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Starcraft: The Board Game
2007-06-29 15:30:00
This isn’t new news to the internet, but it’s new to me. I like to play board games, I like to play computer games, so what could be better than combining the two and making a board game out of a computer game? Fantasy Flight Game s and game creator Corey Konieczka have put together Starcraft : ...
More About: Gaming , Board , Board Game

Merry iPhone Day
2007-06-29 13:52:00
Wishing all of our regular readers, and anyone who happens to drop by, a Merry iPhone day from Teckh.com. If you happen to be picking up the most holy of holy phones today let us know. Oh, and pick an extra one up for me too. I promise it will go to ...
More About: Shopping , Technology , Mobile , Iphone

The Egotistical, Childish, Stupid, Cry-Baby Smack-Tards of Console Gaming
2007-06-28 17:14:00
I have been playing PC games online for about 4-5 years, back to the glory days of Battlefield 1942 and Desert Combat. I played a little Quake before that, but could never really get into it like I did with the BF games. I still play BF2142 and despite its flaws, still think ...
More About: Baby , Gaming , Stupid , Console , Dish

EVDO Rev-A: How does it compare
2007-06-26 20:46:00
Before EVDO Rev-A was rolled out in my area I did a speed test and saved the results to see how much of an improvment I would get when Verizon switched things over. Onto the results: EVDO DSLReports Down: 619kbps (77KB/s) Up: 118kbps (14KB/s) Speedtest.net Down: 444kbps (55KB/s) Up: 127kbps (16KB/s) Speakeasy Down: 345kbps (43KB/s) Up: 119kbps (15KB/s) EVDO Rev-A DSLReports Down: 482kbps (60KB/s) Up: 322kbps (40KB/s) Speedtest.net Down: 521kbps (65KB/s) Up: ...
More About: Hardware , Mobile , Compare , Compa , Pare

Where Have the PDA Phones Gone?
2007-06-25 22:54:00
I’m a Verizon Wireless customer and I need a new phone, specifically a PDA phone. Their selection is a bit outdated. There are no Windows Mobile 6 phones, there are EVDO Rev. A phones, and the best phone they had, the Samsung i730, is no longer available on their website. I have the Verizon Wireless ...
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Point and Shoot Digital Camera Tips - Top 5
2007-06-24 23:43:00
I have made many mistakes over the years of owning digital cameras. Here’s my top five tips so that you don’t make the same mistakes. Digital Zoom Turn off the digital zoom. Most modern point and shoot digital cameras come with both an optical zoom (usually around 3x) and a digital zoom. You ...
More About: Technology , Mobile , Digital Camera , Camera , Tips

Wind Powered Cellphone Charger
2007-06-22 14:51:00
This is a great little gadget, it’s a mini wind mill that generates electricity. I don’t know how much electricity you really use charging your cell phone but that doesn’t make the thing any less cool. via [Hacked Gadgets] Share This
More About: Technology , Wind , Cellphone , Charger , Char

Free Temporary Phone Number
2007-06-21 04:24:00
A new site Numbr (how web 2.0ish) has sprung up that lets you create a temporary number that can last anywhere from 1 hour to 1 month. You could then use this number when you post something for sale online so that you don’t have to give out your real number, you could use that ...
More About: Security , Phone , Free , Tempo , Temp

Get Bigger Thumbnails With Alt-Tab in Vista
2007-06-20 01:28:00
This is a great tip from CyberNet. You can do a few tweaks to your registry and get bigger previews when you’re using Alt-Tab. I prefer the windows key-Tab combination but if you’re an old school atl-tabber this one is for you. There is a little registry editing involved so unless you’re comfortable with it ...
More About: Technology , Vista , Hack , Thumb , Nail

iPhone Commercial
2007-06-19 02:51:00
With everybody getting their underwear in a twist about the iPhone coming out next week I though I would give you some comedy relief. Here is a little commercial Conan O’Brien put together. Share This
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Youtube Remixer
2007-06-16 17:54:00
Youtube has released a web app that lets you compile and mix your video. It looks very easy to use, there are 3 steps that it gives you: Drag video clips and photos onto the app. Add captions, boarders and transitions Preview, click publish to share with the world. Share This
More About: Youtube , Entertainment , Mixer , Mixe , Remi

