)
* SSA Subtitle support. (Including burn-in)
* MP3 audio now supported in MP4 files (Note: Limited Player compatibility)
* VOBSUB subtitle now supported in MP4 files (Note: Limited Player compatibility)
* Updated Presets for newer devices and better quality
* AC3 encoding support.
* Many Bug Fixes and other small improvements
* Improved DVD Main Feature detection (when using dvdnav)
* Universal audio downmix support (all audio types can be downmixed)
* Point*to*Point encoding (second or frame start and end times)
* Peak framerate option (Capped VFR)
All GUIs
* Updated x264 Advanced Panel
* Video Quality Slider drops % value and only shows RF for x264
* Batch Scan (Scan Multiple files at once. N.B: Does not include multiple VIDEO_TS folders / Image files)
* Many Bug fixes
* Many Tweaks to improve usability.
* Ability to edit queue jobs
Mac GUI
* New Audio Panel supporting >4 Audio Tracks
* VLC detection in /Applications and ~/Applications
* Multiple instance support
The new version offers a better compatibility with VLC, while support for iPhone, iPad and Apple TV2! It seems also to be faster, at least for ripping a DVD, it took us 21 min 35 sec for encoding a 1h45’ movie on a Mac Pro Quad Core 3.2 GHz, and 18 minutes on a Mac Pro Octo Core 2.93 GHz.
Huge fans have probably bought the Angry Birds plush toys for fun. In China, some people have used them to create a game booth. This photo is found in Guangzhou. It may probably not licensed by Rovio. And, it seems hard to play too. Who would be able to use the real Angry Birds to hit those pigs successfully?
[via MIC Gadget]
Check out the latest Developer Diary from the creative team behind first-person shooter, Homefront
A new adventure featuring Marvel Comics' mighty Thor arrives in 2011
Happy New Year! Now that all of the parties are done and we can look forward to the next 12 months, let's take a quick look back at the past seven days on Big Download. As you can see, we have been busy with a bunch of extra features on the site.
Exclusive features
Most Anticipated 2011 PC games: We pick the games we are most eager to play in the next year in the action, RPG-MMO, strategy and other genres. We also give our predictions for what might happen in the PC game industry in the next year.
Interviews: We chat with the folks behind games like Serious Sam 3, Duke Nukem Forever, Trapped Dead, Dead Meets Lead, Stronghold 3, The Spire and Prominence.
Reviews: We give our final verdicts for Super Meat Boy and Cities XL 2011.
Best PC Indie Games Of 2010: There were a bunch of great PC games made by indie developers and we take a look back at our favorites.
2011 Console Games We Want To See On The PC: There are a bunch of upcoming console exclusive titles that PC players would love to see on their platform.
Maingear Shift desktop PC review : What if you had $10,000 to spend on a gaming PC? You might come up with the system we got to test out.
Freeware Friday : Our free PC game column returns with the platform action game Rocky Memphis and The Temple of Ophuxoff.
Continue reading The Best of Big Download: Dec. 27 - Jan. 2
Earlier this week we saw the incompetence of a New York city worker in the snow. Managing to get a front-loader stuck is one thing, but he then goes on to destroy the back end of a Ford Explorer trying to get free.
The idiocy doesn’t stop there, although it does move to a sunnier location. [...]
It looks like the Gigabyte Q2005 we spotted yesterday isn’t the only member of Gigabyte’s netbook family that’s getting a dual core upgrade. The company has also added the Gigabyte M1005 to its netbook line, with a 1.5GHz Intel Atom N550 dual core CPU.
The M1005 is similar to the company’s earlier Booktop netbooks, which means it’s designed to work with a docking station so that you can stick the computer sideways on your desk, plug in a monitor, keyboard, mouse and other peripherals, and use it as desktop computer — one which you can also grab and go for use around the house or on the road.
The computer has a 10.1 inch, 1024 x 600 pixel display, 1GB of memory, a 250GB or 320GB hard drive, 3 USB 2.0 ports, Ethernet and audio jacks, and a memory card reader. It has 802.11b/g/n WiFi, Bluetooth 3.0, and a 1.3MP webcam. The Gigabyte M1005 has a 4 cell battery.
The docking station also has 3 USB ports, Ethernet, mic, headphone, and D-sub jacks.
via Engadget
Gigabyte’s Booktop netbook gets the dual core treatment is a post from: Liliputing
Take textPlus from GOGII, for example, a messaging application for iOS and Android devices available in both a free (ad-supported) and a paid version. The software brings text messaging functionality both to phones and non-phone devices, such as the Apple’s iPad and iPod touch as well as my Samsung Galaxy Tab. Even though phones have their own messaging app, textPlus brings advanced features such as group texts and communities of topic-driven mobile chat. TextPlus may be dwarfed by the overall messaging market, but its numbers for 2010 are still impressive:
I have an open question in to GOGII about the revenue stream generated by textPlus, as I suspect the majority of users opt for the free, ad-supported version. If that’s the case, the application is at the mercy of users who may or may not click an ad, but those 32 million messages on Christmas gave the company a large number of click-through opportunities, to be sure.
It impresses me that companies such as GOGII are finding ways to monetize services that were once relegated solely to the domain of carriers. Part of the strategy is getting to customers before network operators do.
Case in point: My 10-year-old step-daughter and her friends use messaging apps like this because most of them don’t have phones and yet they want to communicate with their friends the same way we adults do. And parents don’t want to start the kids on phones too early, nor do they want the monthly bill. Instead, kids are using computers, iPod touches and other connected devices, bringing texting to a younger audience before they even get phones.
