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PC Games (Games)

Submission + - Who said Guitar Hero knock-offs couldn't rock? (adgamesonline.com)

The Anonymous Coward writes: "Flash has always been a humble platform for game development. There have been a couple hits, but they're hard to find in the great ocean of misses. With the advent of Adobe Flash and a new scripting language, can we hope that the masses will finally start to churn out some games worthy of the console?
    Guitar Hero addicts (and zombie-killing fanatics) need to look no further than "We Are Legend", an original and fairly addictive game that combines the furious button-mashing of rhythm-based games with some interesting RPG twists. And a whole lot of blood, chainsaws, and zombie-explosions. Purists can pick up their keyboard and use wield it like a five-string. With everything from an over-the-hill Jill Valentine to a zombie-killing hyena and a backup drummer that shears away zombie faces with a metal grinder, this game has promise."

The Courts

Submission + - Liability in computer repair for filesharing

Revek writes: "I run a small one man computer repair buisness. I mainly clean and reload machines that have been infected with malware. Most machines have some form of p2p filesharing sofware installed on them. Although I shut them down sometimes they run for a while when I am otherwise occupied. I recently received a letter from my isp concerning distribution of copyrighted material. The mac address provided by them was not one of my machines. Am I responsible for p2p filesharing taking place on my customers machines?"
Handhelds

Submission + - 2nd Gen iPhone already ? (digitimes.com)

JagsLive writes: "from JagsLive: http://www.digitimes.com/displays/a20070716VL200.h tml Digitimes reports, Rumors of second-generation Apple iPhone continue to surface: " Speculation about whether Apple will introduce a cost-down version of its iPhone continues to arise in the Chinese-language media, with a recent report in the Chinese-language Commercial Times newspaper indicating that Taiwan-based Wintek has gained touch screen panel orders from Apple for its second-generation iPhone. The report claims that the new iPhone from Apple will begin shipping in September with prices ranging from US$249-299. The paper added that Apple recently visited Wintek to deliver instructions on manufacturing and the company has begun test production in small volumes. ""
OS X

Submission + - FAYT your Mac (and More)

Livin Stephen writes: At http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~jrus/Site/Cocoa%20Text %20System.html Jacob Rus describes how to convert your Macs keyBindings to a V E R Y emacs-ish set — it obviously adds a LOT to to the ones (like ^-A, ^-B, etc) that Cocoa apps already support. To check out what 'adds' might mean... think ^-S. (that'll require a download from http://michael-mccracken.net/ before you begin to believe what you're seeing.) FYI, it IS a year-old article — waiting to be discovered.

Feed Forget WiMax, Stockholm's got cable to spare (theregister.com)

Red Ken, take notes

Column You could not think of a better place to demonstrate the wonders of WiMAX. A district, 84 kilometers across, divided into 24,000 plots of land with open, deep water between each plot. It's the Stockholm archipelago, East of Sweden, and almost every island is inhabited. Intel, Cisco and Stockholm Cable (Stokab) have turned this into the biggest showcase of WiMAX wireless you will find.


Feed ICANN rejects .xxx (theregister.com)

Gets back into the content regulation business

ICANN Lisbon In an unusual open board meeting today, ICANN once again rejected the establishment of a .xxx top level domain (TLD). The vote was 8-4 with a single abstention, that of CEO Paul Twomey.


The Almighty Buck

A Chinese Virtual Currency Challenges the Yuan 183

Radon360 writes "A Wall Street Journal article reports that China's fastest-rising currency isn't the yuan. It's the QQ coin — online play money created by marketers to sell such things as virtual flowers for instant-message buddies, cellphone ringtones and magical swords for online games. In recent weeks, the QQ coin's real-world value has risen as much as 70%. It's the most extreme case of a so-called virtual currency blurring the boundaries between the online and real worlds — and challenging legal limits. A Chinese Internet company called Tencent Holdings Ltd. designed the payment system in 2002 to allow its 233 million regular registered users to shop for treats in its virtual world. Virtual currencies are in use in many countries — but nowhere have they taken root more deeply than in China."
Links

Submission + - Useful links, create your own bookmarks

trif ovidiu writes: "An interesting site has just been lunched: http://www.boxlinks.ro/en/ The site is in romanian, but it have support in english too. On this site, user can add his collection of useful links, create his own bookmarks, apply tags, is able to look in other user's collections, and all this in a single place. This service is still young, but the idea is to became a useful collection of links, where user can find the informations they really need. Boxlinks team. http://www.boxlinks.ro/en/"
OS X

Submission + - Mac OS X Directory Structure Explained

Jared O'Brien writes: "If you have ever looked at your Mac's root directory and wondered what some of those other directories are for, you're probably not alone. Mac OS got a whole lot more complex with the advent of OS X, adapting a unix file structure that is largely unfamiliar to Mac OS 9 and Windows users. So just what is /System, /Library, /usr, and all the others for anyway? Here's a brief explanation of each directory as found in Mac OS X. http://osxdaily.com/2007/03/30/mac-os-x-directory- structure-explained/"
Microsoft

Why Microsoft Should Fear Apple 576

jcatcw writes "Computerworld's Scot Finnie says that Microsoft should be afraid because Apple has gotten smarter about how it competes. He says that it's the Parallels Desktop software that has been truly transformational for the Mac. Finnie did a simple three-month trial of the Mac last in the fall and realized four months later that he wasn't going back. Since then he's received hundreds of messages from readers who've also made the switch. 'In the end, this is about perception. It isn't about Apple's market share or even its quarterly sales numbers. (Apple's notebook computer sales for the fourth quarter were 4.1% of all portable computer sales, according to DisplaySearch.) What this is about is that Apple is reaching the right people with its product, winning new converts, Windows user by Windows user -- and creating buzz. How do you measure buzz? You don't. It's something that experienced people in this industry can just feel. And that's the condition Microsoft should fear. Because buzz can turn into something much harder to combat than sheer numbers.'"
Media

Submission + - Apple Store in Rome: special preview!

gypeppe writes: "In a special preview session dedicated to the press Apple has revealed the inside of the first continental european Apple Store. Macitynet is there to show the layout, the design of the 500 square meters shop that marks a new starting point in the marketing policy of Cupertino in the Old Continent. Expect pictures from the location, RomaEst big Mall, the shop and its surrounding, news and interviews in a complete report. See pictures starting from 10 o' clock on this page"

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