‘Uncharted 2: Among Thieves’ is ideal game of the year - Lincoln Journal Star
“Uncharted 2: Among Thieves” is one of reviewer Aimee Green’s favorite games of the decade and the best of 2009. (Sony) As I was reviewing games this year, I noticed a trend: I was playing a lot of Mature-rated games. This isn’t exactly surprising

Readers pick year’s top tips for frugality - Reading Eagle
You also can access content through special boxes hooked to your TV or video game systems, such as PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360. Life insurance: Readers were interested to learn that they could be paying a lot less for term life insurance or getting

OnLive: The Future Is Coming - TheSixthAxis
I concur that onLive is a landmark step in the right direction, but I believe that despite. the claims of it being lag free, it simply can’t be. My roots lye in Computer gaming and I notice localised input lag caused by. Vsync when the frame output is

Most Desired PS3 Games For 2010 - 411mania.com
10 Games to make you proud to own a PS3! Given that world gaming news has been on a bit of a shutdown over the holidays, we’re doing something a bit different this week with B3yond the Report. This week we’re going to be looking at ten PS3 games that

Uncharted 2’ tops a turbulent gaming year - Northwest Herald
The idea that video games were recession-proof turned out to be a myth this year, leading to declining sales, shuttered studios and thousands of newly unemployed developers. Stalled fortunes also meant less risk-taking from game publishers, who

‘F*ck This Sh*t’: Matt Hazard’s XBLA/PSN adventure kicks it old school - DESTRUCTOID
In D3Publisher’s wildest dreams, Matt Hazard is an established videogame character, with best-selling titles dating back to the 80s. In reality, Matt Hazard’s first videogame appearance was on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 earlier this year, with

Ramones, McCartney, Blink 182 Coming To Rock Band - G4 TV
Next week is a big one for downloadable Rock Band and Rock Band 2 tracks. On tap: The Ramones (who are the greatest rock band ever), some live Paul McCartney, a Blink 182 three-fer, and even a couple tunes from underrated 1980s rockers The

Modder Makes Remote Play On PS3 A Little More Useful - Kotaku.com
The prospect of ” remote play ” - whereby you can play choose content from your PS3 on your PSP - is an exciting one, but also one that’s been sadly under-utilised by Sony and developers. Enter the mod scene. This is the PS3 Wireless Visual Interface

Xbox 360 was important in the “aughts” - St. Louis Post-Dispatch
focusing instead on its catalog of games, its market success over powerful rival PlayStation 3, and “Microsoft’s audacious approach to charging people to play on the web with Xbox Gold Live.” It’s concurred that these were good things.

The IncGamers Awards 2009 Part 2 - IncGamers.com
So, we’ve seen the ideal of the first lot of games for this year , but as we stated before, it’s been a really good year for games, with next year looking superior still! To wrap up this years ideal games, we’ve put the rest here, as well as a video for

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Filed under: Hardware, iPod Family, OS, Apple, MacBook, iPhone

Our friends over at Engadget have selected their top 10 gadgets of the last decade (the naughts, as I like to call them), and Apple has come up big: four out of the ten choices are made by the company from Cupertino. The iPhone is on the list (of course), as is the iPod. The original Titanium PowerBook fills a spot for its “category-shaping design” and its influence on laptops since its release in 2001.

Perhaps most interesting, Mac OS X is on the list right alongside Windows XP as a co-gadget of the decade. Engadget states that both operating systems provided fresh and clean restarts for their respective companies, and that while OS X took a little while to “become a usable daily OS” (ouch), it still helped to “set a new standard for computing.”

Being the Apple weblog that we are, we might argue that Windows XP provided a solid update to Windows 98, while OS X offered up some actual innovation in the operating system market (and Apple still carries the banner on commercial UI innovation today). But we’re nitpicking on that one — 40% of their gadgets that shaped the decade were made by one company, and that’s good enough for us.

Apple nabs four of Engadget’s 10 gadgets of the decade originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 30 Dec 2009 20:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed a 2008 ruling dismissing a 2006 case brought against Apple, which claimed that the iPod music player caused hearing loss.

In the original suit, a Louisiana man had claimed that the iPod had the potential to cause irreparable hearing loss, citing the design of the ear buds as encouraging too-deep placement within the ear, and the lack of volume meters.