Violence in Video Games Documentary
2007-06-15 16:08:00
The two part documentary produced by PBC Productions, a NY based startup film company, tackles the negative image given to “gamers” and the gaming community. The film work and editing is very professional and really helps get a very important point across. Check it out! Part One Part Two Share This
More About: Video , Gaming , Video Games , Games , Documentary

Linspire and Microsoft Sitting In A Tree?
2007-06-15 02:49:00
Linspire and Microsoft are teaming up to release an open source operating system that helps to blur the line between the two OS’s. Microsoft is allowing Linspire to include Microsoft codecs for video and audio in its operating system. The licensed Microsoft content will only be available in the paid version of Linspire. I think Microsoft ...
More About: Software , Tree , Linspire , Inspire

Safari For Windows: My Opinion
2007-06-13 02:26:00
Safari with Quicktime rings in at a little over 28MB to download. Once it is downloaded it asks if you want to install Bonjour. Bonjour is a piece of software that helps your computer talk to Apple devices over the network. The install process was quick, easy and error free. Safari opens up a little ...
More About: Software , Windows , Safari , Technology

Apple Releasing Safari For Windows
2007-06-12 01:43:00
Apple has released a beta of it’s Safari web browser that is compatible with Window s . Apple says Safari is the one browser to rule them all. It’s great that Apple is giving Windows users another option but I think most people will ignore this one. The people still using Internet Explorer are never going to ...
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Streaming Download Festival
2007-06-09 17:33:00
Kudos to the organizers of the Download Music festival for streaming the event live online. Other than the headlining artists most of the other bands are being shown live via webcast. Originally being from Donington and a fan of the original Monsters of Rock festival, I think this is an awesome idea. The festival ...
More About: Festival , Load , Streaming

Olympus EVOLT E-330 Review
2007-06-09 05:04:00
About a month ago I was in the market for a digital SLR camera. SLR stands for Single Lens Reflex which basically means that when you look through the eye piece you see what the lens sees instead of looking slightly above the lens in a lower cost digital camera. I ended up choosing the ...
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IE 6.Crap
2007-06-08 03:53:00
You can probably tell from many of our posts, we here at teckh.com are proud advocates of Mozilla’s Firefox browser. I personally think it’s the best thing since sliced bread. I am so used to the wonders of firefox that when I am on the road I miss it. When I travel, I am forced to use ...
More About: Software , Mobile , Open Source , Crap

Anti-Spyware Spyware
2007-06-07 23:05:00
I got an email today from an anti-spyware company asking me to review their product and post the review on the blog. So I was curious about it and searched google for someone that had already reviewed it. Unfortunantly for the anti-spyware company not many people can say good things about it since it is, ...
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Must Have Applications That Work Well In Windows Vista
2007-06-06 03:08:00
This is a list of applications, open source or free, that I used in Windows XP, these applications had to work for me to even think about switching to Vista . In no particular order, the list: NVU - Open source web development software for Windows, Linux, and Mac WinRAR - decompresses a wide variety of ...
More About: Technology , Applications , Windows Vista

Valve Survey Summary
2007-06-04 23:28:00
Valve did a survey starting May 30, 2007 that had 348,015 responses. Some of the results are very interesting. According to the survey nearly 1 in 4 people use the audio device built into their motherboard, about 9 out of 10 people are still using XP, and it looks like NVIDIA has a pretty significant ...
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AACS Fix Hacked After First Day
2007-06-01 22:15:00
Remember the big fiasco that the AACS caused when they started making a big deal about the first decryption key that was released? So they tried to fix it but even it was hacked a week before the release. Now their latest installment has been hacked again, the day after it was released. The latest ...
More About: Software , Technology , Entertainment , Hack , Hacked

Facial Recognition In Google Image Search
2007-05-30 23:24:00
Google Blogoscoped discovered a neat little trick in the Google image search. If you add &imgtype=face to the end of your search your results will only be of people. I imagine soon enough you can show it a picture of a person and have Google search for all images of that person through it’s recognition ...
More About: Google , Technology , Search , Image , Recognition

Circuit City?s Horrible Game Policy
2007-05-30 19:24:00
Circuit City ’s policy regarding new video games truly stinks. Circuit City now advertises in their weekly advertisement that games are guaranteed instore at 2pm on the day of launch or you get a $20 gift card. At initial glance, this looks like a great policy, however it has a few unspoken rules: To qualify for ...
More About: Shopping , Gaming , Policy , Game

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