Tyler Haltman: December 2011

Saturday, 31 December 2011

PopCap games is having a great year-end sale on all of their downloadable games starting today and running until January 3rd. Here are the simple details:

Our Happy Merry Sale ends on January 3 so don't miss out! Get 50% off all PopCap download games ? from Bejeweled� to Zuma� and everything in between!

My favorite game from PopCap - Plants vs. Zombies - is on sale for $9.95, the same as Bejeweled 3 and others. In case you missed sales on other sites like Steam, or on the iOS or Android versions, this is a great opportunity to pick up some great games for decent prices! Head over to PopCap Continue�reading on Gear Diary ...

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December 30th through January 2nd Weekend Round-Up of PC Download Game Deals

Welcome back to another weekend of insane game deals for you to enjoy! Once again, if you haven't been checking out Steam and Good Old Games and GamersGate on a daily basis ... DO IT! As we go into the New Year I am completely refocusing this list. First off, I am focusing on just a few sites - Amazon, Beamdog, Desura, DotEmu, GamersGate, Mac App Store and Steam. I will explain that in detail in a separate article in the next week, but basically I won't recommend a site I won't use, and sites other than those have all moved into that territory. Of course, sometimes other sites will offer a great deal on a Steamworks game - one that activates on Steam and is therefore free of the sites rules - and I will cover that separately (like the $11.99 deal on Serious Sam 3:BFE from Get Games). As part of trimming back, I will more tightly focus on deals of 75% off or more, with occasional 50% sales (like Good Old Games), but in addition will also be trimming back to fewer than 25 deals per site to keep the list under control. Having a list of 475 games from GamersGate alone at better than 50% savings is really not helpful! I am continuing my 'top 5 weekend deals' section where I grab my favorite 5 deals of the week and provide direct links! For these games I select based on how good the game is as well as how sweet the deal - but each week there are great games at fantastic discounts! And as always thanks to the crew at Deals4Downloads for their help finding everything. This week I am also going to start properly alphabetizing my list by store! TOP 5 WEEKEND DEALS!

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Quiscence Music Reminds Us of the Value and Cost of $1

I Have written about the various Humble Bundles that not only do something good by bringing attention to deserving Indie developers, they also donate a portion of their proceeds to charity, making it an all-around great deal. But as was brought to my attention after the first one was announced, copies of those games were quickly found on file sharing sites! Imagine that - something you could get for $1 ... but you STILL have to steal it! Quiescence Music offered up all of their existing lessons and tutorials and other resources as a $1 one-week trial. More recently Quiescence Music founder Edward Weiss announced he was raising his monthly rate from Continue�reading on Gear Diary ...

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Fisker Karma?s interior relies on low-carbon leather

Source: http://www.ubergizmo.com/2011/12/fisker-karma-low-carbon-leather/

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Holding Kate Bush in My Arms Again

Fact: Relationships are challenging. Particularly when one of you is made of snow. Before Florence Welch and Tori Amos, before Bjork and Madonna, there was Kate Bush. Not that this is a contest. But Bush, a 2002 Ivor Novello Award recipient who has landed an album on the United Kingdom’s “Top 5″ charts in each [...]

Source: http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2011/12/holding-kate-bush-in-my-arms-again/

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ComScore: RIM?s loss is Android?s gain?

When it comes to smartphone platform market share in the United States, the story is starting to become more or less the same ole thing month after month… �Android gains a lot, Apple gains a little, RIM loses a lot, and everyone else loses a little. For the three month period ending in Nov. 2011 [...]

ComScore: RIM’s loss is Android’s gain… is a post from: RIMarkable, the Unofficial BlackBerry Weblog...

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Dell Launch Streak 10 Pro Tablet in China, U.S Eliminate

China is the largest in the emerging market category and the second fastest-growing & largest in the emerging market category right after the U.S. But this time Dell decided to launch its highly anticipated 10-inch tablet in the Chinese market first, based on an emerging belief that the U.S. market isn't mature enough for a successful Android launch.

The Dell Streak 10 is Dell's third tablet product and its first 10-inch Android-based tablet. Some of the main specifications of the Android tablet are these, a thickness of 12 millimeters, a weight of about 700 grams, edge-to-edge glass, a 1280-by-800 screen, front and rear facing cameras (including a 5 megapixel camera), full 1080p video playback, an SD slot, and an Nvidia Tegra dual-core processor. The tablet can also be purchased with a dock that has multiple USB ports, a USB host mode that allows PC-like emulation capabilities, HDMI video, the ability to run separate Citrix sessions on external monitors, and an Ethernet port, among other features.

By the end of the this year, there will be 2,000 service centers where customers can bring Dell products, in addition to around 10,000 stores that sell Dell products in China. Instead of trying to swim upstream let's go someplace where the growth rates are much more interesting, the adoption rates are much faster, the consumer is much more savvy...it became one of those aha moments to the myriad problems in the U.S. Android tablet market. The U.S. market simply doesn't offer a viable 10-inch tablet strategy for Dell.