He’d sought to have the suit classified as a class action suit against Apple, but in 2008, the District Court for the Northern District of California dismissed the suit, concurring with Apple’s assertion that the design didn’t cause an unreasonable risk of noise-induced hearing loss. The judge stated that the lawsuit had merely pointed out ways to make the device safer, not shown that the device itself was hazardous.

The suit also alleged elements of unfair competition, which were also dismissed and affirmed on appeal.

Apple wins appeal over iPod hearing loss originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 30 Dec 2009 17:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Filed under: iPod Family, Developer, iPhone, SDK

iPhone developer Emanuele Vulcano has been working on a new iPhone OS data exchange protocol called SwapKit [Apple Dev account required for link]. Hosted on GitHub, SwapKit provides App Store-friendly application-independent ways to publish data with custom metadata for sharing between applications.

SwapKit can automatically find all other SwapKit-using applications on a device and determine which of those applications can perform specific actions on that data. For example, a developer might send a string to the first Twitter-ready client it finds and request that client to post the string as a new tweet. SwapKit basically offers a Mac-style LaunchServices for iPhone.

Open source and provided under the MIT license (basically “use however you like”), SwapKit remains in early development. The screencast shown above demonstrates basic SwapKit features, demoing both sending and receiving functionality.

iPhone devsugar: SwapKit originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Mon, 28 Dec 2009 16:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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I too got a special present from 1up - 1UP.COM
yeah, 1up gave me something– I got served a giant can of whoop ass from Richard Li in Street Fighter IV Haunts (of iplaywinner, and writer of the SFIV start guide for MyCheats) and 1up’s own Richard Li just did an astounding live stream playing SFIV

AP-AM Prep-Rock - kgw.com
MELISSA ETHERIDGE THINKS, WHAT WOULD BRUCE DO? WASHINGTON (AP) — Melissa Etheridge has carried out her musical career with one rule: “What would Bruce do?” Etheridge says for the past 20 years she’s always thought about how Bruce Springsteen would

ModNation Racers Gets Explained, Beta on the Way - Softpedia
We haven’t heard a lot about Sony ’s ModNation Racers, but we do know that the game will be part of the “Play, Create, Share” general heading, so it will mainly focus on track editors and creation tools and let players put any weird design they have

PS3: Offline – It’s So Much Superior - TheSixthAxis
I’m a large fan of the PlayStation Network. Since the PS3’s launch, via a delicate but powerful combination of gradual firmware updates and some hard work from SCEE with regards to the actual Store, the PSN has become a force to be reckoned with

Top 10 video games of 2009 - Los Angeles Times
With 2009 drawing to a close, we thought it was important to put down our PS3 controller — and stop playing Modern Warfare 2’s brilliant on the internet multi-player mode — just long enough to reflect on the best games we played over the year. Though it’s

Rock Band Gets McCartney, Country Tracks - Softpedia
On January 5, 2010, players who own Rock Band on the Nintendo Wii or on the Xbox 360 from Microsoft will get the New York City Pack 01, while those using the PlayStation 3 will have to while those who have the game for the PS3 need to wait until

The Biggest Discount in the World – Up to 80% OFF Wholesale Price - PRLog (free press release)
Are you still finding the best quality video play PS2 games on your PlayStation 3 system. Controller adapter cable for Wii remote control. Simply plug the PS2 controller into the adapter and away you go. Converts PS2 controllers, game pad panel

‘Blur’ (PS3/X360/PC) - New Screens - WorthPlaying.com
Blur drops players into heart-pumping, electrified racing action with 20 automobiles on a track all targeting the finish line and battling each other as they trade paint and collect intense power-ups, including the capability to blast other automobiles out of the way

Cell Out, Standard CPU In For PS4 - TheSixthAxis
Well. Since the Cell architecture has been dropped by IBM, it seems like the only move for Sony. Not really anything new or surprising. Since ‘multi-core’ is practically the only type of processor that’ll be on the market in the foreseeable

The Decade in Technology - CBS News
(CBS) Some people say the first decade of the 21st century ends this week. Others say it extends until the end of 2010. Either way, the past 10 years were a momentous period for technology. Not only was there no iPhone a decade ago, there was hardly

