Computer And Gaming

What Do you thing?

2012-10-11T19:09:00.000+02:00

Model	SGM-4001-KLLW1

Color	Black

Form Factor	Ambidextrous Body

Sensor	Avago ADNS-3090 Optical Sensor

Programmable Buttons	9

Onboard Memory	32KB

Polling Rate	1000 Hz /1 ms

Velocity	Up to 150 ips

Acceleration	20 g

Dimension	64.4 x 116.4 x 42 mm 2.53 x 4.58 x 1.65 inches

Weight	139 g / 0.31 lbs

Warranty	2 years

UPC Code	884102015373

Your House Online

2012-10-11T18:55:00.001+02:00

Star Wars Galaxies XP Frenzy

2011-07-25T04:51:00.000+02:00

A new hotfix when live across all US and European severs early this morning for Star Wars Galaxies that just about doubled XP for everything and will most likely be in effect until the game closes down.

It seems SOE is trying to make the last few months of SWG as enjoyable as possible for the remaining players.

Bonus Everything

Everyone logged in will earn Double XP, Double GCW Points, Double Heroic Tokens, Double GCW Tokens from Battlefields and City Invasions, Double Pet XP and Loyalty, Double Duty Mission Tokens, Double Chronicles XP, Double Chronicles Silver Tokens, increased chance to earn Gold Chronicles Tokens, increased RLS chance, increased chance to catch real fish (instead of junk loot and collection fish) and bonus Restuss Commendations!
NOTE: The RLS chance has been increased to 5 times the normal value.

Fan Faire 2011

The Fan Faire 2011 items are now available to be claimed in-game.

SWtoR Pre-Order Box Art Revealed?

2011-07-24T04:52:00.001+02:00

So it seems that yesterday a Polish retailer Empik.com added details for the Star Wars: The Old Republicpre-order and posted up an image of the box art, which was then quickly removed. Rumors are now flying that Bioware will announce the pre-order this Thursday during Comic-con in Seattle.
It’s also worth mentioning that Walmart has the release date set as 11/01/11 and seems to be open for pre-orders, however does not mention any of the above pre-order bonuses.
I guess we’ll wait until Comic-con and see if any dates are announced.
Update: Via swtorstrategies.com it seems that the release date status on the EA site has been changed from TBD to TBA.

What Won’t China Steal?

2011-07-23T04:49:00.000+02:00

Straight out of the “are you f#cking kidding me” file comes World Joyland, a theme park located in Changzhou, China. What makes this theme park so special is that is based off of Blizzard’s popular World of Warcraft and Starcraft intellectual properties, which by the way it’s not paying Blizzard to license.

That’s ok though because the theme park owners have an iron-clan solution to avoid being sued into the ground. One, they’re located in China and two they named the WoW area, Terrain of Magic, while the Starcraft area is called Universe of Starship, so no one will know it’s based on WoW and Starcraft.

Legal matters aside, do they realize that the reason Disney was so successful at one point was because they made a theme park targeting kids? What 5-8 year old is going to bug their parents to take them to a WoW or Starcraft theme park? And if you’re not a kid and excited to go to a WoW theme park I think you might have to re-evaluate your life or at the very least stop playing WoW.

Continue below to see some of the images from World Joyland.

FFXIV Previews Patch 1.18 Settlements

2011-07-22T01:31:00.000+02:00

Today Square-Enix revealed more information about Final Fantasy XIV’s upcoming 1.18 patch, which will include new settlements. The new settlements or outposts, six in all, will be intended as landmarks and bases of operation for players. There players can find useful NPCs, such as merchants or smiths and some quests to do. Future FFXIV patches will add more enhancements to the settlements as well as bring new quests.

There will be two new settlements in each of the three main regions, The Black Shroud, La Noscea and Thanalan. Below we have a screenshot for each of the 6 outposts and you can find more information about them and patch 1.18 on the FFXIV site.

Black Prophecy Early Impressions Review

2011-07-21T01:20:00.002+02:00

Over the last week I had some time to checkout the recently launched NA version of Black Prophecy and as far as first impressions go, it’s not a good one. Starting off with the installation, I knew it wasn’t going to be a smooth ride as Gamigo required you to download 6 separate files, one of which was a broken link, so I had to wait a few hrs for them to notice and fix it.

