Archive | October, 2009

DROIDDOES

So I’ve been seeing a lot of commercials for Verizon’s DROIDDOES recently.  Taking a look at it, it looks like the rumors of the Motorola Sholes going to Verizon were very true. 

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A State Of Trance Episode 428

Armin wins #1 DJ from DJ mag top 100 DJs.  This episode includes an hour from Ibiza. Tracklisting 1st hour – regular episode “the newest tunes selected 01. Armin van Buuren feat. VanVelzen – Broken Tonight (Intro Mix) Armind 02. Calvin Harris – Flashback (Eric Prydz Remix) Fly Eye 03. Matt Darey pres. Urban Astronauts [...]

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A State Of Trance Episode 427

New week, new ASOT.  From what I gathered from Twitter, seemed to be a good episode.  Let us know in the comments. Also, next week is the DJ Mag Poll results!

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Windows 7 Launch!

I’m sure everyone already knows about, but the event is so big that I’m going to post it here anyway.  Windows 7 has finally officially been released today for the general public!  That means anyone can now purchase Windows 7 and begin using the glorified savior of the MS operating systems. 

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Borderlands launching at midnight at 1,300 GameStops

Want to get Borderlands a little early and stay up a little late? …Basically, you now have only one excuse for not getting Borderlands tonight if you’re into the game and you’re in the US, and that is not wanting to go to GameStop and stand in line at midnight. Which is actually pretty reasonable.

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A State Of Trance Episode 426

Armin plays us some new tracks by Arnej, Wippenberg, Sophie Sugar, First State, Ronski Speed and Daniel Kandi. Download and tracklist after the break.

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Latest iPhones Block Jailbreaking Exploit

Apple are now attempting to halt jailbreaking for the time being.  Latest 3GS models are now loaded with a new booting firmware update, iBoot-359.3.2 which fixes the popular 24kpwn exploit. Another exploit will have to be found in order to jailbreak future iPhones, but fear not there will always be a way around this.

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WoW requiring Battle.net Account Starting Nov. 11

Starting November 11th, all WoW players will be required to login using Battle.net accounts.   Makes sense as Blizzard is really trying to push the Battle.net 2.0 platform, finally getting rid of redundancy and consolidating everything into one account.

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Left 4 Dead 2 Boycott Closing Down

It seems that the leaders of the L4D2 Boycott (Agent Chaos and Walking_Target) have decided that the goal of the group was accomplished and that the group no longer serves a purpose.

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Killing Floor Free DLC and Free Weekend Plans

Tripwire Interactive has announced they are planning for a Killing Floor free weekend as well as a free DLC pack.  The free weekend is expected to kick off October 22nd along with the free DLC pack.  So guys suit up and grab a bunch of your friends for some Co-Op survival horror!

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Google ChromeOS Preview

So omg!ubuntu! has decided to give us a small peek on the current ChromeOS build from google.  A few things about ChromeOS that you may like to note are that it is debian-based and will be an OS that seamlessly stitches together the web-browser and OS.

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Google Voice Viral

So, as many of you know, Google Voice is currently invite only.  Until just recently, the invites had to be requested through Google Voice itself.  Well, if you have a friend who has an account and you were too lazy to sign up and wait for yours, it might not be long before you can [...]

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A State Of Trance Episode 425

Armin is back already? Thought it was two weeks, oh well, here is last week’s ASOT that I forgot to post up, tracklist and download link after the break. 

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My Anime Fall (Fail) Lineup

So fall is finally here, and that means the fall lineup has finally been introduced.  Well, after watching a good amount of first episodes, I have to say that my expectations for this season are fairly bleak. 

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Left 4 Dead 2 Campaigns Confirmed

Yesterday a Chinese site had revealed what was apparently the last two campaigns in Left 4 Dead 2, those were “Hard Rain” and “Dead Center”.  This has now been confirmed by Xbox360Achievements.org who has the juicy details about new and otherwise rumored futures, like a defibrillator to revive teammates.  Check out the rest over at [...]

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ChenZen Unites! In Rochester!

So last weekend (the weekend of the 3rd), I had an extra few days off because of the phenomenon known as Pacing Break at Lehigh University.  Basically, I get a 4-day weekend after the first set of exams here.  Anyway, I took advantage of this long break and visited Danny all the way up in [...]

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Ultimate Alliance 2 Introduces Carnage

Marvel is introducing Carnage to the Ultimate Alliance lineup.  Carnage has a striking resemblance to Spider-man’s foe Venom.  He is quick like Spider-Man and deadly like Venom, in other words, badass.

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FluTracking!

Are you worried about swine flu in your area (even though you really shouldn’t be)?  Then be worried no longer cause lifehacker has found a nice flutracking web app that gives you an easy to read overview of where there are outbreaks and whatnot. 

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Verizon Android Phones! Finally!

Earlier today, Verizon Wireless and Google announced that they were going to partner up!  Even better news is that before the end of this year, Verizon is planning to release two Android phones!

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A State Of Trance Episode 424

A very monumental episode this week with Armin on vacation and deciding that Andy Moor and John O’Callaghan will take over ASOT for two weeks. 

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iPhone: Google Maps with Ads and UGC?

TechCrunch has noted today that google maps on the iPhone has recently incorporating ads and user-generated content.  I’m not very surprised about the ads, but the user-generated content does seem slightly odd.

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Borderlands PC Specs Released, Steam Pre-Order $5 Off

The PC version of Borderlands will be hitting stores this 26th of October, which is unfortunately a week after the console versions  hit.  This game promises to bring a unique perspective on the first person genre by incorporating MMORPG elements along with an interesting artstyle.

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Final Fantasy XIII TGS 2009 Trailer Now In English

The trailer released yesterday from TGS 2009 is now fully in English along with the localized scenes in the game. Check it out after the break.

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Check out Super Street Fighter IV Extended Trailer

Check out the extended trailer of Super Street Fighter IV that showcases three of the new character’s moves and specials. httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mutm-xm2akc

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PC Sales Charts

Here we go with another weekly PC sales charts from Steam and Direct2Drive.  Aion is completely owning the charts having been in top positions for several weeks now.  Good to see another MMO other than WoW getting some love.  I have played some Aion and it is definitely a very beautiful game, and very fun [...]

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Wrap Ups: Spice and Wolf S2 and Phantom

(Skip if you’ve already read the first paragraph of one of the other ones) So the summer of 2009 has come to an end last week on Tuesday.  Well, what that brings is also the end to all of the summer seasons of anime that I have been watching.  I’m not going to lie, I [...]

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Wrap Ups: Canaan and Saki

(Skip if you’ve already read the first paragraph of one of the other ones) So the summer of 2009 has come to an end last week on Tuesday.  Well, what that brings is also the end to all of the summer seasons of anime that I have been watching.  I’m not going to lie, I [...]

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Wrap Ups: Bakemonogatari and Hayate no Gotoku S2

(Skip if you’ve read this paragraph already)  So the summer of 2009 has come to an end last week on Tuesday.  Well, what that brings is also the end to all of the summer seasons of anime that I have been watching.  I’m not going to lie, I was pretty ambitious when I started the [...]

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