Heffee uses a formula that takes into account the input from websites, moderators and expecially the users to decide which news across the internet is the most important. Users can create their own customized feeds, save pages and articles from across the web, and subscribe to their favorite news outlets.
Incoming Sites
clos skil's Favorites- my hoard 
|
Computerworld readers across the country have written in angered and frustrated by antipiracy features that are included in the new Vista operating system.
Date Added: fluffy cat 12/01/2007 20:44
Engadget writes:
"While most Xbox 360 owners could find something to look forward to in the Xbox 360 Fall Dashboard Update, Media Extender users just found out they've been skipped over, again. Just like the previous update adding H.264 support, the 360's newfound DivX compatibility doesn't apply when its being used as a Window Media Center Extender. AC3 audio support as well as a host of other media-related updates are nice, but Microsoft is leaving some of its most dedicated users out in the cold. We wonder what will get DivX first, Xbox 360 Media Center or the PlayStation 3?"
Shawn Collins of http://www.weviews.tv reviews the Ion Audio USB Turntable.
In Europe at least, THQ confirms.
The just-canned PS3 version of Destroy all Humans: Path of the Furon will in fact see a European release, THQ has just confirmed.
Click here to read the full article
Mr Men writes to mention a ZDNet blog entry by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes wondering aloud if maybe, just maybe, Microsoft isn't lying about having patents that are part of Linux. "Come on, no matter how much of a Linux fan you are, you have to admit that there's at least a chance that Linux does indeed infringe on Microsoft's patents. After all, Microsoft does hold a lot of patents and while Linux is open source and we can all take a look at the source code, only Microsoft has access to most of its source code so it isn't all that difficult for it to prove - to itself at any rate - that there are IP infringements contained in Linux. After all, before IBM handed over some 500 patents to the open source community, it's pretty clear that Linux was infringing some of them. Given that, why is it so hard to believe that the same isn't going on with Microsoft?" Even then, he goes on to say, so what if they do? It's not like they're going to go after us with a 'Linux tax'. Kingsley-Hughes imagines that, for the most part, Microsoft is just going to sit on this info and use it to form more and more profitable deals. Better than the alternative, I guess.
Revenge at the dinner table
Entertainer Wayne Newton has been given the all-clear to hit the road with the upcoming
Dancing with the Stars tour after overcoming a recent health scare.
Tech analyst group iSupply totes up the cost of the PS3's components and comes up with $840. They say Sony's losing $240 on each 60-GB console, and more than $300 on the 20-gig machine. The Xbox 360 is showing a profit. In Game|Life.
Machinima movie for students of English as a Foreign Language. This is a parody of the Milliways restaurant scene from the Douglas Adams book - Restaurant at the End of the Universe.
Bungie Weekly Update on 11/16/07 shares some Halo 3 player statistics as tracked by Xbox Live:
Joe Tung tracked down some data on the achievements that have been completed by folks whose 360s are connected to Xbox Live. Here?s some data for folks to chew on:
? Campaign Complete: Normal ? Completed the Campaign on Normal Difficulty: 43.28%
? Campaign Complete: Legendary ? Completed the Campaign on Legendary Difficulty: 15.14%
? Graduate: Graduated from basic training. Stick with it to earn your Spartan insignia: 66.92%
? UNSC Spartan: Promoted to Sergeant. Proven in combat, you are a Spartan: 52.07%
? The most found metagame skull? Black Eye skull with 34.26%
? The least found metagame skull? Tilt at 22.98% (Go find it, jerks! It?s one of the best skulls in the game!)
? At 6.21%, Steppin? Razor is the hardest multiplayer Achievement to earn, with Two for One right behind it at 6.77% and Overkill nipping at its heels (6.75%)
? 8.68% of players have unlocked the Marathon Man Achievement
? 1000/1000 Gamerscore: 2.07%
Don Reisinger writes:
"Regardless of whether you're a PlayStation zealot or even a Sega fanboy who can't find it in yourself to buy a Nintendo product, you must admit that Nintendo has been incredibly successful with its DS. And if you ask me, sales will continue to be strong and each update will compound growth until one thing finally happens--the Nintendo DS will become the most successful gaming device of all time."
Sony is celebrating the first anniversary of the release of the PlayStation 3.
Madden NFL 07 (PS3)
Is this the touchdown PS3 fans have been waiting for?
I love the victory dance. Haha.. come get me!