Once installed I logged in, created my character and was ready to go. The game begins with you taking the role of a random crew mate on a ship that is attacked and you have to man the turrets. The tutorial is meant as an introduction to the games weapon systems and normally I would gloss over something like this, however this is where I ran into my first bug.

Upon completing the turret tutorial, the game looped back to the beginning and I was forced to redo the whole thing. While not a huge problem, it wasn’t that long, the reason I’m pointing it out is because this was a bug from the European launch 4 months ago. Quite embarrassing and pathetic to have such a simple bug not fixed 4 months later for the NA launch.

However this seems to be the theme with the NA launch of BP as I heard players complaining in the chat channels of other bugs from the EU version that are still not fixed. Aside from bugs, I’ve had multiple game crashes and freezes, even today 10 mins ago when I logged in to take a few screenshots. There was also a big lag issue the first few days that seems to have been resolved now.

Once you complete the intro tutorial you’re taken to a hub station where the ships commander, being impressed with you, offers you a spot in his flight crew. You then proceed to complete more missions which are just more tutorials to help you learn the aspects of the game.
Once you complete all the tutorial and prologue missions you’re given the option to select which of the two races you want to become, the Tyi or Genides. The basic difference between the two races are that Tyi are cybernetically altered humans while Genides are genetically altered, and obviously they have different ships types. Once you select your faction the real game begins.
You start off in your faction’s hub station where you’re greeted by their ambassador who has a few missions for you. At this point of the game, there have only been 2 types of missions that I’ve come across. Missions you receive from contacting NPC’s in the hub stations or other stations, which tend to be storyline missions, or Terminal missions you get from inside the hub station.
Picking up a mission from the terminal is basically like playing a single player game, they’re all instanced missions and they start as soon as you accept it. They have both solo and group missions, but there is no direct connection with these missions and the Black Prophecy universe. It feels like you’re in a training simulator rather than a thriving, active galaxy.

The NPC missions you get from hub stations are a little better. They provide some backstory, require you to travel to locations and complete some sort of objective. On these type of missions you’ll definitely run into other players doing their own thing and since it’s open PvP you’ll also run into many opposing faction players who will kill you constantly.
Which brings me to the weapons systems and ships. Being a noob, I was under the impression that shields were useful, however after being killed oh, lets say 100 times and only getting a few kills in return, I decided to do some research in the BP forums.
Well it appears that shields and energy weapons are useless in the lower levels. There are 3 weapon types available, energy, mechanical or explosive. Energy weapons are good against shields, but deal little to no hull damage and mechanical and explosive do hull damage only. To kill someone, you only need to do get their hull to zero, shields don’t matter.

Now you would think that since there are shields in the game, you would have to get rid of them first before doing any hull damage. If you ever played any of the X-Wing games this is how it worked, but not in BP. Shields only block a percentage of the damage with everything else going through dealing hull damage. Early on shields only block a very small percentage of damage, 10-20%, so using energy weapons is a waste since your only hurting shields and causing little hull damage.
If you use the strategy of using mechanical or explosive weapons only, you’ll deal a ton more damage with only a small fraction being absorbed by the shields. I was using 2 energy weapons and 2 mechanical, so basically I had 2 weapons that did shit. Once I learned shields don’t matter and changed to 4 mechanical guns, my kill-death ration switched to positive.
From what I read, even at the end levels shields only block 60-70% of hull damage so it seems they might never be useful.
Despite that and the bugs, the game is actually ok so far. The biggest plus are it’s graphics, which are absolutely beautiful, some of the views are breathtaking. While it’s a bit of a grind, what I’m really looking forward to is getting into some clan battles. In later levels clans can construct their own hub stations and take over resource hubs in other areas, which sounds like good old fashion PvP fun.