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Nothing too serious, but still fun - Hawk Eye
While I’ve been busy rushing through the major holiday games to determine my favorite games of 2009, my wife, Alicia, has been hard at work writing reviews of a few of her favorites. This week, my life partner takes a look at some of the ideal titles

Shoppers deploy - Raleigh News & Observer
Though Jack received a Playstation 3 and two games on Christmas, he went to GameStop at Crabtree with his parents and cousin Saturday to redeem a $40 gift card. He settled on NCAA Basketball 10. “There is no expiring of gift cards in this home

Shoppers Take Advantage Of Post-Christmas Sales - Hartford Courant
MANCHESTER — - Determined to beat the post-Christmas crowds, Lisa Webb got up at 4 Saturday morning. She left the house at 6 with her son and daughter, picked up her son’s friend, and, after stopping for breakfast, hit the mall. As it turned out

More than ever, saving is in vogue - Allentown Morning Call
And you could stream movies from Netflix.com with a basic subscription. You also can access content through special boxes hooked to your TV or video game systems, such as PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360 . Life insurance: Readers were interested to learn

Shoppers line up for traditional Boxing Day deals - canada.com
He’d been hoping for a cheap Sony PlayStation 3. They were all gone by the time he returned just before noon. Denny stated his shopping was likely done for the day after Future Shop. “I don’t like the crowds,” he stated.

Play action proved riveting - Columbus Dispatch
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves (Sony, for the PlayStation 3): Like an interactive version of a classic Hollywood action movie Assassin’s Creed II (Ubisoft, for the Xbox 360, PS3): Renaissance Italy is the incredible setting for this intricate tale

Math professor develops web games to boost children’s interest - canada.com
World wide web games can boost children’s interest in mathematics, states a footballing Oxford University professor who plays wearing the prime number 17 and uses dance to prove theorems. Marcus du Sautoy states there is “a real crisis” in maths education in

OLD ITALY LIVES IN “ASSASSIN’S CREED II” - Asbury Park Press
Assassin’s Creed II” (Ubisoft, for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, $59.99) can be thought of as a prequel to all of those. At times, it feels like what you would get if you took the open-world mayhem and melodrama of “GTA” and transported them to

Diamond ring stolen - Say Journal-Register
Also taken were a PlayStation 3 and a black fur coat, police said. No arrests have been made, but officers believe the thief stole the items from an upstairs room inside the house.

Rob Ebert gaming column: 2009’s best games - Wausau Daily Herald
The economy took its toll on the gaming industry in 2009. Hotly anticipated and possible game-of-the-year contenders such as “Mass Effect 2″ and “Bioshock 2″ were pushed back until 2010, and many companies opted to stick with sequels they knew gamers

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i believe the ideal pick all day on christmas in college basketball is western michigan i played all the games on playstation 3 and western michigan beat charleston 72 to 53 i think western michigan -4 is a good pick More

Most retailers have great offers and deals on the day after Christmas sale too. The After Christmas sale is kept to clear the old stocks and this is the best time for a shopper to do some shopping. The Best Purchase after Christmas sales include items More

From: Mishawaka, Indiana. Member No.: 227,023 So, as you may know, I got a PS3 the other night. I hooked it up. I’m -VERY- surprised how quiet it is. One thing that bothers me about it is how pixelly it looks on my Personal computer monitor. My 360 doesn’t look More

Well, I’ve played twenty-five hours of Final Fantasy XIII in the past few days, and the one thing I have the ability to state with confidence is that I sure have played twenty-five hours of Final Fantasy XIII in a few days. I suppose I’m not “qualified” to write a More

Future wishes: Avatar in 3D on PS3. (Credit: 20th Century Fox) The Blu-ray Disc Association released its finalized 3D specifications this morning , outlining what to anticipate out of 3D Blu-ray in 2010. The specification includes full 1080p resolution, backward compatibility for both 3D Blu-ray players More

“where apparently LSU defensive back Tyson Andrus is a white guy.” While Tyson is indeed not white, he’s also not at LSU, he transferred to Nicholls Say 2 years ago. In fact that whole roster is more than a year old. Beckwith signed with the Chiefs More

