Archive for July 20th, 2008
Get Blood on Your Suit With the Spy [Tutorials]
Sunday, July 20th, 2008While we’re waiting for the real Spy updates and unlockables (and not fakes which momentarily fooled even Valve) OMFGNinja.com has gone and created an amazingly deep three-part advanced tutorial on how to play the Spy. It is mesmerizing, and showcases how any character in this game, with enough skill and planning, can become downright unstoppable. The leaping backstabs in part one, above, are jaw-dropping. The other two videos are at OMFGNinja, so follow the link and give them some credit. Youtube resolution sucks, but you get the idea of what the character class can do.
Advanced Spy Tutorial [OMFGNinja]
A mere $29 for Something You Don’t Need! But wait, there’s More!
Sunday, July 20th, 2008Considering all of the engineering achievements to be found in the iPhone and the quick acceptance the 3G is getting, there are a few things that still leave users scratching their heads: as in, “why would they do something this stupid?”
The first is the very annoying recessed jack in both versions which require users to [...]
Laptop Handle
Sunday, July 20th, 2008
In this instructable I share how you can enhance your laptop’s portability with a handle.
Here is my Dell Latitude CPI, 6.2lbs of heavy duty portable computing. At 6.2lbs honestly it isn’t very portable. I had to get a bag just to lug it around in. Recently I realized there must be an easier way…
By: jopensopen
iPhone remote: a Wi-Fi keyboard for Apple TV
Sunday, July 20th, 2008As I’m sure all you Apple TV owners know, the onscreen keyboard can be a hassle to use. If you own an iPhone or an iPod Touch, fret no more!
To make using the Apple TV a much easier process all you need to do is make use of Apple’s free iPhone/iPod Touch app, “Remote.” [...]
TF2 + Legos = Amazle [Sentry Guns]
Sunday, July 20th, 2008
Swear, I don’t have a sentry gun fetish. Although it would be cool to meet a girl who did (I don’t judge). Last week we churned up a video of a guy who developed a paintball sentry, and now reader Mohammed I. passes along a less functional, but no less impressive version: A Lego Sentry. Props to the builder, and especially for the game-screen render around it. Seriously, new desktop pic. It’s a work of art and should stand for all time. Until some bastard-ass Spy whips up a Lego sapper.
Team Fortress 2 Sentry [Lair of the Legomancer, via Shift Gamer, thanks reader Mohammed]
One Really, Really Long Assed PSP Game [E308]
Sunday, July 20th, 2008
In an age where 20 hour games are long, Valhalla Knights 2 is an anomaly. It takes between 60 to 80 hours to complete and up to 135 hours if you want to fully complete it. The game was penned by the scenario writer for Final Fantasy XII so it does have a very involving story. Good news is that you won’t spend most of that 135 hours grinding as there’s even sneaking abilities so you don’t have to constantly engage in battle. Also, no random encounters. Yay!
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Lego NXT Rubik Cube Solver
Sunday, July 20th, 2008
The most impressive part of this Lego NXT Rubik Cube Solver is that the NXT module does the computing that solves the cube! I wouldn’t have thought that would have been possible without having a PC do the calculations.
Video after the jump.
"Tilted Twister solves Rubik’s cube fully automatically. Just place the scrambled cube on Tilted Twister’s turntable. An ultrasonic sensor detects its presence and starts to read the colors of the cube faces using a light sensor. The robot turns and tilts the cube in order to read all the faces of the cube. It then calculates a solution and executes the moves by turning, tilting and twisting the cube."
Modder shoves emulator, ROMs into actual NES controller
Sunday, July 20th, 2008Filed under: Gaming, Peripherals
[Via Hack-A-Day]
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Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsApple opens first retail store in China
Sunday, July 20th, 2008While this isn’t iPhone news per se, it is breaking news! Earlier today Apple opened their first retail store in Beijing, China. The store officially opened its doors at 10 a.m. local time, welcoming a surge of eager Apple customers.
This Apple store is much like an Apple store in say, the United States. It features [...]
iPhone 2.0 firmware: future printer connectivity?
Sunday, July 20th, 20083rd party iPhone developers have recently “decrypted” the iPhone’s newly released 2.0 firmware, and have found what appears to be an empty directory simply named “Printers.”
While this finding is by no means hard evidence, it does lead us to believe that Apple might just be cooking up something for us, in terms of wireless iPhone/iPod Touch [...]
New Sonic Wii Game Revealed, Brings Much Needed Swordplay To Series [Sega]
Sunday, July 20th, 2008
The latest issue of Nintendo Power reveals, via cover story, that Sonic the Hedgehog is back! After a painfully long absence, the “Blue Blur” is returning to the Wii with Sonic & The Black Knight which the mag pitches as a “big new Wii-exclusive adventure” in which Sonic “swings cool steel.” Yep, the Sonic drought is over.
We have little info beyond the cover details for Sonic’s third Wii outing, but can imagine a Sonic themed adventure with the compelling gameplay of Red Steel or Dragon Quest Swords will fit the series like a glove. Hey, we’ll take it (begrudgingly) over gunplay any day.
The Five Most Embarrassing Moments of Nintendo’s Presser [Cringe Inducing]
Sunday, July 20th, 2008
OK, and after this, I promise no more bashing on Nintendo’s press conference. But I used to work in internal PR for a very large software company (that may or may not have produced products that rhyme with Shmorton Shminternet Shmecurity) and we’d go to RSA, host our own user conference, all that stuff. What I mean to say is that I’ve seen some eye-rolling moments in keynotes, when top executives try to get hip. But I’ve never seen anything close to this.
iPhone-dev Team unveils Pwnage Tool 2.0
Sunday, July 20th, 2008The iPhone-dev team teased us earlier today with a slightly cryptic post that simply stated “We love Sundays. We think you will too.”
Of course after reading that we could only assume that we would be able to get our hands on the Pwnage Tool 2.0 as of tomorrow, but with some good news it looks [...]