Michael Pachter: "I'm getting my mom an Xbox 360, and you are too" Continue reading on Examiner.com Michael Pachter: "I'm getting my mom an Xbox 360, and you are too"

2011-07-20T04:26:00.000+02:00

After some key moves from Microsoft recently, industry analyst Michael Pachter says he has to get his mom an Xbox 360 with Kinect, and he thinks you should, too.

Considering Microsoft's acquisition of Skype, Pachter is predicting "Videochat 2.0" via Xbox Live. Game design program director at Digipen University Ben Ellinger explains Kinect's chatting abilities as such:

The microphones and the way they deal with sound on the Kinect is really sophisticated. Combined with the visuals, you get this magical effect where Kinect knows who's speaking, it knows who you are, it can center the camera on your face properly. If you get the infrastructure in there well enough, that's a science-fiction app.

In addition to all of the other things you can do with an Xbox 360, the abilities of Kinect combined with the implementation of Skype over Xbox Live means you could call your mom by just asking your Kinect to dial her up. As Pachter puts it, "Skype, Kinect, Xbox 360. I can talk to my mom from my living room? You know what? I'm getting my mom an Xbox 360, and you are too."

The Xbox 360 is evolving from just a game console into an all-encompassing entertainment experience. According to Ellinger, Microsoft's gameplan is "to own the living room."

Sony Online Entertainment restores service for PC online games

2011-07-19T16:32:00.000+02:00

Online game addicts rejoice! Sony Online Entertainment has now restored service for its PC online games.
Similar to the restoration of the sister network, the PlayStation Network today, the SOE restoration of The Station online gaming service will happen in phases. Sony discovered hackers had attacked the PC online game service on May 1, about 11 days after it discovered the hacking of the PlayStation Network.
The restoration will begin with the return of all of Sony’s PC online games, from EverQuest to Free Realms. SOE will also restore game forums and web sites and require players to reset their passwords. SOE also promised better security as a result of consulting with respected outside security firms. The company pledged to take better care of the personal information of its 24 million users. The company said it is possible that 12,000 users had their credit card numbers stolen.
Sony is launching new security technologies such as software monitoring, penetration and vulnerability testing, and increased encryption.
SOE is offering a “welcome back” program for all Station account holders, including 30 days of free game time plus one day for each day the servers were down, or 15 more days. Players will also get 500 Station cash, SOE’s virtual currency, which can be used to purchase items in games.
Lifetime subscribers will received in-game currency instead of game time, since they are not on a monthly billing cycle.

Third-party smartphone app developer Sourcebits raises $10M for global expansion

2011-07-12T01:00:00.000+02:00

India-based smartphone and tablet application developer Sourcebits has raised $10 million in first round funding. The investors — the company’s first — are Sequoia Capital and IDG Ventures India, who each invested $5 million.
Sourcebits will use the funding to set up sales and engineering centers in the U.S and engineering teams in India and Europe. Outsourcing your app development to India will definitely get easier.
Sourcebits is a third-party application developer with 300 engineers and designers. The company claims it does application development for many Fortune 500 companies. Some of the most popular apps developed by Sourcebits include Robokill, Knocking Live, Daily Deeds, Night Stand, Skyfire, and Beast Farm. The company does app development for iOS, Android, BlackBerry, Palm Pre and Windows Phone 7 platforms.
The company was at number 38 spot on Lead 411’s latest Technology 500 list last December.

The stable version of Google Chrome 11 is now available

2011-07-11T20:33:00.000+02:00

The folks at Google clearly is not still for a second, we are constantly offered upgrades, updates and changes to their services. A few days ago they released the stable version of Google Chrome 11, the 2 nd most used browser in Argentina, which comes with some interesting new addition to the correction of errors that users are reporting.

The new addition of Google Chrome 11 is the ability to record your voice using only HTML, for example in Google Translator can record what you want to translate interface and we will respond in the language you're translating.

There is also talk a lot of effort being made by Google to reduce the weight of the Chrome installer currently exceeds 20Mb, so you have to download it to check the weight, enjoy the new functionality and see the new logo for Google Chrome that was released recently in the beta versions of the browser

PlayStation Network service will open later this month and compensate those affected in two games and 30 days free subscription.

