You’ve probably heard by now that the fireworks display for the Beijing Opening Ceremony was fake, well at least some of it. While there were indeed real fireworks going on in Beijing, the video that was being fed into the huge monitors inside the stadium itself, not to mention the video that was being broadcast [...]
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Princess Peach has been kidnapped again, but this time, Bowser has dragged the poor damsel into space for a Mario adventure like no other. I must confess, when I first heard of Super Mario Galaxy’s premise, I was a bit nervous. Would the radical change suit the platforming plumber? Would we miss out on the [...]
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If you’re like me, you want your computer to be fast. However, no matter how much RAM you have or how fast your processor is, there are some things that you just can’t speed up, well, at least with hardware. Think of it like this. Your Mac is like a convertible. It’s sleek, it’s powerful, [...]
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Recently, Microsoft has rolled out a new advertising campaign for its Windows Vista operating system, dubbed the Mojave Experiment. The idea behind the campaign was to see whether regular, everyday users who stated their extreme dislike of Vista, but who never actually used Vista themselves, would, in fact, find Vista appealing once they got their [...]
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