Monday, November 30th, 2009
Amazon.com this morning announced that its Kindle eBook reader was the number one selling product in its online store for all of November. But once again, the company declined to reveal any actual sales numbers for the device »
Tags: article, downloads-books, ebook, employees, enables-readers, firmware-update, global-wireless, revolutionary, today-announced
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Monday, November 30th, 2009
I'm not sure how long this deal will last, but Amazon.com has Crazy Eddie pricing on the Windows Home Server-based HP LX195 MediaSmart Home Server (codenamed "Boxster"). This isn't an ideal WHS machine for a number of reasons--you can only put a single drive inside it, so all expansion is external, for starters--but... »
Tags: cheapest, crazy-eddie, enables-readers, global-wireless, more-expandable, revolutionary, server-based, smart-server, windows home server
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Saturday, November 28th, 2009
I call out this stupidity when people try to prop up Mac OS X market share, so I'll do it now as well: Despite what you may have read (and, really, Gregg Keizer should know better), Windows 7 has not yet surpassed Mac OS X's market share. The reason is simple: Market share... »
Tags: certain-parts, certain-sites, certainly-not, gregg-keizer, mac, stuff-as-news, stupidity, the-beginning, windows, windows 7
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Saturday, November 28th, 2009
Some have said that these are "unaired" but I've seen at least two of them on TV, so I suspect they've all actually made it onto TV in one way or another. In any event, nothing special, but a peek at what the aborted Windows 7-sponsored Seth MacFarlane comedy show could have been... »
Tags: aborted, bee, comedy-show, family, humor, made-it-onto, nothing-special, one-way, seen-at-least, state, windows, windows 7
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Thursday, November 26th, 2009
From all of us at Fidgit to all of you in the United States, happy Thanksgiving! And to those of you in the rest of the world, happy Thanksgiving also! Don't you wish you had a day to celebrate pilgrims, parades, turkey, and retail discounts? It's nearly as random as Easter! Make sure... »
Tags: culture, extreme computing, fray-on-friday, here-on-tuesday, holiday, rest, shopping, take-some, the-holiday, the-shopping, the-world, united, united-states, world, you-decide
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Thursday, November 26th, 2009
I'm a huge fan of this game. It's imaginative, elegant, varied, and beautiful »
Tags: after-the-jump, couple-things, game, game diaries, huge-fan, infernum, jump, know-first, solium-infernum, the-best, year, you-should
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Wednesday, November 25th, 2009
I've been told there are good iPhone games out there. But I think what people mean when they tell me this is there are lots of iPhone games out there, so surely some of them are good. I'm not convinced »
Tags: after-the-jump, been-drinking, genius, highly, highly-recommended, iphone, latest games, opinion, people-mean, reasons, recently-tried, surely-some, three-highly, viable-gaming
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Wednesday, November 25th, 2009
Okay, what do you see when you look at those pictures? If said "night elves", you make Drizzt cry. Although they'll look very familiar to World of Warcraft players, these are drow elves from Dungeons & Dragons Online »
Tags: dragons, dragons-online, drow-elves, extreme computing, fire, galleries, game, giant-king, latest games, night-elves, playable-race, store, various-ways, warcraft
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Wednesday, November 25th, 2009
Many games have random events. A common mechanic in a boardgame is drawing some sort of event card that can affect everyone. But Solium Infernum doesn't quite do it that way »
Tags: angelic, catbird, common-mechanic, drawing-some, event-happens, galleries, game, giant-king, infernum, latest games, playable-race, solium-infernum, warcraft
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Wednesday, November 25th, 2009
If there's one thing worse than a sex scene, it's a secret sex scene. And if there's one thing worse than a secret sex scene, it's a secret gay sex scene. The Daily Telegraph is on the case. »
Tags: acclaimed-new, culture, daily, daily-telegraph, exposes-secret, latest games, makes-it-even, the-following
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