(photo by Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images, originally published at Boston.com) If you didn’t know, Space Shuttle Discovery just returned to Earth from its final journey to space. In tribute, the folks at Boston.com, known not only for their news…
Two Hours of Fighting Game Fatalities
From the horrifically offensive to the horrifically unplayable all the way up to the modern-day classic and fondly remembered, “Pixelated Blood” is a wild ride through the fighting game spree of the 1990s and all of the varied (and often…
Twitter Adds Always-On HTTPS
First it was Facebook, and now it’s Twitter – both social networks have finally gotten around to turning on always-on HTTPS to make sure that users logged in to their Web sites are always sending data encrypted when they’re logged…
The Zune is Dead
Well, the social has officially ended. Microsoft has tipped to Bloomberg that the Zune line of hardware products is all but finished, but the name, the media player, and the software line will live on. I reported on this here…
Motorola Xoom Sales “Underwhelming?”
Reports are that the Motorola Xoom – the iPad’s first real competitor, and the first Android tablet to run Android 3.0 “Honeycomb,” isn’t selling quite as well as people had hoped. Admittedly, there are likely a number of reasons for…
Video :: The Secret World Trailer – GDC 2011
So this trailer for an upcoming MMO called The Secret World was unveiled at the Game Developer’s Conference earlier this month, and while at first blush it wouldn’t look terribly interesting, the trailer video belies an incredibly interesting concept. The…
PC Mag Reviews the iPad Smart Cover
One thing Steve Jobs made a fuss about when he was on stage announcing the iPad 2 was the case that Apple had specifically designed for it. It magnetically attaches to the back of the device, doesn’t kill the slim…
The Modern Guy :: Back Up Your PC, Back Up Your Life
One of my good friends Chris Breeden runs the blog The Modern Guy, and this week has an excellent article on why you should make sure you’re backing up your computer, right now. As in a, “no excuses, here’s how…
Site Highlight :: BattlePaint
The guys over at DownloadSquad turned me on to this little time waster (the image is theirs too, by the way!) and I really just couldn’t get enough of it. In BattlePaint, you’re a small square with a lifebar that…
Kinect Earns Guinness World Record for Fastest Selling Consumer Electronics Device
(image via CrunchGear) Microsoft should be proud of this one, it’s a huge accomplishment! The Kinect peripheral for XBox 360 has claimed the title of fastest selling consumer electronics device of all time, snatching it from the jaws of the…