Things like confusion over what exactly Android is bringing to the tablet, an immature platform and roll out of devices that weren't quite ready yet.

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?You All Know You Want a 7? iPad.?

That's how today's gear chat on tablet size started--with Francis' assertion that we all knew--even if some of us didn't want to admit it out loud--that we really wanted a mid-sized tablet. �You know: �something in between the iPod Touch/iPhone and iPad form factors. �Something around . . . 7" or so. �And then it was off to the races with your tech-happy Gear Diary team:

Francis S: You�all know you want a 7" iPad. I still am waiting for Apple to break price structure. I know they probably (almost definitely won't) especially after the Jobs rant over the 7" form factor. I hope and assume

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Friday, 30 December 2011

How to root the Kindle Fire (updated for 6.2.1)

Update: 12/23/11 - We’ve updated these instructions so they are compatible with Kindle Fires running version 6.2.1. Have you picked up a Kindle Fire, and are wanting to fully unleash your tablet’s power? Say no more. These detailed and simple instructions will have you rooted, using the Android Market, and installing apps to your heart’s [...]

Source: http://www.geek.com/articles/gadgets/how-to-root-the-kindle-fire-20111223/

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KleenSpeed?s Newest Car Not Just For The Track

An EV conversion company with a solid track history has debuted a prototype drivetrain and exterior design for a new 2+2 EV concept. The Kar is the brainchild of the engineers at KleenSpeed, the same folks who brought us the record-setting WX10 racer. They’ve also performed countless conversions, our favorite being the Mazda Miata they [...]

Source: http://www.wired.com/autopia/2011/12/kleenspeeds-newest-car-not-just-for-the-track/

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Dork Tower Wednesday

Read all the Dork Towers that have run on GeekDad. Find the Dork Tower webcomic archives, DT printed collections, more cool comics, awesome games and a whole lot more at the Dork Tower Website.

Source: http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2011/12/dork-tower-wednesday-77/

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First Airbus A350 Hitches A Ride To the Factory

The forward fuselage of the new Airbus A350 XWB composite airliner has been delivered to the factory. This particular airframe – MSN5000 – will never fly, but it’s still a milestone for Airbus’ first airliner made largely of composite materials. MSN5000 will be used for ground testing to confirm the strength of the composite paneled [...]

Source: http://www.wired.com/autopia/2011/12/first-airbus-a350-hitches-a-ride-to-the-factory/

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Round the World Racers Unveil New Sailing Speed Tracker

The 2011-12 edition of the triennial Volvo Ocean Race, a nine-month, around-the-world yacht showdown, officially began on October 29th with an in-port challenge in Alicante, Spain. Tomorrow the six competing ships will set sail for the first of nine major legs of the competition, a 6,500-mile trek from Alicante to Cape Town. Aiming to improve [...]

Source: http://www.wired.com/playbook/2011/11/round-the-world-racers-unveil-new-sailing-speed-tracker/

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HP TouchPad Go video review surfaces, its DOA status lamented

The HP TouchPad Go has been spotted online before and mused about, but PreCentral recently got their hands on one and have now posted a full review of the diminutive WebOS slate. The verdict: the 7-inch TouchPad Go is a worthy remix of the original, smartly designed as a grab-and-go tablet. Like the BlackBerry PlayBook, [...]

Source: http://www.geek.com/articles/gadgets/hp-touchpad-go-video-review-surfaces-its-doa-status-lamented-20111229/

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Shut The Hell Up Navi [Comics]

Check out the full comic after the break. (via Dorkly) Read more on Nerd Approved – Gadgets and Gizmos

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HTC TITAN unboxed

The HTC TITAN has yet to be released in this side of the world, but it has just been released in the UK. Thanks to the power of YouTube and folks over at TechnoBuffalo, we get to witness one of the first few unboxing videos for this upcoming Windows Phone device from HTC. Just in [...]

Source: http://blogs.7gadgets.com/htc-titan-unboxed/

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Thanks, Internet: Out-of-Print Blade Runner Sketchbook Surfaces Online

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Samsung 3D VOD Service in Korea - Coming to US and Europe Soon

Samsung is apparently an early adopter of this technology. Great news for Samsung 3DTV owners with nothing to watch on their TVs. If you are one of those customers left in the list, Samsung seems to have considered your complaint. The company has officially rolled out 3D video-on-demand streaming service to these televisions.

Samsung announced a partnership with DreamWorks that would see "a new streaming 3D Video-On-Demand (VOD) service that would make DreamWorks Animation content - trailers and promotions in both 3D and 2D- available for streaming via the 3D application for Samsung Smart TVs in 2011. The machine-translated, but it looks like movie trailers, music videos and children's education films will start things off, before full-length features and more are added later on.

Korea has given the official doze to Samsung to bring in 3D service. The US and Europe will immediately follow Korea that means you need to be ready for some amazing 3D content from Samsung coming your way out in other parts of the world too... We are yet to get pricing details at the moment, but there is a chance that the launch dates and prices will be announced any time soon.