Description Not Available
Team Bike Attack with the Helmet Cam
Well, that didn't take long, just a few hours after Intel confirmed that those hot new 45nm Penryn processors are shipping, Alienware blasted out a press release announcing the Area-51 ALX CF, the first machine to use the new chips. The QX9650-equipped machines can be ordered overclocked up to 4.0GHz, and Alienware also bumped the graphics to dual CrossFire ATI Radeon HD 3870 cards. All that power won't come cheap, though the CF line starts at $5499.
Description Not Available
It's a constant in game releases: delays. There is news today of a number of games frustratingly being put-off until (in some cases) much later. Probably most shocking is news that Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion is not going to be available for the PS3 launch. The title won't be available on Sony's console until Q1 2007. Somewhat less surprisingly, Half-Life 2 Episode 2 is going to be available in the summer, not in the spring. There's a raft of Xbox titles that have been pushed out to Summer as well. Forza 2, Shadowrun, and Too Human will not be available until June of 2007. Finally, the possibility for more frustrations for the often-frustrated European gamers. Via commentary on Gamasutra, a post on the Three Speech blog (a Sony organ) has Phil Harrison dodging the March launch for the PS3 in Europe. From Three Speech: "Given that all of our previous statements about launching in Europe simultaneously with the US and Japan turned out not to be the case, I would not like to make any definitive statements on that. It's not my job to comment on hardware supply issues other than to say some very smart people are working very hard to catch up. In fact, the ramp up is already starting to happen in supply and output, just obviously too late for us to have launched in Europe at the same times as the US."
Nollenberger Capital Partners analyst Todd Greenwald is predicting big things for Activision's new Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, going as far as to suggest that it may outsell Halo 3.
(Reported by The Escapist on 9 November, 2007)
The AFP reports that The Dark Knight director Christopher Nolan said Friday a planned scene in which Batman dived into Hong Kong's Victoria Harbor was cut because of script changes and not the water's severe pollution.
Benjamin Duranske writes "Jonathan Lee Riches, an inmate in South Carolina famous for filing long, handwritten, rambling screeds against celebrities, politicians, and even buildings, has filed a third-party motion in Federal Court in Arizona in the MDY v. Blizzard botting case claiming that Blizzard's World of Warcraft 'caused Riches mind to live in a virtual universe, where Riches explored the landscape committing identity theft and fighting cybermonster rival hacker gangs. Riches was addicted to video games and lost touch with reality because of defendants. This caused Riches to commit fraud to buy defendants video games. Riches chose World of Warcraft over working a legit job, Riches mind became a living video game.'"
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Telecom Italia scandal engulfs CEO.A founder of security start-up WabiSabiLabi was among those arrested by Milan police in connection with an ongoing spying scandal at Telecom Italia, according to published reports.
Only 2 hours left to get that Costume entry in for the 10th Annual Costume Contest! Head over to the
Costume Contest headquarters for complete details. Stay tuned for the prize list which is Ultra Secret this year!
Tsui Hark, the Hong Kong-based helmer of Seven Swords , is to direct Eye 3 , third installment of the Chinese-language horror franchise, which has already given rise to two English-language remakes.
While their plan to team on Halo remains on hold, Peter Jackson and director Neill Blomkamp are going forward this spring on District 9 , a live-action sci-fi project that will mark Blomkamp's feature directing debut.
The OSI has given its stamp of approval to two of Microsoft's so-called shared-source software licenses, making them valid means of distributing open source technologies. OSI President Michael Tiemann wrote in a blog posting last Monday that there was "overwhelming -- though not unanimous -- consensus from the open source community that these licenses satisfied the 10 criteria of the open source definition."
No comment...
Sony Computer Entertainment UK managing director Ray Maguire has told VideoGamer.com that "nothing is ever exclusive" in response to questions surrounding exclusive DLC on Microsoft's Xbox 360.
Intriguing moral choices and a chilling story make BioShock a must-play adventure, even a year later.
Grady Booch, IBM Rationals "free radical," talks about the enduring difficulties of software development, his advocacy of open source and Second Life, and his license to kill (bureaucracy, that is).
The website is part of the Regional Humanitarian Information Network Project (Redhum),
launched at the Global Symposium on Humanitarian Information, which concluded its
weeklong session in Geneva today.
Mozilla today announced the first version of Prism, the company's new platform for bringing web applications to the desktop. Similar to Adobe's AIR or Microsoft's Silverlight, the technology is designed to provide users with a clutter-free, dedicated environment to run a web-based program while still having access to the inherent advantages of web...
I am – Hercules!!
It picks up five months later. We don’t see the...