Perhaps the huge numbers from third-party text messaging services shouldn’t surprise me; I actually can’t remember the last time I sent a text directly through my carrier. Once I got a Google Voice number, I’ve sent all of my texts for free directly through Google using both Android mobile devices and a Google Voice extension in my computer browser. Maybe I’m getting down with the hip, younger crowd again?
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More case details have leaked about the next generation iPad (iPad 2). Rumors suggests the new iPad will be adopting a thinner flat back, which means the iPad won’t be moving around so damn easily when you set it down on a table top, it will also have tapered edges, rear camera and front camera [...]
One of the things that annoys me the most about cleaning up my address book is having no way of deleting multiple contacts at once without having to connect to a computer. Amazingly, if you want to delete multiple contacts, you have to delete them one by one. ContactDel, by developer Albert Zhang, fulfills my [...]
Operated by OnNet USA, Games Campus hots a wide variety of MMOs, including Shot Online, MLB Dugout Heroes, Drift City, Asda Story, Legend of Edda, and Heroes In The Sky. Though its titles are free, users can spend real money to acquire Campus Credit, a cross-game virtual currency for purchasing in-game items.
With this new deal, gamers can buy Campus Credit without credit cards or bank access, instead picking up a Scratch Card at a store or online. Cherry Credits prepaid cards are sold around the world --the U.S., Europe, Australia, Middle East, Singapore, Malaysia, and other countries -- at thousands of convenience stores, cyber cafes, and kiosks.
Cherry Credits' cards can be used in more than 180 online gaming titles, including games from other publishers like Plants VS Zombies, Bejeweled, Ben 10 Omniverse, Atlantica Online, Pangba, The Legend of Mir 3, AdventureQuest Worlds, IMVU, and many others.
"We are proud to partner with Cherry Credits to bring another payment option to our users," says Games Campus CEO Kevin Kim. "With Cherry Credits' strong global reach, Games Campus is able to bring our services to more players all over the world, and offer a more tailored service at each region for users."
A flight sim that's realistic without being boring.
Man, Apache helicopters are expensive. Do you know how many hospital beds you could buy with that sort of cash? Probably a lot. But hospital beds so rarely launch Hellfire missiles at targets two kilometres away, before slipping into forward-looking infrared mode and shredding tanks with their 30mm cannons that they don't have. Screw hospital beds. Ask any ward patient where they'd rather be sitting and they'll tell you: in the cockpit of an Apache helicopter, gunning down enemy combatants in a fictional version of Afghanistan and causing relatively high degrees of collateral damage due to their inexperience and/or illness.
Did they help or hinder their games in the marketplace?Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 - Looks like EA's keeping Tiger on their leash.Mercenaries 2: World in Flames - Hugo Chavez isn't technically in the game, but close enough.Fight Night Round 4 - Mike Tyson may be troubled, but he's gaming gold.Postal 2 - Gary Coleman or Osama Bin Laden. Take your pick.Space Channel 5 Special Edition - One of Michael Jackson's final video game roles.Sneak King - The King is a known stalker and unhealthy food-peddler.
Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web.
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Still cheating on video games But in fact the Newsweek analysis just repeats the conventional wisdom it claims to overturn and makes the same old invalid comparison that entertainment-business journalism has been making since video games started making real money. A cursory glance at the pie charts makes it seem as if the gaming industry is not all that far behind films: the games total is $60.6 billion vs. $77.1 billion for movies. But let's take a glance that isn't cursory. My Jerry Saltz Problem In exchange for the brief rush of recognition that you might feel sitting across from Abramovic or posting to Saltz's Facebook page, you grant them much more than their fifteen minutes. You end up ultimately diminished-another brick in a 250,000-word wall-while adding to their cumulative luster. You "need to partake of the blood of others to grow," Saltz writes. And he should know.
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The Trickle app displays incoming Tweets on your stand-mounted iDevice. [From: Trickle App]
Retro fever has swept iPhone apps, but 8mm Vintage Camera is the latest app to make your super crisp high-def videos vintage with dust, scratches and weird colors. [From: Engadget]
The new SMS Popup gives your Android device iPhone-style overlays for quickly responding to texts. [From: Lifehacker]
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There are lots of interesting stuff happening in China subway trains and stations everyday, and here are the most amusing scenes we have seen in 2010. We really like all of them.
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Until now, all the phone manufacturers were concentrating their energy on creating an iPhone or and iPad killer, with more or less success.
Samsung Apparently decided to try attack the iPod touch also, by making a version of the Galaxy missing the 3G connectivity. Here is a picture:
this device will aim at the very same market and will be both an mp3 player and a platform for Android applications. Not surprisingly, it will be available with 8, 16 and 32 GB of memory, two cameras, one of 3.2 MP in the back and one in the front with a VGA resolution. It will probably be unveiled next week at the CES in Las Vegas.
Windows Phone 7 marketplace is growing. Recently, different Windows Phone 7 application sites have reported the number of apps has increased over 5000 apps. It’s still far away from the Android an iPhone platform, but things are going well now.
[via liveside]
The lone new retail releases are:
So anyone bought any fun games lately? Nothing much at retail, but there sure are a lot of new downloadable titles as of late.
This highly anticipated sequel builds on the best parts of its predecessor, while introducing some notable new ways to innovate the familiar puzzle formula. GamePro Score: 4.5
Killzone 3's snow effects look to be some of the most realistic ever, and may even be better than the snow in Naughty Dog's Uncharted 2.
