Being a company that mostly dedicates itself to gimmicky devices, it’s no surprise to see Green House coming out with all sorts of differently themed mouse+pad combos. Taking some inspiration perhaps from Apple’s old round mouse, this Greenhouse one is pretty much the same, except it’s texture is similar to a golf ball’s (which might make it uncomfortable after a while), and has the obligatory scroll wheel. I think the device would have had more appeal if a bit more care had been put into the end details of the mouse pad. That plastic flag makes it look…. well, in a word, cheap. Though I guess that for a golf Read more »

When the first laptops started being sold, it was common to see several add-on products that would improve or increase their functionality. Nowadays there are all sorts of things you can plug in via USB, but back then it was all done through the PCMCIA slot. This new addon takes advantage of PCIexpress to bring great 3D performance to laptops without gaming-oriented graphics card and 5.1 audio surround. The graphics card is an Nvidia 8600GT, which should be enough for more gamers. As detailed as the original article is they failed to mention the price, nor can I find it on Asus’ announcement. So I guess we’ll have to wait Read more »

There aren’t many office-related tasks you can do nowadays with a Google online program. The latest iteration of their unnamed online software package is Google Sites. A service that has been available for a while for companies, but never for the general product. Google Sites is an online software that allows you to create websites in a matter of seconds by choosing from  a pre-made template, and deciding who may visit the website and what content, or what type of content you can publish on each page. I’ll be blunt, I think that the default templates could be much nicer than they currently are. If a less-famous company was releasing Read more »

Steve Ballmer recently joined his “former” Microsoft partner, Bill Gates, in the “food being thrown at you” list. While Bill Gates’ pie-in-the-face is largely considered to be something fun, the egg bombardment were not. Despite the missing all of the throws, he made the media, and consequently the world, realize about Microsoft’s and Hungary’s wrongdoings: Microsoft has midterm contracts with the state in Hungary for “way cheaper than from the store” Campus-licences. This costs billions (in HUF, 160HUF=1USD) for the state and makes students stuck in the Microsoft-world, not knowing Linux etc. Just goes to show how Microsoft remains top-gun in the Operating System market. I’m certain that Hungary aren’t Read more »

Ok readers, I made it through the tsunami of Liberty City-related articles, and the “discrete” advertising that was shoved in my face no matter where I turned, even in completely unrelated websites. So it was only a matter of time before you saw me popping up a GTA 4-related article. So without further a do, and after the Tsunami of news (and most people who were interested in the game have played it for more than a couple of days) I bring you the world’s most beloved troll game reviewer his opinion on one of the year’s biggest games. </p> <p>Two weeks were too long of a time without some Read more »

Back when Microsoft was releasing the very first versions of Vista, I was one of the few who managed to land a spot in their team, and as such, I helped test and suggested, or sponsored, a few changes I happened to agree with. Thankfully, most of them were implemented, and all, or most beta testers were happy to see that despite the few bumps and contradictions made on some of the builds, the end product ended up pleasing most of us. But it looks like not all Beta testers have the same luck. Last September Microsoft launched the first beta for the next Windows Live client which brought a Read more »

Through the last couple of days Rare has pulled the curtains and unveiled some details about the latest iteration of the very popular Banjoo-Kazooie platformer franchise. The game seems to be closed inside tower levels, where players will be constricted by walls, but will have access to an immensely large level to explorer and complete each challenge. The new “thing” of this Banjo Kazooie is vehicle construction. You’ll be able to build wacky vehicles that can drive, jump and even fly over obstacles. And that should add some depth to the rather plain vehicle sections that most modern platformers include. [Source: Kotaku] Read more »

If there’s one movie that Anime fans have always wanted to see brought to Hollywood, that movie would be the Dragonball one. After countless years of rumors, attempts, beginnings, teaser images. We finally have something a bit more “physical” than a CGI-render of Piccolo. This time we have a picture of the actor playing out the role of the main hero, Goku, in an actual teaser poster taken from Shonen Jump. It actually looks decent. The costume isn’t too modern, nor too traditional, and I think that the hair stylists did a great job in recreating Goku’s gravity defying hairstyle. Maybe it’s just my inner fanboy speaking for actually seeing Read more »

Yesterday we showed you the new HTC Diamond through a very bad picture that didn’t show the device in it’s full fledged glory. Engadget recently had the opportunity to play a bit with the new Touch and they were quite happy with it, particularly with the VGA screen which is twice as many pixels as most PDAs in the market today. And although I didn’t mention this enough yesterday, this is definitely the best looking Windows Mobile PDA I’ve ever seen. It’s slick, shinny and the interface since much nicer, which is great because it goes perfectly with the device. And now a video of the device in action: Another Read more »