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Marques Cannon's work on Video Girls, he calls them deviations. Find out more about him at
http://guitaratomik.deviantart.com/

XBOX 360 Modded !!!

Its here at last!!!....The first mod for Microsoft's XBox 360. Now you can play those backups for your precious original games.

NME-360 - the clever solution: The NME-360 autodetects the inserted media. If the inserted media is a backup NME-360 injects the necessary information to the DVD drive enabling it to boot smoothly ahead! If the media is an original game, or anything else, which doesnt require any further action of the NME-360 then it simply falls asleep so there is no need for an external switch whatsoever. This way it can not be detected online when you play an original onlinegame.
Go to the site for more info.

Dell goes KABOOM

by Ryan Ratilal
Saturday, 19 August 2006 07:41 AM

Another Dell laptop has exploded, and it couldn't have been timed any worse it would seem. This one's in the Netherlands and its a Latitude D510, one of the models Dell has listed in its recall program. According to the article, Dell has responsibly enough offered the owner a new replacement.

Free Comics

UGO's 52 Pick-up
Featured column by Ryan Ruopp, Contributing Editor

DC Comics has revolutionized comics yet again. By amassing a superteam of the greatest storytellers in the industry, namely Geoff Johns, Grant Morrison, Greg Rucka, Mark Waid and Keith Giffen, DC’s weekly 52 maxi-series has given readers a reason to hit the shops every single week. Don’t worry if you missed the boat when 52 launched, because DC and UGO have formed a superteam of our own to deliver you the first five issues FREE online in their entirety. Check back each week for a new issue. More..

My Stylo Mylo

My life online or MYLO, Sony's new portable broadband device was designed with emphasis for people who use instant messaging as primary means of communication and networking. It comes with popular instant messaging services such as Google Talk instant messaging service, Skype and Yahoo! Messenger so you can chat, talk and share files from any open WiFi hotspot for free.

This baby also has multimedia support for MPEG-4, MP3, ATRAC or WMA (secure and unsecure) files, JPEG pictures from the Internet (it has Opera inside) or your digital camera. In addition it comes with 1 Gb of flash memory back by a Sony memory stick duo slot so you have ample space to store your prized files and downloads.

Mylo is expected to hit the shelves on September 06, retailing for USD$350. For more info visit
mylo at Sonystyle , mylo Minisite

Download of the Day: Widgets

Widgets are mini apps that are designed to run on your desktop displaying self updating information to complement your display's work space. Eversince the frustrating days of Microsoft' s Active Desktop in 1997 to bring the revolution of internet to Windows, much have changed with the emergence of apps like Konfabulator and Apple's Dashboard Widgets, bringing the use of widgets to mainstream.

Most widgets are useful day to day tools designed with emphasis for office use such as calendar, clocks, weather bar, search tools and the list goes on. Most of these can be obtained for free and among them are Desktop Sidebar, Kapsules, Opera Widgets, Google Desktop Sidebar, Yahoo Widget Engine 3. Even if you feel limited by the numerous choices offered, you can try your hand in coding your own panels with programs like Google Desktop Sidebar which offer a downloadable SDK to suite your needs.

I am only going to touch briefly on the two biggests online brands leaving the rest for all you tech savvy people to test and come up with you own conclusions. To begin with , we go take a look at the Google camp. Weighing in at 157 downloadable panels (not all are free), the range is broad: Adsense status indicators, hard disk life predictors,file backup utilities and games. Only downside is Google Desktop Sidebar is part of the Google Desktop Search application and, while it can be toggled off,you cannot download it as a standalone application. However, default choices are good, with the Google based widgets a particular highlight -one for Google Maps and another that takes RSS and Atom feeds and shows the full story in its Details pane.

Next we have the Yahoo camp, introducing the new kid on the block, Yahoo Widget Engine 3, originating from the JavaScript runtime of the Mac, weighing in with 2407 widgets (Windows and Mac) to choose from, thanks to the ancestral bloodline of the Konfabulator community. No other widget engine come close to the feature available: IP subnet calculators, streaming radio stations, i Tunes control, Web page text scrapers, Wi-fi hotspot finders and so on. The best part, it is the most stable and least system resource intensive of all the apps. Couple this with goodlooks of the widgets and Konfabulator (grandaddy of of all widget apps) under its skin, the only direction Yahoo Widget Engine 3 will be going is right.

Who wants to be a Superhero?

We have heard it and seen it all before, who wants to be a millionaire?, American Idol, Rockstar INXS, Rockstar Supernova..etc. Well hold on to your hold to your capes, there is a new kid on the block, Who wants to be a Superhero.? I do, at least dreamt of it when i was a wee tyke, running around with a towel stuff into my collar.

For those of you who share the same fantasy as me (but with different super powers in mind) look no further, it is now made possible in the 21st Century. No no ..not major breakthrough in gamma ray research but through the brainchild of Stan Lee (left) world-famous comic-book (Spider-man, the Fantastic Four, the Hulk, Daredevil and the X-Men to name a few) and motion-picture icon (dominated the comic-book genre and have been successfully to the big screen, breaking all-time box-office records and grossing billions of dollars in revenues), founded POW! (Purveyors of Wonder) Entertainment Inc. (POWN.PK), an advanced media and entertainment company, together with award-winning producer Gill Champion and intellectual-property specialist Arthur Lieberman, Esq.

Each contestant begins with an original idea for a superhero, a self-made costume, and their best superhero mojo. From thousands of hopefuls, Stan Lee chooses the lucky finalists who move together into a secret lair. There they will begin their transformations — and their competition for the opportunity to become real-life superheroes. Over the course of the series, they will test their mettle, try to overcome their limitations, and do what it takes to prove that they truly are super. Meet Cell Phone Girl, Creature, Iron Enforcer, Fat Momma (my favorite), Lemuria, Levity, Major Victory, Monkey Woman, Nitro G and Ty'veculus (good super power :P)

Watch out for your new friendly neighbourhood man or woman, at least lets hope that this show makes it to our shores. Right now only available exclusively on Sci Fi Channel.

The Death of E3!

The Death of E3!

Posted by dvinson - Monday, July 31, 2006 12:01 PM
Adapted from AOTB l The Loop

Go ahead and shed a tear, everyone's favorite gaming industry showcase is dead.

E3 or, as your mom might call it, The Electronic Entertainment Expo, is kaput. No more. Deaded. This is an ex-E3.

All of the majors simultaneously pulled out their support of the expo saying that their millions of dollars in promotion would be better spent in a more concentrated effort directed towards the media. Yikes. No more free swag. No more bright lights. No more nerd smell.