ROCK BAND IS GOING (EVEN MORE) COUNTRY Harmonix and MTV Games today announced that a seven pack of songs from some of country’s biggest stars will be added to the Rock Band Music Store of downloadable content for the Xbox 360® video game and More

FF XIII provides tangible, intuitive controls while delivering seamless transitions between real-time gameplay and stunning in-game cinematics. The latest in cutting-edge technology has been utilized in development of Final Fantasy XIII, thus making this newest addition to the Final Fantasy series More

I would like to share my christmas with all of you fanatstic people out there. I recieved the ideal present ever a PS3!!. my own ps3, I now own a PS3!! Did i mention that I got a ps3? well I did and now I have this astonishing time flying funness, I More

Merry Christmas! We hope you got everything you wanted and some crud you didn’t. But hey, it’s the thought that counts, right? No? Moving on. Just because it’s Christmas Day (and Kovacs’ birthday – you may wish him happy birthday in the More

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Last-minute gifts - San Jose Mercury News
For the kids in your gift-giving world, consider buying an annual family membership to some of the Bay Area’s most fun and educational museums and centers. There’s San Jose’s Children’s Discovery Museum, where the WaterWays exhibit is a hit, along

Control freak: ‘World of Warcraft’ best game of the decade - Herald & Review
KotOR” is an example of the right way to do a role-playing game: Deep, branching game play and a heck of a twist. 6. “Rock Band 2″ (MTV Games, Xbox 360/PlayStation 3/Wii, 2008). “Guitar Hero” may have introduced the mainstream to the music/ rhythm

Gold, Diamond-Covered PS3 Needs A Price Cut - Kotaku.com
Let’s say the world’s most high-priced Wii doesn’t appeal to you. You figure, “If I’m paying $300,000 for a console, the least it can do is play Blu-Ray”. So you instead focus on the world’s most expensive PS3. Made by the same guy, it’s covered in

Holidays Bring Santa Hats to Uncharted 2 - Shacknews
Having brought some red-eyed skeletons into Uncharted 2’s multiplayer for Halloween and then fattened up its characters for Thanksgiving, developer Naughty Dog has unveiled its latest holiday celebration: festive hats. The seasonal special coincides

5 Sites to Help You Set Up Your New Gadgets - ReadWriteWeb
It’s been nearly a year since I last worked with DIY repair site FixYa but I still remember the traffic spike we’d see each Christmas. While families would be thrilled to unwrap smart phones, netbooks and flat screen monitors in the early morning

Lindich: Oppos’s Blu-ray player best out there - Inside Bay Area
Q. I just purchased a 42-inch Panasonic plasma TV ($665 at Sears!) and would like to upgrade from DVD to Blu-ray. You have written favorably about Oppo products before but haven’t mentioned their Blu-ray player. Do you think it would be a good fit

Zuler: Merry Christmas to you too! - TheSixthAxis
Think you’re ready to return to Rapture in BioShock 2? The sequel to the ground-breaking game promises to put players in the shoes of the first-ever Big Daddy, giving you much more power than Jack from the original game ever had. The game looks to

Rock Band updates for the week of 12/29 and 1/5 (pending) - Neoseeker
99 UK / €1.49 EU, or 200 Nintendo Points. 360 and Wii owners get their content on December 29 and January 5 while PS3 owners wait until December 31 and January 7.

Musical burglar takes oboe from vehicle - Herald-Citizen
residence on Dec. 21 and stole a Playstation 3 video game console, a Compaq laptop computer, a 15-inch LCD flat screen Television, a 19-inch TV, and three Playstation 3 games. Officer Alex Lazcos filed a report. * A burglar entered a vehicle parked at the

Rim Country students write letters to Santa - Payson Roundup
Dear Santa, I really, really want a Leapster Two. I want a new stuffed animal puppy. What is your favorite kind of cookie? I’m serious. Mine is cinnamon. Please don’t put me on the naughty list. I’ve been a good girl. — Love, Abbygale Dear

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Filed under: iPod Family, Bluetooth, iPhone, Jailbreak/pwnage

Due to hit the Cydia store momentarily, Matthias Ringwald’s BTstack Keyboard app grants users to type text into any iPhone application using an external Bluetooth keyboard. Built on the open source BTstack project, BTstack Keyboard runs a daemon in the background of any jailbroken iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS or iPod touch with Bluetooth support. As you type text on the keyboard, the daemon generates synthetic keyboard tap events; the effect is the same as if you’d typed that text using the on-screen keyboard.

