Archive for: October 28, 2007

October 28, 2007

Nintendo grows further from fun and games, closer to the practical and utilitarian

Filed under: Review - 28 Oct 2007

Filed under: GamingNintendo’s as cagey as tech companies come, but the WSJ is reporting on a recent and strange high level, high affect strategy presentation where in top ‘Tendo execs revealed what’s described as a change in its current commerce model: using its foothold in the video game market to …

Getting Leopard’s BSOD? Try uninstalling APE.

Filed under: Review - 28 Oct 2007

Filed under: Desktops, LaptopsWhile there’s no easy way to explanation for everybody Leopard user’s crashing, Unsanity’s Application Enhancer is apparently the cause of many a BSOD turning up on a range of user’s systems during a system update to Mac OS X 10.5. whether, after selecting “update,” you…

Guitar Hero 3 goes on sale, gets unboxed, melts countless faces

Filed under: Review - 28 Oct 2007

Yep, Guitar Hero 3 is officially on sale and everyone and their tattoed mother’s picked up a copy (along with the new axes that accompany it). Oh certain, GH2 players making the jump to 3 won’t feel like any less like any less of a nerd trying to ape the genuinely cool (that is, whether you …

i-Garment’s “smart suit” helps catastrophe relief agents

Filed under: Review - 28 Oct 2007

Designed to help firefighters communicate independently of unreliable traditional systems such as cellphone networks, i-Garment’s “smart suit” does increasingly than just enable voices to be heard. The suit plus packs in location and health monitoring, with a whole infrastructure behind it inclu…

Realtek High Definition Audio for 2K\XP\2003\Vista v1.80

Realtek High Definition Audio
Realtek ALC260 262
Realtek ALC265 268
Realtek ALC660 681
Realtek ALC880 882
Realtek ALC883 885 888
Windows 2000 Windows XP 2003 32 64 bits driver only

How to install Leopard on Intel PCs

Filed under: Review - 28 Oct 2007

Planning to dual-boot your Intel PCs with Apple OS X Leopard, or just want to install Leopard on your Intel PCs? Good news: the folks by at the OSx86 scene managed to crack the Leopard and found a way to install it in Intel-powered PCs, and just the day before its launch moment to boot! Installing t…

Gamestop stops selling product replacement plans on Xbox 360s

Filed under: Review - 28 Oct 2007

Filed under: Gaming
A leaked memo from Gamestop shows that the company intends to stop selling “product replacement plans” on the Xbox 360, probably a reaction to the high failure rate of the console and its notorious “red rings of death” issue. We’re still seeing the option for PRP included on Xbox…

AT&T scales back citywide WiFi agenda in St. Louis

Filed under: Review - 28 Oct 2007

Filed under: WirelessJust months after hearing that San Franciscans would be forced to deal with the collapse of a seemingly inevitable citywide WiFi access plan, wireless addicts in St. Louis will be mourning similarly. Apparently, grandiose plans laid out by AT&T that past February have now be…

Blue screen of death makes an appearance after Apple Leopard upgrade

Filed under: Review - 28 Oct 2007

Those who plan to upgrade to Apple’s new OS X Leopard may need that heads-up: fairly a number of public who upgraded to Leopard final Friday experienced fairly an alarming blue screen of death after successfully installing Leopard and rebooting their Macs. nearly all users who reported experiencing …

Windows to Linux

Filed under: Review - 28 Oct 2007

Via Chris Pirillo - Quoted - " We get questions every day from society wondering about how to switch to Linux. What do they need to know? What should they get? One of our Lockergnome bloggers came up with an excellent starting point." Original post by Josh Lowensohn

LG Shine Wood LB2500H handset

Filed under: Review - 28 Oct 2007

LG announced new mobile phone in its Shine product line. The LG Shine Wood LB2500H handset’s stainless steel cover is etched in wood grain patterns. The LG Shine Wood LB2005H sports high-end features- DMB TV, 2MP camera, MP3 player, Bluetooth, and an electronic dictionary.
The …

*Common Usability Terms, pt. II: the Icon*

Filed under: Review - 28 Oct 2007

This is the moment spread in a series on common usability and graphical user interface related terms. On the Web, and particularly in forum discussions like we all have here on OSNews, it is nearly positive that in any given discussion, someone will most likely bring up usability and GUI related ter…

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