HP celebrates the 30th anniversary for the reliable operating system, as it
continues to both support and encourage Alpha users to move to newer
hardware.
Spending a couple million dollars doesn't guarantee commercial success.
In London on Sunday, October 22, Westminster Tube station was closed for filming of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix . In the book, Harry (Daniel Radcliffe) and Arthur Weasley (Mark Williams) use the Underground to attend a disciplinary hearing at the Ministry of Magic. The photos, available here and here , show Harry and Mr. Weasley entering a phone booth near Scotland Yard.
Some Posters.
Filed under: Culture, Nintendo DS, Nintendo Wii
In an interview with
Channel 4, legendary game designer Shigeru Miyamoto -- currently promoting
Wii Music -- lamented the current use of violence in gaming. "I don't want to curb freedom of expression but I am concerned that many developers focus just on excessive violence in order to stimulate people's mind," he said. "I believe that there are more ways of grabbing players' attention than violence alone."
Miyamoto also discussed cheaper hardware, noting, "Nintendo's mission is to improve and to take advantage of cheap technology to create reasonable and affordable entertainment." ... Nintendo against excessive violence? In love with cheap technology? Breaking news! Why doesn't Miyamoto put his money where his mouth is?
Oh,
nevermind.
Though we've rarely seen in a suit, Miyamoto's opinion goes a long way in shaping Nintendo's business philosophies. If there's one thing to take from this, it's that you shouldn't get your hopes up for a high-powered
Wii 2.0.
Read |
Permalink |
Email this |
Comments
SPONSORED BY: Age of Empires III - Real-Time Strategy Game Control a European power on a quest to colonize and conquer the New World. AOE3 introduces new gameplay elements, as well as new civilizations, units, and technologies. http://www.ageofempires3.com/
Researchers from Syracuse have found that mixing nanocrystals of cellulose with plastics creates a substance that strengthens plastic "by a factor of 3,000". And it's environmentally friendly with the cellulose parts biodegrading within 90 days.
Why wood? Aside from the vast possibilities of new sexual innuendo, wood has more cellulose than other plants, so scientists get more bang for their buck of raw materials. We'd question why scientists aren't combining titanium with plastic instead, but we don't want to be too hard on them.
BTW: We realize that this picture isn't the actual product...or is it...with Syracuse just taking the credit...– Mark Wilson
News Story [digg]
Pastor Dave recalls how he used to cut down trees!
• Music industry decides that illegal downloaders are people too. Which means they can be marketed to. [WSJ]
• Or sued. [Reuters]
• "By contrast, I don't know anyone who comes to a Web site out of a feeling of obligation. People gravitate to the Internet because they want to, not because they need to. The public's rallying cry might well be, in Nirvana's memorable words: 'Here we are now, entertain us.'" Okay, now Jon Friedman is starting to freak us out a little bit. [Marketwatch]
• Time Warner Cable files for $100 million IPO. The company will be listed on the NYSE some time in the next three weeks between the hours of nine and four. [Reuters]
Filed under: Episode Reviews, Dirty Sexy Money
(S01E04) At last, a Blair Underwood sighting! That mysterious "techno-philanthropist," Simon Elder, finally made a flesh and blood appearance on Dirty Sexy Money. Simon didn't do or say very much, but his limo's license plate put him right at the center of the Darling drama. This week's episode also had plenty of fun, soapy moments. I'm glad that the show hasn't shifted to either a straight-up drama or soapy comedy since the pilot--at the moment, both elements are being balanced well.
Continue reading Dirty Sexy Money: The Chiavennasca
Permalink | Email this | | Comments
Filed under: Misc. Gadgets
Skype and MySpace -- that just sounds like a match made in heaven, no? If you're still scratching your head on how the two actually fit together, here's the low down: a new partnership between the pair will soon allow MySpace members to dial up other users by simply clicking a button in their profile. Of course, this is assuming you can actually
find the aforementioned button in all of the site's clutter, but we digress. Starting in November, the service will reach users in some 20 countries around the globe, and while vanilla PC-to-PC calls will obviously be gratis, "premium options" such as personal phone numbers, voice mail, call forwarding and PC-to-landline / mobile calls will have an undisclosed pricetag attached. Welcome to a whole new realm of shock callin'.
Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
Office Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!
Read the full coverage of Treasure Island Music Festival 2008 here, where you can also find more videos.
-
SHRIMP SCAMPI
Whether you prefer PC, console, or mobile gaming, these devices are our favorites for just having fun.
