Archive for September, 2009
Popular Console Game ‘Ace Combat’ Coming Soon to the iPhone
Time to rejoice for all the gaming fans. The popular flight action game, Ace Combat could be coming soon to the iPhone. This was revealed by the developers of the game, Namco Bandai at the Tokya Games Show 2009 where a demo of the upcoming iPhone game, Ace Combat Xi was on display. Considering that [...]
Mad Catz announces “Round Two” Of Street Fighter FightSticks
It’s not doing anything crazy like lowering the price, but it looks like Mad Catz is at least set to give fighting game fans a few more options when it comes to choosing their peripheral of choice. As usual, the headliner is the company’s Tournament Edition fightstick, which dials things back after the explosion of [...]
Apple seeks help of “affected” users to trace iPhone battery problems.
In an attempt to track down the reason behind the oft-complained poor battery life of its iPhone OS 3.0, Apple has sought the help of the affected users! Going by the messages on Apple’s support forum, some users of the iPhone have been urged by the company to install power-logging software so that the underlying [...]
GrandCentral Closing its Doors Tomorrow
GrandCentral, the service that Google bought two years ago and transformed into Google Voice, is shutting its doors tomorrow—requiring all users to migrate to Google Voice. That means if you’re a GrandCentral user who hasn’t already made the upgrade, you’d better transition today if you want to continue using your GrandCentral/Google Voice number.
Wii Price drop to 199 Incoming. Or is this another Fake Ad?
Of all the fakeables in consumer electronics, the weekly newspaper ad has to be one of the easiest marks. Still, this one looks pretty legit, and if it’s real it means either we’re getting a much overdue Wii price cut on September 27th, or someone on the Toys R Us ad team has been severely [...]
Ubuntu Quick Tips How to mount via SSH.
So I Thought Id Throw up a few Quick Tips on Ubuntu. Just a few commands you may or may not know but they do come in Handy. So many different Kernels out there But say you have a driver or piece of software that requires a certain kernel. What is a Kernel you ask. [...]
New iPhone Security Hole Discovered.
Just submitted to Apple as a bug, rpetrich (developer of the ActionMenu packages in Cydia) discovered an interesting security bug in the iPhone firmware. If a password is inputted in a field, shake to undo, and you will be able to see the character you are deleting. Simply repeat this for every character, and you [...]
Do You Have a Facebook? But your tired of Seeing Quiz & Application Messages?
You know how it goes… you finally signed up for Facebook after your friends and family kept bugging you, and now your Facebook Wall is just covered in idiotic quizzes, applications, and other random nonsense. You can’t block everybody that would defeat the purpose of a Facebook page, so now what can you do? Blocking [...]
802.11n Finally gets Wi-Fi standardization Approval.
Remember when the Wi-Fi Alliance finalized the 802.11 draft-n spec some two and a half years ago? Of course you don’t — as long as your media players, laptops, and the like can connect to each other (and to the cloud) without a hiccup you probably don’t care about IEEE’s paper trail. The standard, which [...]
Snow Leopard Installed, was it worth it?
Well I got Snow Leopard installed. Had to do a Clean install though, my lack of knowledge on Macs caused that. A couple weeks ago I upgraded my hard drive in my MacBook Pro from a 80gig to a 120gig Hard drive, and I didn’t know it needed to be a GUID partition. Anyways I [...]
Microsoft Has Free Advertisement at the Oklahoma / BYU Game
It’s one thing to have your computer crash. It’s another to have it crash in front of thousands of sports fans. This latest humiliation took place Saturday at the pre-game festivities for the Oklahoma/Brigham Young game at the at the brand new $1.15 billion Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas. TUAW Reader Jeff tells them that [...]
C64 Emulator Approved for iPhone App Store.
Well how about that. A Commodore 64 emulator for iPhone is nothing new — we covered the fact that one had been developed a little while ago. Here’s what is new (and a little surprising, to be honest): Apple approved it. In an environment where Apple seems intent on rejecting anything that might encroach on [...]
Google Maps + Game + Monopoly = Monopoly City Streets MMO
Wow, is all I have to say. I ran across this doing a search on Twitter for some other items for another article and ran across this. The way it sounds as if it it maybe a Board Game / MMO all in one? Check out there Blog too. On the 9th SEPTEMBER, a world [...]
IPhone: MMS Is Finially Comming. September 25th
According to the ATT Website MMS for the iPhone will be Avaible September 25th. Funny thing is they said they would have it by the end of Summer. Summer ends September 21 if im not mistaken. This will come shortly after the Apple Press Conference to announce the New iPod Touch and the Rumored iPhone [...]
OSX: Snow Leopard Downgrades Adobe Flash Player making it less secure.
Apple has built a potentially dangerous downgrade into Mac OS X Snow Leopard, according to a security expert. When Apple’s updated operating system is installed, it downgrades Adobe Systems’ Flash to an earlier, less secure version. Sophos security expert Graham Cluley said Wednesday in a company blog post that Apple installs version 10.0.23.1, which has [...]
- Tahlequah - Grand Opening Nerd Town Emporium - September 25 2010! ~Free Tourny
- Magic the Gathering League @ Wizards Asylum
- Jenks ---- Magic FNM Friday Sept 3rd Plus Saturday Sept 4th "Holiday event!"
- OKC - First EVER Halo Reach LAN - 9/18/2010 - HxC LAN
- JENKS! - Pokemon Battle Roads - Saturday October 9th
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