2011-05-11T20:08:00.000+02:00

The PSN would reopen by the end of May.PlayStation Network would be operational only in late May. So said, Shigenori Yoshida Japanese firm Sony Computer Entertainment. Is expected to be before 31 May. This would be almost more than a month without running the online service from Sony.
The company will reward the PlayStation, with two free games and everyone will receive 30 days of PlayStation Plus subscription, and 30 more to those already signed. "We want to offer users the opportunity to download PSN for free two PS3 games from a list of five, just so that PSP users can choose two of four possible titles. Pretty soon they will know which games will be available for downloading, "said the head of communications in the European region, Nick Caplin.
The great odyssey SonyThe next weekend to Easter, a large number of PlayStation users were affected by the closure of Sony, on the grounds of "temporary closure for maintenance." Then this, everyone turned to the Internet users to know what was happening, but all were in the mainstream video game was that generated the PS Network 'Error 80710A06.
As the hours passed and the days, the company announced that other problems were not solved yet, the deadline for the reopening would be a few more days, and published in the Official PlayStation blog: "We are working to resolve this problem in the shortest possible time "and" thank you for your patience, "Patrick Seybold, director of communications and social media from Sony. With this series of arguments and after spending a long weekend without being able to play, user groups begin to stir and impatient with the lack of online service.
During the week of April 20, precisely on 26 April, Sony mentioned that everything is a "foreign intrusion" into your system. PlayStation Network had been hacked. What raises the question of who could be this attack as it happens weeks before closing, Sony's servers were attacked, apparently by Anonymous cyber-activist group, whose group denied having carried out this attack, but do recognize the guilt of some members, "is the work of Anonymous. But you can not blame the entire group with one or two. We are a very diverse activities, not a fearsome group of hackers."
This is how rumors run quickly on a possible data breach, security breach and thus accounts for credit card users. This Sony says he's working on rebuilding the security of PlayStation Network, so it would have to wait even longer to regain active duty, and admits that there was a flaw in its security system and could therefore be extracted from complete data users in the attack, and it was not possible to guarantee the integrity of the data related to credit cards.
Sony says it will take strict measures against those who hacked the service, but still does not know who it is. Has not directly blamed the group Anonymous, but, to date, investigations of the company and other security firms have found a file with references to this group. Currently being investigated by the FBI.
Meanwhile, the company Sony Computer Entertainment, suffered harsh criticism from around the world from the political, economic and social development. Sony shares desavalorizarse begin to drop in the stock market and in turn this binds to the natural disasters in Japan which also affected the company, in addition to these two major attacks against hackers, Sony is the world's attention to the expected a viable and reliable solution for everyone.
Hopefully by the end of the month to announce the reopening of the PlayStation Network service

2011-05-11T19:51:00.000+02:00

Activision-Blizzard made an announcement related to the expected beta of Diablo III, and this has happened in the presentation of its latest financial results.

Mark Morhaime, Blizzard's responsible, has confirmed they will release a beta of the game in the third quarter, so that players can get an idea of what the new venture will offer the series.

As there is no news regarding the game's release date, which remains on schedule for this year, noting that "are working very hard to meet this date, but they do not rule that you can go the next year.

In that case if at least two promises Activision Blizzard's titles in 2012, it would be Diablo III and the new expansion Heart of the Swarm Starcraft II.

We look forward to more news about the most anticipated game of the year.

Twitter already owns TweetDeck

2011-05-08T23:05:00.000+02:00

After so many rumors, shopping is a fact, Twitter is the owner of this application, used by thousands of users, TweetDeck.

Rumors suggest that the buying, is estimated between 40 and 50 million dollars.

However, this purchase has generated several questions, the most intriguing, Is it the end of TweetDeck? .... And as we know is that the powers of Twitter, and now as owner of this application, these rumors have escalated since the sale was confirmed.

The Highest tweet

2011-05-08T23:04:00.000+02:00

Most Twitter users have written anywhere, at all times and circumstances, and many of these tweets have been history.