You will need to install BTstack and the BTstack Keyboard packages on a jailbroken 3G or later iPhone or 2nd generation or later iPod touch. The software has been tested with an Apple Bluetooth keyboard, a Think Outside Stowaway Universal keyboard, and a Palm Wireless keyboard. There’s no reason to think it won’t work with any standard Bluetooth keyboard, i.e. one that uses standard BT protocols.

With this small utility, users will be better able to take notes on the go using a standard keyboard in any text-based iPhone application. Yes, you’ll have to haul around the physical keyboard, but the availability of folding on-the-go Bluetooth solutions makes this an exciting development for anyone who wants to expand their text entry possibiilities.

Anticipate to pay $5 for BTstack Keyboard when the software goes live. For more details, see Ringwald’s Keyboard information page at his website. Ringwald is the same developer whose BTstack work brought iPhone-Wiimote integration into play recently.

BTstack Keyboard jailbreak app provides iPhone text entry originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 23 Dec 2009 17:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The First Decade: The Influential People - G4 TV
Although video games are a young medium, each decade is defined by something different. In the 2000s, we’ve seen the slow erosion of PC gaming, the sales dominance of handheld systems, the rise of on the web console games, and most importantly, a

Goal.com Special: Pro Evolution Soccer 2010 Review - goal.com
Each year two soccer video games are released that millions buy, play and thoroughly enjoy: EA Sports’ FIFA franchise and Komani’s Pro Evolution Soccer. Evenly-matched in current years, FIFA took a big step forward in the 2010 edition and seemingly

Namco promises more PS1 games for PSP - Network World Fusion
According to Kotaku, a recent announcement made by Namco Bandai seems to indicate that the publisher will focus on releasing many of their properties digitally in 2010, including Xbox 360 Games on Demand, as well as PS1 classics for the PSP and PS3

Activision Releases World at War Map Pack Bundle - 1UP.COM
The Call of Duty: World at War Map Packs 1-3 collection includes all nine multiplayer maps and three Zombie maps for $24.99 on the PlayStation 3 and 2000 Microsoft Points ($24.99) on the Xbox 360. That’s five dollars off on the combined price of the

Final Fantasy XIII Breaks Records in Japan - Softpedia
It seems that Final Fantasy XIII might be one of the biggest games of the year even if it is only released in Japan and on a single platform, the PlayStation 3 from Sony. The game, which was released on December 17, has managed to sell more than 1.5

PSN gets MAG beta, Savage Moon PSP - Gamespot News
PlayStation Store Update: Client arrives for on the internet shooter and portable tower defense title debuts as Sony slashes prices on an array of downloadable titles. This week’s retail release list for Sony systems is embarrassingly light, consisting

Namco Bandai Digging Into The Archives For Re-Releases - Kotaku.com
Thing is, it gets better, the company pledging to spend 2010 plumbing the depth’s of their back catalogue and releasing them on the 360, PS3 and PSP. It’ll start with Beautiful Katamari appearing on the 360’s Games on Demand service in “Q1 2010″, but

‘Mafia II’ (PS3/X360/PC) - New Screens - WorthPlaying.com
Mafia 2 immerses players in the mob underworld of a fictitious late 1940’s-early 1950’s scenario. Players will easily become engaged in the game’s cinematic Hollywood movie experience with strong, believable characters in a living, breathing city. By

Engadget’s Holiday Gift Guide: Home theater setups - engadget
119 - Buy from Ideal Buy Logitech Harmony PlayStation 3 IR adapter - Good news, your Secret Santa draw back with this adapter, it reads the IR commands from the remote and converts them for the PS3. When they’re watching Avatar in 3D and don’t

Game releases hold steady in 2009 - Gamespot News
Meanwhile, new PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 retail releases were flat and slightly down for the year, respectively, which Divnich attributed to the rise in digital distribution. Beyond simply selling games online instead of in stores, developers are

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