Topic: Go Go Gadget
Say you were a die-hard PS3 fanboy who had been lining up for 40 hours at the front of the line at the Sony Metreon to pick up a PS3 at launch. What would it take you to convince you to never buy a PS3? What would it take to get you to convert to PC gaming forever?
Well, PC Gamer has the answer! This man signed a contract requiring him to never buy a PS3 in and in return he got a crazy-specced USD $7 500 Falcon Northwest gaming PC with a 30″ LCD:
One less Playstation 3 on the market, one more PC gamer joins the team
PC Gamer Magazine and Falcon Northwest challenge Playstation 3 hopefuls
Haha… what an awesomely, deliciously cruel thing to do. 
Ah well, maybe he was so happy with it because he was actually not a fanboy at all and was going to eBay his PS3 anyway! (After all, one did sell for almost USD $100 mil… 
)
(Thanks to Engadget.)
5 years, 6 months ago
(Found this on MSTechToday.)
5 years, 6 months ago
Microsoft will be heading down a new path for product packaging starting with Windows Vista and Office 2007. As you can see, it’s simple and damn sexy! I love simple understated packaging, I love transparent materials and I love nice gentle curves. So naturally, I think it’s brilliant! I just hope that the back isn’t cluttered unnecessary information in lists like every other Microsoft box to date! 
It wasn’t exactly a big secret, as it matches the icons that we have so far seen for the Windows Vista beta installation DVDs and icons in the Welcome Centre and Microsoft has previously also experimented with plastic packaging for it’s Macintosh products. They plan to continue this new idea for other products in the future.
(More box shots of other editions after the jump…)
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5 years, 6 months ago
With the latest Xbox 360 update that I just grabbed off Xbox Live, my console gains the ability to output 1080p video over component cables. Great! Microsoft finally delivered on their promise… and yes, they got there before the PS3 finally arrives too. So all is good yeah?
Well, no. My Dell 2405FPW LCD doesn’t like it at all. It complains:
Can not display this mode
Yep, that’s right. My LCD won’t display 1080p over component. And you know what? At least nine out of ten LCD owners out there aren’t going to have screens that can display that either. (Nor is their magic in HDMI-land.)
Sure… there’s been an incredible amount of hype about 1080p today. (Sony can yell “only 1080p is the real HD” all they want.) But that’s reality — there’s only four whole people in the whole world who will benefit right now.
5 years, 6 months ago
Wired: Gizmondo’s Spectacular Crack-up
Directors of the game device company went on living large long after their handheld flopped. Then a high-speed Ferrari crash blew their world to bits.
An Enzo crash at over 300 km/h, a private police force, underworld connections, a modelling company and oh, a pie-in-the-sky handheld gaming console and multimedia communicator product too… what a sordid tale! I imagine someone will write a book about it all one day.
(Thanks to Raymond Chen’s The Old New Thing for the heads up.)
5 years, 7 months ago
There’s been a bug with the ‘Move Page To’ context menu function in OneNote 2007 Beta 2 that’s been bugging me (hah) for ages now. Unlike in OneNote 2003, it doesn’t show the path for where the notebook is stored, making the feature almost useless for me.
I took some screenshots comparing the behaviour between the two versions of OneNote, put them together and submitted it to Microsoft Connect. I wasn’t even sure if the file got uploaded properly and despite comments on the bug in Connect that it had been fixed, I was disappointed to find it still present in the Beta 2 Technical Refresh.
But I have no doubt now that’s now been fixed! See the last bug mentioned in this post on Dan Escapa’s OneNote Extensibility & More blog: Customer Feedback — a Success Story & Thank you.
That’s the bug! That’s the screenshot I posted to Connect! They fixed it! Kudos to the OneNote team for really listening to your customers. 
5 years, 7 months ago
The South Park crew finally do a send-up of World of Warcraft, and with the support of Blizzard no less. This is so frikken hilarious… definitely the best 22 minutes I’ve spent all week (even if it seems a little bit like a big WoW ad)! Do not miss it!
“How do you kill, that which has no life?”
Make Love, Not Warcraft
Season 10, episode 1008 (04 Oct 2006)
Watch on YouTube or download
5 years, 7 months ago
Have you installed Apple’s iTunes 7 on your Windows PC yet? And then tried to delete the iTunes shortcut from your desktop or move/rename the iTunes folder on your Start Menu?
If yes, then you’ll have found the same thing I did… that every time you launch iTunes, it gets Windows Installer to replace the shortcuts for you. Want a clean desktop? Not possible. Want to put iTunes straight in the All Programs folder and not inside the iTunes subfolder? Not possible.
Or is it…?
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5 years, 7 months ago
Ever wondered what the address for the headquarters of Seagate was? (You know, Seagate the hard drive manufacture?) Well wonder no more!
Scoble recently paid a visit to Seagate and took this hilarious photo:
Seagate Headquarter’s address
I had no idea… and I thought One Microsoft Way and One Infinite Loop were bad!
5 years, 8 months ago
Beep, beep, beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep…
What’s that sound? I just read on Whirlpool that Telstra will finally be phasing out the annoying Heartbeat system for BigPond Cable customers, a move that’s a mere 45 000 years overdue.
The Heartbeat required devices connected to the cable modem — whether that’s an individual computer running the BigPond Cable login client or, more commonly, a router — to regularly respond to a kind of ping from BigPond in order to remain connected to the service.
This created a ridiculous number of problems for people setting up and using routers that didn’t always cope with the Heartbeat. Not to mention, in recent years even those with only one computer have occasionally wanted to connect to their cable Xboxes and the like — except none of these know how to deal with the Heartbeat.
Goodbye Heartbeat, you won’t be missed. 
5 years, 8 months ago
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