Well today is the turn of the mountaineer Kenton Cool, who a few days ago was found in the highest point of the Earth, from Mount Everest, by typing:

Chiptune

2011-02-23T14:24:00.000+01:00

I'm back for Valentine's Day (nice present)

2011-02-15T06:20:00.000+01:00

If you laugh, you lose

2010-10-21T03:10:00.001+02:00

Revolutionary V8 and V10 CPU coolers from Cooler Master

2010-10-18T21:26:00.000+02:00

RR-V6SV-22PR-R1

V6 follows in the footsteps of the revolutionary V8 and V10 CPU coolers from Cooler Master. Designed with a muscular engine look, the V6 fits nicely with any performance hardware. The V6 also features new mechanical structure that includes: V-shaped heatpipe array, asymmetrical aluminum fins (which are densely stacked for optimal cooling), a red LED fan with PWM speed control function, DynaLoop™ long life technology, and snap-on cover to conveniently add a second fan if needed.

Features:

Densely stacked asymmetrical tilted aluminum fins for muscle cooling performance.
"Double-V" heatpipe array helps spread out the six heatpipes to fully utilize the cooling fins on the cooler. It also allows airflow to reach each individual heatpipe as opposed to traditional coolers.
Clear red LED PWM fan with wide RPM range for total performance solution at high and low speed operation (optional 2nd fan).
DynaLoop™ Bearing Fan: Innovated self-lubricating bearing mechanism decreases oil-loss commonly seen on sleeve bearing fans. Evolutionary wave blade fan provides tremendous airflow with steady pressure.
Snap-on cover to conveniently add a second fan if needed.

Product Highlights:

Six copper base heatpipes.

"Double-V" heatpipe array helps spread out the six heatpipes to fully utilize the cooling fins on the cooler. It also allows airflow to reach each individual heatpipe as opposed to traditional coolers.

Asymmetrical 5 degree tilted aluminum fins precisely engineered to lower airflow resistance while providing maximum cooling surface.

Innovated fan bearing decreases sleeve oil-loss, extend fan life up to 40,000 hours.

Perfect match for aggressive systems.

Crazy invents of 50's

2010-10-16T20:15:00.001+02:00

Dancing man wearing a horse mask cooks wild mushrooms. (WTF)

2010-10-11T23:30:00.000+02:00

Wonders of Internet

Tablets ended the Age of the Netbooks?

2010-10-09T18:11:00.000+02:00

What is your Opinion ?

Logitech Wireless Gaming Headset G930

2010-10-09T17:33:00.000+02:00

A fast wireless connection lets you level up without being tied down-and 7.1 surround sound puts you right in the middle of the action.

Features

2.4 GHz wireless connectivity
7.1 surround sound
Three programmable G-keys
Adjustable, memory foam-lined headband
Plush, noise-isolating ear pads
Laser-tuned drivers
Noise-canceling mic with auto-mute
Microphone mute light
On-ear audio controls
Painless recharging
Batteries built for battle
Adjustable audio settings
Real-time voice morphing
Plug-and-play setup

Ozone Oxid Gaming Headset

2010-10-06T17:21:00.000+02:00

When immersed in the game, every second and every sound count. Oxid is the ultimate in headset for advanced players. These headphones avoids distractions and allow fully enjoy the game and includes microphone for cooperation with your friends, immediate and effective.

Features

Headphones:

Diameter: 40mm
Impedance: 32 Ω
Frequency response: 20 to 20 KHz
Sensitivity: 96 dBA

Microphone:

Dimensions: 6.0 x 2.8 mm diameter
Omnidirectional
Impedance: 22 KΩ
Sensitivity:-38dBA

Cable length: 3.0 m
USB Connection
Weight 310g
Retractable microphone with red LED
Integrated Subwoofer
Adjustable headband made of soft materials
Controller cable: volume, track, microphone, subwoofer.

Robby: Entertaining short film by Edwin Schaap

2010-10-06T16:55:00.000+02:00

Robby is a great short created by Edwin Schaap with 3dsmax, with post-production made by Combustion and finally edited using Adobe Premiere. The author took him eight weeks to create the concept, and finally able to see.

The result is an animation with a funny character as a protagonist, trying to get to where they most want by all means.